Yonder come my kin-folk in the moonlight: LSU’s season opener against North Texas on Sept. 1 in Tiger Stadium will kick off at 6 p.m. and will be televised on ESPNU, the SEC announced this morning as the league released the full television slate for the first three weeks of the season. The league also announced that LSU’s home game on Sept. 8, against Washington, will be televised on ESPN and will kick off at 6 p.m. Last week, LSU announced that TigerVision will televise the Idaho contest in week three, also a home game with a 7 p.m. kickoff. Get more details and see the complete schedule for the first three weeks here.
A new leaf: Produce growers in Louisiana have a new organization—the Louisiana Fruit and Vegetable Growers—to turn to for marketing, lobbying and information about production. LSU AgCenter gardening specialist Kiki Fontenot, the group’s secretary, says, “We want to meet at least annually and to produce a semi-annual or quarterly newsletter to keep the members up to date on what’s happening in the industry.” Learn more about the organization here.
News hound sniffs the air: A new study released this morning by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism says that YouTube is emerging as a major platform for news, one to which viewers increasingly turn for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters. The study is the result of a 15-month examination of the most popular news videos on the Google-owned site. It found that while viewership of TV news still easily outpaces those consuming news on YouTube, the video-sharing site is a growing digital environment where professional journalism mingles with citizen content. Read the full story and access the complete report here.
