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FANS of snooker and darts have been given a boost with a new broadcasting deal for the sports.
The deal will see events from both sports shown live on free-to-air TV in the UK next year.
ITV will once again broadcast events after agreeing a one-year extension with Matchroom.
A host of tournaments across the two sports will now continue to be shown in 2025 across ITV and ITVX.
The World Snooker Tour’s Champion of Champions, Players Championship and Tour Championship will continue to be available.
As will the British Open, with this year’s edition currently being broadcast live by ITV.
Meanwhile, the Professional Darts Corporation’s Masters, UK Open, European Championship and Players Championship will once again be shown live by ITV.
They will also continue their coverage of the World Series of Darts, with at least seven global events and the Finals, which were recently won by Luke Littler.
The extension follows the expansion of the Masters from 24 to 32 players ahead of next year.
As a result, darts fans will be able to take in an extra session from the event at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes.
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In a statement, ITV director of sport Niall Sloane explained: “We are delighted to extend our partnership with Matchroom, and continue to bring free-to-air coverage to darts and snooker fans on ITV and ITVX.
Events to be shown on ITV
Snooker:
- British Open
- Champion of Champions
- Players Championship
- Tour Championship
Darts:
- The Masters
- UK Open
- European Championship
- Players Championship Finals
- At least seven World Series of Darts global events
- World Series of Darts Finals
“The deal includes The Masters as it enters an exciting expansion of its tournament alongside the existing big-name events our viewers enjoy annually.”
WST chief marketing and communications officer Tom Rowell added: “This is fantastic news for snooker fans as they will continue to be able to watch the sport’s biggest names across a range of prestigious events over the 2024/25 season, on free-to-air ITV platforms.
“We look forward to working with ITV’s outstanding team, starting at this week’s British Open in Cheltenham.”
Meanwhile, Matt Porter, chief executive of the PDC, said: “ITV have been a valued partner of the PDC for over 15 years and have broadcast many iconic moments during that time – and with so much excitement around the sport at the moment we’re looking forward to a thrilling 2025.”
Ultimate sports presenters rich list
TV sports presenters make a mint.
The biggest and best are signed up on yearly deals with the likes of the BBC, ITV and Sky for your viewing pleasure.
Laura Woods is dominating the media landscape at the moment, leading TNT Sports’ coverage and ITV’s.
Alex Scott and Jermaine Jenas are two of the fresher faces for the BBC’s sporting output.
Then, it’s the old guard of Gary Lineker and Mark Chapman who also command hefty fees for their Match of the Day programmes.
SunSport has taken a look at how those big names rank and compiled a list of the top 10 highest earning stars that grace our TV screens.
With number one worth a whopping £29.4million more than number 10!
Read the story and see the full list here.
TV star unrecognisable 18 years after smash hit noughties show that made him famous
A TV star looks unrecognisable 18 years after a smash hit noughties show that made him famous.
Zachary John Quinto in American actor and film producer, famously known for his role as Sylar in the series Heroes.
Heroes saw ordinary human beings develop supernatural powers and followed their lives as they came to terms with their new abilities.
The original run first kicked off in 2007 and ran for four seasons before being axed, and, in the UK, the series was broadcast on ITV.
He is also famous for his iconic roles in Star Trek and American Horror Story – for the latter of which, he was nominated for an Emmy Award.
Zachary is now 47 years old and was spotted out and about in New York walking his two dogs.
The actor donned a grey top and blue trousers as he walked along clutching the leads with one hand, and his phone with the other.
Zachary looked deep in thought as he scrolled on his device with his headphones in.
It was after Heroes that Zachary went on to appear in Star Trek, American Horror Story, and The Boys in the Band.
For his role in AHS: Asylum, Zachary was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
However, he lost the award to his AHS co-star, James Cromwell.
While discussing his film debut in Star Trek, Zachary shared with the franchise’s official website: “Well, for all intents and purposes, Star Trek was my first movie.
“So, I didn’t really have anything to compare it to in terms of scope and scale at the time.
“It was an incredibly gratifying experience, creatively and professionally and personally, to work on the first movie.
