UK Lottery opens bidding for 10-year license
The United Kingdom National Lottery opened the competition for a ten-year license to run the operation on Thursday.
The license is currently held by Camelot, which has run the lottery under two licenses since its launch in 1994, and will also be bidding for this, the third.
Industry sources told Reuters on Thursday that Ladbroke and BSkyB were among a number of companies looking at how they might be involved, but it was early days.
Other companies that have shown an interest include Cab ...
Jun 29, 2006, 10:00 am - - Lottery News forum
TV network chosen to air N.C. Lottery drawings
The Triangle's CBS affiliate has been chosen to produce and air the nightly number drawings for the North Carolina Education Lottery, with the first lottery broadcast coming later this month with a drawing for the multi-state Powerball game.
WRAL-TV in Raleigh won out over WTVD-TV in Durham for the right to show the drawings on its station and provide it to other television outlets statewide. WRAL was the choice of an evaluation committee and executive director Tom Shaheen.
The N.C. Educat ...
May 18, 2006, 9:39 am - - Lottery News forum
Intralot wins Idaho Lottery from larger rival Gtech
The Idaho Lottery will have a new vendor starting next February after a Greek company that's expanding in the U.S. won a $30 million contract to run the state's scratch ticket and online gaming system from a larger rival.
Intralot USA, a Georgia-based unit of Athens, Greece-based Intralot, beat out Rhode Island-based GTech by promising better service for instance, Idaho's online games, including Powerball, will run 24 hours a day under Intralot, up from the previous 22 hours and a more-at ...
May 3, 2006, 8:36 am - - Lottery News forum
UK lottery operator license up for grabs
The licence to run the national lottery is up for grabs again, but some hopefuls say that the bidding process favors Camelot, the current UK Lottery operator.
As the sun beat down on the Hyatt Regency hotel in M rida, on the Gulf of Mexico, several hundred delegates gathered inside last February for the World Lottery Forum.
Representatives of lottery operators from Niger to New Zealand were welcomed by Mexican president Vicente Fox. They were there for their annual conference to discuss th ...
Apr 3, 2006, 9:42 am - - Lottery News forum
New N.C. Lottery ad agency picked after earlier winner withdraws
The North Carolina lottery hired a new ad agency Tuesday to promote its games now less than six weeks from the start after the agency that originally won the job refused to put up a $500,000 bond to ensure its vendors were paid.
The firm Wray Ward Laseter of Charlotte takes over a three-year contract to lead the lottery's projected $8 million a year advertising campaign. Howard Merrell Partners of Raleigh, the top bidder last week, quit a few days after winning the contract Feb. 14.
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Feb 21, 2006, 12:20 pm - - Lottery News forum
N.C. Lottery accepts bids for $8 million ad contract
Four North Carolina agencies submitted proposals for the advertising contract on the state's new $8 million lottery account, the lottery said.
Mullen in Winston-Salem and Howard Merrell Partners in Raleigh, both Interpublic Group shops, and independents Wray Ward Laseter and Douglas Displays, both of Charlotte, submitted bids for the account. The bids were opened late Friday at the lottery's offices in Cary, N.C.
A three-person panel of lottery executives will cut the field to three final ...
Jan 31, 2006, 7:41 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. Lottery Commission Awards Vendor Contracts
The North Carolina Education Lottery Commission awarded contracts for both instant-win tickets and lotto-style games to GTECH Holdings Corp. on Monday. The deals were estimated to be worth $19.2 million in the first year alone.Tom Shaheen, executive director of the lottery, said the selection process was fair, comprehensive, had the greatest integrity and achieved the best result. He said he felt good about the selection, adding: I think we have a really strong company. GTECH, which is headqua ...
Jan 31, 2006, 6:50 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. Lottery could pick vendors today
North Carolina lottery commissioners meet Monday and could pick winning vendors to operate the state's scratch-off ticket games and online, or automated, numbers games.Rivals Scientific Games and G-TECH Holdings each filed bids for both vendor contracts.Each seven year contract could generate millions of dollars in revenue annually for the winner.Four agencies filed bids Friday to land the advertising account for the North Carolina Education Lottery.Lottery executive director Tom Shaheen wants t ...
Jan 30, 2006, 6:55 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. lottey commission to announce vendor choice
A controversial decision is due next week from North Carolina's lottery commission.The state will choose which company provides the actual games like scratch-off tickets.But one company may be in trouble with the law. The lottery commission has faced questions about gaming company Scientific Games for months. I think the question is do they want to bid? And second, if they do bid are they able to handle a lottery this big? I don't know the answer to this but we're open to all bidders, Dr. Charl ...
Jan 24, 2006, 10:21 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. Lottery opens period for advertising bids
The North Carolina Education Lottery opened the bidding Wednesday for its advertising contract.The 86-page request for proposal states the lottery commission intends to hire only one firm to help market scratch-off ticket games, which are projected to begin in early April, and automated numbers games, which could start in mid-June.Firms must have their bids to the commission by Jan. 27, according to the tentative schedule released by the commission. Finalists will be announced Feb. 1, and the co ...
Jan 12, 2006, 9:36 am - - Lottery News forum
