The World Snooker Tour (WST) has renewed its long-running rights deal with the BBC, the UK public-service broadcaster, until 2032. The five-year extension will ensure that the WST’s flagship ‘Triple Crown’ events remain free-to-air across the UK.

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,

BBC Sport will continue to broadcast snooker's three most prestigious tournaments - the World Championship, UK Championship and the Masters - until 2032.

World Snooker Tour say they reject and will defend claims made against them in a £10.2m lawsuit launched in the Competition Appeal Tribunal. NST Worldwide claim that ‘unlawful and anti-competitive practices’ have been used to prevent snooker players ‘playing in tournaments,

BBC Sport has agreed a five-year extension to its rights deal with the World Snooker Tour. This will keep the sport’s three major tournaments, the World Championship, Masters, and UK Championship, known as the Triple Crown, on the BBC until the end of 2032. The BBC is currently showing the 2025 Masters, and you can learn about the production here.

BBC Sport’s coverage of the Triple Crown events had 33.9 million streams across BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website and over 16 million tuning in on TV