NEW WAY TO CHECK YOUR NUMBERS: POWERBALL® DRAWINGS
TO STREAM LIVE ON INTERNET

New Option Begins This Month For Players To Watch Drawings Live Or On Demand

DES MOINES, Iowa - Powerball players in Iowa and around the nation will soon have a new option for checking their tickets: They'll be able to watch the game's drawings live on the Internet.

Iowa Lottery CEO Terry Rich noted that Powerball players already have several options for checking their tickets: They can watch the drawings live on television, check the winning numbers on the lottery's Web site at www.ialottery.com, check drawing results in the local newspaper, listen for lottery results on local radio stations, visit a lottery retailer to get a print-out of winning numbers from the lottery terminal, or call a lottery office for the information.

But Rich said that with more and more people turning to the Internet for information, adding a livestream of the drawings makes perfect sense.

"Adding live drawings on the Internet will allow millions of additional players to watch the drawings while they're happening and find out whether they've won a prize," Rich said. "We're always looking for new, effective ways to communicate with the public and this is a great new way to provide information as it happens."

With Powerball 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.

The game's drawings will begin being livestreamed this month on www.powerball.com. Previous drawings will be archived for online viewing. The Iowa Lottery's Web site also will link to the drawings results.

The livestreaming is being conducted through an agreement between the Urbandale-based Multi-State Lottery Association, which administers the Powerball game on behalf of the lotteries that participate in it, and Pensacola, Fla.,-based TinBu, LLC. TinBu uses patent-pending technology to provide interactive data products to leading online and wireless companies worldwide.

TinBu will connect directly with the Powerball studio at Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Fla., 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.

"TinBu is very excited to be adding this dynamic, in-demand feature to our interactive lottery data content," said John Brier, TinBu's CEO. "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."

Powerball is played in Iowa, 30 other states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The game's drawings at 9:59 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays are televised in Iowa on these stations:

• KWQC-TV in Davenport
• WOI-TV in West Des Moines
• KTVO-TV in Ottumwa
• KTIV-TV in Sioux City
• KWWL-TV in Waterloo.