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NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Centerplate, the largest hospitality partner to North America's premier sports stadiums, convention centers, and entertainment venues, reported today that Super Bowl fans at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome spent an average of a record breaking $91.45 on food and beverage at Super Bowl festivities. Despite the partial loss of power at the Superdome, Centerplate's food storage, refrigeration and preparation equipment were not impacted, and all...

LAS VEGAS, Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cantor Gaming® announced today that its race and sports books, a total of 8 locations, generated 16% of Nevada's total handle and enjoyed 21% of the total win on this year's Super Bowl. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110720/MM38949LOGO) On February 4, 2013, the Gaming Control Board announced that $98,936,798 was wagered in Nevada's 183 sports books on this year's Super Bowl. In addition, it announced that unaudited figures...

NEW YORK, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The CBSSports.com, NFL.com and NFL Mobile from Verizon live stream of Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday set multiple viewership records for a single game sporting event in the United States and also made history as the most social telecast ever, according to data provided by Omniture and third-party monitoring firms. Online, the CBSSports.com live stream of the matchup between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens attracted three million...

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Entergy New Orleans, Inc., the Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District (LSED), and SMG, the management company of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, today announced plans to jointly hire an independent third party expert to conduct an independent assessment of the cause of the partial power outage during Super Bowl XLVII. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120913/MM74349LOGO) Entergy New Orleans, the LSED and SMG will jointly select...

CINCINNATI, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Oh, now you want to win the Scripps Celebrity Super Bowl Poll? What are you, a wise guy? Well, actually you are, or at least you played one on TV, if you're Tony Sirico, this year's winner. Sirico -- mobster Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri in HBO's "The Sopranos" -- correctly picked the Baltimore Ravens to beat the San Francisco 49ers in Sunday night's Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans. Sirico was just four points off the final score, good enough...

- More than half of the country watched some or all of last night's SUPER BOWL broadcast - - 9.4 million fans tune in to watch Beyoncé rock the Pepsi Super Bowl XLVII Halftime Show - - SUPER BOWL XLVII is second most-watched ever - To tweet this release: http://bit.ly/11D2MOg TORONTO, Feb. 4, 2013 /CNW/ - SUPER BOWL XLVII attracted an average audience of 7.33 million viewers on CTV and RDS (CTV: 6.6 million; RDS: 763,000), according to preliminary overnight data from BBM Canada...

PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT), who precisely measures movies and TV everywhere, did an analysis of Super Bowl XLVII which includes box office information, advertising exposure levels and social media commentary, with a highlight of the affect of the third quarter blackout. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130204/SF53952-INFO) Audience levels remained stable and even grew through the 34-minute blackout, as the graph below shows,...

GREENVILLE, S.C., Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dozens of advertisers paid nearly $4 million to run a 30-second commercial during last night's airing of Super Bowl XLVII, but it was a low-cost, opportunistic social media effort that created the most brand chatter according to the Erwin Center for the Study of Advertising and Communication at Clemson University. Oreo, capitalizing on the confusion created by a power outage that left the stadium only half lit for 30 minutes, quickly put...

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- It was the "greenest" game in Super Bowl history. The New Orleans Host Committee's (NOHC) Environmental Committee worked tirelessly for more than two years to implement a variety of environmental initiatives designed to "green" the game, the fans and the community of New Orleans. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130204/DA53760-a) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130204/DA53760-INFO-b) "The New Orleans Super...

PLANO, Texas, Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Doritos brand today announced that its consumer-created commercial "Fashionista Daddy," which aired for the first time nationally during yesterday's Super Bowl XLVII broadcast, has scored its creator, 29-year-old Mark Freiburger of Los Angeles, the career-changing opportunity to work with acclaimed film director Michael Bay on the next installment of the blockbuster "Transformers" movie franchise from Paramount Pictures and Hasbro, set...