stevej84 wrote:
Their radio ads mention wall-to-wall TV's to watch all the sports games..I guess BT would be too much of a distraction
"Sports Bars" are everywhere. That seems to be the major motif bars go for to draw customers these days. "What's the place like? Oh, it's a sports bar." I understand the attraction when there is a big event going on--like an NFL Sunday afternoon e.g.--but most of the times people go to a sports bar, there's nothing going on; no sports event that brought people in.
So they got a zillion monitors and all the screens in the place seem to be set to the various ESPN channels with the sound turned off. I've gone to so many places where you look at the screen and see a 1956 Baltimore Colts game or a sports talking heads show on with no sound...what's the point in that? They wanna show you whatever's on ESPN but you can't hear the audio and the jukebox is playing anyway so what's the point?!
BWW got it right. They invest lots of money on having monitors all over the room and if you're there during the vast majority of the time when there is no live sports event to watch while you buy their drinks and food, at least you can play trivia or poker or games. There is also a benefit to having NTN trivia even when no one is playing: many people at BWWs everywhere follow the trivia questions and answers without playing a box. It's a lot more entertaining to watch the buzztime games while you eat than it is to watch a sports talk show that's muted while Aerosmith wails on the juke!