WB55 Helps Rock Hill Celebrate Their Come-See-Me Festival
WB55 Helps Rock Hill Celebrate Their Come-See-Me Festival On April 16th, Rock Hill SC held their annual Come-See-Me Festival. Since Rock Hill is WB55’s city of license, and the Festival’s mascot is a frog, Michigan J. Frog had to make an appearance! Michigan J., along with the Animaniacs and Club STV host Jeff Johnson, rode […]
Peter Anlyan To Take Over American Tobacco Project
Peter Anlyan To Take Over American Tobacco Project Peter Anlyan, former general manager of the Durham Bulls, has agreed to turn his talents to the renovation of the American Tobacco building in downtown Durham, NC., as reported in the Friday, April 14 edition of the News and Observer Newspaper. This will be a full time […]
Rodin Festival Featured in N&O
Rodin Festival Featured in N&O In keeping with Capitol Broadcasting Company’s commitment to the Triangle, Jim Goodmon proudly supports Festival Rodin, an Olympic-style event celebrating the arts throughout the region. CBC signed up early as the media sponsor, paid the salary of Jeannie Mellinger, the Festival director and sent Tom McGuire of the AJ Flecther […]
NAACP Honors WRAL-TV and Retiree J.D. Lewis
NAACP Honors WRAL-TV and Retiree J.D. Lewis The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) presented WRAL-TV5 with the Television Station of the Year Award and WRAL-TV retiree JD Lewis with the Humanitarian of the Year Award. The Awards were given by the Raleigh/Apex Branch of the NAACP during their annual Freedom Fund […]
Capitol Networks’ Staff Picks Up Two AP Awards
Capitol Networks’ Staff Picks Up Two AP Awards Congratulations to Capitol Networks for winning a North Carolina Associate Press Broadcasters award for Best Sports Programming and for Best Sportscast. The Awards were handed out on Saturday, April 15 in Wilmington, NC. The Best Sport Programming Award went to Rick Dayton and Steve Shumake for their […]
Bulls Opening Day Featured In N&O
Bulls Opening Day Featured In N&O The Durham Bulls took to the field on Wednesday night to a sell out crowd and presented them with a victory on this, the first home game of the season. Bill Woodward, a staff writer for the News and Observer, filed this story. Story from the News and Observer […]
KLAS-TV, DTV Plus And Triveni Digital Team For Live Datacasting To NAB Convention
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 12, 2000 For more information, contact: Sam Matheny, Vice President and General Manager, DTV Plus Email: info@dtvplus.com Phone: 919-850-4540 www.dtvplus.com Terry McFarlane, Promotion Director KLAS (702) 792-8866 Satish Thatte Triveni Digital (609) 716-3505 KLAS-TV, DTV Plus and Triveni Digital Team For Live Datacasting To NAB Convention Las Vegas, NV — DTV […]
LTVS Signs More Local Station Contracts
LTVS Signs More Local Station Contracts The News and Observer Newspaper (N&O) reported on Tuesday, April 11 that over the previous weekend, Local TV on Satellite signed 50 local station contracts reaching 25% of US households. This article followed an earlier announcement that 178 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) members also have agreed to work with […]
From Hogs To Bulls…
From Hogs To Bulls… Capitol AgriBusiness Senior Farm Broadcaster Ken Tanner returned to sports broadcasting on April 12 as he joined veteran Durham Bulls broadcaster Steve Barns for play-by-play coverage of the Bulls home games. Tanner will continue his agriculture reporting duties on the Capitol Agribusiness network, where he is widely known for his soybean […]
John Harris Named News Director Of The Year
John Harris Named News Director Of The Year John Harris, who guided WRAL-TV’s award-winning and top-rated news department for 5 1/2 years, has been named News Director of the Year by the Radio Television News Directors Association of the Carolinas. WRAL-TV News Director John Harris Harris, who now serves as the station’s director of special […]