Mecca already has the one all electric Bingo hill, but now it’s looking to trial the technology in more halls. There’s news from the makers of the cards, Electronic Game Cards Inc. that they’re supplying Mecca with a lot more of them. I’m wondering how long it’s going to be before there’s waterproof versions available […]
Author: David
Belfast Bingo Players Quitting Diary
The Belfast Telegraph run an interesting story on the manager and a couple of customers the Strand Bingo in Londonderry. Basically, they’ve decided that with the smoking ban they will give up the smoking and they’re keeping a diary of their experiences. Good luck to them, but in my experiences of giving up the dreaded […]
Devastation At Listed Bingo Hall
We featured the plight of the Essex Road Mecca Bingo in Islington a few times the last couple of months. The club was one of the unlucky nine Mecca halls closed, became a rallying point for the ‘Stop Destroying My Bingo’ campaign before closing in March. The now empty hall has suffered a dreadful final […]
GalaBingo.Com Gone To The Highest Bidder
Bingo Port have an interesting exclusive about the sale of the domain GalaBingo.com. It seems the UK’s Gala Bingo have been after the domain for a while, and through a domain auction the domain has been sold for around £33,000. At present though, it’s not known who was responsible for the purchase. It will be […]
Bingo Port – A Unique New Bingo Site
It’s not very often I write about new Bingo information sites here at Playing Bingo. There are a horde of sites about Bingo and online bingo out on the internet, but ones that merit anything other than a cursory glance are few and far between. I spotted news last week of the launch of a […]
Bingo Under The Spotlight
There’s been a lot on Bingo in the mainstream media the last week. We already mentioned the Guardian’s piece on St Minver’s survey, but there’s been a couple more notable items since then that I’ve not had a chance to mention and catch up on. First up, the business section of The Times Online has […]
St Minver’s Bingo Survey And Its Flaws
The Guardian website run an article yesterday on the returns from a recent Bingo survey run by the online bingo network St Minver. The results show that as many as one in ten Bingo players will give up playing at Bingo halls because of the smoking ban – and one in three will play less […]
The American Invasion
Bit of a day looking at some important Bingo news from across the pond – partially because it will impact on UK Bingo players and partially because they roused my attention enough to mention them. We’ll start with some fall-out from the farce in hypocrisy and moralization known as the UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement […]
Mecca To Sell Halls
The Rank Group, the company behind Mecca Bingo are set to further cut back on their Bingo holding with news that they plan to sell off around 10 of their 103 Bingo Halls. This news is on top of the nine clubs closed in recent months. The clubs are the ones most under threat from […]
Mecca Admissions Fall
A year after the smoking bans introduction in Scotland a year ago, Mecca has revealed it’s seen a 10% drop in admissions. It’s also seen a like-for-like drop in sales of 17%. Things are starting to improve as the spending per customer is increasing. The news follows Carlton Bingo’s announcements of its drop in profits […]
