LIVE AND DELAYED AROUND THE WORLD

The 2003 World Pool Championship is shown live in the UK and throughout Asia as well as delayed in many other parts of the world.

Sky Sports and ESPN Star each provide 60 hours of live coverage with Sky Sports reaching around seven million subscribers in the UK and ESPN Star broadcasting to over 185 million subscribers in 27 countries.

This year, for the first time, RTL 5 will broadcast live coverage to over 6.7 million terrestrial viewers in Holland whilst Sport 1 (a Hungarian based channel) will also broadcast live from Cardiff to over 1.3 million households across eastern Europe.

18 hours delayed coverage is taken by the following channels:

SportsNet in Canada (over 8.2 million subscribers)
Fox Sports in Australia (over one million subscribers)
Sports-i in Japan (over 3.25 million subscribers)
KSA TV in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
SuperSport in South Africa (1.5 million subscribers)
Fox World in the USA (19 million households)
Stream in Italy (almost one million subscribers)
ESPN International in Latin America (over 15 million subscribers)
Viasat in Scandinavia (across Denmark, Norway and Sweden)
NTV Plus in Russia (over 40 million homes) [2x2hr highlights]

Sky Sports is the UK's premier dedicated sports channel and their commitment to 9-ball Pool is shown again in 2003 with live coverage of each day of the World Pool Championship.

Fronted by Dave Clark (pictured right), a www.worldpoolchampionship.com guest columnist, and with expert summary from six-times world snooker champion Steve Davis amongst others, Sky Sports' coverage is once again setting the pace for others to follow.

With fifteen cameras covering the TV Table, including overhead and pocket cameras, viewers at home are offered table-side seats to the action.

And with commentators such as the legendary Sid Waddell, knowledgeable Canadian Jim Wych and top US pundit Jerry Forsyth, the action will really come alive from the comfort of an armchair!

The full Sky Sports live schedule is as follows:

July 12: 2pm BST Sky Sports 2; 7pm BST Sky Sports 1
July 13: 2pm BST Sky Sports 2; 7pm BST Sky Sports 1
July 14: 2pm BST Sky Sports 1; 7pm BST Sky Sports 1
July 15: 2pm BST Sky Sports 1; 7pm BST Sky Sports 1
July 16: 2pm BST Sky Sports 1; 7pm BST Sky Sports 1
July 17: 2pm BST Sky Sports 1; 7pm BST Sky Sports 1
July 18: 2pm BST Sky Sports 1; 7pm BST Sky Sports 1
July 19: 2pm BST Sky Sports 2; 7pm BST Sky Sports 2
July 20: 7pm BST Sky Sports 1

ESPNSTAR will show the event live on the following channels in the specified countries:

STAR SPORTS ASIA (China, South Korea, North Korea, Myanmar, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea)

STAR SPORTS TAIWAN (Taiwan)

STAR SPORTS SEA (Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Vietnam, Brunei, Mongolia)

STAR SPORTS INDIA (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, Bangladesh)

There will also be delayed coverage on the following channels in the specified countries:

ESPN ASIA (China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Cambodia, North Korea, Laos, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, Papua New Guinea, Guam, Macau, Vietnam, Burma,
Myanmar, Mongolia, New Caledonia)

ESPN INDIA (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Sri Lanka)

ESPN TAIWAN (Taiwan)

ESPN PHILIPPINES (Philippines)

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