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The new schedule is not final yet - though it may be ready by February - but it would reduce the number of drawing times to two - 2 p.m. Over the last year, the Lottery's marketing and compliance teams have been evaluating the schedule and determined 'there could be some benefit in changing these drawing times,' Sweeney said. and the Megabucks Doubler is drawn at 10:46 p.m. and 7:46 p.m., Mass Cash winners get pulled at 9:46 p.m.

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When the drawings were brought in-house, the Lottery made no changes to the schedule, which means they're still held at the times set by the TV broadcasters. Since 2011, when the TV studio-based drawings ended, the Lottery has been broadcasting its drawings itself - on Youtube and the Lottery website - from a studio at the Braintree office. Once those broadcast partnerships ended, the Lottery never changed or readjusted or looked at those drawing times,' Sweeney said.

'For many years, all the drawing times were dictated by the programming schedule of our broadcast partners, this goes back 20 or 30 years. For its drawings, the Lottery is now embarking on a multi-phased plan that will eventually include a new schedule for all Lottery drawings and plans for remote drawings on-location at big events around the state. The agency retired its old, clunky blue retail machines and replaced them with more modern terminals, and recently went through a major IT overhaul. It's all part of a modernization plan that's been afoot for the last four or five years at the Lottery under Sweeney and Treasurer Deborah Goldberg.

The equipment was delivered in June, and a new drawing studio content and production manager has been onboard since October preparing the updated studio and broadcasts. The single spinning drum that's used to select numbers for Mass Cash and Megabucks Doubler will be retired and each game will get its own underlit orb for the new drawings.Ībout a year and a half ago, the Lottery Commission approved a three-year, $292,575 contract with SmartPlay International for draw game equipment, training and maintenance, and the agency worked with the vendor to design the new machines. The current Numbers Game draw machine - four spinning wheels with sections for numbers 0 through 9 - will be replaced by a cylinder with four separate segments, each with its own slot for the ball with the winning number. 'The Lottery drawings essentially have had the same equipment, look and feel for over the last 20 years,' Michael Sweeney, the Lottery's executive director, said last week. And on Sunday, a new studio at the Lottery's Dorchester headquarters will debut with all-new drawing equipment and a plan for new-look online broadcasts. After the winning numbers are pulled and the Lottery host signs off, the studio and equipment for the Numbers Game, Mass Cash and Megabucks Doubler will be retired. On Saturday night, the Lottery will broadcast its final drawings from Braintree. But players likely have not noticed any difference - especially if they haven't hit those big jackpot prizes that must be claimed at the headquarters.

BOSTON - When the Massachusetts Lottery moved from Braintree to Dorchester earlier this year, it was a big deal for the Lottery as an agency and for its employees.