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Communications Concepts produces TV coverage of FUTURES TOUR season opener
Mar 18, 2004.
It was the 400th tournament for The FUTURES Golf Tour as the season opened at the Cleveland Heights Golf Club and CCI was there covering the action. The script couldn't have been written better in Hollywood. The final round on Sunday of the $65,000 Lakeland FUTURES Golf Classic featured competitive drama, an international cast of players and a setting in Central Florida with a backdrop of golf-loving Canadians visiting for the winter. By day's end, the main character was a Canadian, Kim Adams of Tide Head, New Brunswick, who won the event by four shots.
Communications Concepts' multi-camera coverage started four days earlier with set-up of the camera towers and rollout of miles of cable to ready the course prior to the event's first round. At the same time, CCI provided single-camera coverage of the early rounds, the Pro-Am, the Junior Golf Clinic, the Meet the Pros Party and the Long Drive Competition. Late afternoon in Saturday's second round, CCI Mobile Unit #4 arrived at the course in Polk County to complete cabling and begin testing all cable runs. Final set up and technical adjustments began at sunrise Sunday morning to make sure all was ready to capture the tournament's final round. By late morning, CCI was ready as the leaders came through. With ten cameras, several equipped with 55X lens; six videotape machines, and a crew of 25 technicians the final round was recorded live to tape. Well-known TV commentator Sid Champagne hosted the TV event with former LPGA Tour winner Tracy Kerdyk providing color commentary and current FUTURES tour player Amy Langhals serving as on-course analyst. The two-hour broadcast will be seen on the Sunshine Network.
  
"We are excited about CCI's production of our season-opening tournament for the Sunshine Network and we eagerly await the telecast, which will show viewers throughout the region how dynamic and entertaining today's FUTURES Golf Tour has become," said FUTURES Tour President and Chief Executive Officer, Zayra F. Calderon.
This was one of three live multi-camera events that Communications Concepts, Inc. successfully produced in a four-day period of time. CCI is a full-service audiovisual communications company specializing in television and new -media production. With headquarters in Cape Canaveral, Fla., CCI owns and operates two multi-camera production trucks for live productions and is one of the few production companies to offer all services in-house. The company's list of clients include: broadcasters such as NBC, ABC and CBS; cable networks, such as CNN and Sunshine Network; Fortune 500 firms such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Harris Corporation; and government agencies such as the EPA, the U.S. Navy and the governments of Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Mexico. CCI's New Media department has produced data-based web sites for ILS, a division of Lockheed Martin and interactive instructional programs for The Golf Channel, Brevard Community College, Florida State University and the Canaveral Port Authority. For more information on Communications Concepts, Inc. contact us at 321-783-5232 or visit us online at <a href="http://www.cciflorida.com">www.cciflorida.com</a>;.
The FUTURES Golf Tour, "the official developmental tour of the LPGA," has become the largest international developmental tour and the second largest women's golf tour in the world. Since 1989, FUTURES Tour events have raised nearly $3 million for charitable organizations. Throughout its 24-year history, membership has increased from approximately 150 North American players to more than 300 players from 29 different nations. The Tour now conducts 18 tournaments in 15 states. The top five players on the 2004 FUTURES Tour Money List will receive automatic exemptions for the 2005 LPGA Tour. There are more than 240 FUTURES Tour alumnae on the LPGA Tour and through 2003, they have won a total of 266 LPGA titles, including 28 major championships. The FUTURES Tour is committed to developing the skills and dreams of women golfers, establishing role models for youth and creating the LPGA stars of tomorrow. For more information on the FUTURES Golf Tour, visit their website at <a href="http://www.futurestour.com">www.futurestour.com</a>;.
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