Espn's snooker fest

[ferret]

If you have satellite television and are having withdrawal symptoms in these dog days of summer then you should be aware that there is snooker on the TV pretty regularly courtesy of ESPN Classic.

It’s on channel 442 in the UK.

Here are the programmes ESPN Classic will be showing over the next few weeks:

Sun July 12 02:20: World Snooker Championship, 1973

Sun July 12 10:40: World Snooker Championship, 1973

Fri July 24 23:50: World Snooker Championship, 1980

Sun July 26 01:30: World Snooker Championship, 1980

Fri July 31 23:50: World Snooker Championship, 1981

Sun August 02 01:25: World Snooker Championship, 1981

Mon August 03 10:30: World Snooker Championship, 1982

Fri August 07 11:00: World Snooker Final, 1992

Sat August 08 00:10: World Snooker Championship, 1982

Sat August 08 05:00: World Snooker Championship, 1982

Sat August 08 23:25: World Snooker Championship, 1982

Sat August 15 00:10: Steve Davis v Jimmy White, 1984

Sat August 15 05:30: Steve Davis v Jimmy White, 1984

Sat August 15 23:40: Steve Davis v Jimmy White, 1984

Thu August 20 14:40: World Snooker Championship, 2004

Sat August 22 00:10: World Snooker Final, 1985

Sat August 22 06:00: World Snooker Final, 1985

Sun August 23 01:30: World Snooker Final, 1985

Sat August 29 00:10: World Snooker Final, 1990

Sat August 29 06:30: World Snooker Final, 1990

Sun August 30 00:55: World Snooker Final, 1990

Some great stuff from the archives there, featuring action from four decades, which will be a trip down memory lane for some and an education in snooker history for others.

Bit cruel showing the '85 final on Steve Davis's birthday, though!


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[gmg]

Just been watching the 1982 championship review on ESPN. Was pleasently surprised to see that this wasn't the same version that was released on the 'Peoples Champion' video (as evidenced by David Vine's change of attire). However, this does appear to have been edited from its original BBC transmission. Even Higgins' famous 69 break was excluded. Can anyone confirm when this was originally shown on the BBC and what was the running time?
G.

[ferret]

The TV Chanel stated is the HD version but if you do not have SKY then you can also watch it on http://atdhe.net/watchtv.html

[spike]

Also ESPN classic is now available on Virgin Media channel 533.

[Terry Davidson]

I wish we had ESPN classic here in Canada, but we have the Canadian knock-off which is called TSN and no snooker ever gets shown.

But I'll check the website as I have used that during the 2009 world's

Terry

[quintahunter]

Anyone recorded it?