Tropicana Changing Name To Bally

Evansville IN

20 September, 2021

11:31 AM

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By John Gibson, WNIN Sept. 20, 2021 Tropicana Evansville's name change is underway. The casino complex on Riverside Drive has begun marketing itself as Bally's Evansville. Bally's completed its acquisition of Tropicana Evansville in June for $140 million. The company also obtained rights to the Bally's name. Bally's owns 13 casinos in nine states, a horse track, and 13 off-track betting licenses in Colorado. Evansville's land-based casino opened in 2017, after state law allowed riverboat casinos to move inland. The local gaming operation began aboard the City of Evansville boat in 1995 and became a reliable revenue source for city and county government. WNIN is the NPR/PBS affiliate in Evansville, Indiana. We serve Southwestern Indiana, Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois from our multimedia facility located on the Ohio River in downtown Evansville. For the past several years, the recognized quality of our local news has placed us among the best small market radio news organizations in the nation.