One of the ripple effects coming down from the U.S. Department of Justice unveiling their 11 indictments of major U.S. facing poker rooms, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker, seizing their .com domain names. Now that U.S. player are prevented from playing the major sites, fans are curious to the effect on their TV poker entertainment options.

ESPN was first to start making changes to their poker TV coverage. They first cut PokerStars NAPT scheduled coverage this week. ESPN indicated that they have ended their contract with PokerStars during the WSOP, who's worth a reputed $22 million.

The most visible poker TV shows, WSOP and WPT, are profitable shows that will continue to be shown, with adjustment to remove and replace the adbuys not from the big two sites.

FullTiltPoker's Poker After Dark continued their high stakes PLO cash game special episodes, but their future is in doubt.

On Tuesday Fox announced they’d terminated their relationship with The Big Game and Million Dollar Challenge. The Big Game has indicated that they will broadcast internationally and on pokerstars.tv.

High Stakes Poker is another popular TV poker show that will continue for the moment.

Advertisements have been replaced by PokerStars.net, instead of PokerStars.com.