Online Casinos Come to TV
The online casino gambling industry has really rapidly expanded all over the
world to include a lot of new mediums and welcome in a bunch of augmenting
sectors of the industry that make this pastime one of the fastest growing
industries in the world. The UK has really embraced gambling in the past five to
ten years and has one of the most liberal land and online casino gambling
markets in the world. The country boasts a highly regulated and licensed
industry that relies on operators to display their responsible gambling policies
and asks gambling companies to take the initiative in protecting players. As the
land and online casinos expand, and mobile gambling becomes more popular, the
logical next step is a move into the television arena.
NetPlayTV is really one of the only companies actively developing a television
based gambling industry that can and will run along the online casinos. The
latest liberal regulations in the EU have now reclassified television gambling
as a form of interactive entertainment and thus fair game for the main public
airways after a certain time of the night. The UK is very specific about
blocking online casinos and betting content from youth and underage would-be
gamblers. For that reason the new television gambling programs are considered
teleshopping and can now run from midnight until six in the morning.
NetPlayTV announced last month a distribution agreement with Channel Five for
television and online casino gambling content, so although there has been no
additional news on this front, it is safe to assume that NetPlay will likely
enter nighttime network programming through the existing Channel 5 affiliation. |