Ha ha. Well the most recent ITV darts coverage was hosted by the excellent News Boulting who these days mostly does cycling and is lead ITV commentator for the Tour de France. That was because it clashed with the World Cup
The next big darts in the UK is the PDC World Championship which is on Sky and runs over Christmas and New Year. Oatley doesn't get to do that. If you've never watched British/European darts tournaments you're in for a shock. Basically they're seen as opportunities for large numbers of people to drink voluminous quantities of beer, whilst wearing fancy dress and holding up 'witty' signs for the cameras. That all said, I once went to a session at the Ally Pally (aka Alexandra Palace in North London, and once home to the BBC's first TV studios - bringing things back to being vaguely on topic), and it was enormous fun! Adam On Sat, 3 Dec 2022, 01:23 PGage, <[email protected]> wrote: > And now I am searching for how to watch UK Darts coverage… > > On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 at 5:14 PM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A lot of our commentators are effectively freelance and do different >> things for different channels. Jacqui Oatley used to do a lot of radio for >> BBC Radio Five Live. These days she’s lead commentator on Sky Sports for >> the Women’s Premier League. She sometimes covers the men’s Championship >> (level below EPL) for Quest (a Discovery channel that has the rights). And >> the she’s also lead darts commentator for ITV! >> >> In truth, if Fox hadn’t got her for the World Cup, she’d have been on ITV >> to some degree, but wouldn’t have been their lead commentator. Both BBC and >> ITV cover the World Cup in the UK, splitting matches between them. But both >> broadcasters will have commentators at each fixture even if only for a >> highlights show later it the evening. The BBC also has separate radio folk >> with Talkspprt also having radio rights. >> >> >> Adam >> >> On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 at 23:21, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Wow, I have really been digging Oakley’s work on the World Cup >>> broadcasts. Is she as highly regarded in the UK as she now is in my house? >>> I would nominate her for sure to call the Finals.-- >>> Sent from Gmail Mobile >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2B7MTMAyXg7QAZCTZ3U2hEoagZbDyGpuvz69N92pvQf_Q%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2B7MTMAyXg7QAZCTZ3U2hEoagZbDyGpuvz69N92pvQf_Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGAEiJ%2BfxMFcdLYcCsCDJt6ddHGfuZNFutUc8yexFgLyAQ%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGAEiJ%2BfxMFcdLYcCsCDJt6ddHGfuZNFutUc8yexFgLyAQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYJZEWLWDLjUQ%3DKU7DFiRjWTSfjm1yThJyzn44hHMmuvJA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYJZEWLWDLjUQ%3DKU7DFiRjWTSfjm1yThJyzn44hHMmuvJA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGBoZJ%3D2yRLO%3D7e380VtLA2PMmY2CQ3u5HRJiJ%3DFGo2ZWg%40mail.gmail.com.
