Comments on Fifth Street Journal: Fox Sports Net Picks Up World Poker Tour

Fox Sports Net has started airing season one of th...

2008-10-07T12:26:00.000-04:00

Fox Sports Net has started airing season one of the WPT at 8 PM Mondays. The first one was cut to one hour, however. The poker boom began with this show: the first use of hole cards in the United States, or anywhere in prime time. Remember the TV table for that first event: it was Scotty Nguyen, John Hennigan, John Juanda, Gus Hansen, Chris Bigler, and Kaseem (yes, Freddy) Deeb.

There's a rumor that the WPT Championship isn't pa...

2008-08-23T01:42:00.000-04:00

There's a rumor that the WPT Championship isn't part of the deal. That would explain 26 instead of 28 hours despite 14 events being on the WPT season 7 schedule. I'd guess that WPTE is trying to make a separate deal to broadcast their biggest tournament.

Broadcasts will start in December 2008.

2008-08-06T19:46:00.000-04:00

Broadcasts will start in December 2008.

Short of a broadcast network or ESPN, I think Fox ...

2008-07-18T04:25:00.000-04:00

Short of a broadcast network or ESPN, I think Fox Sports is as good as WPT could have done: good demographics and wide distribution.

26 hours is a substantial reduction from the 46 ho...

2008-07-17T22:26:00.000-04:00

26 hours is a substantial reduction from the 46 hours being broadcast in the current season. It appears they'll have to drop one of the 14 announced (see World Poker Tour Season Seven To Film Only 14 Events For TV) stops in season 7.