Pirate Sports Network

All ECU football games will be broadcast LIVE over the internet this year. You must have the Real Audio Player to listen.

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Pirate Sports Radio Network

Pirate football may be heard throughout North Carolina as well as portions of South Carolina and Virginia via the Pirate Sports Radio Network, owned and operated by the East Carolina University Athletics Department.

All operations of the Pirate Sports Network are coordinated, produced and directed by Jeff Charles, Director of Electronic Media at East Carolina.

Key market affilitates include flagship station WCZI 98.3 FM along with WGPM 94.3 FM, WRBZ 850 AM in Raleigh, WSAY 98.5 FM in Rocky Mount and WGH 1310 AM in Norfolk, Va. New Charlotte area affiliates include WCGC in Belmont, WIST in Statesville, WDEX in Monroe WAVO in Rock Hill, S.C.

The Pirate Sports Radio Network crew consists of ECU Hall of Famer, Carlester Crumpler, beginning his 11th year as analyst; Henry Hinton serves as pregame, halftime and postgame show host; Marty Feurer handles sideline reporting; and William Lee is the network's engineer.

Jeff Charles begins his 11th year as the "Voice" of the Pirates. He has handled play-by-play duties for Virginia Tech, Illinois and Furman. The Piqua, Ohio native served as sports director at WSB in Atlanta and works select college basketball telecasts for FOX SportsSouth, Raycom, Creative Sports and Home Team Sports. His signature saying "You can paint this one purple" following ECU victories ahs become a favorite phrase by Pirate fans everywhere. Charles and his wife, Debby, have a son, Britt, who recently graduated from Western Carolina University, and a daughther, Heather, deceased.

PSN Stations for 1998 Pirate Football

Pirate Sports Television Network

Four games will be aired live on NBC affiliate WITN-TV Channel 7 in Washington.

Former NFL QB Cliff Stoudt joins Jeff Charles as the analyst on the telecasts. Stoudt, in his fifth year on the PSTVN, has developed a large following among Pirate fans. His NFL career included stints at Pittsburgh where he played on a Super Bowl championship team and at St. Louis, Arizona, Miami and Dallas. The Youngstown State graduate and Oberlin, Ohio native also played in the USFL for Birmingham. Stoudt and his family live in Las Vegas.

ESPN begins its third year of a five-year contract with East Carolina. The unique agreement negotiated solely between ECU and ESPN guarantees the Pirates 12 national exposures over the life of the contract.

FOX Sports South based in Atlanta provides regional sports coverage of the Pirates to over 8 million subscribers in the southeast. This year marks the second year of a multi-year contract.

ECU also will be featured on the Conference USA FOX Sports Net package.

Coach Logan TV Show

The Steve Logan Show, featuring ECU's head football coach and host Jeff Charles, is a 30-minute weekly show that takes viewers inside ECU football. Chief Sports Photographer Alex Radow produces the show with assistance from WITN-TV's Ray Fisher.

The Steve Logan Show airs each Sunday on WITN-TV (Ch. 7 in Greenville) at 12:30 p.m. The show also airs Sundays at 12:30 p.m. on WRPX (Ch. 47) in Raleigh. It also may be seen on Fox Sports South and Home Team Sports.