Different places run their bingos in different ways. , and offer television bingo. The has its National Game. In , radio station CFWE in Alberta broadcasts a radio bingo game twice a week. The bingo games, which have been broadcast for most than ten years, are extremely popular in Alberta. The broadcast game allows people who live in the rural areas to play bingo twice a week. These are people who wouldn’t get to play bingo because there are no bingo halls in their area. They offer very good prizes. Their players have a chance to win $10,000 twice a month. They plan to award prizes of $100,000 this month in celebration of the tenth birthday.

Players buy their bingo cards at authorized outlets like gas stations or grocery stores. A book of seven cards costs $5.00 CD. The cards have serial numbers and are color coded for the day of play. There are different formats, or series, that correspond to different casino games and different prize amounts. The games begin at 6 p.m. every Monday and Thursday evening. When an individual has a bingo, they call a given number to report it and have the bingo verified. They then mail in their winning cards and receive their bingo winning through the mail.

The bingo is run by a non-profit organization. The organization has given most of the money out in prizes and uses the remainder for expansion. The organization that runs the bingo is the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta.