NBC: More and more involved in poker
With the audience present everyday in front of television, TV stations are more and more convinced of their capacity to attract online poker players on their web portal. Thanks to this communication support most watched everyday, audiovisual operators seem to be interested overnight to activities in touch with poker. After Eurosport which announced last week the putting up of an online poker website in England and its interest for the French market wich opening is in progress, Canal+ which launched into a setting up of a poker tournament, the American station, National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) unveils also its project. If this station already had at its disposal numerous programs talking about poker like "Face the Ace", which have just been launched at the beginning of May, "Poker After dark", "Poker Million" and as well as "Late Night Poker", this game will be present, too, on its web portal. In partnership with the software designer Zen Gaming, NBC had launched on NBC Sports site its new gaming room. As particularity, battleships for an access to televised programs belong to the main prizes offered by the site as well as a package for NBC Heads-Up Championship 2010. It has to be noted that this event is the greatest tournament of heads-up of the year in which 63 best players of the world would give themselves up to battle. With the poker sites turnover which increases every year, players' number which is in perpetual growth and because of the poker markets of many countries which are liberalising, everybody wants to take their parts.
Source: Poker777.com
Thursday, 21 May 2009
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