If you want to watch some darts, Sky Sports will be the broadcaster that you’ll turn to most often. Although you can also see the sport on both ITV and Premier Sports, the fact that Sky Sports Darts exists is a pretty good sign that Sky Sports take their responsibility seriously. As a result, they have got a wealth of different presenters, commentators and pundits on their books who are there to keep you both entertained and informed about what is taking place on the oche. No, darts will never be the sexiest of sports, but it is a great way to be entertained and the men and women on this list are the ones keeping you company.
Gabbie Partington
On Gabbie Partington’s Instagram account, it says that she is a presenter of entertainment and sport, declaring herself to be a ‘Jack of all, master of fun’, which gives you some sense of how she sees herself in the wider sporting world. In her 30s, Partington was brought up in Surrey and will be known to golf fans thanks to her work on the coverage of the Aramco Team Series Ladies European Golf Tour of the Middle East. Friends with fellow sports presenter Laura Woods, she has had a finger in many pies during her burgeoning career, which has included being the match day presenter for Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Having covered snooker and darts for TalkSport, Partington hosted two World Series of Darts events and has been used by the Professional Darts Corporation to hype up the crowd when TV coverage has gone to advert breaks. In 2026, it was confirmed that she would be the face of the darts coverage on ITV, taking over from Jacqui Oatley, adding it to her jobs having also worked on the sport for Sky Sports. Her ITV debut came with the broadcaster’s coverage of the Bahrain Darts Masters, working alongside another name on this list in Mark Webster. Her’s is some much-welcome new blood into the world of darts coverage on television.
Emma Paton
If you’ve watched darts coverage on Sky Sports in the past, then the face of Emma Patton will be a familiar one to you, thanks to the fact that she has been at the forefront of Sky Sports Darts for some time now. She has covered the likes of tennis with the US Open, World Wrestling Entertainment and Deadline Day on Sky Sports News, so Paton is no stranger to live sport. Very much considered to be a ‘multi-sports presenter’, Paton has become almost synonymous with the darts thanks to the fact that she’s one of the first faces that casual viewers of the sport will see when they tune in to watch Sky’s coverage of events from Ally Pally.
It has been some rise for Paton, who joined Sky Sports as a sports journalist, becoming the lead presenter of darts coverage eight years later. If there is a major tournament being shown on Sky Sports Darts, Paton will be there to cover it. Although the World Darts Championship is obviously the sport’s headline-grabbing event, Paton actually won a Sports Journalists’ Award for hosting the podcast Football’s Cult Heroes. Having also been a 400-metre runner at the national level herself, Paton has become an advocate for young women looking to follow in her footsteps and work in sports media.
Matt Edgar
Matthew Edgar, better known as Matt, is a professional darts player who bears the nickname of ‘Prime Time’. That could easily be for the fact that he works with Sky Sports on their darts coverage as much as for the fact that he’s an exciting player to watch, often coming into the studio in order to offer insights and thoughts from a current professional if he’s not at the oche himself. Born in Doncaster on the 28th of August 1986, Edgar began playing darts in 2001 and plays in both World Darts Federation and Professional Darts Corporation events, having won two PDC Challenge Tour titles and played in four World Championships in the past.
“I think he’ll be back firing” 💪
Abigail Davies and Matthew Edgar discuss the recent form of Michael van Gerwen 🟢 pic.twitter.com/97tsfWDiDC
— Sky Sports Darts (@SkySportsDarts) May 28, 2025
The fact that Sky Sports Darts is such a behemoth in the world of the sport means that they’re able to get the cream of the crop to work with them when the big competitions roll around, with Edgar coming into the studio and offering expertise that you might not get anywhere else. Although he’s never won any of the big events, he’s often been a part of the conversation during the latter stages, meaning that he knows what it takes mentally to get things over the line on account of the fact that he hasn’t been able to do so himself. The runner-up at the Welsh Open in 2024, he also runs a YouTube channel called Edgar TV Darts.
