Who Dats turned off the Super Bowl in record numbers as boycott parties raged across New Orleans. The Nielsen rating for the New Orleans market was a 26.1. National ratings cratered during this year’s 13-3 snoozer that featured a widely panned half time performance and only six points through three quarters. The 44.9 national rating was the lowest in a decade, and LSU Assistant Professor of Digital Advertising Jun Heo, says local resentment likely played a part.
Nielsen estimates about 165,000 households had the game on last night in the New Orleans market.
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy files legislation that would take money seized from drug cartels and us it to pay for a southern border wall. Cassidy says instead of having Americans pay for the wall, let it be Mexican cartels, and idea he thinks could find bipartisan support.
For the second quarter of fiscal year 2019, the Louisiana Lottery has seen an uptick in contributions to the state treasury, transferring over $53.9 million towards K-12 public education in the state. Louisiana Lottery spokesperson Dustin Annison says that’s nearly a $10 million increase from this time last year. Annison says the record-breaking Mega Millions jackpot from autumn had a big impact on the numbers.
Cut 10 (08) “…was huge for us.”
Annison says the year-to-date contributions of $94.6 million have exceeded what the Louisiana Lottery had budgeted and expected to give to the state by $16.8 million.
The US Supreme Court will take up a challenge to a Louisiana law requiring abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. The law, brought by Monroe Representative Katrina Jackson, was passed in 2014, but the Supreme Court’s rejection of a similar law in Texas three years ago put the Louisiana effort on ice until the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals revived the regulation last month.