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How much darts coverage does your local newspaper provide?

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Dart....@gmail.com

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Mar 29, 2006, 11:58:18 AM3/29/06
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I saw a topic about darts coverage in local newspapers on a British
Darts forum, and thought it might be something worth investigating
here. I've been working towards getting my local newspaper
(http://www.venturacountystar.com/) to be a bit more darts friendly,
and I was wondering what local darts coverage is like in the world
outside of the UK.

How much darts coverage does your local newspaper provide?

National Darts events only.

Local Darts events only.

International Darts events only.

They will cover Darts stuff when they get a Press Release

They cover all types of Darts all the time

They don't even know that there is a sports called "Darts"

Other (please explain)
So anyway what's your local newspaper, and do they cover darts in any
way?

Mine is:
http://www.venturacountystar.com/
Can't remember the last time they mentioned the word darts in context
to the sport.

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tommyama

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Apr 21, 2006, 6:02:16 PM4/21/06
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I'm fortunate in that my next door neighbor is sports writer for the
local paper. If we have a big local event, like a challenge tournament
with a neighboring city or our league's 20th anniversary, we get a few
paragraphs and a picture or two. But we get nothing on a national or
international level.

Tom

Josh Hayes

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Apr 23, 2006, 2:21:22 AM4/23/06
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"tommyama" <tom_we...@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:1145656936.5...@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com:


Just a quick note from the States: to the best of my recollection, there
has never been an article in any newspaper in any city I've inhabited,
about darts.

This would include St. Louis (MO), Detroit, Cincinnati, Providence, Austin,
and now Seattle. Frankly, in the USA, darts is down around the greased-pig
races as far as mainstream media are concerned.

-JAH

Dart....@gmail.com

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Apr 23, 2006, 11:34:35 AM4/23/06
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/snip

Frankly, in the USA, darts is down around the greased-pig
races as far as mainstream media are concerned.
/snip

I've lived in areas where if the choice was to cover the greased-pigs
for newspaper/TV, or a local darts event, the pigs would win everytime.

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