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By Times staff writer Lottery switches channelsStarting today, Florida Lottery drawings will be broadcast in the Tampa Bay area on WFTS-Ch. 28, rather than WTVT-Ch. 13, the agency announced. The Florida Lottery has one-year contracts with local TV stations for the broadcasts and reopens the bidding process each year, a spokesman explained. Air times for the live drawings are: Florida Lotto, 11 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday; Mega Money, 11 p.m. Tuesday and Friday; Fantasy 5, 11:15 p.m. nightly; Cash 3 and Play 4, 7:57 p.m. nightly. 'Mr. Deeds' debuts No. 1Mr. Deeds went to town in a big way as the Adam Sandler comedy debuted as the No. 1 weekend film with $37.6-million. Last weekend's No. 1 film, Minority Report, slipped to third place with $21.6-million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Lilo & Stitch, which opened just $400,000 behind Minority Report last weekend, remained the No. 2 movie with $22.2-million. The weekend's other new wide release, the animated TV adaptation Hey Arnold! The Movie, opened a distant sixth with a weak $6-million. With the strong premiere of Mr. Deeds and solid staying power for Lilo & Stitch, Minority Report and other holdover films, the industry scored another rising weekend. The top 12 films grossed $131.9-million, up 12 percent over the same weekend last year. Oasis' story is short: NoThe British army is retreating in the face of a famously combative enemy: Oasis. The army said Sunday it was withdrawing a recruitment video featuring two Oasis songs after the group from Manchester refused to give permission to use the tracks. Lawyers for Oasis, led by brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher, said the video for Scotland's Highlanders regiment used the songs Wonderwall and Hello without permission. The video, which was shown in schools and shopping malls, depicts soldiers conducting exercises in Kenya to the sound of the songs from the hit 1995 album (What's The Story) Morning Glory? A Defense Ministry official said the regiment did not realize it needed permission to use the songs until it was brought to their attention. The regiment then contacted the group's record label to seek permission but was turned down and had to withdraw all copies of the video, the official said on the traditional British condition of anonymity. -- Times staff, wire reports
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