WRAL-TV Brings Home Eight Regional Emmy Awards
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WRAL-TV Brings Home Eight Regional Emmy Awards A winter storm kept all but two WRAL staffers from making it to the 24th annual MidSouth Regional Emmy Awards ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday, January 30, 2010, but the snow didn’t keep WRAL from winning a handful of statues. WRAL-TV, including WRAL.com , won eight […]
CBC Cross-Division Coverage a Touchdown for High School Football
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Capitol Broadcasting was on top of its game during the high school football season. Powered by the popular “Football Friday” with Tom Suiter, CBC continued to expand its coverage of high school sports in an effort to reach a younger audience. “Football Friday” had an overall rating of 5.5 for the year, often producing better […]
WRAL.com Plays New Role in WRAL-TV Tower Lighting
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WRAL.com’s Kathy Hanrahan captures the behind-the-scenes at the WRAL Tower Lighting to stream it live on the Internet. For the 50th annual tower lighting, WRAL.com added a behind-the-scenes feature. It was part of our on-going experiment to bring more video, faster, from more places, to the Web and to our audience. Web editor Kathy Hanrahan, […]
WRAL-TV, FOX 50 & CBC NMG Earn Numerous Noms in Regional Emmy Competition
The Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) recently announced the nominations for the 24th Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards, and WRAL-TV, FOX 50 and CBC New Media Group received over thirty nods total. “It’s a long list and well worth the efforts by everyone at both stations,” said WRAL-TV […]
Internet Summit Draws Crowd of 1,200 to Raleigh
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Jim Tobin, with Ignite Social Media, Andy Beal, with Trackur.com, Tim Schigel, with ShareThis, Rick Klau, with Google, and Brad Hill, with Weblogs, talk about blogging at the Internet Summit on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009, in Raleigh. The second annual Internet Summit was held Nov. 4-5, 2009, at the Raleigh Convention Center. The sold-out crowd […]
NOW’s Sam Matheny Participates on HD World Show Panel
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Capitol Broadcasting Company and WRAL-TV continued their mobile DTV broadcasting leadership in New York City recently. On October 15, 2009, CBC New Media Group’s Sam Matheny was part of a panel discussion at the HD World Show and discussed the rollout and applications for mobile DTV and what it will mean for the broadcast […]
WRAL.com Wins Prestigious Murrow Award
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WRAL.com has won the Edward R. Murrow Award for best large-market television web site. John Clark, general manager of WRAL.com, accepted the Edward R. Murrow award for best large-market television web site Monday evening, October 12, 2009, in a New York City ceremony. WRAL.com competed with other sites from the top-30 media markets nationwide for […]
CBC Talent Teaches Next Generation of Journalists
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Two anchor/reporters from WRAL-TV and a representative of CBC New Media’s News Over Wireless shared their knowledge with mass communication students at an educational forum in September. Ken Smith, Renee Chou and Sam Matheny addressed high-school and collegiate students from across North Carolina at the “iMedia: Making the Connection” forum at North Carolina State University’s […]
WRAL Puts the “Social” in Social Media
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WRAL-TV is keeping in close tough with viewers via Facebook & Twitter. Did you know that WRAL has a Facebook fan page with nearly 5,000 fans? Perhaps you’ve heard about our small army of employees communicating with the masses on Twitter? From news reporters and anchors to managers and staff across all departments, we are […]
FOX 50 and WRAL.com Join with N.C. Commissioner of Banks and Attorney General to Fight Foreclosures
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Pictured left to right are Andy Lancaster (WRAL.com), Matt Donegan (FOX 50), Gerald Belton (FOX 50), Mark Pearce (Chief Deputy Commissioner of Banks), Sylvia Lanier (FOX 50). The N.C. Office of the Commissioner of Banks (NCCOB), Attorney General Roy Cooper, and other partners including FOX 50 and WRAL.com launched a campaign on Tuesday, September 15, […]