Televisa, one of the most popular TV stations in Mexico is about to open 65 bingo halls in the country under the name of Play City. The news was announced by Alfonso de Angoitia, president of Televisas’s financial committee in a meeting he had this week with Mexican financial analysts.

de Agoitia also said that his company is very interested in developing the gambling business in the country and that they have committed to do whatever it takes to formalize the gambling market in Mexico. 60 million dollars have been already invested in the project.

Riva Gaming Group has introduced a new concept for London bingo fans to try out. This week, the bingo operator opened the first fully electronic bingo hall in the UK, which offers 582 personal hand-held bingo terminals. These new machines are intended to replace traditional paper bingo tickets.

“Riva is at the forefront of bingo technology and product development,” Simon Hannah, CEO of Riva, said. “We are operating in a challenging environment but we believe there is still plenty of room for growth for operators who provide unique and exciting facilities.”

Gala Coral authorities have announced that the company will probably close twelve or thirteen of its bingo rooms provided the smoking ban that comes into effect on July 1st, has the same devastating effects it had over bingo rooms in Scotland. Gala Coral is the UK’s biggest bingo operator.

“The closures will not occur until the end of the year when I believe it will be easier to judge the conditions in the market. After that period I believe the market will begin to pick up” Neil Goulden, Chief Executive for Gala Coral said.

The Justice Court in the Basque Country has established that the rights of gathering and manifestation have a limitation in the municipal regulations that set the maximum level of authorized noise. Therefore, people can scream and protest but within a certain limit.

What motivated this verdict of the Superior Court, were the demonstrations organized by the union last April, two per week took place in front of a Bingo room in Bilbao, demanding several working improvements.

Bingo is an excellent educational tool, educator Rita Weiss explained. Years of education-related work have resulted in a love for bingo and an appreciation of the game as a very valuable tool, especially when it comes to non-natives.

The game can be used to teach anything to students of every age, Weiss explained. “The reason that it’s educational for both adults and children is that they have to learn to listen,” she added. It is useful for teaching vocabulary in foreign languages but also in the first language of the pupil. It can be applied to school subjects as well.

An exclusive bingo club in the city of Baghdad is seen by its players as an oasis to play the game, have some tea and spare their minds a little bit from war and violence which right now is damaging the region.

This exclusive club, founded in 1924, permitted in its origins only foreign members, but now it has opened places for rich Iraqis who seem to enjoy bingo. At the moment, only Iraq’s upper class is admitted to the club and members should have university degrees.

Starting May 18th, the ABC Television Network will broadcast National Bingo Night, an interactive game of luck that is based on the traditional American pastime. Contestants will compete against the studio audience. Viewers and online players are also welcome to participate and get a chance to win prizes.
The show will be hosted by Ed Sanders, a design team contributor for ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’. Each episode will include three different bingo games that will be played in studio. The program will be aired Fridays 9-10pm Eastern Time (ET).

A lucky regular bingo player, decided to test her luck this time in online gambling and she was awarded with a millionaire jackpot playing at the King Cashalot slot machine at a very popular online casino.
She had won some minor prizes playing bingo, but never one this big, that is why for quite some time she had been testing her luck in online gambling. The 32nd time was the charmed for this woman, who declared that this was the 32nd time that she logged on to the site to play.

Following the global tendency of smoking prohibition in public indoor places, the smoking ban is rapidly approaching bingo halls in the United Kingdom and it is expected that this measure will have a negative impact on them, therefore, original measures are being prepared to resist this effect.
Although the experts on the matter predict that there will be a drop in the number of people who visit bingo halls, the managers of these places will not resign themselves to just sitting down and wait, on the contrary, they have already announced some of the measures that they are going to take.

Gambling companies interested in reactivating the bingo business in Ontario, Canada, have joined forces in this way, hoping that in a short period there will be a positive answer to bingo players and to the bingo business in general in the city.
The remodeling of the Barrie Charity Bingo has been considered as the first step in this reactivation. The new place will have a more modern image and it will be in harmony with the taste of the public.
The involved companies, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, Boandwalk Gaming Center Barrie and Barrie Charity Bingo Sponsors Association, have an innovator enterprise philosophy.