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With CBS and ESPN You Can’t Escape The Masters This Week

By Kathlene Bissell

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC - APRIL 21: (L-R) Television personalities Nick Faldo and Jim Nantz pose in the CBS Sports tower on the 18th hole during the final round of the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links on April 21, 2013 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC - APRIL 21: (L-R) Television personalities Nick Faldo and Jim Nantz pose in the CBS Sports tower on the 18th hole during the final round of the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links on April 21, 2013 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) /
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It’s everywhere. The Masters.  Between broadcast television (CBS), cable television (ESPN), online, streaming, featured group coverage, special holes – Amen Corner and 15 and 16 – five weekend specials and late-night highlights, you just cannot escape the Masters this week. And who wants to?

For those who love golf and love the Masters, it’s the best thing since being able to pause a TV set to take a necessary break. Really, it’s not just wall-to-wall coverage.  It’s wall-to-ceiling-to-floor-to-refrigerator-to-your-favorite-easy-chair coverage. Have food delivered. Get a drink robot. Except for using your remote or scrolling on a tablet, you’ll hardly move if you watch all of it.  Calories be damned. Exercise next week, not this one.

Here are the highlights of coverage. Get a pen and circle or use your electronic highlighter and make a note of the ones you want to watch. Warning, it’s a veritable explosion of viewing options.

Before the tournament starts, CBS Sports Network/ Masters Live has “Masters on the Range” which will include interviews with players and analysis of the field.  It will air on-line and on cable Tuesday and Wednesday from 9:00-11:00 AM, Thursday and Friday from 8:30-10:30 AM, and Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 AM-1:00 PM. ( All times for everything eastern daylight.)

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Starting with network and national cable:

On Wednesday, ESPN will have SportsCenter at the Masters, a one-hour preview show at 3 PM. As a preview of coming attractions, Wednesday evening, the 2020 Masters will re-air on CBS Sports Network.

On Thursday, in the 8 AM SportsCenter time period, ESPN will have coverage of the Honorary Starters Ceremony with Lee Elder, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus.

On your big screen, if you are a fan of that kind of watching – and really, who wants to see the 12th hole small? — ESPN will air the Masters tournament on Thursday and Friday from 3:00-7:30 PM and will have evening replays that start at 8 PM and at 1 AM.

CBS Network Masters highlights will be shown from 11:35 -11:50 PM on Thursday and Friday.

CBS will have third and fourth round coverage from 3:00 PM-7:00 PM on Saturday and  from 2:00 PM-7:00 PM on Sunday.  There will be replays at 8 PM on CBS Sports Network each day.

There’s also a cornucopia of Masters programming on line and streaming.

During the tournament, Masters Live will have three additional channels that are also available on CBSSports.com, the CBS Sports app and Paramount+.

“Featured Groups” will take groupings of players though their rounds. It will air from 9:15 AM-7:30 PM on Thursday and Friday and from 10:15 AM-7:00 PM on Saturday and Sunday.

“Amen Corner” features holes 11, 12 and 13 and will air 10:45 AM-6:00 PM on Thursday and Friday and 11:45 AM-6:00 PM on Saturday and Sunday.

The “15th and 16th ” channel will show action at those two holes from 11:45 AM-7:00 PM on Thursday and Friday and from 12:30-6:30 PM on Saturday and Sunday.

ESPN and ESPN + will also have live, on-line and streaming coverage.  ESPN+ will have “Featured Groups,” Holes 4, 5 and 6, Amen Corner and Holes 15 and 16 all four days in approximately the same time slot as the Masters Live/ CBS Sports.com programming.

And now, the specials on Saturday and Sunday.

It begins on CBS television network with We Need to Talk on Saturday, April 10 from 12:30-1:30 PM, featuring panelists Amanda Balionis, Dottie Pepper, Tina Cervasio and Aditi Kinkhabwala. The program is slated to include early round analysis and a recap of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur.

THE MASTERS: Jack and Arnie! will air Saturday the 10th from 1:30-2:00 PM.  It will be followed by THE MASTERS: The Second Nine on Saturday from 2:00-3:00 PM, ET.

THE MASTERS: The Magnificent 12th  will air Sunday, April 11th from 12:30-1:00 PM. It will be followed by  Jim Nantz Remembers Augusta: Mark O’Meara at the Masters from 1:00-2:00 PM, ET.  That program recalls O’Meara’s 1998 victory.

Throughout the week, Masters Live will also have aerials, historic features and interview room highlights.

Get comfy. Settle in.  No one expects you to even talk until next week.

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