Snooker’s 2014 World Championship reached an astonishing audience of over 330 million viewers worldwide. Figures from the sport’s key global markets show that 331,144,000 people watched the tournament, which concluded on May 5 when Mark Selby beat Ronnie O’Sullivan in the final in Sheffield. This is the highest ever reach[Read More…]
Tag: Barry Hearn
ITV Commit to Snooker
Barry Hearn’s second press conference of this year’s World Championship revealed a new five-year deal with broadcaster ITV. The channel had already come back to snooker in recent years by first showing the World Open last season before a very successful production of the Champion of Champions during this campaign.[Read More…]
Hearn Makes Tour Changes
Barry Hearn made a number of announcements today regarding tournament formats and the tour structure. As has been the case for a number of seasons, the World Championship offers snooker’s supremo the opportunity to unleash a flurry of changes amid a frenzy of extended media attention. Most, if not all,[Read More…]
PTC Grand Finals Moving to Thailand
World Snooker today announced that this season’s Players Tour Championship Grand Finals will be staged in Thailand. It is good news for the South East Asian country, which has a long history hosting snooker tournament dating back to the 1980s. But it is a major blow for professional snooker in[Read More…]
Steve Davis Set For Jungle
While the majority of the snooker fraternity is battling it out in Antwerp this weekend, a six-time world champion is lapping it up in a luxurious 5-star hotel in Australia. Of course, that will only last for a couple more days as Steve Davis will begin his quest to become[Read More…]
Ronnie in Limelight Again
Ronnie O’Sullivan is rarely out of the papers, whether it’s for his snooker ability on the table, his temperamental behaviour off it, or his ability to crop up when the limelight should be on somebody else. Stephen Lee on Monday was found guilty of match fixing, to which he is[Read More…]
Barnsley Opens Doors for Free
From World Snooker: Fans in Barnsley will be able to watch snooker’s top players in action for FREE at the Metrodome in October. The Barnsley Metrodome will stage World Snooker tournaments for the first time this season, starting with the International Championship qualifiers on October 1st and 2nd. The South[Read More…]
Champion of Champions Unveiled
There was exciting news yesterday as a new Champion of Champions event was revealed by Barry Hearn at the Crucible. The tournament, to be staged in Coventry between the 19th and 24th of November, will see the winners of all the big events this season go head-to-head for bragging rights[Read More…]
BBC Deal Extended
The BBC will continue to broadcast snooker’s biggest domestic tournaments until at least 2017, extending the current agreement by three years. The BBC will continue as host broadcaster of the World Championship, the UK Championship and the Masters until the end of the 2016/17 season, and there is also the[Read More…]
The Semi Spat
The debate is revisited nearly every year and once again chatter among journalists and bloggers, players and fans has resorted back to the format of the World Championship semi-finals. Many have their own personal view and a lot of these have been shared on other blogs, Twitter and Facebook over[Read More…]