World Snooker has secured BGC Partners as the new title sponsor of the Masters, just days before this year’s tournament gets underway in London.
World Snooker has furthered its presence in the Chinese market by announcing a third event in the shape of the Haikou World Open.
World Snooker has teamed up with Perform to launch an online streaming service that aims to boost global interest in the sport.
Victoria has secured the right to host the first ever ranking snooker tournament to be staged in Australia.
The Masters, one of the highlights of the snooker calendar, will have a new home in 2012 after organisers of the event announced that it would move across London from Wembley Arena to Alexandra Palace.
The BBC has penned a new three-year deal with World Snooker that will see the UK public broadcaster continue to air the World and UK championships, the Masters and the Welsh Open through to the end of the 2013-14 season.
World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association chairman Barry Hearn saw his blueprint for snooker's future accepted at an Extraordinary General Meeting in Sheffield yesterday.
Businessman and former Olympian John Davison has made a late challenge to Barry Hearn’s bid to take over the running of professional snooker.
World Snooker Limited, the commercial arm of the global governing body of snooker, yesterday announced plans for a joint-venture with the IMG agency to create a new World Snooker Tour that will “capitalise on the burgeoning interest in professional snooker” across the world.
IMG Sports Media announced yesterday it has extended its deal with World Snooker Limited (WSL) to distribute the worldwide media rights for WSL events for a further five years.