“And I was really encouraged by the way everyone responded to it when it came out.”
Currently, Zachary is a show named Brilliant Minds which he posted about on his social media.
He penned: “Tonight is the night! Premiering on NBC at 10pm,” on his Instagram grid.
And just a few days ago he popped up on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to talk about Brilliant Minds.
In his personal life, Zachary and Miles McMillan called it quits after nearly six years together.
In February 2019, it was confirmed they had split earlier that year.
At the time, breakup rumors were swirling when the former couple arrived at separate Oscars after parties.
An insider told People: “They amicably split earlier this year.”
Armageddon-style plan to fire nukes at deadly asteroids revealed after close flyby of ‘God of Destruction’ space rock
SCIENTISTS have unveiled an Armageddon-style plan to fire nukes at asteroids that may be considered a threat to Earth.
The Hollywood-esque plot suggests detonating a nuclear bomb roughly a mile away from the space rock to help knock it off course.
Scientists believe the explosion, and the blast of X-ray radiation that comes with it, could be enough to deflect an oncoming impact.
“The vaporised material shoots off one side, pushing the asteroid in the opposite direction,” said Dr Nathan Moore, the first author on the new study from Sandia National Laboratory.
“It’s like turning the asteroid into its own rocket.”
It comes just a week after fears of a collision with city-killer asteroid Apophis, nicknamed ‘God of Destruction’, were reignited.
Apophis is scheduled to make an intimidatingly close flyby of Earth on Friday 13, 2029.
The near-Earth object is expected to pass around 19,800 miles (32,000km) of Earth, closer than some satellites, where some stargazers may be able to see it with the naked eye.
No asteroid is expected to come as close for a few thousand years.
And if Apophis is hit by other space rocks on its journey around the solar system, there is a one in a billion chance it’s path may be diverted to collide with Earth.
Now, those are still pretty good odds.
But scientists are well aware that cataclysmic asteroid strikes are not reserved for the dinosaurs, and the dinosaurs alone.
Earth's closest near-misses
One of Earth's closest near-misses occurred only a few years ago.
Asteroid VT4, which is estimated to be just five to 10 metres in diameter, came as close as 383 km to Earth’s surface in 2020.
Another close encounter happened on 31 March 2004, when meteoroid FU162 zoomed past just 6500km above Earth’s surface.
But as experts at the Royal Greenwich Observatory explain, both these asteroids would have been relatively harmless.
“FU162 is only 10m across, so if it had collided with the Earth it would almost certainly have exploded harmlessly in the upper atmosphere,” experts said.
Then in May 1996, asteroid JA1 passed the Earth 450,000km away – which is about as far away as the Moon.
Space rocks are still a risk to life on Earth, which is why researchers are throwing their weight behind upping our planetary defences.
Last year, Nasa proved it could successfully deflect an asteroid with its DART mission, which saw it crash a spacecraft into space rock Dimorphos.
However, Dimorphos is a fairly small asteroid as space rocks go, at about 525-foot-wide.
Asteroid Apophis is roughly double that, and is wide as the Eiffel Tower is long.
While the rock that took out the dinosaurs 66million years ago is believed to have been six miles wide.
What's the difference between an asteroid, meteor and comet?
Here's what you need to know, according to Nasa...
- Asteroid: An asteroid is a small rocky body that orbits the Sun. Most are found in the asteroid belt (between Mars and Jupiter) but they can be found anywhere (including in a path that can impact Earth)
- Meteoroid: When two asteroids hit each other, the small chunks that break off are called meteoroids
- Meteor: If a meteoroid enters the Earth’s atmosphere, it begins to vapourise and then becomes a meteor. On Earth, it’ll look like a streak of light in the sky, because the rock is burning up
- Meteorite: If a meteoroid doesn’t vapourise completely and survives the trip through Earth’s atmosphere, it can land on the Earth. At that point, it becomes a meteorite
- Comet: Like asteroids, a comet orbits the Sun. However rather than being made mostly of rock, a comet contains lots of ice and gas, which can result in amazing tails forming behind them (thanks to the ice and dust vaporizing)