Bob lobel biography
- Lobel was born in Apple Creek, Ohio.
- Robert "Bob" Lobel is a former sportscaster for WBZ-TV in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Sports director for WBZ-TV (Channel 4) in Boston, Massachusetts; has been a sports anchor there since 1979.
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Bob Lobel, former sportscaster for WBZ-TV in Boston, Massachusetts anchored sports segments on evening newscasts for decades and hosted the weekly programs Sports Final and Patriots 5th Quarter. Lobel has also done play-by-play work, calling the Boston Marathon, Boston Celtics games, Boston College Eagles football games, New England Patriots preseason games, and NFL games for NBC in 1985.
As co-host of the new Boston podcast, legendary sportscaster Bob Lobel teams up with fellow ex-news anchor Mike Lynch to tell the behind-the-scenes (...in the locker room, on the field, and beyond) stories as well as give expert feedback to current sports events and share insider stories true Boston sports fans will relish in.
Prior to the podcast, using his distinctive interviewing style, Bob interviewed and produced “unplugged” conversations with some of New England’s biggest sports heroes for the broadcast show "Legends with Bob Lobel." Legends from the Bruins, Patriots, Celtics, Red Sox and college sports sat down with Lobel in unique locations and told behind-the-scenes s
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Bob Lobel is a New England sportscasting legend. He was sports director at WBZ-TV for 30 years and became as recognizable a face across the region as the famous athletes that he covered.
The Ohio native began his career in 1969 at WVNY in Burlington, Vermont after earning a Masters’ degree in education from the University of Vermont. He moved on to WGIR in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1972 and joined WBZ-TV as weekend sports anchor in 1979. He became sports director in 1981, remaining in that role until 2008.
During a multifaceted career, Lobel, now 73, also did play-by-play work for the Boston Celtics, New England Patriots, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament and Boston College football, among many other assignments. He is currently co-host of the cable television program “Legends with Bob Lobel.”
On the air, Lobel was known for his breezy personality and his good-natured sense of humor, along with such props as the “panic button,” which he pushed when a local team was mired in a losing streak, and catchphrases such as “Why can’t we get players like that?” which he would say
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