Poker TV Shows, Ads, Tournaments Dropped by ESPN
Yes a federal indictment will just about make any network cringe when their programming and advertising content is full of what led to that action by the government.
ESPN, the so named “Worldwide Leader in Sports,” has made significant programming changes to their late night, overnight and weekend programming by shedding its schedule of any poker related content. This comes after action from the federal government virtually shutting down several sites that sponsored such content on the sports network.
The U.S. government seized the domains of five poker related web-sites after the indictment was announced, taking assets and freezing bank accounts connected to those entities charged. PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker, Ultimate Bet and UB were all shut down according to the indictment.
After the move ESPN said “for the immediate future we are making efforts to remove related advertising and programming” in response to the indictments.
That makes total sense from a business standpoint as the ABC owned network needs nothing more than a few federal attorneys sitting in their corporate offices. In addition if bank accounts are frozen, who will pay for the advertising? Let’s hope for ESPN’s sake these poker related advertisers were cash in advance.
With the bank accounts now frozen, users of the online gaming sites are not feeling good today since they have no access to any funds they placed on hold with any of these sites.
Read more from Bloomberg.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-18/disney-s-espn-removing-poker-programming-after-websites-charged.html
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