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Has anyone worked at a PGA Tour event as a video or audio technician?
I have a couple questions about working as an audio or video broadcast technician on the PGA Tour events:
1) Are you employed by the PGA or by the televison network?
2) Do they rely mainly on local freelance techs in the city they're visiting, or do the techs travel with the tour?
I emailed Helen Ross, Chief of Correspondents for the PGA Tour, who is always gracious and prompt. Below is her response to your question (in quotes with more from me afterwards). I asked her in terms of camera ops and techs.
"For the most part the TV networks hire their camera operators for entire packages/seasons on a freelance basis. Although the camera operators are freelance, the networks tends to hire the same staff year in and year out for consistency sake, and it speads beyond golf. For example, several guys who work for CBS during the golf season also shoot for NFL games on CBS. It has no bearing where they live or are based out of.
As far as some of the camera assist positions, runners, etc. those are usually hired on a site by site basis or even provided through the tournament volunteer program."
So, there are two places to inquire: the television networks and the tournaments. If a prospective employee has no experience, I would think that a smart starting point would be to initiate communication with the tournament local to you or even your local TV affiliate's GM since it's likely some of the freelancers will be cherry-picked from there. Once you get an event under your belt and developed a small network, you'll have value.
I considered posting web sites for job opps but the list would be ridiculously long what with the numbers of networks, affiliates (I don't know where you are) and tournaments. Plus, I don't know if there's union bias on who gets the gigs.
Hope this helps. And good luck!
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