a feature throughout its run. The BBC had purchased the rights to as many established events as it could. A joke of the period was that the BBC were going through the list of sports in alphabetical order and had run out of money before it reached wrestling which is how ITV got it. Two sports in particular, ten-pin bowling and kart racing, benefited from television exposure to a British public hitherto unaware of them. Whilst the majority of ten-pin bowling shown from 1965 onwards focused on regional league competitions in the UK, a surge in popularity in the sport in the UK in the mid-1970s led to footage from the biennial WTBA World Championship, and telecasts from the US Professional Bowlers Tour, being included increasingly in later years (Mark Roth becoming the first bowler to convert a 7 - 10 split on television on 5 January 1980 at the ARC Alameda Open in Alameda, California, was possibly the best-remembered of the US telecasts shown on the programme). British stock car drivers such as Barry Lee also greatly benefited from the show's exposure. The programme also occasionally acquired the rights to major sporting events, such as the Tour de France and the Ryder Cup. During the football season, the programme would normally finish with the Results Service, which began when the day's football matches started to finish. Bob Colston read the classified results and he and John Tyrrel, who read the horse racing results, were the only regular results announcers throughout the duration of World of Sport (although between 1983 and 1985 Elton Welsby began alternating with Colston). A typical edition would be broadcast between 12:15 and 17:10 and would take on the following format. 12:20 On The Ball - football preview with Brian Moore and in later years Ian St. John and Jimmy Greaves. 13:00 Sports Special 1 - A wide array of sports, often including clips from US show Wide World of Sports. Less prominent sports such as darts, snooker, bowls, water skiing, speedway, rallying and others would also feature. Sometimes Boxing would also be shown in this slot. 13:15 ITN News 13:20 ITV Racing. 15:00 Sports Special 2 - see Sports Special 1. 15:45 Half-Time Scores - the half-time scores from that day's football, plus racing results from races that had taken place in the previous hour. 16:00 Wrestling - a mainstay of the World of Sport