Rights to World Poker Tour Expire

[xavier45]

Buzzerblog is reporting that yesterday, the broadcast rights to WPT expired leaving the show without a home. GSN's CEO David Goldhill commented on this saying "The World Poker Tour has been a great partner and the show continues to perform strongly on our network. We are continuing discussions with WPTE regarding how we may be able to work together – including perhaps broadcasting parts of Season VII.”

So now everything that Goldhill aquired from Cronin's tenure has been cancelled or almost cancelled (Lingo).

[uncamark]

HR blog post from James Hibberd about WPT's possible leave-taking, in which he conjectures about "High Stakes Poker" leaving the schedule, as well:

http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/06/wither-high-sta.html

[bandit_bobby]

Does that mean that "World Poker Tour" won't be airing tonight?

[ChrisLambert!]

I was surprised that Travel Channel was still showing weekend reruns of previous seasons during the GSN deal... I imagine most of the viewers didn't know/care they were older eps, which made the whole thing seem like a bit of a waste of GSN's money.

[Jimmy Owen]

Classic episodes of Poker are just as enjoyable as the new eps in my book.  Pretty much the same contestants and commentary.

[rialtus]

...and the crowd goes mild.

[bandit_bobby]

Well, for now, new episodes of WPT Season 6 will still be airing.

[davemackey]

[quote name=\'bandit_bobby\' post=\'187780\' date=\'Jun 9 2008, 05:34 PM\']
Does that mean that "World Poker Tour" won't be airing tonight?
[/quote]
Rest easy. It did air. First time I actually saw WPT on GSN.

Poker's in decline, folks. Watch how many people throw their $10,000 on the table to play in the Main Event next month. I'll bet it's down for a second straight year.