Powerball Drawings to Be Available Live on the Internet

Mon Nov 9, 2009 3:01am EST
 
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The Multi-State Lottery Association's Powerball Game Group will make its
drawings available live on the Internet through TinBu beginning in November





PENSACOLA, Fla., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Powerball, the nation's best-known
lotto game, and TinBu, the leading provider of lottery data to online media
groups, are pleased to announce an agreement to begin streaming live Powerball
drawings on the web.

With lottery drawings taking place every Wednesday and Saturday night, the
number of players looking for Powerball results reaches into the tens of
millions for each draw.  Powerball's jackpots have reached as high as $365
million.

"TinBu is very excited to be adding this dynamic, in-demand feature to our
interactive lottery data content. We provide lottery data to most of the major
online media groups in the United States, and we look forward to giving our
online publishing partners the opportunity to add live Powerball drawings for
their online audience to view. When the word lottery comes to mind, Powerball
is the king of the hill in the U.S., and we are confident these live online
drawings will be viewed regularly by a tremendous amount of people," said John
Brier, TinBu's CEO.

TinBu will connect directly with the Powerball studio at Universal Orlando
Resort in Orlando, Florida and has secured delivery bandwidth through Navisite
that will allow hundreds of thousands of simultaneous online viewers of the
live Powerball drawings.  The system will automatically scale up as needed to
handle anticipated audience growth.

"We are pleased to be able to open another channel for our live Powerball
drawings," said Rebecca Hargrove, Chair of MUSL's Powerball Game Group. "Even
though Powerball drawings are shown on nearly 100 television stations
throughout the United States, the technology to add the live draws through the
Internet will allow millions of additional players to watch the drawings, live
or on demand."

The launch of live Internet-streaming Powerball drawings are planned for
November of 2009 at Powerball.com, the official Web site of the Powerball
lottery.  Previous drawings will be archived for online viewing.

About TinBu:
TinBu uses patent-pending technology to provide interactive data products to
leading online and wireless companies worldwide. TinBu's clients include AOL,
AOL Latino, AOL Canada, AOL Mexico, Telemundo, MSN, MSN Espanol, MSNBC, USA
TODAY, BellSouth, ATT, Yahoo!, Media General, Inergize Digital Media, CBS
Television, ABC Television, Fox Television, CBS Radio, Boston Herald, Boston
Globe, Tribune, Toronto Star, CBC New Media, My Red Fish, Local Solutions
Networks, Motricity, uClick, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Hello Metro, New York
Daily News, DirecTV, Univision, Terra Networks, Yahoo!, People PC, and many
others. Learn more at www.TinBu.com.

About MUSL and Powerball:
The Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) is owned and operated by the
participating lotteries to facilitate the operation of multi-state games. 
Powerball was launched in April, 1992 and will soon be played in 31 states,
the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.  The 33 MUSL lotteries
selling Powerball are: Arizona Lottery, Arkansas Scholarship Lottery, Colorado
Lottery, Connecticut Lottery Corporation, D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games
Control Board, Delaware Lottery, Florida Lottery, Idaho Lottery, Hoosier
Lottery, Iowa Lottery Authority, Kansas Lottery, Kentucky Lottery Corporation,
Louisiana Lottery Corporation, Maine State Lottery, Minnesota State Lottery,
Missouri State Lottery, Montana Lottery, Nebraska Lottery, New Hampshire
Lottery Commission, New Mexico Lottery Authority, North Carolina Education
Lottery, North Dakota Lottery, Oklahoma Lottery Commission, Oregon Lottery,
Pennsylvania Lottery, Rhode Island Lottery, South Carolina Education Lottery,
South Dakota Lottery, Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation, Virgin Islands
Lottery, Vermont Lottery, Wisconsin Lottery, and the West Virginia Lottery.

The Powerball game has provided billions of dollars for worthy programs and
benefits as approved by the state governments.  For more information on
Powerball, visit www.powerball.com.

    Contact:
    John Brier
    TinBu
    850-292-2590
    Jbrier@tinbu.com



SOURCE  TinBu

John Brier of TinBu, +1-850-292-2590, Jbrier@tinbu.com

 

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