ESPN Cancel Poker Shows: Online Poker Fraud Leads to Cancellation

by NowPublic Staff | April 19, 2011 at 07:15 am

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ESPN has pulled all of it poker programming in light of Friday's indictments of major online poker sites like Poker Stars.

The ESPN poker program cancellation likely stems from the fact that online poker sites won't be able to buy commercial time, a major piece of revenue for the network's poker programming.

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Networks that also carry poker, such as NBC and GSN, have yet to comment on the future of their poker programming.

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