It's really fitting we're announcing at the World Snooker Championships on Thursday that ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Sports Personality of the Year 2009 is moving to Sheffield.
and it was always our intention to create a sporting road show which would move around the UK.
After two hugely successful years at the , the event reached new heights in Liverpool last year with a record crowd of more than 9,000.
I don't think I'll ever forget the incredible reception our Olympic and Paralympic heroes got in or the unique Liverpool welcome Manchester United legend .
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Thanks for your comments in the run up to the first show - and thanks to those who have responded following it.
First up - the time slot. Unfortunately it won't change and I know that it is a huge issue among you but the schedulers have it there and despite efforts on our part to try to get an earlier slot, it won't happen and it will remain just after 11pm on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ One. Anyone of course would want an earlier time but at the end of the day we are on the main channel in the country - and that is great.
And about the show. The studio is intimate and that is what I wanted the new look to achieve and I think bringing the guests closer to on the sofa also helps too.
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For 51 weeks a year lies dormant, a priceless work of art .
But for one week in April the gallery is opened and like a pallet of pastels the patrons are brush-stroked across the course as creeping magnolias, dogwood and azaleas frame its signature holes.
By Sunday evening the painting will have revealed a new story, but will it be of a Master or an ?
'What, where, when?' I hear you cry!
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