Press Room and Services
The LSU Sports Information Office provides the news media with a press workroom located in the Northeast Corridor of the Center. Access to the press room is limited to those with working credentials. A pre-game meal will be served approximately an hour before tipoff in the area across from the press room in the Northeast Corridor.
Radio Rights
One official radio network for the visiting team must be designated by the team’s athletic director or media relations director. Visiting radio stations should coordinate all credential needs through Kent Lowe. Only those working on the radio broadcast will be given credentials for that area. Radio networks wishing to broadcast should also contact Jim Hawthorne of the LSU Sports Radio Network (225-578-1882). Southeastern Conference opponents may use phone lines on a reciprocal basis. Non-conference opponents should contact Jim Hawthorne to secure phone lines. A small fee may be charged for those crews covering non-conference opponents. Broadcasts of the LSU basketball games are produced by the LSU Sports Radio Network and distributed through rightsholder LSU Sports Properties. Any station wishing to join the network should contact Kevin May of LSU Sports Properties, (225) 578-7290.
TV Rights, Satellite Trucks
The right to televise LSU basketball games is solely that of the University and the Southeastern Conference. Permission to televise the game must be granted by the Athletic Director’s Office at LSU and the Commissioner’s Office of the SEC. Telecasting entities should contact Director of Television Kevin Wagner at (225) 578-1797 for information regarding setup. Sound microphone technicians are not allowed to sit on the floor in front of the broadcast position. There is no mid-court break for television. Any outlet using a satellite truck must request satellite truck parking and must have the truck in place at least two hours prior to tipoff. All production and uplink trucks should contact Brendan Fouracre, Director of the Maravich Center, (225) 578-8205, regarding arrival time and setup logistics.
Phone Lines
Those writers wishing personal phone lines at press row or in the press room should contact the BellSouth Office in Baton Rouge (1-800-238-5501) with LSU Sports Information as the contact. There will be a minimum of four phone lines available for every game for writers in the press room.
Wireless Internet Access
Coach Johnson will be available for phone and in-person interviews on most non-game weekdays during the season. Please coordinate all requests for personal interviews with Coach Johnson at least one day in advance through Kent Lowe in the LSU Sports Information Office at 225-578-8226. Coach Johnson will, based on his schedule, be available for brief comments following the practice two days prior to each game. It is strongly suggested that those needing pre-game comments from Coach Johnson join in the twice-weekly SEC teleconference beginning in January each Monday and Thursday. Contact the SEC Office for the phone number. On the road, coach Johnson will generally not be available once the team leaves Baton Rouge.
Players
LSU players will be available after the practice two days prior to the game for the most part. Special interviews should be requested 48 hours in advance through the LSU Sports Information Office. Phone interviews can also be requested for after practice as well. NO players will be available for interviews on the road prior to the game. The team apartments, locker room and training room are off limits to media representatives at all times.
Postgame
LSU abides by Southeastern Conference policy regarding equal access to all members of the working media. The LSU lockerroom is closed to all media after all games, home and road. Coach Trent Johnson will conduct his postgame news conference at home games approximately 15 minutes after the game in the L-Club Room of the Maravich Center. On the road, media members can visit with Johnson outside the lockerroom or in the home team’s interview area if so requested. Postgame player interviews are also conducted in the L-Club Room at home and outside the locker room or in an interview area where possible on the road.
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Practices
Practices are closed to the media for the 2009-10 season.
Key Phone Numbers
Sports Information: (225) 578-8226 Sports Information FAX: (225) 578-1861 Athletic Department: (225) 334-4578 LSU Sports Properties: (225) 578-7169 Athletic Ticket Office: (225) 578-2184 Radio: (225) 578-1882 Television: (225) 578-1797 The LSU Sports Information Office is located on the fifth floor of the LSU Athletic Administration Building in the west parking lot of Tiger Stadium.
Photographers
Mailing Address: LSU Sports Information P.O. Box 25095 Baton Rouge, LA 70894-5095
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LSU’s goal is to disseminate information as widely, uniformly and fairly as possible using normally accepted media standards. Media must meet the following guidelines in order to be granted credentials. Only media that meet the criteria will be considered for access to LSU athletic events. The number of credentials issued is limited by available resources. Due to space and facility restrictions, access, seat assignments on press row as well as sideline photography will be made on a space available basis. In some situations, pool reporting may be necessary.
