{"id":352966,"date":"2025-12-18T09:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352966\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:26:09","slug":"cbs-sports-adding-johnson-wagner-to-golf-broadcast-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352966\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Sports adding Johnson Wagner to golf broadcast team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">CBS Sports has tapped Golf Channel analyst Johnson Wagner to fill the spot on its golf broadcasts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/12\/03\/cbs-elevates-colt-knost-to-booth-for-golf-coverage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/12\/03\/cbs-elevates-colt-knost-to-booth-for-golf-coverage\/\">vacated by Colt Knost<\/a>, who was moved to CBS\u2019s booth two weeks ago, according to people familiar with the matter. Wagner, the former PGA Tour player who has been with Golf Channel since 2023, will serve as one of CBS\u2019s walking reporters alongside Dottie Pepper and Mark Immelman. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Wagner has gained popularity in recent years for his post-round reenactments on Golf Channel\u2019s \u201cLive From.\u201d From the biggest events, he oftentimes would go out and try to recreate the most difficult or most memorable shot from that day\u2019s play. In many cases, the segments have gone viral on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The segments became so popular that Wagner at one point earlier this year traveled the country to try and recreate some of the most memorable shots from Tiger Woods\u2019 dominating 2000 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Current CBS analyst Frank Nobilo once worked for both CBS and Golf Channel, but a source said Wagner is not expected to continue his duties for Golf Channel. It\u2019s not out of the question that Wagner could execute the same segments on CBS platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">CBS did not comment for this story. Golf Channel also did not comment. Wagner, who worked as an analyst for Wednesday\u2019s Golf Channel Games, is repped by WME\u2019s Jason Horrell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS Sports has tapped Golf Channel analyst Johnson Wagner to fill the spot on its golf broadcasts vacated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,4846,622,11513,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-352966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cbs-sports","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-golf-channel","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}