BBC EXTENDS COVERAGE
BBC TV has announced that its exclusive contract with the British Darts Organisation to screen the World Professional Darts Championships is being extended to 2010.
Barbara Slater, Head of General Sport, BBC said: “We are delighted to renew this contract and continue to bring darts to the widest possible audience.”
Olly Croft, Managing Director, BDO Enterprises Ltd. said:
“This is wonderful news for BDO darts and our players in the very year that we are celebrating the 30th Anniversary (1978 to 2007) of BBC Sport screening our World Professional Championships.
It is a unique broadcasting partnership for darts, and we are extremely proud of it. There are very few sports which can boast of a BBC contract that is now in its fourth decade.
We are very proud to have provided the BBC with the very best in World Darts since 1978.”
The 2007 World Professional Darts Championships celebrating 30 years of terrestrial TV coverage with the BBC, will reach its climax on Sunday, January 14th when the Final will be screened live on BBC-2 from 6pm, to its conclusion. |