2,170 join Internet-only live coverage of Panthers Super Sectional - Largest audience ever recorded by live streaming service
With 2,170 unique visitors to the United Township live streaming page for Tuesday's Super Sectional boys basketball game vs. Chicago Simeon, QCSportsNet.com set the all-time single-game record in the history of Network1Sports, the Internet live streaming service that has 247 channels in 33 states and has carried more than 40,000 games since its inception in 2005, according to its president, Gregory G. Hitchcock.
You don't have to travel far to find the previous record holder. Aledo radio station WRMJ's Internet coverage of Mercer County's State Semifinal football 26-7 victory over Clifton Central, on November 17, 2012, drew 2,143 listeners. Mercer County went on to win the 2012 Class 2A State Championship six days later.
According to the statistics compiled by Google Analytics for Network1Sports, the listeners to United Township's final game of the season, a 66-36 loss to the top-ranked Wolverines called by QCSportsNet.com announcers Joe Winkel (play-by-play) and Tanner Rowe (color commentary), were from 37 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. territory of Guam, and six other countries: Canada, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Spain, and Thailand.
QCSportsnet.com, the leading provider of high school sports play-by-play in the Quad Cities, wrapped up its season with live coverage of five basketball teams in state tournament play: the United Towship boys, Rock Island boys and girls, and Pleasant Valley boys and girls. The three boys teams had all their regular season games on, while the girls teams were added to QCSportsNet.com's coverage later, Rock Island's starting with the regular season, Western Big 6-clinching finale at Galesburg, and Pleasant Valley's with the first state tournament contest. More than 10,000 fans took advantage of the opportunity to hear their favorite high school basketball team's games, with live play-by-play and near studio quality sound.
QCSportsNet.com will announce plans for live coverage of high school football and basketball in the 2016-17 season later this spring.
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