{"id":62741,"date":"2025-12-16T22:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62741\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:25:06","slug":"how-the-philly-region-became-an-online-gambling-epicenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62741\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Philly region became an online gambling epicenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not just Vegas and Atlantic City anymore \u2013 Pennsylvania has become a gambling epicenter. Online casino gaming and sports betting generated record revenues for the commonwealth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gambling companies are pouring more ad dollars into our region than anywhere else in the country. And now gambling help lines are fielding record numbers of calls. Young men may be particularly vulnerable to marketing filling their social media feeds, as they\u2019ve become the fastest growing demographic battling addiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This episode, we\u2019ll look at the industry, the advertising, the regulations and the risks. We\u2019ll also zero in on the largely unregulated and predatory world of crypto casinos luring young men to bet big.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abington.psu.edu\/person\/gillian-russell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gillian Russell<\/a>, professor at Penn State Abington and lead author on Pennsylvania Online Gambling Report<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/author\/marin_max\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Marin<\/a>, investigative reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/neil-bedi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Bedi<\/a>, reporter for the New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not just Vegas and Atlantic City anymore \u2013 Pennsylvania has become a gambling epicenter. Online casino gaming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,69,71,70,12736],"class_list":{"0":"post-62741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news","12":"tag-studio-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}