Poker Mania on U.S. television

ESPN wants to reporting amateur players respond

  Poker developed in the U.S. TV rates to a true hit. Transfers to the sports channel ESPN viewers drive extraordinarily high quotas. The justification for the keen interest, according to New York Times (NYT) in the dissemination of the pack of cards in the U.S. population and at the used high amounts of money. The driving force of Poker movement in the U.S. since early June, held in Las Vegas' World Series of Poker "http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com, according to ESPN vice president Mike Shapiro without the coverage of the sports broadcaster a" dying Mark "would be.

But not only the sports channel wants to deal with the laurels on the new production and the associated success of the card game on TV decorate. WPT Enterprises, also prides itself as the inventor of the new World Series to act. Especially for television want those responsible to the WPT poker have reinvented. While ESPN was a great broadcaster, but would only use the proposed format.

How much current ESPN for the broadcast rights paid, is unknown. WPT is the last year for TV rights by the former broadcaster Travel Channel to the ten million dollars received. At ESPN, the rates compared with the previous year by 42 percent in the soared. Shapiro believes that the card would know no age limit. The target was not the poker aficionados but amateur player. The World Series is called the Vice-ESPN also as the only mark the Zuseheranzahl a significant week before the screens would attract.

The attractiveness of the poker game for TV broadcasts lies in the structure of the drama. Live transmissions are rare and usually finds the reporting months after the candidate instead. This allows the removal but boring scenes and the proper staging of the highlights.

Operating expenses in the World Series is loud but NYT considerably. 18 cameras are in operation and one person has the task is a particularly interesting table to devote. The duration of a possible encounter perhaps also explains the nature of reporting and the decision to the poker games do not live to be transferred. Because a game can ever to the eight hours. The World Series is still running until 16 July 2005.

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