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Bob lobel
By admin | April 2, 2008
Today’s Boston Herald reports that among the 30 unfortunate souls shit canned in the name of “efficiency and streamlining” was Bob Lobel.
There were times when I was convinced Bob Lobel was drunk on the air at Channel 4. He’d punctuate his interviews with bizarre non sequiturs and occaionally uncomfortable dead air.
But at least he wasn’t a blow-dried Sportscenter wannabe. He tried to make things interesting and had a decent sense of humor. I can’t even name the sports guys on the other channels, to be honest.
“This place gave me an identity,” Lobel said. “I would have done this for free, but after a while, it got to be a business. It’s been a pretty integral part of my life for a long time. It’s time to move on. Am I sad about it? Well, I guess it’s possible to be both sad and excited at the same time.”
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Bob Lobel is a former sportscaster for WBZ-TV in Boston, Massachusetts. He anchored the sports segments on the evening newscasts between Sunday and Thursday, and hosts the weekly programs Sports Final and Patriots 5th Quarter. During a round of layoffs in April, 2008, Lobel’s contract was bought out by the station.[1]
A native of Apple Creek, Ohio, Lobel joined the station as weekend sports anchor in 1979 and was promoted to weekday anchor and sports director in 1981, making him the longest-tenured television sports anchor in Boston[citation needed]. Before joining the television side of WBZ, Lobel worked at WBZ radio for three years, most notably as the host of Calling All Sports, a sports talk show that aired on Saturday nights. He also worked at WJOY in Burlington, Vermont and WGIR in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Lobel has also done some play-by-play work, calling WBZ’s annual broadcast of the Boston Marathon and two NFL games for NBC in 1985. In 1985, Lobel turned down an offer from CBS Sports to host the College Football Today pre-game show, a job which eventually went to Jim Nantz[citation needed]. He was a sideline reporter for the NCAA Mens’ Basketball Tournament between 1995 and 1997.
On the air, Lobel was known for using props and catchphrases during his sportscasts:
* “Why can’t we get players like that?” - when any former player for a Boston team is shown making a big play for his new team.
* the “Panic Button” when a local team is on a losing streak
* a support beam from the Boston Garden occasionally used for Boston Bruins and Boston Celtics highlights
During a 2003 edition of Sports Final, Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan said that the wife of New Jersey Nets guard Jason Kidd needed someone to “smack” her for taking his young children to NBA playoff games where they could be taunted. Kidd had recently faced charges of domestic violence. Lobel immediately interrupted Ryan and tried to get Ryan to retract his comment, but Ryan refused. The Globe suspended Ryan for a month. In an Internet chat that summer, Lobel said that his actions were not “an act of heroism on my part, just knowing what is acceptable and what is not acceptable”.[2]
Lobel sits in as a frequent guest on Mike Barnicle’s weekday morning radio show on WTKK, usually when Dan Shaughnessy is absent.
Source: Wikipedia
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