WRAL-FM Wins a Gold Medallion Award
WRAL-FM Wins a Gold Medallion Award A fall 1996 WRAL-FM sales promotion, “Piece of the Pie”, posed a question to the Triangle. “When your recipe works, why change it?” “Piece of the Pie” won the Gold Medallion Award at the 1997 Promax Conference in Chicago. Promax is an annual international conference for promotion and marketing […]
North Carolina News Network Wins RTNDA Spot News Award
North Carolina News Network Wins RTNDA Spot News Award The Radio-Televison News Directors Association (RTNDA) will award the North Carolina News Network with the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in electronic journalism. The awards presentation will be made at the RTNDA International Conference in New Orleans in September. The North Carolina News […]
CBCares – Reese Edwards
CBCares – Reese Edwards Reese Edwards, anchor/reporter for Capitol Sports Network and Capitol AgriBusiness, does his part to help patients with cancer, leukemia and blood disorders at Rex Hospital. Reese regularly donates blood platelets at Rex Blood Plan. Reese began donating blood regularly in 1975 when his wife was diagnosed with an ulcer. He switched […]
NCNN and WRAL-TV Win RTNDAC and Associated Press Awards
NCNN and WRAL-TV Win RTNDAC and Associated Press Awards The Associated Press named the North Carolina News Network “Outstanding News Operation” for 1996. Judges honored the network for public service provided during Hurricane Fran. For many people without electricity, battery-powered radio’s were the only source of news in the aftermath of Hurricane Fran. The North […]
Yvonne Simons Wins National Fellowship in Education Reporting
Yvonne Simons Wins National Fellowship in Education Reporting WRAL-TV Education reporter Yvonne Simons has become the first commercial television reporter in the nation to be selected for the National Fellowship in Education Reporting. Simons is one of six reporters selected for the 1997 fellowships, which are awarded annually by the Education Writers Association. During her […]
Capitol AgriBusiness Goes Online with Southernfarmer.com
Capitol AgriBusiness Goes Online with Southernfarmer.com Southernfarmer.com a new agriculture related web site is now on the World Wide Web. Capitol AgriBusiness created the site for farmers and others involved in agriculture in the Southeastern U.S. The site features daily radio farmcasts and market reports, a comprehensive weather map, commodity reports featuring cotton, soybeans, tobacco […]
Jim Goodmon Appears Before US House Subcommittee on Retransmission of Broadcast Signals License
Jim Goodmon Appears Before US House Subcommittee on Retransmission of Broadcast Signals License Capitol Broadcasting Company President and CEO Jim Goodmon spoke before the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, US House of Representatives Hearing on the Copyright Licensing Regimes covering retransmission of broadcast signals license. Goodmon informed the […]
United Way Campaign 1997
United Way Campaign 1997 CBC raised $108,996 for the Triangle United Way. More than 300 CBCers gave a total of $76,863 for this worthy cause. That is an increase of more than $15,000 over last year’s total. A grand prize drawing was held at the conclusion of the CBC Raleigh area campaign. Robert Hale Roundtrip […]
Waltye Rasulala Transfers to the A.J. Fletcher Foundation
Waltye Rasulala Transfers to the A.J. Fletcher Foundation Congratulations to Waltye Rasulala, who is transferring to the A.J. Fletcher Foundation, after 19 years of service as Public Affairs Manager for WRAL-TV. Waltye’s new position will be Grants Coordinator with the foundation. While Waltye worked as Public Affairs Director for WRAL-TV5, she was involved in numerous […]
Curtis Media Group to Manager WDNC
Curtis Media Group to Manager WDNC Capitol Broadcasting Company has accepted an offer from Curtis Media Group to assume management of WDNC-AM in Durham, N.C., effective August 18, 1997. CBC’s Capitol Networks has managed the station since April 1994 under a “time management agreement” with the Durham Herald Company, publishers of the Herald-Sun newspaper. “We’ve […]