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Sports betting becomes legal in Massachusetts in 2 weeks

Encore in Everett plans to spend ONE MILLION on NESN before the Super Bowl and Plainridge and MGM Springfield also will spend heavily. They all have a 7 week's advantage before the mobile app are allowed during March Madness.

Our Canadian members know how sportsbooks now dominate advertising on HNIC, but anyone with Center Ice knows that gambling ads are huge in Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.

NESN has been doing a soft rollout of gambling shows for the past few months and now it will explode.

Will we see odds displayed during games? Most likely yes.

Will we see the expanded advertising money trickle down to the crew who works games. :biglaugh:
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Fenway said:
Sports betting becomes legal in Massachusetts in 2 weeks

Encore in Everett plans to spend ONE MILLION on NESN before the Super Bowl and Plainridge and MGM Springfield also will spend heavily. They all have a 7 week's advantage before the mobile app are allowed during March Madness.

Our Canadian members know how sportsbooks now dominate advertising on HNIC, but anyone with Center Ice knows that gambling ads are huge in Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.

NESN has been doing a soft rollout of gambling shows for the past few months and now it will explode.

Will we see odds displayed during games? Most likely yes.

We will see the expanded advertising money trickle down to the crew who works games. :biglaugh:
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Last sentence was funny. Ask the CEO.
 
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chizzler said:
Last sentence was funny. Ask the CEO.
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You most certainly will see odds displayed during games, and a ton of terrible commercials using local celebrities. I'm guessing whomever is running your Ross Xpression system (if that is what you are using), will be very busy overlaying live betting odds and creating new graphics for every casino that wants to jump on board. With no extra pay of course. Though you might be able to score the occasional promo item.

Between the Crypto and sports betting ads, I actually miss the period of time when it was beer and Canadian Tire ads during my hockey games.

Kind of sad really, I know that while many adults can exercise restraint and treat it as part of their entertainment budget. There are many who can't and they delude themselves into thinking that they can make life changing money off of it. I met one such patron at a bar in Indiana during the college football finals. Just sad to listen to and see in person.
 
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ap3lovr said:
You most certainly will see odds displayed during games, and a ton of terrible commercials using local celebrities. I'm guessing whomever is running your Ross Xpression system (if that is what you are using), will be very busy overlaying live betting odds and creating new graphics for every casino that wants to jump on board. With no extra pay of course. Though you might be able to score the occasional promo item.

Between the Crypto and sports betting ads, I actually miss the period of time when it was beer and Canadian Tire ads during my hockey games.

Kind of sad really, I know that while many adults can exercise restraint and treat it as part of their entertainment budget. There are many who can't and they delude themselves into thinking that they can make life changing money off of it. I met one such patron at a bar in Indiana during the college football finals. Just sad to listen to and see in person.
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ROSS is a four-letter word :thumbd:

Xfinity is testing using the X1 remote to bet during games in the Philly market.

We can complain about it but it will fall on deaf ears
 
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ROSS is a four-letter word :thumbd:

Xfinity is testing using the X1 remote to bet during games in the Philly market.

We can complain about it but it will fall on deaf ears
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All it does is add complexity that will break. I do not miss working in broadcasting one bit. No matter how many prechecks I did, things only seemed to break when we were live broadcasting.
 
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No one asked my opinion, but I'll give it to you anyways.

I think sports gambling should be legal (it doesn't make sense to me that historically a few select parts of the country and entities have possessed the entire market), but I think the advertisement and promotion of it should be far more regulated.

Very basic example - you can still buy cigarettes, but you can't advertise at all on television anymore (or through numerous other mediums).

You can say it's a matter of free will, but the fact is that gambling at its worst mimics addiction to physical substances in many ways in terms of what's going on in the brain. We went from "gambling is bad" to being hit with a barrage of advertisements throughout in-game presentation and commercials between segments. It's just a total opening of the flood gates with little regard for consequences.

This is a big tangent that will draw laughter, but it sort of reminds me of the whole "free trade" debate when it comes to admitting China into the WTO. The floodgates were open and we got a predictable onslaught of cheaper and cheaper consumer products which looked good for a bit. All great until you realize it's eating away at something foundational that is terrible for society in the long term.
 
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I don't care if sports betting is legal, but it does not interest me, and I do not want to have it dominate shows.

I HATE that when I am driving home from a Bs game and there is really NO sports radio coverage on the Bs to listen to. :madfire::madfire:

I HATE that 98.5 would rather have fantasy f***ing football on even after a nice Bs win. It REALLY pisses me off. We (Bs fans) need a radio station that will cover the Bs and need that station to have folks who understand and love the sport not the assholes :madfire::madfire:

98.5 has a good hockey show on Sat mornings and the guys who call the game are good BUT...that is is.
 
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CharasLazyWrister said:
No one asked my opinion, but I'll give it to you anyways.

I think sports gambling should be legal (it doesn't make sense to me that historically a few select parts of the country and entities have possessed the entire market), but I think the advertisement and promotion of it should be far more regulated.

Very basic example - you can still buy cigarettes, but you can't advertise at all on television anymore (or through numerous other mediums).

You can say it's a matter of free will, but the fact is that gambling at its worst mimics addiction to physical substances in many ways in terms of what's going on in the brain. We went from "gambling is bad" to being hit with a barrage of advertisements throughout in-game presentation and commercials between segments. It's just a total opening of the flood gates with little regard for consequences.

This is a big tangent that will draw laughter, but it sort of reminds me of the whole "free trade" debate when it comes to admitting China into the WTO. The floodgates were open and we got a predictable onslaught of cheaper and cheaper consumer products which looked good for a bit. All great until you realize it's eating away at something foundational that is terrible for society in the long term.
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I thought this was a great post, and you made a great comparison to tobacco products. I think there could possibly be some regulation at some point. Maybe. Maybe not.
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I don't care if sports betting is legal, but it does not interest me, and I do not want to have it dominate shows.

I HATE that when I am driving home from a Bs game and there is really NO sports radio coverage on the Bs to listen to. :madfire::madfire:

I HATE that 98.5 would rather have fantasy f***ing football on even after a nice Bs win. It REALLY pisses me off. We (Bs fans) need a radio station that will cover the Bs and need that station to have folks who understand and love the sport not the assholes :madfire::madfire:

98.5 has a good hockey show on Sat mornings and the guys who call the game are good BUT...that is is.
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Unfortunately, hockey will always be seen as a niche sport - even in New England. I don't have any data or facts to back this up, but I'll bet that with the possible exception of Detroit, Boston covers NHL hockey more thoroughly than anywhere else in the country.

That's not a pat on the back to 98.5. I'm saying that coverage of the NHL in the US is garbage.
 
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