Following on from the recent post about Rank’s share price slide, there’s more bad news on the shares front. Given the current state of their shares and uncertainty over profit levels for the rest of 2007, the HSBC has downgraded the stock from overweight to neutral. It’s not good news for the chain, but they […]
Category: Opinion Editorial
The Daily Mail And Its Gambling Hypocrisy
I almost exploded last week watching the TV. I can’t remember who it was on talking, but it was some one from The Daily Mail. Politics aside, I couldn’t believe the line the paper was taking on the super casinos cancellation. Following Gordon Brown’s announcement of the cancellation of Manchester’s super casino, their response was […]
Crown Bingo Feature
I meant to mention this over the weekend but got waylaid with other things. icNewcastle carried an interesting feature on Dan Smyth, the man behind Crown Bingo. Having had email conversations with Dan in the past, it’s good to see the business is growing so well. Crown Bingo have featured in the news a few […]
The Price Is Right Bingo At JackpotJoy.com
Jackpot Joy have just joined a growing number of online bingo sites who can proudly announce ‘As Seen On TV’ on their site. They are about to embark on a TV advertising campaign over the coming weeks, hoping to entice a whole new strata of players to their site to play The Price Is Right […]
Playing Bingo Interview With Dr Carolyn Downs
For me, one of the highlights of the recent BBC Money Programme on Bingo was the appearance of Dr Carolyn Downs. She gave an historical overview of the growth of the game in the UK. Her knowledge was gained doing her PHD, which was a history of Bingo in the UK – through to the […]
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 […]
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’s Core Problems – And Some Potential Solutions
I’ve already mentioned the importance of the coming year to the bricks and mortar Bingo industry in my last post. If you’re new to the subject you may be wondering why there’s so much panic and concern given the fast approaching smoking ban. Brand Republic have a great article entitled ‘Bingo faces core problem’ which […]
Even More Scottish Halls Could Close
Following the story of the Scottish smoking ban, a report today says as many as half of Scotland’s Bingo Halls could close. It highlights a point I’d missed in past posts about why they’re not taking the gaming outside. They can’t, it’s banned. Bingo halls are worse affected than bars and pubs, which have coped […]
