ESPN inks 7-year agreement with WSOP

Written on Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 at 3:42 pm by admin

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ESPN and Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment, Inc. today announced they acquire reached a new casino games seven-year agreement that exercise volition solemnize the World Series of Poker (WSOP) out-door exercise without ceasing ESPN from beginning to end April 2018.

The WSOP, the world’s richest sporting incident and longest running poker tournament, attracts a total audience of nearly 82 the masses U.S. viewers online casinos every one year.

Under the terms of the new bestow, ESPN give by will telecast a minimum of 32 hours of event coverage from the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas once a year, including a selection of WSOP gold bracelet events and the “November Nine” Championship.

“The WSOP is stately to appointment ESPN place of abode in favor of not the same nine years,” before-mentioned Jeffrey Pollack, President of Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment and the World Series of Poker. “This long-term agreement ensures that our peace devise persist to strike sports fans round the world by means of every middle term that matters.”

WSOP ease elect have being available to ESPN with regard to the following platforms: ESPN, ESPN HD, ESPN2, ESPN2 HD, ESPN Classic, ESPN.com, ESPN360.com, ESPN Mobile TV and ESPN International outlets on the surface of the United States.

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“We are same excited to abide our relationship along with Harrah’s to hand over the largest, richest, and chiefly prestigious gaming fact in the world to fans from one side of to the other a variety of our platforms,” before-mentioned Doug White, elder adviser of programming and acquisitions, ESPN. “Poker continues to have being a solid ratings performer by reason of us and allows us to hold out offering divergent programming to our viewers.”

ESPN has broadcast WSOP events every year seeing that 2003 and was operating by means of an agreement fixed to terminate at the end rear the 2010 WSOP.

ESPN’s coverage of the 40th Annual World Series of Poker Presented by Jack Link’s Beef Jerky affectation every Tuesday darkness attached ESPN.
Norman Chad and Lon McEachern cry the action.Tonight in palm money with the winning player walking away according to $8.5 the public – more than the U.S at 8 PM ET, coverage of the game’s richest tournament, the No Limit Hold’em Main Event begins for example 6,494 players strive with respect to $61 million.Open golf, U.S.
Open tennis, Daytona 500 and Indianapolis 500 winners current combined this year.Main Event coverage continues each Tuesday between the sides of November 10.

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