HBO Sports Bowling: Difference between revisions

'''''HBO Sports Bowling''''' is the branding used for [[Professional Bowlers Association]] broadcasts on the [[HBO]] [[pay television|premium cable and satellite television]] network. Bowling<ref>{{YouTube|title=1976 PBA Tucson HBO Open: Championship Match: Dave Soutar vs Barry Asher|id=96NUO12TpH4}}</ref> was one of HBO's earliest programs,<ref>{{cite book |last=Mesce, Jr.|first=Bill|date= 4 July 2015|title=Inside the Rise of HBO: A Personal History of the Company That Transformed ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BkMXCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dqq=HBO+Sports+Bowling+1973&sourcepg=bl&ots=NarbDoMxke&sig=ACfU3U2XlmjovJDYzQfvh4WRyDrcEiv2ag&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjCpuCs8ZrkAhUPCawKHb6wBJ0Q6AEwG3oECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=HBO%20Sports%20Bowling%201973&f=false|location= PA132|publisher=McFarland|page=132|isbn= |author-link=9781476622255}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.popoptiq.com/its-not-tv-hbo-the-company-that-changed-television-an-original-voice/|title=It’sIt's Not TV: HBO, The Company That Changed Television: An Original Voice|last=Mesce|first=Bill|date= |website=PopOptiq|publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}</ref>, back when it debuted in the early 1970s. HBO's first bowling telecast<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/IBMAmedia/permalink/977378472392464/|title=IBMA International Bowling Media Association|last=Wyckoff|first=Jackie|date=February 2, 2017|website=Facebook|publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}</ref> was the Winston-Salem Open on June 10, [[PBA Bowling Tour: 1973 Season|1973]]. About 21 PBA TV finals

aired on HBO from June 1973 through July [[PBA Bowling Tour: 1975 Season|1975]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thebowlingnews.net/pdf/02-09-17_Bowling_news-WEB.pdf|title=Just Paying Attention|last=London|first=Mark|date=February 9, 2017|website=The Bowling News|publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}</ref>.

[[Dick Stockton]],<ref>{{cite book |last= Shea|first=Stuart|date= 7 May 2015|title=Calling the Game: Baseball Broadcasting from 1920 to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p5QcCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA164&lpg=PA164&dqq=hbo+bowling+dick+stockton&sourcepg=bl&ots=lK_JzbVJ4E&sig=ACfU3U0I3OvxW1jPA_O8ZSgqRNDTKfmrgw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjoovWW6JrkAhUFd6wKHeWCAfAQ6AEwBnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=hbo%20bowling%20dick%20stockton&f=false|location= PA164|publisher=SABR, Inc.|page=164|isbn= |author-link=9781933599410}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dstockton.com/major-turning-point-columnists-career/|title=A Major Turning Point in This Columnist’sColumnist's Career|last=Stockton|first=Dick|date=April 18, 2018 |website=dstockton.com|publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}</ref>, [[Marty Glickman]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Glickman|first=Marty|date= September 1999|title=The Fastest Kid On the Block: The Marty Glickman Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0jMWCtJ5aHQC&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dqq=marty+glickman+hbo+bowling&sourcepg=bl&ots=2AJLhksLUL&sig=ACfU3U07V8MRWdkWuxUP17eP1jPLeYvH_w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiP1N7A75rkAhUFHqwKHQaUB_AQ6AEwGXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=marty%20glickman%20hbo%20bowling&f=false|location= PA139|publisher= Syracuse University Press|page=139|isbn= |author-link=9780815605744}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Sterling|first=Christopher H.|date= 13 May 2013|title=Biographical Dictionary of Radio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XDB5mn0OMXoC&pg=PA355&lpg=PA355&dqq=marty+glickman+hbo+bowling&sourcepg=bl&ots=wNtv-KClGe&sig=ACfU3U2eJXGUoVjhU30rMYA10Knh9-rV6w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiP1N7A75rkAhUFHqwKHQaUB_AQ6AEwGnoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=marty%20glickman%20hbo%20bowling&f=false|location= PA355|publisher=Routledge|page=355|isbn= |author978-link=1136993763}}</ref>, and [[Spencer Ross]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/lost-and-found-hbo-and-ernst-lubitsch-71932548/|title=Lost and Found: HBO and Ernst Lubitsc|last=Eagan|first=Daniel|date=September 9, 2011|website=SMITHSONIAN.COM|publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mrbowling300.net/post/hbo-sports-5954810|title=HBO Sports|last= |first= |date=August 2, 2012 |website=mrbowling300.net|publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}</ref> served as the [[play-by-play]] announcers and Skee Foremsky<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mrbowling300.com/pba/mccune.htm|title=Topic: Don McCune Tribute|last= |first= |date= |website=mrbowling300.com|publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://elpasousbc.org/fred-foremsky/|title=Fred Foremsky|last= |first= |date= |website=EL PASO USBC|publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}</ref> acted as the [[color commentator]] for the [[bowling]] telecasts.<ref>{{Cite AV media |via=YouTube |title=1974 PBA New Jersey Open Introduction |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yg-pQC96Qw |accessdateaccess-date=October 5, 2012}}</ref> [[Pat Summerall]] also called at least one event, which was the [[PBA Bowling Tour: 1975 Season|1975]] Brunswick World Open<ref>{{cite news |last=Taylor|first=Joan|date= |title=1975 Brunswick World Open|url=https://d28lcup14p4e72.cloudfront.net/22410/3073651/summerall_75_bowl.JPG|work=Daily Record|location= |access-date= }}</ref>.

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