Why is pool looked at so differently in the U.S. than in Europe?
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is online gambling not allowed in US? didn't know that. but its not just betting sites that brings the bucks. there are other sponsors in for example snooker, beers, vodka, clothing companies, and more that i can't think of right now.
Snooker was in an awful state until about 3 years ago - 6 pro tourney's a year, prize money and tv coverage dwindling. The game was dead (almost). At this point, Barry Hearn took over and the game has gone from strength to strength.
You need a person like this with a clear vision of what he wants and how it is to be achieved. You do not need 10 different promoters hosting mediocre events. Outside (non-industry) sponsors will not get involved if you are not on national TV, why would they? They dont really care about which sport they sponsor and choose to get involved with, as long as people are watching and they are getting value for their sponsorship\marketing money.
The game needs Barry Hearn to get involved, round up all of the smaller tournaments, create a full professional tour, and start selling the product to TV companies\sponsors. Until you have somebody like this involved, it aint happening. But it is 100% achievable with the right person at the helm.
You need a person like this with a clear vision of what he wants and how it is to be achieved. You do not need 10 different promoters hosting mediocre events. Outside (non-industry) sponsors will not get involved if you are not on national TV, why would they? They dont really care about which sport they sponsor and choose to get involved with, as long as people are watching and they are getting value for their sponsorship\marketing money.
The game needs Barry Hearn to get involved, round up all of the smaller tournaments, create a full professional tour, and start selling the product to TV companies\sponsors. Until you have somebody like this involved, it aint happening. But it is 100% achievable with the right person at the helm.
This isn't necessarily true as they may still have to pay the cable company to have any kind of decent streaming speeds (because the cable company is the one providing the internet access for most of their customers). Cable companies are starting to throttle the bandwidth of some streaming sites. Netflix recently agreed to pay Comcast a very large sum of money so Comcast would stop throttling their bandwidth and slowing the streaming speeds of Netflix customers.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/23/technology/netflix-comcast-streaming-deal/index.html
It is possible that the government steps in at some point with regulations that limit or eliminate the cable companies being able to treat different internet traffic differently in terms of throttling their speeds. But if they don't, or until they do, I'm guessing the cable companies are going to expand their throttling activities against sites that are taking up a lot of bandwidth and perhaps even those they just see as cash cows companies that have the ability and would be willing to pay them even if their bandwidth usage isn't among the very highest.
for the health and vitality of the sport and the industry
Yes, there's getting ready to be some talented people get involved with pool on a level that is much needed for the health and vitality of the sport and the industry.
Yes, there's getting ready to be some talented people get involved with pool on a level that is much needed for the health and vitality of the sport and the industry.