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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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  3. ↑ Mesce, Bill. "It's Not TV: HBO, The Company That Changed Television: An Original Voice". PopOptiq.
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  5. ↑ London, Mark (February 9, 2017). "Just Paying Attention" (PDF). The Bowling News.
  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.
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