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Print • Daily newspapers are eligible to apply for credentials and access to media opportunities. The granting and number of credentials will be based on newspaper’s circulation on a space available basis. • Weekly newspapers must be members of the Louisiana Press Association and those sports writers must be members of the Louisiana Sports Writers Association to request credentials. Weekly newspapers based on requests will be limited to non-conference games if space exists. • Specialty publications that cover college basketball or sports in the host site of the two participating schools are eligible to be granted on a space available basis. • Student newspapers from the city of the two teams are able to apply for credentials on the basis of a maximum of two press box seats for dailies and one press box seat for weeklies.
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Television • Television stations that have nightly news broadcasts that originate in the locale of the station that includes sports coverage are eligible to apply for credentials. All other stations will be filled on a space available basis. • Student television stations from the two participating schools are eligible to apply on a space available basis. Radio • National and regional networks are eligible to apply for credentials. • Radio stations that employ a full-time sports director or regularly air sports news or locally-produced talk shows are eligible to apply for credentials. No talk show may have more than one credential and the maximum credentials a station may receive for a game, based on space availability, is two. Internet • Internet sites of the home and visiting school (as determined by the Media Relations Director) are eligible to apply for credentials. • LSU’s policy is to issue credentials only to those organizations whose primary purpose is gather news and disseminating it and for which other commercial activities are ancillary. • Other internet sites must meet each of the following guidelines in addition to meeting the above criteria to be eligible to apply for credentials and access as determined on a space available basis.
Wireless internet access is available in the press room and on press row of the Maravich Center. For information on how to access please ask LSU Basketball SID Kent Lowe.
LSU will follow NCAA and SEC rules regarding the media representatives photographing the game. Photographers are limited to working the designated space along the end line of the playing court. No credentials will be issued to freelance photographers, cutline writers, equipment carriers. Photographers will not be permitted to shoot from the sidelines. All photographers must remain seated on the floor in areas directly in front of fans on the baseline. Video taping from a kneeling position will not be permitted. Photo positions may be assigned by the LSU Sports Information Office prior to selected games. Contact LSU photographer, Steve Franz at 225-5784193, for further details.
Credential and Access Guidelines
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• Web site must be a legal, corporate entity. • Web site must provide daily coverage of LSU or the visiting team with its own full-time staff of reporters, photographers and equipment. • Web site must travel to and cover a majority of away games and all major post-season events. • Web site must be accredited by the home university as working media. • Websites that sponsor message boards, message centers or chat room as their primary function where people are allowed to post anonymous information will not be issued credentials. • The maximum number of credentials that a web site may receive is two based on space available and the discretion of the media relations director.
Internet Real-Time Policy By acceptance and use of an LSU media credential, the holder agrees to the following conditions as established by LSU and the Southeastern Conference: • The SEC and its member institutions grant a media organization a limited license to use certain gathered information on the media organization’s own Internet or online site beginning at the start of an athletic event and up to the conclusion of such event, all subject to the following limitations and conditions:
• No more than 10 still photographs may be used for news coverage of the game and other editorial purposes. Such still photographs must be used on a time-delayed basis, that is at least (5) minutes after the happening of the event depicted by the still photograph. • It is agreed that video tape is NOT to be used on an Internet or online site (except that video tape may be shown as part of a single online “simulcast” of a television station’s regularly scheduled news program.
• While a game is in progress, the use of textual statistical information is time-delayed and limited in amount (e.g. updates pertaining to score, injuries and national, conference or institutional record-breaking performances, a condensed half-time story) so that an organization’s Internet or online game coverage does not undercut the authorized and rights-paying fee organization’s rights to play-by-play accounts of the game and/or exclusivity as to such rights. • This policy is in effect for all LSU sports events. The limitations for basketball are four per half and one at halftime.
Overnight Mailing Address: LSU Sports Information, Room 501 LSU Athletic Administration Building North Stadium Dr. at Nicholson Dr. Baton Rouge, LA 70894 Phone: (225) 578-8226
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• Should any of these conditions be breached, LSU and/or the SEC will issue a written warning for the first violation. If this violation occurs during the last game of the institutions’ regularly-scheduled season, the media organization may not be credentialed for the SEC Basketball Tournament. A second violation of this policy will results in revocation of credentials to cover future basketball games hosted by the SEC and/or its member institutions.
Unauthorized Use of Credentials Press credentials will be issued to working press only. Press credentials are not transferable and use by anyone other than members of the working media is unauthorized. Press credentials used in an unauthorized manner will be revoked immediately. New organizations allowing unauthorized individuals to use credentials will have their credentials revoked for the remainder of the year. All press credentials remain the property of the LSU Athletics Department and must be returned on request.
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