A CBS Affiliate Once Again Calls Wilmington Home
A CBS Affiliate Once Again Call Wilmington Home WILM-TV celebrated its official grand opening the last week of April with a kick off party for area advertisers. In addition to local advertisers, representatives and managers from all CBC divisions were in attendance. Non-CBC attendees drew raffle prizes and all went home with door prizes imprinted […]
WRAL-TV Tower Nominated For Appearance Award
WRAL-TV Tower Nominated For Appearance Award The WRAL Television tower, located at the corner of Western Blvd. and Avent Ferry Rd. in Raleigh, NC was nominated for the Community Appearance Honor Roll Award by the Raleigh Citizens Advisory Committee. Each year, the citizens of Raleigh are invited to submit nominations for what they feel enhances […]
Microspace Cited For Satellite Access Succes
Microspace Cited For Satellite Access Success Microspace Communications is the world’s largest provider of broadcast data and audio satellite services for business applications, and their hard work has not gone unnoticed. The CBC subsidiary received the “Uplinker of the Year” Award at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Annual Convention 2000 in Las Vegas in […]
Major Announcement For Minor Leagues: Governor Hodges To Recognize Baseball Teams
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 24, 2001 Contact: Bryan Dolgin, Director of Media & Public Relations 843-918-6016 Major Announcement For Minor Leagues: Governor Hodges To Recognize Baseball Teams MYRTLE BEACH, SC — The Myrtle Beach Pelicans and the four other minor league baseball teams across the state of South Carolina will be recognized and honored by […]
WRAL OnLine Now Available Via Cell Phone
WRALOnLine Now Available Via Cell Phone by John Conway WRAL-TV was one of the first stations to have a fully developed web site. WRAL OnLine also was one of the first stations to make its content available to Palm Pilot users. Now it is among the first — or perhaps the first — local TV […]
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 […]