Hmmm.... can't really say why it took me so long to post the link to this article, but OH well.....
OFF THE TELLY: Reviews/2005/World Darts: "Televised darts has taken a strange twist in the last decade, with the sport's infamous split into two pools taking what became the more glamorous half of the game onto satellite. Their coverage - while containing all the vileness which can go with an overblown, overhyped sporting event on Sky Sports - is technically impressive and extremely well planned. The PDC players are given documentary airtime, the venues are chosen for the benefit of the telly rather than despite it, and for some time now the looped introduction of the splendid Chase the Sun by Planet Funk has become a much hummed, wailed and sung theme tune for every player intro, commercial break and presentation ceremony.
Coverage by the BBC has remained refreshingly staid by comparison, contributing next to nothing to the natural glitterati of the event at the Lakeside Country Club, leaving that to the whims and policies of the tournament's organisers and the Masters of Ceremony - the chief of which, the klaxon-like Martin Fitzmaurice, whips up an already sizzled crowd into a proper frenzy with the simple, effective opening gambit: 'Let's! Play! Darts!'"
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