Masters Diary: Sixty years of TV and lots of change over the years

It was 60 years ago this week that television viewers watched the Masters for the first time.

CBS produced the inaugural broadcast in 1956 and aired a total of 2½ hours of coverage over the final three days of play. The network used six cameras to report play on the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th greens and the 18th fairway. On the Sunday, CBS added a seventh camera. A lot has changed over the years.

Today, the network employs some 75 cameras to cover all 18 holes of the golf course and employs a host (Jim Nantz) and 17 analysts on various platforms . They bring the Masters to tens of millions of viewers in approximately 200 countries around the world in what is annually one of the most anticipated and popular telecasts in all of sports.