Exhibit of Mandela Sketches Opens at American Tobacco
Close Window Exhibit of Mandela Sketches Opens at American Tobacco “Spirit of Freedom” To Run February 1 – April 27 “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” Former South African President, Nobel Prize laureate and former political prisoner Nelson Mandela […]
Wear Red For Your Heart On Friday, February 2nd
Wear Red For Your Heart On Friday, February 2nd Friday, February 2, 2007, is National Wear Red Day—a day when Americans nationwide will take women’s health to heart by wearing red to show their support for women’s heart disease awareness. Although significant progress has been made in increasing awareness among women from 34 percent […]
Campaign Launched For Children’s Center
Hunt Center to Serve as Hub; Goodmon Announces Challenge Gift Thanks to the Philanthropy Journal for this capcom article. This article appeared in the Jan 23, 2007 edition of Philanthropy Journal. Triangle-area leaders launched a $3.5 million campaign to raise funds to build and operate a new child care services center designed as a hub […]
WRAL Brings Home Three Regional Emmys
WRAL-TV’s Christian McIlwain (l to r), Phyllis Parish & Shan Zhong show off their Emmys. WRAL-TV has once again come home with multiple Regional Emmys Awards. The Triangle’s news leader nabbed 3 statuettes at the 21st Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards at a ceremony on Saturday, January 27, 2007. A formal dinner and awards […]
Minor League Officials Meet with Durham to Discuss DAP Museum
Minor League Officials Meet with Durham to Discuss DAP Museum Durham officials and representatives of Minor League Baseball conferred on Tuesday, January 23, 2007, about the possibility of developing historic Durham Athletic Park on West Corporation Street into a museum, and as a possible training site for umpires and other baseball employees. For more on […]
“Spirit of Freedom” Exhibit Celebrates Work & Mission of Nelson Mandela
Close Window “Spirit of Freedom” Exhibit Celebrates Work & Mission of Nelson Mandela American Tobacco To Welcome Public to View Artwork “Nelson Mandela is the toughest, strongest person that I know of, yet the gentlest. You pick that up in his artwork.” – CBC President & CEO Jim Goodmon The artwork of Nelson Mandela is […]
WJZY CW 46 Airs Championship High School Basketball Game LIVE Benefiting Athletes United for Youth
WJZY CW 46 Airs Championship High School Basketball Game LIVE Benefiting Athletes United for Youth On Saturday, December 30, 2006, WJZY CW 46 aired the exciting and much-anticipated 7th Annual Bojangles High School Basketball Shootout at Cricket Arena. This is WJZY’s second year airing this local charity basketball game. “We are proud to help […]
18th Annual Coats for Children Campaign a Success Thanks to WRAL Viewers
WRAL-TV viewers once again have come through to make sure needy Triangle children will be warm this winter. WRAL-TV’s 18th annual Coats for the Children collected over 5,000 coats and raised nearly $80,000 for Salvation Army families in need. The campaign ran from November 18 – December 31, 2006, and included a Coats for […]
Winning WRAL Docs Featured in N&O
WRAL-TV’s Clay Johnson (at podium) accepts the duPont award at the January 17th ceremony in New York. In honor of WRAL-TV’s recent win of the prestigious DuPont-Columbia University Award for two documentaries, the News & Observer featured WRAL Documentary Producer Clay Johnson and the docs. N&O Staff Writer Danny Hooley wrote the piece about […]
WRAL Wins Prestigious National Journalism Award
WRAL Wins Prestigious National Journalism Award Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award Honors Two Documentaries Columbia University has announced that WRAL-TV is among 14 winners of the 2007 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for broadcast journalism. The award is for two documentaries in WRAL-TV’s “Focal Point” series, “Standards of Living” and “Paper Thin Promise”. See […]