Balls rule!

"Rebecca Hargrove, the lottery's chief executive officer and president, has said the savings largely come from not paying television stations to broadcast the drawings."

If it cost money to have the drawings open and upfront so players can see the fairness of the results themselves, why have any drawings at all, even with the computers if the goal is to save money?

"Rebecca Hargrove, the lottery's chief executive officer and president, has said the savings largely come from not paying television stations to broadcast the drawings"

But are not TV stations playing the cartoon drawings?  Does that not cost money.  What is the difference?

Slowly, but surely she can see the writing on the wall. "her cash cow is going to dry up"!!! She will tap dance until the elected officials put a stop to it.

"the savings largely come from not paying television stations to broadcast the drawings."

What's the difference in cost between showing ball drawings or computer drawings???

Rebecca Hargrove does not have to have every TV station in Tennessee record the live drawings they can have one station record the drawing and have the other stations use a little pop up window and display the drawing numbers. This opens up and opportunity for certain TV stations to bid on whom will record the live drawing. After reviewing the bids she could negotiate a contract with them for x amount of years and at the end of the term run another bidding war.  

I thought she was creative enough to do this already. In fact the whole drawing process needs to be updated in a similar fashion like all the other states that conduct ball drawings.  I do know it will take some time negotiating with the big corporations when sports programs are running because they don't like to have their broadcast being cut into however i have seen live drawings here in Md when there were games and they used a stand alone pop up window in the lower right hand corner of the screen and showed the drawings taking place.

Hey Littleoldlady and KyMystikal Clarksville finally mad the map

I wish Idaho would get rid of computer drawings with our Pick 3 and other games.

its simple....

                   i'm the prime example.i'm that person who played faithfully every day for three years here in tennessee UNTIL they quit with the ball drawings.i was one of your diehard players hargrove and always liked you and then you pulled this RNG stunt.i'm sure there are hundreds just like me who are patiently waiting for you to butt the hell out and bring the balls back.then you need to respecfully resign your position because your ideas aren't very creative anymore.thanks.

The TV stations might not want to bid to broadcast the lottery drawings, but I'm sure at least one in each market will want to be the Official Lottery Station that shows the draws while the other stations must make due with a pop box on the screen.  If none of the media wants the draw it isn't shown there, too bad.  Shouldn't cost any more then what they're showing now, except for paying the model, the studio should already be part of lottery headquarters or someone messed up again.   BobP