ECU Announces Local Television Package
August 03, 2011 | Football
Aug. 3, 2011
GREENVILLE, N.C. - Three additional East Carolina football games have been added to the Pirates' broadcast schedule in 2011 according to an announcement by IMG College, the multimedia rights-holder for the ECU Athletics Department.
WITN-TV, the flagship station of the Pirate IMG Sports Network, will carry Conference USA home contests against UAB on Sept. 24 and Tulane on Oct. 29, while also providing live coverage of East Carolina's league matchup at Memphis on Oct. 15.
A 3:30 p.m. kickoff time has been established for the games against the Blazers and Green Wave at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.
In addition, the local NBC affiliate will pick up the Pirates' intra-division clash against Southern Miss on Nov. 5, a contest that is slated to air regionally on Comcast Sports South (CSS).
With ECU's local package in place, all 12 Pirate contests are scheduled for live broadcast this season - South Carolina (FSN), Virginia Tech (FSN), UAB (WITN-TV), North Carolina (CBSSN), Houston (CBSSN), Memphis (WITN-TV), Navy (CBSSN), Tulane (WITN-TV), Southern Miss (CSS/WITN-TV), UTEP (TW-EP), UCF (FSN) and Marshall (CBSSN).
Season tickets and Purple-Gold Three-Game Packs can be purchased online at ECU's Ticket Central or by calling the ECU Athletics Ticket Office at 1-800-DIAL-ECU. Single game tickets, based on availability, will go on sale beginning Monday, Aug. 8.
