No Blackout In Carolina: Fox Affils Help Panthers Sell Out

Four Carolina-based Fox affils "joined forces to purchase" the final 2,500 tickets for the Panthers' home game Sunday against the Lions before yesterday's 1:00pm deadline, and "prevented viewers in the Carolinas" from a second straight Panthers blackout, according to Pat Yasinskas of the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER. Affils in Charlotte (WCCB), High Point-Greensboro (WGHP), Raleigh (WRAZ) and Columbia, SC (WACH), "will distribute their portion of tickets differently," and WCCB "will give its tickets to civil and public servants as a `thank you'" (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 9/13). In Winston-Salem, Joe Menzer notes all four affils plan to distribute the tickets to civil servants (WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 9/13).