Satellite Media Tour with Yolanda Vega in Advance of Wednesday's $425 Million Powerball Drawing

SCHENECTADY, NY (11/27/2012)(readMedia)-- The New York Lottery will hold a satellite media tour with Yolanda Vega in advance of Wednesday night's Powerball drawing for a record $425M jackpot. Vega will answer general questions about the drawing, provide colorful insight on the excitement this kind of record jackpot brings to New York, and offer limited advice to the millions of New Yorkers who may be planning to purchase a ticket for Wednesday's night's life-changing jackpot (i.e. Sign your ticket as soon as you get it!)

The satellite window for tomorrow's media tour will be open from 1:15p.m. to 3:15 p.m. EST. We will be scheduling all interviews in five-minute increments. All time will be scheduled on a first-come, first-scheduled basis.

The coordinates for the November 27 Satellite Media Tour are:

Ku- DIGITAL SCPC

Satellite......AMC 15 (Ku-Digital)

Transponder......02 Slot OU6 - (6.0 MHZ)

Location......105 degrees west longitude

Receive frequency......11727 MHZ

Symbol Rate......3.9787 Msb

FEC(Forward Error Correction)...... 3/4

Polarity......Horizontal

Please note Yolanda's voice will not be heard on the phone line. Interviewers will have to be near a monitor.

Please R.S.V.P to Carolyn Hapeman at 518-388-3415 by 10a.m. Tuesday, November 27 to schedule your interview time.