Online Casino News

'Price is Right' ready for return via gambling online - 2004-02-05
Classic TV quiz show The Price is Right is being revived on the 'net following a tie-up between the show's owner FremantleMedia and US Internet gambling expert WagerWorks.

The Price is Right is currently a powerful Internet brand, with games based on its name proving popular on sites lke Hardrock Casino, SkyBet Vegas and Lycos Gamesville. Fremantle and WagerWorks, joint partners in the new Web site, hope that a standalone online status will lure heavy traffic in its own right.
Read the full story at New Media Age

Ontario casinos see a drop in profit - 2004-02-05
Lady luck is not smiling on Ontario's gambling business as she once did, Economic Development and Trade Minister Joe Cordiano says.

"We may have reached a point of saturation," the minister in charge of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. reported yesterday.

Revenue at Ontario's border casinos in Windsor and Niagara Falls are off $160 million, and racetrack slot machines are generating less money. However, Casino Rama, near Orillia, is bucking the fad so far this fiscal year and is up slightly.
Read the full story at Toronto Star Online