Laura Turner
Born on the 16th of October 1983 in the Surrey village of Byfleet, Laura Turner is one of only a few women that makes regular appearances in Professional Darts Corporation events, as well as throwing the arrows in World Darts Federation competitions. Her British Darts Organisation World Darts Championship debut came in 2019 when she lost to Anastasia Dobromyslova, but that gave her the thirst for more and three years later she reached two event finals on the PDC Women’s Series, helping her to qualify for the first ever Women’s World Matchplay. Prior to that, she had joined the Sky Sports Darts commentary team.
That was for the PDC World Darts Championship in 2020, from which point she has been a semi-regular part of the channel’s coverage of the sport. Having won the likes of the British Classic, the Italian Grand Masters and the Six Nations Ladies Singles, Turner isn’t just a player who is there to make up the numbers. The expertise she has as a player, as well as the experience of being one of the few women who can go head-to-head with the male players, means that she’s a welcome addition to the Sky Sports Darts roster. A right-handed player who comes out to the song Titanium by David Guetta, her best World Masters performance came in 2014.
Wayne Mardle
When Wayne Mardle was at the height of his darts career, he wore a Hawaiian shirt for a bet. That continued in the matches that followed, which was then combined with the fact that 501 is the start score in a leg of darts to mean his nickname became Hawaii 501. He had a crowd-pleasing persona, which meant that he soon became a popular player on the circuit, so it was a natural move for him to shift over and start taking part in broadcasting. Born and brought up in Tottenham, he first played darts as an 11-year-old and won a pub competition called ‘Double Top’ on the day of his 13th birthday in 1986, proving he was better than his dad.
It was in 2011 that Mardle made his commentating debut, covering the PDC World Darts Championship alongside Sid Waddell for a few matches. That proved that he could do it, so he was invited back later the same year to commentate on the Premier League Darts. A year on from that and the World Darts Championship saw him co-commentate on every night of the action, from which point onwards he has been a regular on any darts event being covered by Sky Sports. Whether he is commentating on the play or being the main pundit in the studio, his knowledge and experience have made him an excellent addition.
Chris Mason
Not to be confused with the BBC News Political Editor of the same name, Chris ‘Mace the Ace’ Mason was born in Bristol in 1969. It was 30 years later when he made the semi-final of the BDO World Championship for the first time, repeating the trick in 2000. During his time as a professional darts player, Mason played in both BDO and PDC competitions, prior to the dissolving of the former. Although he never managed to win any of the major competitions, he was often there or thereabouts and also made the semi-finals of the likes of the World Masters, the World Matchplay event and the quarters of numerous others.
🗣️ “It’s a reflection of how spoiled the players have been over the years.”
The panel discusses the European tour qualification changes after Willie O’Connor voices his concerns about the new setup.#ITVSport | @OfficialPDC | @nedboulting | @JacquiOatley | @AlanWarriner pic.twitter.com/k4dvSSvNFe
— ITV Sport (@ITVSport) February 1, 2025
It is that experience that Sky Sports Darts have looked to lean on on a regular basis, bringing him into the studio in order to offer his thoughts on what is taking place with the players in the biggest competitions. He confirmed his retirement from the sport after the 2025 World Seniors Darts Championship. Remarkably, Maston has actually been to prison, having served just over a year for aggravated burglary with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. His first experience in the media came thanks to ITV, who used him as a pundit in 2007 for their coverage of the Grand Slam of Darts, He has remained part of the media world since.
Glen Durrant
Another former player that Sky Sports Darts turns to on a regular basis for their coverage of the sport is Glen Durrant. There is an argument to be made that he is the most successful of them all, having won the BDO World Championship three times, as well as two World Masters and a World Trophy on the WDF tour. Add in the fact that he won the PDC’s Premier League darts in 2020 and has been in semi-finals and quarter-finals of countless major competitions and you can see why it is that Sky Sports have wanted to get his expertise in the studio whenever Durrant has been willing to offer it.
The Premier League win was his only major title as a Professional Darts Corporation player, after which his form nosedived and he made the decision to retire as a player altogether. Not that he walked away from the sport in its entirety, however, thanks to the fact that a space as a commentator for Sky Sports Darts was open for him to take advantage of. The fact that he was able to prove himself with the biggest broadcaster of the sport on UK television meant that he was also snapped up by the MODUS Super Series to carry out the same job, talking viewers through what was happening in any given match between the players.
