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Media Guidelines INTRO Northeast Corridor. Several telephones (collect and credit card MEDIA INFORMATION calls only) are available in the press workroom. Halftime and final statistics, play-by-play and post-game coaches quotes will be provided in the press room. The 2004-2005 LSU Basketball Media Press kits with programs and fact sheets for each team will Guide is a source of information for the news be available on press row approximately 30 minutes prior to media. Additional information is available upon tipoff or earlier upon request. THIS IS LSU request from the LSU Sports information A FAX machine staffed by the LSU Sports Information Office. News releases, photographs, color Department will be available. Student operators are available to send copy free of charge. Please coordinate any particular filing slides, video and audio tape cassettes will be needs through Kent Lowe. made available to accredited members of the YERS news media upon request. Radio Rights A The LSU Sports Information Office is One official radio network for the visiting team must be PL located on the fifth floor of the LSU Athletic designated by the team’s athletic director or media relations Administration Building in the west parking lot director.Visiting radio stations should coordinate all credentials of Tiger Stadium. needs through Kent Lowe. Only those working on the radio broadcast will be given credentials for that area. MAILING ADDRESS: Radio networks wishing to broadcast should also contact CHES LSU Sports Information Jim Hawthorne, Director of the LSU Sports Network (225-578- A P.O. Box 25095 1882). Southeastern Conference opponents may use phone lines CO on a reciprocal basis. Nonconference opponents should contact Baton Rouge, LA 70894-5095 Jim Hawthorne to secure phone lines. A small fee may be Phone: (225) 578-8226 charged for those crews covering non-conference opponents. Broadcasts of the LSU basketball games are produced by OVERNIGHT MAIL ADDRESS: the LSU Sports Network and distributed through Louisiana LSU Sports Information, Room 501 Network. Any station wishing to join the network should LSU Athletic Administration Building contact Jim Hawthorne, Director of the LSU Sports Network, REVIEW No. Stadium Dr. at Nicholson Dr. P. O. Box 25095, Baton Rouge, La. 70894, or call (225) 578-1882. Baton Rouge, LA 70894 TV Rights, Satellite Trucks The right to televise LSU basketball games is solely that of the University and the Southeastern Conference. Permission to Press Credentials televise the game must be granted by the Athletic Director’s Office at LSU and the Commissioner’s Office of the All requests for working press, photo and broadcast Southeastern Conference. PREVIEW credentials for LSU 2004-2005 home basketball games should Telecasting entities should contact Assistant AD/Television be made in writing on company letterhead. Single game Kevin Wagner (225) 578-1797 for information regarding setup. credentials must be requested no later than NOON the day Sound microphone technicians will sit at designated spots in before the game. Direct all requests to: front of press row that does not block any sold advertising Kent Lowe, Sr. Associate SID panels, and at the discretion of game officials. There is no mid- LSU Athletic Department court break for television. P. O. Box 25095, Baton Rouge, La. 70894 Any outlet using a satellite truck must request satellite truck or FAX (225) 578-1861. RECORDS parking and must have the truck in place at least two hours All credentials which cannot be mailed are left at the will- prior to tipoff. All production and uplink trucks should contact call media table inside the Northeast Corridor entrance of the Dwight Johnson, Director of the Maravich Assembly Center, Maravich Assembly Center. (225) 578-8205, regarding arrival time and setup logistics. News media covering LSU Basketball on a regular basis will Y be issued a season parking pass. Other parking passes will be OR handled on a game-by-game basis. The press parking lot Phone Lines because of football stadium construction will be in the Track & Those writers wishing personal phone lines at press row or HIST Field House lots off Nicholson Drive. in the press room should contact the BellSouth Office in Baton Requests are honored from sports editors of daily Rouge (1-800-238-5501) with LSU Sports Information as the newspapers and sports directors of television and radio stations. contact. Requests from individuals not employed by a media outlet will There will be a minimum of four phone lines available for not be considered. Spouses, dates, non-workers and anyone every game for writers in the press room. under 18 years of age are not permitted in the working press area. LSU reserves the right to refuse any credential request Photographers LSU deemed