Some upset with Pennsylvania Lottery broadcast

Comment #6

Trabuco — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:01:26 GMT

Its like everything else guys. I remember when cell phones were intended to be as good or better than house phones, cable tv service was backed up with batteries on every block to prevent service brownouts, electric substations were maintained regularly to prevent outages, etc. I also remember when the lottery started here in Florida, it was televised live and supervised by two lottery commisiones. Now all we get is a piece of tape whenever is convenient. We have done it to ourselves. We constan... [ More ]

Comment #5

NearNewBrit — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:36:10 GMT

A. I don't know where I got this info but I thought Powerball drawings were live at 10:59 p.m. and MegaMillions drawings were live at 11:00 p.m. True or false about MM?

B. FoxCT aired the first MM drawing for Connecticut live with little or no trouble. The second one seemed to cause a disturbance on the news set because they didn't (or couldn't) run their news intro.

C. Connecticut Lottery will now tell at the conclusion of the 10:31 p.m. Cash 5 drawing that you can watch the MegaMillions... [ More ]

Comment #4

Raven62 — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:14:14 GMT

No One Pays Attention to Lottery Players: Not even the Lottery: If they did you'd see Live Drawings instead of Recorded Drawings

Comment #3

dr65 — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:53:15 GMT

That is something I'd like to know also. The day game payouts are modest most times at best. Daytime Quinto is the real killer with the winner

count sometimes at 11 - I have already seen a winner count of 2! - TWO

Comment #2

rdgrnr — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:38:10 GMT

PA would be the perfect state for players to voice their displeasure with computer games by boycotting all Day games period.

It would be interesting to know how the computer day games compare in sales to their evening real drawing counterparts right now.

Comment #1

dr65 — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:02:44 GMT

I'd like the opportunity to be able to watch the live drawing. Sure, you can get the numbers in the morning but a recorded draw just doesn't sit

well. Just like the computerized midday drawing in PA...it's unnatural. The way its' done now, it is confusing. It doesn't matter if not many are up

to see it, 10:59 might be too late for a lot of people but I'd just be satisfied in knowing if I want to see the live draw right before 11, it's there and

not squeezed into another time slot 25 min... [ More ]

Some upset with Pennsylvania Lottery broadcast

Lottery Post — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:12:59 GMT

Pittsburghers who watch the nightly lottery drawings have been losing a little sleep lately, though it's not because of big jackpot jitters.

When the multi-state Mega Millions debuted Feb. 2 in Pennsylvania, state lotto officials asked television stations statewide to broadcast it in the same time slot as the Powerball drawing, which airs Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Instead of squeezing the Mega Millions into the familiar 10:59 p.m. time slot Tuesdays and Fridays, Pennsylvania Lottery offici... [ More ]