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Radio/TV: Football
Pirate-ISP Sports Network The partnership, which guarantees the university an annual rights fee plus additional considerations based upon revenue generated by ISP, encompasses all sales and marketing opportunities associated with ECU sports, including radio and television programming, game programs and other athletics publications, signage in all campus athletic venues, and at-event corporate promotions and hospitality functions. "The partnership with ISP Sports allows ECU Athletics to join a group of elite institutions with similar goals and aspirations as well as helping to maximize the value of our marketing efforts," East Carolina Director of Athletics Terry Holland said at the time of the announcement. "This agreement signals a new day in ECU Athletics and provides us with opportunities that we have not had before. I have the highest personal and professional respect for (ISP Sports President and CEO) Ben Sutton and the team he has built at ISP." East Carolina is one of an impressive group of more than 60 NCAA member institutions, conferences, bowl games and venues that are aligned with ISP Sports. The ISP family of partners reaches into 34 states from the Northeast through the mid-Atlantic and across the Southeast, while extending across the Southwest and most of the West coast as well. That list includes ECU's fellow Conference USA members Houston, Marshall, Southern Miss, UAB, UCF and UTEP. "We are thrilled to have East Carolina as part of our ISP family of schools," Sutton said. "There has always been tremendous enthusiasm and support surrounding Pirate Athletics, and with the leadership of Terry Holland and his administrative team, the future of the overall program is extremely bright. We are excited to be a part of that future." Pirate Football On The Radio Jeff Charles, who was selected as the 2000 North Carolina Sportscaster-of-the-Year, will begin his 22nd year handling the play-by-play duties on the network after previously serving in the same capacity at Virginia Tech, Illinois, and Furman prior to becoming the "Voice of the Pirates". He also served as sports director at WSB in Atlanta where he was the night-time host of a sports talk show heard throughout 38 states and Canada on the 50,000-watt clear channel station. Former Pirate defensive standout Kevin Monroe, while in his seventh overall season on the network broadcast team, joins Charles in the booth for the third-straight year as lead analyst after serving a previous role as sideline reporter. The four-year letterman and All-Conference USA performer was a key member of Pirates' secondary beginning in 1996, topping the program in interceptions as a junior and senior and still stands as the school`s record-holder for the longest interception return with a 100-yarder against Louisville Nov. 14, 1998. Rounding out the broadcast team are sideline reporter Marty Feurer and network engineer/producer David Horn. Feurer, who will begin his 17th year on the network this fall, serves as public affairs director for Time Warner Cable's Wilmington division. The 2009 campaign will mark Horn's fourth year with the Pirate ISP Sports Radio Network. Horn, who currently works as a weekday morning news anchor for the North Carolina News Network, will also serve as booth host in addition to his engineering and production responsibilities. 100,000-Watt Flagship Steers Pirate ISP Radio Network WNCT-FM's powerful signal will provide expanded coverage for ECU sports, extending to Raleigh (to the west), southern Virginia (to the north) and up and down the North Carolina coastline. All ECU football games, along with the weekly Skip Holtz Call-In Show, will be included in the programming on WNCT-FM.
(as of July 10, 2009) Chesapeake, Va. - WRJR (1010 AM) Charlotte - WFNA (1660 AM) Elizabeth City, N.C. - WGAI (560 AM) Fayetteville - WCIE (1230 AM) Greensboro - WPET (950 AM) Greenville - WNCT (107.9 FM) Hamlet - WKDX (1250 AM) Myrtle Beach, S.C. - WRNN (1450 AM) Nags Head - WZPR (92.3 FM) Raleigh - WRBZ (850 AM) Sanford - WWGP (1050 AM) Whiteville - WTXY (1540 AM) Williamston - WIAM (900 AM) Wilmington - WMFD (630 AM) The Skip Holtz Radio Call-In Show The Skip Holtz Television Show Beginning in late August, The Skip Holtz Show airs each Sunday on WITN (Channel 7 in Greenville) at 12 noon. It may also be seen on the following stations on a weekly basis throughout the year (as of July 10, 2009): |
