WRAL-TV5 Promotion Manager To Serve On CBS Promotion Caucus
WRAL-TV5 Promotion Manager To Serve on CBS Promotion Caucus WRAL-TV Promotion Manager Cindy Sink Cindy Sink, promotion manager for WRAL-TV5, has been chosen to serve on the CBS Promotion Caucus. The purpose of the Caucus is to advise CBS Advertising on long-range campaign strategies and help fine-tune the promotion services and materials CBS sends to […]
WRAL-TV Local Production Nabs Telly Award
WRAL-TV Local Production Nabs Telly Award Phyllis Parish WRAL-TV Senior Producer WRAL-TV Senior Producer Phyllis Parish won a silver Telly Award for her writing and producing the WRAL-TV special “Crisis in Kosovo: NC Reaches Out” this past February. The half-hour program, which originally aired in May 1999, won in the TV or Cable Information Program […]
Doppler and VIPIR Radar Work Together To Save Lives
Doppler and VIPIR™ Radar Work Together To Save Lives Television meteorologists for decades have relied on conventional radar (the ability to show rain) as a tool in their regular broadcasts and during severe weather. With the development of sophisticated commercial radar, a new level of information and a new promise entered the marketplace…. the Doppler. […]
CBS Keeps Propelling HDTV
CBS Keeps Propelling HDTV CBS has been the driving force in HDTV promotion and production in the broadcasting industry, and the coming season is no exception. CBS has already hammered out deals for several major broadcasts and continues working towards increasing the amount of prime time in HDTV. Thomson Consumer Electronics agreed to underwrite CBS’s […]
Susan Dahlin Referred To As “HDTV Queen” By Colleagues
Susan Dahlin Referred To As The “HDTV Queen” By Colleagues Susan Dahlin, Capitol Broadcasting’s special project marketing director, has become known as the “HDTV Queen” by industry colleagues for her tireless efforts to promote the technology. But, according to the News and Observer Newspaper (N & O), she is fighting an uphill battle as the […]
WRAL’s New Digital Tower Nears Completion
WRAL’s New Digital Tower Nears Completion WRAL’s new super, digital tower near Garner is nearing completion. The tall tower has been topped off with four antennae capable of transmitting the signals of WRAL Digital, channel 53, WRAZ Digital, channel 49, and the digital and analog antennae for the NBC affiliate. The Andrew Antenna sat on […]
WRAL Digital Wins National Award For HDTV Program
WRAL Digital Wins National Award For HDTV Program WRAL has won a prestigious national award for the high definition television program, “Wilderness North Carolina.” The IRIS Award was presented to the station by the National Association of Television Program Executives at the Sony Studios in Culver City, CA. “Wilderness” was produced by Nina Szlosberg and […]
WRAL-TV Personalities Among Spectator’s Best in the Triangle
WRAL-TV Personalities Among Spectator‘s Best in the Triangle The Triangle’s Arts & Entertainment Newsweekly, the Spectator, has published its Best in the Triangle (BIT) list for the year 2000, and two WRAL-TV personalities have made the list. WRAL-TV Chief Meteorologist Greg Fischel was the Readers’ Choice for Best TV News Personality and both the Judges’ […]
Jim Goodmon Appointed To Serve On Board Of Directors Of Charlotte Office Of Federal Reserve Bank Of Richmond
Jim Goodmon Appointed To Serve On Board of Directors of Charlotte Office Of Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System appointed Jim Goodmon to serve on the Board of Directors of the Charlotte Office of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond from January 1, 2000 until December 31, […]
Project Tanzania 1985-2000
Project Tanzania 1985 – 2000 Jim Goodmon, President and CEO of Capitol Broadcasting Company was deeply moved by the suffering of many Africans that were affected by the massive drought in the early 1980’s. So, in 1985, a group of dedicated people went on a fact-finding trip to find an area that wanted assistance in […]