CBS golf gets KIRO Sunday into a Bogey

Looks like a CBS power outage at the Zurich golf site in New Orleans shut down the live feed, so the network replaced it with the 2024 tournament replay. KIRO 7 forced to run a locally inserted lower third crawl advising viewers they are watching last year's play instead of today's 2025 final round due to 'technical difficulties.' The crawl looks station-originated and is on a loop. Now, CBS is calling the whole thing a 'weather delay' with its own upper left bug.

Update, play is suspended at 12:42 PT/2:42 CT and the network is doing leaderboard update, not from the site, but from NYC studio, which is apparently related to earlier info about tech problems.

Play resumed with the live telecast at 2:15/5:15.

We will need an adult beverage at the 19th hole to sort out the mixed messages.

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