CBC Anti-Bullying Special Garners Strong Involvement On TV & Social Media
Last week, CBC spoke out against bullying with our locally produced half-hour special that aired on both WRAL-TV and FOX 50 on Wednesday, March 26, 2014. “Stand Up, Speak Out Stop Bullying” drew large audience and got a big conversation started. The two stations combined to reach 160,000 people and generated an active discussion on […]
Star Wars Jersey Garnering National Attention for Bulls
The Durham Bulls are now just shy of a week away from opening day in their new, improved and expanded stadium. National attention recently trained on the DBAP, but not because of the re-do. The unveiling of the jerseys for Star Wars Night, an upcoming promotion, have garnered the national spotlight. Capitol Sports Vice President […]
New Art Exhibit Opens at American Tobacco
American Tobacco recently opened a new art exhibit featuring the work of Luke Miller Buchanan, “There’s No End to Our Story.” “My work is based in the man-made world,” explains Buchanan. “On the spaces we create, and also on the spaces in between them that we create unintentionally.” Buchanan’s paintings capture real places with paint, […]
New Locally-Produced Anti-Bullying Television Special “Stand Up, Speak Out, Stop Bullying”
Airs Wednesday, March 26 at 7 p.m. on WRAL-TV, then again at 7:30 p.m. on FOX 50 “I was coming home with a new bruise every day.” These are the words of a student who endured merciless bullying at school. Nearly 30 percent of students in middle and high school experience bullying. A new 30-minute […]
CBC New Media Offers Better Brackets and More for NCAA Tourney
WRAL.com and WRALSportsFan.com are THE team for online coverage of the NCAA Tournaments. “We’re fortunate to live at the epicenter of great college basketball,” said WRAL.com General Manager John Conway. “We have four teams in the NCAA tournament field, so we have to treat this like election night or a hurricane headed for our coast. We […]
CBC Joins the March Madness with NCAA Basketball Coverage
WRAL-TV and CBC Sports Radio are your headquarters for the NCAA basketball tournaments. Capcom checked in with WRAL-TV Director of News Operations, Sports & Special Projects Leesa Moore in the midst of her scheduling, planning and juggling in the newsroom for the 2014 tournaments. “‘March Madness’ pretty much sums up our newsroom this time of […]
WRAL-TV Hosts Second Annual CBC-UNC Diversity Fellowship Class in March
Last week WRAL-TV hosted a group of college students from across the country in the second annual CBC-UNC Diversity Fellowship Program, a journalism intensive program to prepare them for future broadcast media careers. WRAL-TV and WRAL.com work together with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication on the […]
WRAL-TV Names New Morning News Anchor Renee Chou Longtime Staff Anchor/Reporter
The new face of Raleigh’s most-watched morning news is one well-known to the market. Renee Chou is an Emmy award-winning journalist in her 9th year at WRAL. She takes over the co-anchor seat on the Morning News after filling in for the last six weeks. Chou officially joins 30-year WRAL veteran anchor Bill Leslie, meteorologist […]
College Students Visit WRAL-TV
Students and advisors from the James Sprunt Community College in Kenansville recently stopped by the studios of WRAL-TV for a tour. This was their annual cultural trip arranged by the TRIO Student Support Services program at the school; they toured the local museums, the State government complex, and had lunch at Big Ed’s. The final […]
You Haven’t Missed It: Re-Scheduled Big Three Legends Game at American Tobacco
NC State, UNC and Duke Basketball legends return to the Triangle on April 19, 2014 to vie for top honors in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) Big Three Legends Game. Originally scheduled for March 7, the event had to be postponed due to the threat of inclement weather. NOTE: Those […]