Mark Webster
Another winner of the BDO World Championship who later turned to the world of broadcasting is Mark Webster. Known as ‘Webby’ and ‘The Spider’ as plays on his surname, Webster was born in the Welsh city of St Asaph on the 12th of August 1983. He began playing darts in 2000 and picked up that World Championship win in 2008, having already reached the semi-final of the World Masters two years before. In 2010, he came third in the World Championship of the PDC, making it to the same round of the competition the following year, when he was also the losing finalist in the PDC’s Players Championship Finals.
His switch to become a fully professional darts player came in 2009, having already gone through the process of becoming a fully qualified registered plumber prior to that. The decision to step away from the sport as a player came 11 years later, having done some bits and bobs with Sky Sports Darts before then. That gave him a taste of what it was like to work in the media, so Webster was able to make the move over to working in that profession more smoothly in the years that followed. When ITV confirmed their lineup for the broadcaster’s darts coverage in 2026, Webster’s was one of the first names on their list.
John Part
There aren’t many people that Sky Sports Darts turns to that aren’t from the United Kingdom, but John Part is one name on that list. Born in Canada on the 29th of June 1966, Part earned the nickname ‘Darth Maple’ as a player and won the BDO World Darts Championship on his debut in the competition in 1994. In 2003, he won the PDC World Darts Championship for the first time, following that up with another win five years later to arguably surpass Durrant in terms of success when it comes to people who work for Sky Sports Darts. That is confirmed by the fact that he is statistically North America’s greatest darts player.
Having become the first player to win a world title at Alexandra Palace in 2008, which also made him the first player to win a world title in three different venues, he joined Phil Taylor, Eric Bristow, Raymond van Barneveld and John Lowe as players who have won three or more World Championships. His move to working in the media came in 1995 when the BBC needed a darts commentator for the Embassy World Championships. He continued to work as a commentator for Sky Sports on and off, then in 2013 he became a regular member of their commentary team whenever he wasn’t actually playing a match himself.
Stuart Pyke
Stuart Pyke’s sports career began in 1984 when Piccadilly Radio in Manchester brought him on board after he’d made a name for himself in local newspapers. During Oldham Athletic’s most successful period as a football club, it was Pyke who was given the job of commentating on their games, which he did alongside commentating on rugby league matches. After that, he became Independent Radio News’s cricket correspondent, covering England’s tours to the likes of South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. In 1988, he became the first person to cover a Great Britain Lions Tour when the team went Down Under.
Those comms from Stuart Pyke for that Littler big fish 🗣️ pic.twitter.com/zHtBFFYkiJ
— Sky Sports Darts (@SkySportsDarts) January 1, 2026
A decade on from that, Pyke moved into sports television when he began covering the north west of England for Sky Sports News, which saw him become part of the Sky Sports stable. If you recognise his voice, that might well be because he has regularly commentated on Rugby League Challenge Cup finals for BBC Radio 5 Live, in addition to his work on Sky. It was in 2003 that he covered darts for the first time for the broadcaster, doing so at the World Matchplay tournament. From that moment on, there has barely been a Professional Darts Corporation event that he hasn’t covered for one of the major broadcasters.
Making Use of Their Pulling Power
Although ITV covers darts tournaments, there is no question that anyone wanting to watch some of the biggest competitions in the sport will have to look towards Sky Sports Darts for their fill. That means that the corporation is able to use its undoubted pulling power to bring in a wealth of different names from the sport in order to ensure that the watching public knows exactly what is going on at any given moment. It also means that the best of the best in sports coverage are there for them to turn to whenever they need to get all hands on deck for the major competitions, which is why you will know a wealth of other commentators and hosts.
Whether it be Dan Dawson, Rodd Studd, Pete Graves or Mark Wilson, there are a large number of professional voices that cover the darts for Sky Sports whenever necessary. Graves, for example, has covered PDC competitions for Sky and ITV, as well as covering football and rugby. Dawson, meanwhile, is a mainstay of the Sky Sports Darts coverage and can also be heard on the PDC’s streaming service. Studd was 21 when he began his career as a journalist, making his way up the chain over the years that followed to working with Sky Sports on a regular basis. If you want good darts coverage, Sky Sports Darts is where to look.