(09-16-2014 07:16 PM)First Mate Wrote:  

(09-16-2014 05:35 PM)HP-TBDPITL Wrote:  ECU vs VT at Noon....had a 0.9

Gameday (the de facto P5 preview show) on same network at 9AM...had a 0.7

USC @ BC at 8PM on ESPN....had a 0.6

P5 my arse.

ECU has had strong ratings for years whenever we've played on national TV against a decent team. We tried for years to use this kind of data to get into the Big East. They wouldn't listen.

We always fought the Greenville NC TV DMA which is small. However, we get eyeballs and good ratings in large markets close by like Raleigh/Durham, Norfolk, Greensboro, and Charlotte. We have large alumni bases in each of these markets. Heck Raleigh/Durham is 1 hour away I go there every day for work. We could just as easily be considered in the Raleigh TV market.

People need to look past the home market and see ECU (and other schools in the AAC) brings tv viewers and exciting football. Several big schools in the SEC and ACC are located in small market DMA's too but that never seems to get brought up.

Hopefully Aresco is keeping up with all this stuff for the renegotiation in a few years.

This is appropriate...

I found this gem on PackPride.com

Posted by WolfQuacker: "99.9 has turned into a glorified ECU radio station. Every time I turn around, Ruffin is being interviewed, they are going to Greenville, and 80% of the callers to the Logan show start off with 'Loved ya' in Greenville coach. How do you think my pirates are gonna' do this week'? God forbid an effing Raleigh-based radio station have a bit more focus on the teams that comprise 95% of the listenership."

But yeah, we have no market in Raleigh.

(09-17-2014 09:07 AM)FastTheo Wrote:  I was watching Alvin and the Chipmunks. Did we win?

LOL, my kids were actually watching that while I was watching the game. I think it was on Disney Channel.

(09-17-2014 09:10 AM)piratefan1975 Wrote:  I found this gem on PackPride.com

Posted by WolfQuacker: "99.9 has turned into a glorified ECU radio station. Every time I turn around, Ruffin is being interviewed, they are going to Greenville, and 80% of the callers to the Logan show start off with 'Loved ya' in Greenville coach. How do you think my pirates are gonna' do this week'? God forbid an effing Raleigh-based radio station have a bit more focus on the teams that comprise 95% of the listenership."

But yeah, we have no market in Raleigh.

That is hilarious. FWIW, there is a reason they've started talking about ECU more. The AM show on 99.3 (Mike Maniscalco and Mark Thomas), the noon show on 99.9 (David Glenn) and the afternoon show (Adam Gold and Joe Ovies) are all simulcast (syndicated?) on Greenville stations now. Glenn has been like that for a few years but the other two just recently. So now they get a lot more calls from Pirate fans down East as well as Pirate fans from the Triangle.

(09-17-2014 09:07 AM)FastTheo Wrote:  I was watching Alvin and the Chipmunks. Did we win?

Game was at Noon, Alvin was at 7:00...


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(09-16-2014 10:29 PM)PurpleReigns2012 Wrote:  

(09-16-2014 08:23 PM)ecumbh1999 Wrote:  

(09-16-2014 07:18 PM)PurpleReigns2012 Wrote:  

(09-16-2014 07:06 PM)ecumbh1999 Wrote:  Over 2.5 million viewers for a noon ET. game. Boom! This from the team in one of the smaller if not the smallest TV market in the AAC. This is what we need, eyeballs. I can see us passing that .9 rating this week against UNC at 3:30. We win and we can draw more viewers to our conference games. UCF needs to start winning as does Houston. If we can get high ratings we will have ammo to go to the table with ESPN.

Not on ESPNU.

A FEW NOTES: This is Nielsen so more than likely more that that watched. Also this doesn't account for any WatchESPN streams there may have been.


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Disagree, last week we picked-up a few UNC fans and the odd State fan watching. This week, every UNC fan will be watch, VT fans, State fans (pulling against UNC), Duke, Wake fans, basically the entire state and half of Va. Some USCe fans will watching and pulling for us. Plus others around the county watching, at a better time for those west of us.

ESPNU is in at least 15 million less homes than ESPN


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Anyone who would watch this game probably has ESPNU

That's not true. A bunch of guys from my work have asked what channel it was on and given me a weird look when I responded ESPNU.

(09-17-2014 03:36 PM)ECBrad Wrote:  That's not true. A bunch of guys from my work have asked what channel it was on and given me a weird look when I responded ESPNU.

It comes with my basic package I'm pretty sure, maybe they either expected it to be on a fox regional like usual or the deuce or ESPN