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Before becoming a nationwide sports commentator, from 1970 to 1974, Lundquist was announcer for the sports show, Bowling for Dollars, in Dallas, Texas. It aired weekday evenings on the ABC station, WFAA-TV, from 6:30 to 7:00, in north central Texas. [11]
Lundquist has covered everything from the NFL, NBA, and Olympics, to even a game show called "Bowling for Dollars." However, many of Lundquist's most memorable calls have come from the Masters ...
Bowling for Dollars is a television game show on which people could play the sport of bowling to win cash and sometimes prizes based on how well they bowled.. Unlike most TV game shows of the time, which were taped in either New York or Hollywood and broadcast nationally, Bowling for Dollars was produced by local TV stations and featured contestants from the immediate area.
Within its first year, the Rochester Bowling for Dollars had given away more than $100,000 in prizes to more than 2,300 contestants and received more than 825,000 Pin Pal cards, according to news ...
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Upon Mercer's departure, Verne Lundquist joined the network, and became their play-by-play announcer by 1977, serving eight years in that capacity before handing those chores permanently over to Brad Sham, who joined the network in 1977 as the color analyst and occasional fill-in for Lundquist.
Jim Nantz's tribute to Verne Lundquist. As Collin Morikawa made his par putt on Hole 16, CBS broadcaster Jim Nantz paid a poetic farewell to Lundquist as he sent the broadcast to Hole 17, where ...
CBS has televised the Masters in the United States every year since 1956, [1] [2] [3] when it used six cameras and covered only the final four holes. Tournament coverage of the first eight holes did not begin until 1995 because of resistance from the tournament organizers, but by 2007, more than 50 cameras were used.