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Dear BEN,
This email is in response to the letter written by George Silberzahn concerning darts on TV.
First, I will say while I am a smoker, drinker and darter, I understand where he is coming from about the critics watching this on TV.
Dick Allix also makes an excellent point concerning the PDC banning drinking and smoking on TV. I know it works.
George left an email address at comcast.net so I am assuming he works for them in some capacity.
I’ve lived in the central illinois area for close to 5 years now and was quite excited to see FSN showing darts on TV. I started taping them as they were on at 2 am most of the time. I could live with that. However, they recently switched the programming to comcast out of Chicago. Now, I’ve lost my darts. The switch was made by my cable company, Mediacom, and although I am just one small fish in the sea, I will complain to them about losing the darts.
I don’t think George realizes that darts is growing by leaps and bounds in the USA and it does
have a following, even at 2 am. I also think he under estimates the intelligence of his viewers to not being able to understand the game. It certainly isn’t
any worse then sitting down to a watch a fight and seeing a hockey game break out. Yet hockey continues to get air time.
Well, maybe not this year anyway, but it has in the past. People will learn the game by watching it. However, if they don’t get the opportunity to see it how will they learn it?
Thanks for your time.
—Tom Dunaway
Gifford, Illinois
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