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Another Lottery Mistake
Submitted by Left Of The Dial on Fri, 2007/09/28 - 1:14pm.
This afternoon on Knoxville’s WBIR-TV, the midday drawing for the Tennessee Lottery’s Cash 3 number was actually last night’s. Just after 1:30pm, the station aired “today’s winning Cash 3 number” but last night’s drawing was aired instead.
Last night’s Cash 3 number was 6-6-1.
Today’s darwing on WBIR got as far as 6-6-….and then some alert person cut it off before the third number could air.
About twenty minutes later, the station aired today’s actual winning number drawing which was 7-8-0.
Question: will the TEL be forced to pay out for BOTH numbers again like they were forced to do a couple weeks ago when they made the same goof? (They should pay out for any number beginning with 66 since the last digit didn't air.)
Another question: when will the TEL admit its new computerized drawing system is an unmitigated failure?
Third question: Does TEL Commissioner Rebecca Paul deserve her yearly bonus?
Just curious, could this latest fubar be WBIR's? How does that work? Is it supposed to be some kind of live feed from lottery HQ, or what?
At any rate, with all these problems with the new computerized system, I won't be surprised if they go back to ping pong balls, sooner rather than later.
Submitted by Left Of The Dial on Fri, 2007/09/28 - 2:04pm.
I know that the evening drawings are basically a feed from Nashville and they air when the drawing is supposed to happen (at 7:28pm EDT) but the daytime drawing tends to air on what seems to be a tape delay in the afternoon. The drawing occurs at 1:28pm EDT but airs locally around 1:40pm or so during a commercial break from a soap opera. Now, question is, was today's gaffe what WBIR was fed this afternoon by Nashville or did they screw up by showing last night's drawing themselves?
Just curious, could this latest fubar be WBIR's? How does that work? Is it supposed to be some kind of live feed from lottery HQ, or what?
At any rate, with all these problems with the new computerized system, I won't be surprised if they go back to ping pong balls, sooner rather than later.
I'm not clear on why they even changed.
I know that the evening drawings are basically a feed from Nashville and they air when the drawing is supposed to happen (at 7:28pm EDT) but the daytime drawing tends to air on what seems to be a tape delay in the afternoon. The drawing occurs at 1:28pm EDT but airs locally around 1:40pm or so during a commercial break from a soap opera. Now, question is, was today's gaffe what WBIR was fed this afternoon by Nashville or did they screw up by showing last night's drawing themselves?
Only WBIR-TV can answer that one.
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