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Tenn. Lottery runs out of ticket terminals as drawings nearNews Story
Tennessee Lottery officials are looking for more terminals to sell tickets. They say the number of retailers that want to sell tickets is way beyond expectations.3800 Tennessee retailers are now selling lottery tickets, while another 1,800 are waiting to find out if they can. But there's a temporary problem - only about 300 ticket terminals available for installation, and there may not be more until the end of March. So we need some terminals...quite a few, said lottery CEO Rebecca Paul.Paul d
Feb 24, 2004, 5:48 am - Lottery News

Weekly $15 Service Fee Surprises Some Tennessee Lottery VendorsNews Story
A small group of Tennessee Lottery retailers were not informed they'd have to pay a weekly $15 service charge, and some in Knox County aren't happy about it. It was never mentioned up front, said Steve Rogers, owner of the Phillips 66 station on Tazewell Pike, which is among stores paying the charge because they sell less than $10,000 per week in lottery tickets. If I did business like that with my customers, I wouldn't stay in business long. Rogers said he went to a lottery machine training se
Feb 20, 2004, 6:38 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery selects TV outletsNews Story
The Tennessee Lottery has selected the TV stations that will take part in the launch of Cash 3 on March 1 and the televised Powerball drawings in late spring.In Memphis, the Lottery selected NBC affiliate WMC. The Lottery chose ABC affiliate WBBJ in Jackson; ABC affiliate WKRN in Nashville; NBC affiliate WBIR in Knoxville; and ABC affiliate WTVC in Chattanooga.The daily drawings for Cash 3 will be held every night beginning March 1, though time has not been finalized. Cash 3 is the Lottery's fir
Feb 19, 2004, 7:09 am - Lottery News

New Tennessee Lottery hasn't hurt Kentucky ticket sales yetNews Story
The new Tennessee Lottery, for now, doesn't seem to be hurting the games in surrounding states.Kentucky and at least two other states are reporting increases in lottery sales over the period last year despite increased border competition.That may change, however, once Tennessee starts selling Powerball tickets later this year.Lotteries in Kentucky, Georgia and Virginia all have experienced higher ticket sales since Tennessee launched its lottery Jan. 20 with four scratch-off games.Although Kentu
Feb 17, 2004, 6:47 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery joins Powerball super gameNews Story
Jackpots average nearly $60 millionBy late spring or early summer, Middle Tennesseans won't have to make a trek to Kentucky to play Powerball. They will be able to get tickets at their nearest lottery retailer.Yesterday the Tennessee Lottery became the 26th lottery nationwide to join the super lotto game in which jackpots have exceeded $200 million.In this game, players choose six numbers, one of which is the Powerball, a red Ping-Pong ball that can boost a player's winnings into the millions of
Feb 17, 2004, 6:46 am - Lottery News

Tennessee to Join Powerball LotteryNews Story
The Tennessee Lottery will join the multistate Powerball game by early summer, officials said Monday.Members of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. board of directors voted unanimously to join the 26-state Powerball, an Urbandale, Iowa-based game with a jackpot that has risen as high as $315 million. The District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands also are members. Powerball is a highly visible, recognized brand name, lottery chief Rebecca Paul told the board before the vote.Board members c
Feb 16, 2004, 6:22 pm - Lottery News

Lottery ticket thieves beginning to strike across TennesseeNews Story
Lottery fever isn't just for paying customers.Thieves from Memphis to Knoxville are trying to cash in on the games, and store owners are taking matters into their own hands to counter them.Ali Haimed of Memphis learned the hard way that criminals have a new target after the lottery's Jan. 20 startup. When he opened his store Jan. 30, about $1,500 worth of tickets and the clear display case they were in were both gone. They took the whole box, Haimed said.Several lottery ticket thefts have been
Feb 16, 2004, 6:01 am - Lottery News

Lawmakers busy trying to change Tennessee lotteryNews Story
A new type of lottery fever is spreading in the Tennessee state Capitol.The Tennessee Lottery has been up and running for less than a month, but lawmakers of all persuasions - from avid supporters to consistent opponents - are looking to make changes. More than 150 bills relating to the lottery have been introduced since the General Assembly returned to Nashville last month.The Lottery Oversight Committee, composed of nine members each from the House and Senate, last week began sifting through t
Feb 16, 2004, 5:59 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery wastes $1M on needless legal activitiesNews Story
The Tennessee Lottery has incurred out-of-control legal expenses that stem from needless and insignficant legal activities, according to recent reportsThe state lottery became embroiled in more controversy yesterday with the disclosure that the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp., which oversees all lottery operations, has been billed for more than $1 million in legal fees since it began work last August.Lottery CEO Rebecca Paul told the legislature's Lottery Oversight Committee that the corporati
Feb 12, 2004, 6:54 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery Brings In $96.5 Million In First Three WeeksNews Story
Starting the Tennessee Lottery 21 days earlier than the original Feb. 10 target date has resulted in approximately $96.5 million in ticket sales in just three weeks, which means nearly $30 million for education programs in the state to date, Lottery officials said Tuesday. This reinforces the importance of an early start-up, said Rebecca Paul, CEO and president of the Tennessee Lottery. Had we begun today, as was originally anticipated, we would be nearly $100 million behind where we currently
Feb 11, 2004, 6:10 am - Lottery News