5 and Pluto TV have announced a new simulcast partnership that will bring two major upcoming snooker events – The John Virgo Trophy and the World Seniors Snooker Championship – to audiences across the UK and around the world. On April 11th and 12th, snooker legends Ronnie O’Sullivan, Mark Williams, John Higgins and Stephen Hendry […]

Pluto TV Snooker 900 – the dedicated snooker channel exclusively on Pluto TV and supported by legend Ronnie O’Sullivan – has extended its reach by launching in France, Italy and Spain. The channel is the home of Snooker 900 – a fast-paced, 15-minute format designed for today’s streaming audience. Created by Jason Francis in 2022, […]

Billiard TV, a 24/7 television network with programming dedicated exclusively to cue sports, is now available as a FAST channel via Prime Video UK. Billiard TV was founded in 2021, and its FAST channel debuted on Prime Video US in April. Billiard TV, in partnership with Matchroom, airs highlights and full-event footage from the past […]

Pluto TV, the free streaming platform, is launching new snooker channel Pluto Snooker 900. Snooker fans in the UK, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland can tune in to all the table action from October 6th. The channel, which will initially broadcast 18 hours a week of live snooker, will be the […]

The World Snooker Tour will continue to be shown across Europe on Eurosport and HBO Max as Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) extends its exclusive broadcast rights until at least the 2030-2031 season.  The renewed five-year deal with World Snooker Tour extends Eurosport’s position as the home of snooker nearly 30 years after it first began […]

Two key events on the global World Snooker Tour calendar, the Players Championship and Tour Championship, will both be televised live by 5 for the first time in the new 2025/26 season. 5 will also add the British Open to its new roster of snooker events from 2026. This agreement with WST ensures that these […]

The 2025 World Snooker Championship attracted large TV audiences with the tournament being streamed a record-breaking 29 million times across BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and the BBC Sport app – an increase of 25 per cent on 2024. The overall TV reach across BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Four over the tournament […]

Sunset+Vine’s Scotland and London teams will cross paths in Sheffield as they produce elite snooker for two British broadcasters, BBC Sport and Channel 5. Sunset+Vine Scotland will be first to the table with 19 days of coverage of the Snooker World Championships led by Executive Producer and Head of Sunset+Vine Scotland Grant Philips.  “The Worlds […]

5  has secured the exclusive broadcast rights for the World Seniors Snooker Championship for the second year in a row. Set to take place from May 7th to 11th, the deal will see all the action from Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre broadcast live on 5 and its digital channel 5Action, enabling a wide audience access to […]

BBC Sport and World Snooker Tour have agreed an extension to their broadcast agreement to 2032. The new deal is a five-year extension to the current agreement, ensuring that the Triple Crown remains free-to-air for snooker fans across the UK. BBC Sport will continue to provide live TV and iPlayer coverage of Snooker’s three biggest […]