For Immediate Release - BowlSpace.com
PBA, ONEsite Launch Online Global Community
BowlSpace.com to provide place for bowlers to connect onlineSEATTLE (November 21, 2006) — The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) announced today it has teamed with ONEsite to launch BowlSpace.com, bowling’s new digital destination.
BowlSpace provides a global community wired around bowling content – a place for professional bowlers, recreational bowlers and bowling centers to connect, share and interact. BowlSpace is a rich, digital, multi-media interactive experience for all members of the bowling community that includes much more than socialization.
”The PBA is committed to supporting bowlers and the bowling industry, and BowlSpace is a terrific platform to connect bowlers from all over the world,” said PBA Commissioner and CEO Fred Schreyer. “Social networks are booming, but they are becoming more niche-focused. We are very excited to partner with OneSite on the first-ever social network catering specifically to bowlers.”
Custom features of BowlSpace include pages designed for pros, pages designed for recreational bowlers, a “virtual coach”, highlights from events and a common platform for bowling centers to interact with their local customers. Exclusive content such as interviews with the pros following events will be provided on BowlSpace as well.
“We are really excited about working with the PBA to launch BowlSpace,” said Bill Towler, President of ONEsite. “Bowling has a huge recreational community that to date has been underserved on the web. BowlSpace will change all of that.”
Fans can register their personalized profiles and free BowlSpace page at www.bowlspace.com.
The Denny’s PBA Tour is in Vernon Hills, Ill., this week, Nov. 22-26, for the Discover® Card Windy City Classic The live ESPN televised finals will take place Sunday, Nov. 26 at 1 p.m. ET.
About the PBA
The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) features the best bowlers in the world competing in National, Regional and Senior Tour events. PBA membership reached an all-time high of 4,300 members during the 2005-06 Denny’s PBA Tour season. Also in 2005-06 – the Tour’s first with a title sponsor – ratings on PBA telecasts increased 12.5 percent among males ages 18-34. PBA sponsors include Ace Hardware, Bayer, Brunswick, Columbia 300, Denny's, Discover® Card, Etonic, Flomax, GEICO, H&R Block, Motel 6, Pepsi-Cola and the USBC, among others. For more information on the PBA, log on to www.pba.com.
About ONEsite
ONEsite is the web’s leading provider of private labeled social networks. ONEsite offers customers a suite of socialization and community tools as well as a robust, scalable hosting architecture to support their customers including a 24x7 manned technical support center. For more information about ONEsite please contact (405) 753-9300 or go to www.onesite.com.
