The American gambling industry’s main trade lobby reached out recently to US Rep. Paul Tonko over his proposal to ban most sports betting ads nationwide, executives said Wednesday.
Tonko’s proposal (H.R. 967), was introduced Feb. 9. It would treat sports betting ads like cigarette ads, and ban them from TV, radio and the internet.
“Our interest is to get in there, see what his concerns are, see what his office’s concerns are, make sure that he understands how we are approaching sports betting and why advertising is so important to move people from the illegal market into the legal market,” Bill Miller, President of the American Gaming Association said [at] the association’s State of the Industry event Wednesday.
