Kathi Hartinger from the brilliant Total Clearance joins me for this new broadcast and she really is terrific value.

Kathi talks to me at length about her own love affair with snooker, the state of the game in Germany and the latest staging of the big money event in Saudi Arabia. Plus some really strong views here on the loss of events in mainland Europe.

If you'd like to respond to anything you've heard, please tweet me @RadioSnooker or email [email protected]

I never thought I'd present Points of View. What an honour. What footsteps I'm following in.

Ok, so it's not quite as famous as the BBC programme. But I am catching up with your correspondence on Radio Snooker, with topics including the Championship League, TV rights and gambling in sport.

If you'd like to contact me with your snooker thoughts, please do tweet me @RadioSnooker or email [email protected]

I've loved talking about snooker with Dave Yates at racecourses in the past and I knew he'd be terrific value on Radio Snooker.

Dave talks engagingly about his love for snooker, including memories of snooker halls of the past, growing up loving Alex Higgins, why he's not really a fan of Ronnie O'Sulllvan and why the two table set-up at the Crucible doesn't work for him.

There's also talk about the frustrations of covering sports that aren't football, gambling sponsorship and the one big thing Dave would change in snooker. 

Oh, and I'll also tell you who's won the first ranking event of the season. Keep your snooker views coming in - tweet @RadioSnooker or email [email protected] - and I'll return with more of your correspondence soon.

Fan Zhengyi has given us a special moment at the Championship League with the first maximum break of the 25-26 snooker season.

Listen here to commentary of the key moments as Fan compiles the secomd 147 of his career.

Keep your thoughts coming - tweet me @RadioSnooker or email [email protected]

There's no point in me constantly asking for your correpondence if I never read it out. So that's what I'm doing in this new broadcast.

Your feedback on this service and your snooker thoughts are always most welcome - tweet @RadioSnooker or email [email protected]

This new broadcast of Radio Snooker focuses on your reaction to news that Channel 5 will show the Players Championship, Tour Championship and British Open in 2026.

Thank you very much for contacting me and thank you too for listening to this service in increased numbers. It genuinely is great to have you for company.

In these quieter snooker weeks, your correspondence really is much appreciated. Any snooker views or questions would be most welcome - tweet @RadioSnooker or email [email protected]

Hello everyone - this may be radio, but I've got my eyes on the telly in this new broadcast. Channel 5 have won the rights to show snooker from the main tour next year - confirming my reports - with the Players Championship, Tour Championship and British Open to be broadcast on the channel in 2026.

I'll reflect on the news and speculate over possible coverage on Channel 5 to come. I'll also talk about the brilliant way ITV have covered the sport in recent times. Plus, why you shouldn't rule out ITV still showing snooker in 2026.

Keep your feedback and your snooker thoughts coming to me please - tweet me @RadioSnooker or email [email protected]

Snooker is back! We may have just had the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere. In the UK, it feels like living in an oven. But nothing can stop the beautiful table game bursting back into our lives.

Fans have been frustrated on day one of the new season however by confusion over broadcasting arrangements. I can now tell you that the action from the Wuhan Open qualifiers is on the WST Play service.

I'm going to both sides this one. It's not very impressive frankly. It should be smoother when this. When events are advertised as being on one platform, fans are entitled to expect it being on there. However, let's remember the bigger picture and how lucky we are as snooker lovers to be able to see so much action.

There's some bonus commentary for you here from a black ball finish and I get my beloved vidiprinter out. Keep your feedback and your thoughts coming - tweet me @RadioSnooker or email [email protected]

Hello everyone. Snooker doesn't really go away any more if we're honest, but after a break on the main tour the action begins again this weekend.

Get your diaries out - paper in my case of course - as I take a look at the tournaments on the way in the coming months.

I'm going to need your help this summer, I really am. I can't beg - that's too undignified. But I can certainly ask, pretty please, that you send me some correspondence. You can do so via Twitter to @RadioSnooker or by email to [email protected]

Hello. I hope you didn't forget me. To be honest, it doesn't matter a jot whether you did or you didn't. Let's cut to the chase. Radio Snooker is coming back soon and this is just me teeing it up. 

Please don't touch that dial. Or if you must, at least write to me and help fill some air time during the quieter weeks and months of summer. Tweet me @RadioSnooker or email [email protected]