not to be in the best interest of the University. LSU will follow NCAA and SEC rules regarding the media representatives photographing the game. Photographers are Press Room and Services limited to working the designated space along the end line of The LSU Sports Information Office provides the news the playing court. No credentials will be issued to freelance media with a press workroom. It is located in the Northeast photographers, cutline writers, equipment carriers. Photographers Corridor of the Assembly Center. Access to the press room is will not be permitted to shoot from the sidelines. All limited to those with working credentials. photographers must remain seated on the floor in areas directly MEDIA A pre-game meal will be served approximately an hour in front of fans on the baseline. Video taping from a kneeling before tipoff in the area across from the press room in the position will not be permitted. Photo positions may be assigned by the LSU Sports Information Office prior to selected games. 228 2004-05 LSU MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE IN Media Guidelines TRO Photographers will file from a new location oppisite the Tigers on the Web LSU dressing room for men’s games. The room will have both All LSU athletic information can be accessed on the Tigers’ THIS IS LSU phone and eathernet lines available. Contanct LSU world wide web site. It includes daily updates, releases and photographer, Steve Franz at 225-578-4193, for further details. media guides of all 20 of LSU’s intercollegiate athletic teams. The address is: Interviews HEAD COACH JOHN BRADY Coach Brady 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 Key Phone Numbers PL Coach Brady at least one day in advance through Kent Lowe in SPORTS INFORMATION: (225) 578-8226 A the LSU Sports Information Office at 225-578-8226. SPORTS INFORMATION FAX: (225) 578-1861 YERS Coach Brady will, based on his schedule, be available for ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT: (225) 334-4578 brief comments following the conclusion of the practice session LSU SPORTS NETWORK: (225) 578-1882 each day. ATHLETIC TICKET OFFICE: (225) 578-2184 It is strongly suggested that those needing pre-game RADIO: (225) 578-1882 comments from Coach Brady join in the twice-weekly SEC TELEVISION: (225) 578-1797 teleconference beginning in January each Monday and CO Thursday. Contact the SEC Office for the phone number. Internet A On the road, Coach Brady will be available in the lobby on CHES The official website of LSU athletics and the official website the day before the game upon arrival at the hotel. Coach Brady of the visiting school will be credentialed. Also, the official will not conduct any interviews, home or away, on game day online service of the national over-the-air or cable television prior to the game. network which owns broadcast rights to the game requested PLAYERS will receive credentials. Other websites will not be credentialed unless they meet specifications outlined below: REVIEW LSU players will be available for interviews after most practices if interviews are requested 24 hours in advance 1. Must be a legal corporate entity which through the LSU Sports Information Office. There will be no has been in business at least one full interviews once the players come on to the Maravich Assembly calendar year and has provided coverage Center floor to begin practice warmup. This rule will be strictly of LSU for at least one year. enforced. Phone interviews can also be requested for after practice as 2. Must provide daily coverage of all PREIVEW well. NO players will be available for interviews on the road athletic teams of LSU or the visiting prior to the game. team with its own staff of reporters, The team apartments, locker room and training room are photographers and equipment. off limits to media representatives at all times. 3. Must travel to and cover major POSTGAME post-season events. LSU abides by Southeastern Conference policy regarding equal access to all members of the working media. 4. Must provide coverage of all press RECORDS The LSU lockerroom is closed to all media after all games, conferences of All athletic teams at LSU home and road. Coach John Brady will conduct his postgame or the visiting team. news conference at home games approximately 10 minutes after the game in the L-Club Room of the Maravich Assembly 5. Must be accredited by home university Center. On the road, media members can visit with Brady as working media. outside the lockerroom or in the home team’s interview area if so requested. NOTE: Websites that sponsor message boards, message centers or Postgame player interviews are also conducted in the L- chat rooms where people are allowed to post anonymous HIST Club Room at home and outside the locker room or in an information will not be issued credentials.