YMCA Campers Learn The Ropes of STV
YMCA Campers Learn The Ropes of STV Lions and tigers and eagles oh my! Over a 4-day period, more than 200 Charlotte area YMCA campers and counselors visited WB55 and got a behind the scenes look at how STV (Student TeleVision) works. From the “Blue Angels” (the 5 & 6 year olds) to the “Eagles” […]
More CBS Primetime To Be Broadcast In HD
More CBS Primetime To Be Broadcast in HD CBS Television has reached another milestone in its conversion to HD. The network recently announced that through a partnership with Panasonic and Zenith, all 18 CBS primetime comedies and dramas will be broadcast in high-definition for the 2001/2002 season beginning this fall. CBS 2001/2002 Primetime Schedule New […]
CBS Announces More HD Sports Coverage
CBS Announces More HD Sports Coverage CBS continues driving its sports into the digital age. For the third consecutive year Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America (MDEA) will sponsor High Definition coverage of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships on CBS Television. The 2001 coverage will include semi-finals and finals, featuring an HD primetime broadcast of the Women’s […]
WRAL-TV’s centralXpress.com Wins Gabriel
WRAL-TV’s centralXpress.com Wins Gabriel centralXpress.com, a WRAL-TV original program for children and teens, has received recognition for its excellence once again. The “Bomb Threat” episode of cXp has won a Gabriel Award in the Children’s Programming category. “Bomb Threat” was produced in early 2000 and originally aired on the first anniversary of the school shooting […]
Morgan Among Spectator’s Best
Morgan Among Spectator‘s Best Spectator magazine recently published its “Best In The Triangle” issue and WRAL-TV News Anchor Debra Morgan made the list. The readers voted Morgan the Best TV News Personality, a category WRAL has commandeered for almost a decade as Meteorologist Greg Fishel nabbed the title the previous eight times. WRAL-TV Anchor Debra […]
WRAL-TV Wins Regional Murrow Awards
WRAL-TV Wins Regional Murrow Awards The Radio-Television News Directions Association (RTNDA) announced the winners of the regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Excellence in electronic journalism and WRAL-TV made the list twice. WRAL-TV’s Five On Your Side team won in the Investigative Reporting category for their story on “Flood Cars.” WRAL OnLine won the award […]
WRAL-TV To Produce A North Carolina Christmas Classic in HD
WRAL-TV To Produce A North Carolina Christmas Classic In HD The colorful sets, playful dances and rich sounds of a favorite Christmas fantasy will come alive in high definition for the first time in North Carolina WRAL-TV is creating the first-ever HD production of The NC School of the Arts annual production of The Nutcracker. […]
STV Presents Mini-Grants For Student PSAs
STV Presents Mini-Grants For Student PSAs WFVT (WB55), one of Capitol Broadcasting’s Charlotte stations, supports education and service to the community in a unique way. Twice each year, WB55’s Student TeleVision (STV) accepts applications for mini-grants from the schools in the viewing area. As part of the application, the classrooms create their own PSAs; students […]
WRAL-TV Starts Career Exploration Program
Bill Peterson Elected To CBS Affiliates Board WRAL-TV Vice President and General Manager Bill Peterson has been named Secretary-Treasurer of the CBS Television Network Affiliates Association for a term that began January 1, 2001. Peterson was elected to the post at the board of directors meeting in October 2000. The CBS Television Network Affiliates Association […]
Distinguished Women Award Presented To WRAL Anchor Pam Saulsby
Distinguished Women Award Presented To WRAL Anchor WRAL-TV evening news anchor Pam Saulsby received a prestigious 2001 Distinguished Women of North Carolina Award at the 18th annual ceremony last week. Lt. Governor Beverly Perdue presented the award to Saulsby and eight other recipients on behalf of the N.C. Council for Women. WRAL-TV Anchor Pam Saulsby […]