US ANTI-GAMBLING GROUP WANTS TO STRIP AWAY STATE LOTTERY REVENUE
As if it weren’t bad enough that state, national and global economies were reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, an anti-gambling group based in Washington, DC wants to kick everyone while they’re down. Stop Predatory Gambling (SPG) is a nonprofit organization…
BRAZILIAN CLUBS GET US$40M FOR INTERNATIONAL TV RIGHTS, BETTING STREAMING NEGOTIATED SEPARATELY
The betting and data rights are now being sold separately to the international broadcast rights and have attracted interested from some leading industry players. Ahead of the issuing of the reworked rights inventory a month ago, the clubs and…
BRAZILIAN CLUBS DEFINE SALES OF BROADCASTING RIGHTS ABROAD AND FOR BOOKMAKERS
Within this scenario, the best economic proposal for the clubs in the short term should keep the business. According to “Maquina do Esporte”, the six proposals sent to the clubs include, in addition to the sale of international broadcasting…
AGA CALLS FOR HELP FROM TRUMP
AGA president and CEO wrote a letter to US President Donald Trump about the PPP Interim Final Rules and to defend the industry. US.- The American Gaming Association (AGA) president and CEO William C. Miller, Jr. wrote a letter to…
BRAZILIAN COURT OVERRULES PRESIDENTIAL DECREE ON LOTTERIES
(Brazil ).- A Brazilian court has annulled the decree of President Jair Bolsonaro which excluded lottery houses, churches and religious temples from quarantines imposed in some states to curb the coronavirus epidemic. “Access to churches, religious temples and lotteries stimulates…
PRESIDENT BOLSONARO ORDERS LOTTERIES IN BRAZIL BE REOPENED AMID COVID-19 PANDEMIC
The measures implemented by Bolsonaro are not in line with the decisions that have been made by other political leaders worldwide to navigate through the coronavirus outbreak. The Brazilian head of state questioned some of the confinement measures that many…
COVID-19: HOW THE VIRUS IS IMPACTING SPORTS EVENTS ACROSS THE GLOBE
As the world comes to terms with the continually evolving threat of COVID-19, SBC focuses on how the outbreak is having a significant impact on sporting events across the globe. Football Following the UK Government’s decision not to ban…
SPORTS EVENTS ARE MISSING FOR SPORTS BETTING
(International) .- The terrifying advance of the coronavirus in recent weeks continues to impact a large part of the planet’s population, so much so that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic state last Wednesday (11). As one of the…
“IT IS DIFFICULT TO THINK ABOUT THE CRITERIA CHOSEN TO LIMIT OPERATORS TO 30 COMPANIES”
In the interview, lawyer Caio de Souza Loureiro talks about the need to establish specific rules for the rate regime and concession assets. “If the concession option is maintained, the law must minimally discipline the form of the concessionaire…
SPORTS BETTING IN THE US REACHES US$13BN MARK
The sports betting segment in the US doubled its previous legal sports bets record from 2018 and totalled US$13 billion during last year. US.- The industry has evolved substantially in the past months and continues to do so. The segment…