KA'ANAPALI, Hawaii Bexel Broadcast Services and ESPN January 2009Game overview: At this year's Champion Skins Game, held January 17 - 18, partners Ben Crenshaw and Fuzzy Zoeller out shot the other teams (including Greg Norman and Jay Haas, Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson, Gary Player and Bernhard Langer) conquered the course at the Royal Ka'anapali Golf Club and walked away with 13 skins and $530,000, the largest Champion skins win on record, Technical overview: ESPN Regional Television produced the event that aired on ESPN Feb 28 and March 1. The production team used state of the art technology from Bexel Broadcast Services to digitally capture every sight and sound in high definition on Panasonic's P2 format. "We knew we had a month from the time the event was played to the time it aired and wanted to use technology to improve our workflow giving our production team as much flexibility as possible," commented Steve Cozort, ESPN Regional Television's Senior Director of Operations. Cozort added, "We had tested the Panasonic P2 to Avid workflow on our Remax Long Drive event in late 2008 and with its successful implementation and ease of use, we confidently made the decision to move forward with this work flow for one of our signature events."
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