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THE LAKESIDE WORLD PRO WILL WELCOME IN THE NEW YEAR
The BDO Lakeside World Professional Darts Championships
will start on New Year’s Day 2011 and be the first major sporting event
of the New Year on terrestrial television.
Players – men and women - from over thirty
countries around the globe will compete in the qualifying events for the
opportunity to reach the most famous venue in World Darts.
“What a fantastic way to celebrate the arrival of the New Year”, says
Olly Croft, OBE, Managing Director of BDO Enterprises Ltd.
“For the first time since 2005,
we are starting the Lakeside World Professional Championships on January
1st and, because there will be a Bank Holiday on Monday,
January 3rd there is a bonus for darts fans with an extra
afternoon session on that day.
“There will be a total of twelve
sessions of darts, and together with our wonderful sponsor Bob Potter
and BBC Sport, we will make sure that we present the greatest darts
Championship on the planet!
“The
World Pro continues to maintain the history of darts at the highest
possible participation levels. It is a true world event seen by the
biggest TV audiences for darts anywhere in the world.
“It offers a wonderful mix of well-known and experienced players,
challenged by fresh faces and emerging talent, together with
the finest officials, the premier broadcaster and the No.1 venue
in World Darts.”
The Men’s World
Professional Championship will celebrate thirty-four years of continuous
coverage on BBC
TV (1978 to 2011), while the Women’s World Professional Championship
will be staged for the eleventh consecutive year (2001 to 2011).
The
extensive TV coverage by BBC
Sport is complemented by red-button coverage of every dart thrown for
digital TV viewers, global distribution by
BBC
Worldwide, European coverage via Eurosport, and Asian coverage by
Eurosport Asia.
Collectively this produces the biggest global TV
audiences for darts.
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