Barry Hearn has just announced a five year extension of the Champion of Champions event on ITV4. Due to the success of last years CoC ITV4 have also signed up for a new non ranking event called the World Grand Prix.
At this stage all we know is that the prize pool will be £300,000 with the winner taking away £100,000 and only the top 32 on the money list will be eligible. The event will make it's debut in early March 2015.
The CoC event will only feature tournament winners this November, winners from EPTC's, APTC will be invited. In the likely event that there isn't 16 individual tournament winners Barry said they would even invite the Shoot out and Seniors champions.
Barry was also very positive about the increasing viewing figures from Eurosport & the BBC during this years World Championship. However he stated he would be having discussions with the BBC over some of their coverage, specifically over the leaving matches at crucial times in order to show a repeat.
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