Kdsm

[Back2BackCats]

I'm thanking KDSM again. See you at the Dome next weekend.

[Matt Trump]

I think KDSM really helped the Panther football cause today. The game was shown throughout the largest population center in the state. You can't ask for better exposure than that.

[panther2317]

I really think they need to hear from us again and how much we appreciate this game going out to many households in the central Iowa area! And...what a game they got to see!!! I hope this helps grow UNI's fan base in the central Iowa portion of the state.

[Panthers to the Bone]

The fact that this was the ONLY game on television for about and hour and a half during the late afternoon/early evening hours really should have helped their ratings. Everyone where I was at was watching the UNI game, even if they didn't come there to watch that game. At one point in time, I actually looked over to 2317 and at the same time he said to me, "Everyone is watching this game!"

[jegbomb52]

I sent this out this morning.

Sir/Mam;
I would like to sincerely thank you from the bottom of my heart for all of the local live coverage that your station has provided for my beloved Northern Iowa Panthers. It is too often these days that in the Des Moines area and elsewhere across the state Northern Iowa always takes the back burner to the "big two", being in advertising sales myself I understand you must put on the television that which will raise your viewership so to keep your commercial spots filled so I would like to give you a little "value story" as we call them down at the Register.

Yesterday afternoon (Nov. 5th) on a day when half my family probably would have gone to Ames for the ISU game, a half dozen or so would have gone hunting (including myself) a few to church last night or even just a couple hoodlums (ha ha) that would have gone to the bar (which we all did after the Panther victory) instead we all, and when I mean all I mean 18 of us gathered around my 52" DLP television and watched KDSM. Commercials, the game, heck we even watched a half hour before and after the game. I KNOW that I was not the only house in the area doing the same. As the Panthers won the game in double overtime you should have heard everyone's cell phones ringing from people calling that were watching the game on your station as well that were also very excited about the Panthers. A lot of people don't know that there are over 10,000 UNI alumni in the Des Moines area and over 15,000 in your viewing area. Without you and your advertisers sincere generocity to provide us with this programming it would have just been another Saturday afternoon of all of us just doing what we would have always done. So again I say thank you and look forward to viewing more of the Panthers on your quality station.

I hope I can continue to see the Panthers on KDSM as often as your commitments allow you to air them, thank you again, us out here in Panther Nation are all watching! Have a great day.
Go Panthers!

Sincerely
Nick Matsen

[Panthers to the Bone]

Rack Him!!

[Newsbreaker]

Epic Post.......Jeg Bomb.......Epic......Panther Nation coming large....

[alleycat]

Awesome post!!!

[panther2317]

Here's mine:

Dear Ms. Grant,

I feel like I need to send another thank-you note to you and your station for the local coverage of UNI Football on KDSM this fall. After yesterday's thrilling double overtime win over the #6 rated Western Kentucky Hilltoppers the Panthers will now be playing next Saturday vs. Southern Illinois for the Gateway Conference Championship in the UNI-DOME.

I can't begin to express how exciting it was to be able to watch the Panthers at a local game-watch at the Okoboji Grill in Johnston yesterday (November 5). The management there was gracious enough to have the game on multiple big screens in their establishment and even had the audio for the game being pumped through their sound system. So, everyone in the Okoboji Grill was, at the very minimum, listening to KDSM for about 4 hours yesterday

At one point, I looked around the bar and the UNI game was the only game going and everyone in the bar was watching that game. It was incredible to watch people with Iowa and ISU gear on watching (and cheering a little) for UNI to win! That experience would not have been possible without your willingness to place the Panthers on your air waves!

I hope that willingness continues in the future when you have the opportunity to get the Panthers on television here in central Iowa. With over 10,000 UNI alums living and working in the Des Moines area, I think it's always a great product to put on KDSM's air waves.

Thanks again and I hope we can tune into KDSM in the future and see the Purple and the Gold of UNI! Have a great rest of the weekend and an enjoyable work week.


Sincerely,

Chris Bowser

[Newsbreaker]

By the way, the game not being on TV is a good thing in terms of wanting a sell-out next weekend.

[panther2317]

I do agree with that News...but I wish the Gateway Conference would switch from the MSU vs. WIU game next weekend and put their conference championship game on tv instead to a regional audience.

That Missouri State vs. Western Illinoi game means nothing. Any chance of ANY TV outlet deciding to televise this game?

[Panthers to the Bone]

The SIU/UNI game is being televised by Mediacom in Illinois...there was a chance a month or so ago about the game being televised live on Mediacom in Iowa, but I haven't heard whether that happened or not. I'll try to find out.

[Bojingles]

Back 2 Back Cats!
I'm in! This is like a Cyber Wilson House!