CBC’ers Volunteer at UNC-TV For Annual CBC/WRAL Night at Neighbor By Neighbor Campaign
Sesame Street took center stage at the CBC/WRAL-TV Night at UNC-TV’s Neighbor By Neighbor Campaign on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. Eleven staffers spent the evening volunteering on the phone bank and making on-air pitches for the annual fundraiser, as has become a CBC tradition. An Evening Celebrating Sesame Street “It was a great night to […]
CBC Mourns Loss of Legendary WRAL-TV Anchor Bobbie Battista
Former CNN anchor Bobbie Battista has passed away at the age of 67, according to a family spokeswoman. Battista passed away on Tuesday morning, March 3, 2020, after a four-year battle with cervical cancer, according to Wendy Guarisco, family spokeswoman. Battista was one of the original CNN Headline News anchors when the network launched in […]
Yebuah Calls Upon Crowd to Have Hope at 40th Annual MLK Triangle Inter-Faith Breakfast
Capitol Broadcasting Company proudly sponsored the annual Triangle Martin Luther King Jr. Triangle Inter-Faith Prayer Breakfast for the 34th year on Monday, January 20, 2020. The event took place at the Sheraton Imperial in Research Triangle Park, NC. The theme for the 40th annual breakfast was based on Dr. King’s words, “We Must Accept Finite […]
Join CBC for the 40th Annual Martin Luther King Inter-Faith Prayer Breakfast
For the past 34 years, Capitol Broadcasting Company has served as the leading sponsor for the annual Martin Luther King Triangle Interfaith Prayer Breakfast. CBC is pleased to continue its support of this very important holiday observance. The 40th Annual Martin Luther King Inter-Faith Prayer Breakfast Monday, January 20, 2020 7:15 AM Sheraton Imperial Hotel, […]
Raleigh Seniors Gather for 62nd Annual Golden Years Holiday Celebration, Sponsored by CBC
Members of the over 30 senior clubs in the City of Raleigh gathered for the 62nd Annual Golden Years Holiday Celebration on Tuesday, December 17, 2019. Capitol Broadcasting Company and the Raleigh Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department teamed up to present the event at the Raleigh Convention Center. The ballroom was filled to capacity […]
Capitol Broadcasting Serves Community with Annual WRAL Tower Lighting, Uses Event as Backdrop to Thank and Share with Clients
Capitol Broadcasting celebrated the start of the holiday season with two big events in one night. On Monday, December 2, 2019, CBC lit the WRAL-TV Tower for the 61st year and also welcomed some special clients for a party to come see the fun up close. An Annual Tradition Enhanced WRAL-TV not only highlighted the […]
MidSouth Emmy Nominations Announced, WRAL-TV and Capitol Broadcasting Earn Multiple Nods
The Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) announced the nominees for the 34th Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards on Thursday, November 21, 2019, and WRAL-TV and Capitol Broadcasting Company are proud to have made the list multiple times. The station received a total of 21 nominations, including the overall nomination for News […]
Plants Distributed to NC Nonprofits for 34th Annual WRAL Azalea Celebration
The 34th Annual WRAL Azalea Celebration came to a conclusion on Saturday, October 5, 2019, with winning groups picking up their plants from the WRAL Transmitter site in Auburn, NC. Capitol Broadcasting distributed 4,820 azaleas to 114 nonprofit groups from across North Carolina on Saturday, October 5, 2019. The winners included a mix of public […]
Behind the Scenes at CBC: How Rescan Day Meant Changes at WRAL-TV Transmitter Site
By now WRAL-TV viewers know about the Rescan Day on September 11, 2019, originally slated for September 6 but postponed due to Hurricane Dorian. (To continue receiving the signal for WRAL-TV and FOX 50, viewers watching via antenna need to rescan their television sets.). But behind the scenes at CBC, preparing for the rescan has […]
Bee Downtown Completing a ‘Highway of Honeybees’ Across Triangle – Longest Such Corridor in US
It’s being described as a “highway of honeybees” – more than 150 beehives amounting to some 9.5 million honeybees stretching from Durham to Garner. And Bee Downtown’s CEO and founder Leigh-Kathryn Bonner says it will become the “longest strategically connected healthy honeybee corridor” in the nation with the addition of hives at MetLife’s corporate campus. “MetLife’s […]