East Carolina-North Carolina to be Televised Statewide by WITN
September 02, 2003 | Football
The game time for the Oct. 11 showdown has been set for 3:30 p.m. It will be the Tar Heels' first-ever visit to ECU's Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.
WITN will produce and distribute the game, which will air on six television stations: WRAL in Raleigh, WXII in Winston-Salem, WJZY in Charlotte, WECT in Wilmington, WBSC in Greenville (S.C.)-Spartanburg-Asheville, and WITN in Greenville (N.C.)-New Bern-Washington.
"We are excited to be producing and distributing the ECU-Carolina game to the state of North Carolina," said Mike Weeks, WITN-TV President and General Manager. "This will be the college football contest everyone wants to see in 2003."
The large in-state alumni base of both schools, coupled with tens of thousands of college football fans, sets the stage to make this one of the most-watched college athletic events in North Carolina this year. An estimated 300,000 homes in the state are expected to tune in.
The Pirates and Tar Heels last squared off in Chapel Hill in 2001, which was the schools' first meeting in 20 years.
WITN-TV is a subsidiary of Gray Television, Inc. a communications company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and currently operating 15 CBS-affiliated television stations, seven NBC-affiliated television stations and seven ABC-affiliated television stations along with four daily newspapers. Gray is a publicly held company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GTN.
