Calling All Parents of AWESOME 5th Graders!

Calling All Parents of AWESOME 5th Graders! When the new season of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? rolls around, a new class will be introduced. FOX has launched a nationwide search for new 5th graders to be on the show…and we want that student to be from HERE! FOX 50 will hold a […]

North Carolina Associated Press Bestows Additional Awards on NCNN

North Carolina Associated Press Bestows Additional Awards on NCNN On Monday, the North Carolina Associated Press recognized NCNN with the top two prizes in its Enterprise/Documentary category. When the 2007 broadcast awards were presented in April at Elon University, the Associated Press acknowledged that the entries for this category had been misplaced. NCNN and several […]

NCNN Team Wins Award for Racing Series

NCNN’s Bruce Ferrell NCNN’s Clayton Henkel NCNN’s David Horn NCNN’s Matt Willoughby The Society of Professional Journalists has announced that the North Carolina News Network is one of the winners of the 2006 Green Eyeshade Awards. NCNN was recognized for its series “Racing to the Future.” The multi-part program examined the impact of North Carolina’s racing industry which contributes […]

April Attendance Sets Record for Minor Leagues

April Attendance Sets Record for Minor Leagues Minor League Baseball set an attendance record during April. Minor League Baseball teams drew 5,905,069 fans during the month of April, the highest total in the 106-year history of the industry. The total represented an increase of 121,928 fans (2.1%) over the 2006 total, when the Minor Leagues […]

Baseball America to Provide Exclusive Content to durhambulls.com

On April 27, 2007, the Durham Bulls reached an agreement with Baseball America, the nation’s leading baseball resource, to provide weekly podcasts on the world of Minor League Baseball to the ballclub for use on durhambulls.com, the official website of the Durham Bulls. Podcasts will begin on Monday, May 7th as the Bulls kick off […]

FOX 50’s Biggest Contest Yet!

FOX 50 recently launched its BIGGEST contest to date…well, we’re pretty sure it is…okay, don’t make us go back and check all the records – just decide for yourself. It’s FOX 50’s End-of-the-Week Sweepstakes. Every Thursday & Friday during The King of Queens at 6pm and Seinfeld at 7pm, viewers will see a code. They […]

Blue Monster Makes His Debut

The newly discovered Blue Monster makes his debut at the DBAP with Wool E. Bull. Before a crowd of almost 9,000 people at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park on Saturday night, April 28, 2007, the new member of the Durham Bulls Entertainment team made his professional debut. The Blue Monster, named for both the color […]