HBO Sports Bowling

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HBO Sports Bowling is the branding used for Professional Bowlers Association broadcasts on the HBO premium cable and satellite television network. Bowling [1] was one of HBO's earliest programs, [2] [3] back when it debuted in the early 1970s. HBO's first bowling telecast [4] was the Winston-Salem Open on June 10, 1973. About 21 PBA TV finals aired on HBO from June 1973 through July 1975. [5]

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Dick Stockton, [6] [7] Marty Glickman, [8] [9] and Spencer Ross [10] [11] served as the play-by-play announcers and Skee Foremsky [12] [13] acted as the color commentator for the bowling telecasts. [14]

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  1. ↑ 1976 PBA Tucson HBO Open: Championship Match: Dave Soutar vs Barry Asher on YouTube
  2. ↑ Mesce Jr., Bill (4 July 2015). Inside the Rise of HBO: A Personal History of the Company That Transformed ... McFarland. p. 132. ISBN   9781476622255.
  3. ↑ Mesce, Bill. "It's Not TV: HBO, The Company That Changed Television: An Original Voice". PopOptiq.
  4. ↑ Wyckoff, Jackie (February 2, 2017). "IBMA International Bowling Media Association". Facebook.
  5. ↑ London, Mark (February 9, 2017). "Just Paying Attention" (PDF). The Bowling News.[ permanent dead link ]
  6. ↑ Shea, Stuart (7 May 2015). Calling the Game: Baseball Broadcasting from 1920 to the Present. SABR, Inc. p. 164. ISBN   9781933599410.
  7. ↑ Stockton, Dick (April 18, 2018). "A Major Turning Point in This Columnist's Career". dstockton.com.
  8. ↑ Glickman, Marty (September 1999). The Fastest Kid On the Block: The Marty Glickman Story. Syracuse University Press. p. 139. ISBN   9780815605744.
  9. ↑ Sterling, Christopher H. (13 May 2013). Biographical Dictionary of Radio. Routledge. p. 355. ISBN   978-1136993763.
  10. ↑ Eagan, Daniel (September 9, 2011). "Lost and Found: HBO and Ernst Lubitsc". SMITHSONIAN.COM.
  11. ↑ "HBO Sports". mrbowling300.net. August 2, 2012.
  12. ↑ "Topic: Don McCune Tribute". mrbowling300.com.
  13. ↑ "Fred Foremsky". EL PASO USBC.
  14. ↑ 1974 PBA New Jersey Open Introduction . Retrieved October 5, 2012– via YouTube.
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