infofan Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 Just wondered who bothered to cover this insignificant ( to them) 61.5 million dollar stadium we opened today. I just watched 3 channels at 11 and @ 1140 (following nasar on 5 and tennis on 19). Only ch. 3 at 11 covered the stadium. Eric Mansfield did a nice job and Ch. 3 lead their 11pm news with a 3 minute story on the INFO, followed by highlights on sports. However Ch 5 had no news, just sports , and while they mentioned the new scoreboard and the 41-0 score they didnt even have a highlight video. Same goes for Ch. 19. No story- no highlights. If I missed something I apologize but its insulting that we open this new facility to a sellout crowd and these stations dont bother to cover it! Again I salute ch. 3! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootforRoo44 Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 Just wondered who bothered to cover this insignificant ( to them) 61.5 million dollar stadium we opened today. I just watched 3 channels at 11 and @ 1140 (following nasar on 5 and tennis on 19). Only ch. 3 at 11 covered the stadium. Eric Mansfield did a nice job and Ch. 3 lead their 11pm news with a 3 minute story on the INFO, followed by highlights on sports. However Ch 5 had no news, just sports , and while they mentioned the new scoreboard and the 41-0 score they didnt even have a highlight video. Same goes for Ch. 19. No story- no highlights. If I missed something I apologize but its insulting that we open this new facility to a sellout crowd and these stations dont bother to cover it! Again I salute ch. 3!no surprise, our own crowd didn't care too much about the game either considering 1/3 of them left by the middle of the third quarter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 Just wondered who bothered to cover this insignificant ( to them) 61.5 million dollar stadium we opened today. I just watched 3 channels at 11 and @ 1140 (following nasar on 5 and tennis on 19). Only ch. 3 at 11 covered the stadium. Eric Mansfield did a nice job and Ch. 3 lead their 11pm news with a 3 minute story on the INFO, followed by highlights on sports. However Ch 5 had no news, just sports , and while they mentioned the new scoreboard and the 41-0 score they didnt even have a highlight video. Same goes for Ch. 19. No story- no highlights. If I missed something I apologize but its insulting that we open this new facility to a sellout crowd and these stations dont bother to cover it! Again I salute ch. 3!no surprise, our own crowd didn't care too much about the game either considering 1/3 of them left by the middle of the third quarter.I'm sure the score had something to do with it. But, it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that there was probably a good number of people who just wanted to come and enjoy the new stadium, didn't really care much about Akron football, and wanted to make sure they got back home and to a bar/party to watch the Suckeye/USC game. If any of these people truly turn into what we can call "fans", we'll know if they are still coming for home games later in the season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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