Dan Wilkinson Serves As Emcee For Commissioner Of Agriculture Forum
Dan Wilkinson Serves As Master Of Ceremonies For Commissioner Of Agriculture Forum Dan Wilkinson Dan Wilkinson, program director of Capitol AgriBusiness Network and Farm Reporter for WRAL-TV, served as the Master of Ceremonies in Harnett County for a forum held in late March to allow farmers and those interested in agriculture to meet the candidates […]
Construction Progresses On A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater
Construction Progresses On A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater On budget and on schedule, the A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater continues to take shape as part of the downtown Raleigh BTI Center for the Performing Arts. Funded by Wake County’s prepared food tax and a $2 million grant from the A.J. Fletcher Foundation, the Opera Theater will be […]
Region Focus Article Page 2
Region Focus Article – Page 2 Story from the RegionFocus: Winter 2000 Click on text and photo for larger view Page 1 • Page 3
Internet Helps Satellite Business
Internet Helps The Satellite Business The prevailing question over the last year has been: “Aren’t you afraid the Internet will hurt or replace your business?” According to Joe Amor, VP & GM, Microspace, downlinks have increased almost four times since they began using the Internet in 1993. In 1993, they added another full-time satellite transponder […]
Jim Goodmon Featured In Region Focus
Jim Goodmon Featured In Region Focus CBC President & CEO was recently featured in Region Focus magazine, a quarterly publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Goodmon became a member of the Board of the Charlotte Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond in January 2000. Story from the RegionFocus: Winter 2000 Click […]
UPN Awaits More Change
UPN Awaits More Change UPN Buys Lunch For WJZY Domino’s definitely delivered in Charlotte last Friday, as UPN sent cheese pizzas to its top 130-plus primary affiliates in the nation with the note, “Let’s do launch.” Capitol Broadcasting Company’s UPN affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina, WJZY, received 18 large pizzas as a part of the […]
UPN Becomes Paramount
UPN Becomes Paramount UPN46 will soon undergo a name change, becoming “Paramount 46” or some version thereof later this year. UPN President & CEO Dean Valentine announced last week that the United Paramount Television Group will drop the “U,” referring to former partner Chris-Craft, Inc., so the network can take advantage of the marketability of […]
CBC Launches Capitol Sports Management
CBC Launches Capitol Sports Management Capitol Broadcasting Company recruited another team this month. In an attempt to bring a major sporting event to the Triangle, CBC created Capitol Sports Management. The goal of Capitol Sports Management (CSM) will be the development of a multi-sport, Olympic-style event in the Raleigh-Durham area. CBC enlisted two top players […]
Capitol AgriBusiness/WRAL-TV Farm Broadcaster Speaks To Landscape Conference
Capitol AgriBusiness/WRAL-TV Farm Broadcaster Speaks To Landscape Conference Dan Wilkinson Dan Wilkinson, Ag Program director with Capitol Agribusiness and WRAL-TV, recently spoke to a group of farmers who are struggling to keep up with the growth in their industry…and that is a rarity theses day. Dan was the luncheon speaker at the Eastern North Carolina […]
Opera Could Move: Talks Underway On Partnership
Opera Could Move: Talks Underway On Partnership The National Opera Company is expected to relocate from Raleigh to the N.C. School of the Arts in Winston-Salem By Todd Cohen The National Opera Company in Raleigh would become part of the N.C. School of the Arts through a partnership the two groups hope to create. The […]