WRAL-TV Voted Best Station In Fayetteville
WRAL-TV Voted Best Station In Fayetteville The readers of Fayetteville’s Up and Coming magazine have voted WRAL-TV as the Best Area TV Station. The Best of Fayetteville voters recognized WRAL for “a renewed commitment to Cumberland County and Fayetteville.” WRAL brought home this honor last year as well. Hailed as the Cape Fear Region’s Leading […]
UPN Awaits More Change
UPN Awaits More Change UPN Buys Lunch For WJZY Domino’s definitely delivered in Charlotte last Friday, as UPN sent cheese pizzas to its top 130-plus primary affiliates in the nation with the note, “Let’s do launch.” Capitol Broadcasting Company’s UPN affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina, WJZY, received 18 large pizzas as a part of the […]
UPN Becomes Paramount
UPN Becomes Paramount UPN46 will soon undergo a name change, becoming “Paramount 46” or some version thereof later this year. UPN President & CEO Dean Valentine announced last week that the United Paramount Television Group will drop the “U,” referring to former partner Chris-Craft, Inc., so the network can take advantage of the marketability of […]
CBC Launches Capitol Sports Management
CBC Launches Capitol Sports Management Capitol Broadcasting Company recruited another team this month. In an attempt to bring a major sporting event to the Triangle, CBC created Capitol Sports Management. The goal of Capitol Sports Management (CSM) will be the development of a multi-sport, Olympic-style event in the Raleigh-Durham area. CBC enlisted two top players […]
Capitol AgriBusiness/WRAL-TV Farm Broadcaster Speaks To Landscape Conference
Capitol AgriBusiness/WRAL-TV Farm Broadcaster Speaks To Landscape Conference Dan Wilkinson Dan Wilkinson, Ag Program director with Capitol Agribusiness and WRAL-TV, recently spoke to a group of farmers who are struggling to keep up with the growth in their industry…and that is a rarity theses day. Dan was the luncheon speaker at the Eastern North Carolina […]
Opera Could Move: Talks Underway On Partnership
Opera Could Move: Talks Underway On Partnership The National Opera Company is expected to relocate from Raleigh to the N.C. School of the Arts in Winston-Salem By Todd Cohen The National Opera Company in Raleigh would become part of the N.C. School of the Arts through a partnership the two groups hope to create. The […]
Adkins Selected To Judge NPPA Competition
Adkins Selected To Judge NPPA Competition Richard Adkins WRAL-TV Chief Photographer Over the years, WRAL-TV Chief Photographer Richard Adkins has received many awards, but now he’s going to get a chance to sit on the other side of the camera. Adkins has been selected as a judge for the National Press Photographers Association’s (NPPA) Annual […]
centralXpress.com Awarded Certificate of Merit
centralXpress.com Awarded Certificate of Merit The label “the award winning centralXpress.com” just became even more pertinent. Once again, the locally produced WRAL-TV5 show for youth has brought home another honor. Recently, cXp won a 2000 Gabriel Award Certificate of Merit for the episode entitled “Suzanne.” The National Catholic Association for Communicators sponsors the nationally presented […]
Ardie Gregory Appointed To Duke Children’s Hospital National Board of Advisors
Ardie Gregory Appointed To Duke Children’s Hospital National Board of Advisors The Duke Children’s Hospital National Board of Advisors recently appointed a new member. WRAL-FM General Manager Ardie Gregory begins serving immediately a three-year term to expire in 2003. The purpose of this National Board of Advisors is to oversee and promote all activities intended […]
Myrtle Beach Pelicans Web Site Updated
Myrtle Beach Pelicans Web Site Updated The team may be flying south for the winter, but the Myrtle Beach Pelicans Public Relations office has been hard at work. A variety of new features have been added to the Pelicans website during the off-season. Here are a few of the new additions: The Mulitmedia Page featuring […]