Gaming Revenue Boost for Sky Bet as Bale Joins

Sky Bet, the sports betting division of TV conglomerate Sky, has posted a 20% year-on-year rise in gaming revenue to £32 million (€37.9 million/$51.9 million) for the three months until the end of September 2013. In an interim financial report for the first quarter of the new financial year, Sky Bet said that the figures had been achieved despite unfavorable results at the start of the 2013-14 football season. “Net revenue growth was 20% as the sports results weren’t favorable,” Sky Bet managing director Richard Flint told the Yorkshire Post newspaper. “We grew our user numbers by more than 20…