Capitol Broadcasting Leads Investors in New Coding Firm Momentum Learning
Capitol Broadcasting is the lead investor in a new coding school startup, Momentum Learning, that will be operate in Durham and Raleigh. Momentum is led by two former executives with The Iron Yard, a coding school that has ceased operations. It offered courses in the Triangle. Jessica Mitsch, the founding CEO, confirmed that CBC, which is […]
Capitol Broadcasting Company Purchases Holly Springs Salamanders
Coastal Plain League Baseball Team Acquired by CBC as Company Announces Promotions Capitol Broadcasting Company Inc. has purchased the Holly Springs Salamanders, a summer collegiate baseball team that competes in the Coastal Plain League. The Salamanders, who were previously owned by Coastal Plain League co-founder Jerry Pettit, join the Durham Bulls as CBC-owned baseball properties. […]
CBC Announces Promotions in Corporate, Real Estate, Baseball Operations
Capitol Broadcasting Company Inc., the parent company of WRAL-TV, WRAL.com and the Durham Bulls among other media, real estate and sports interests, announced the promotions Tuesday of three senior employees. George Habel, a 34-year CBC employee who as vice president of Capitol Sports oversaw two Triple-A National Championship titles for the Durham Bulls, will leave […]
New Roles at American Underground and Capitol Broadcasting Company
Adam Klein Moves to Strategic Position Across CBC Divisions Doug Speight Named Executive Director at American Underground On Nov. 9, 2017, Capitol Broadcasting Company (CBC) announced two new positions: Adam Klein will leave his five year role as chief strategist at The American Underground startup hub to take on a newly created post: director of strategy […]
CBC Awards 140 Non-Profits Through 32nd Annual WRAL Azalea Celebration, Special Honors to Three Groups
The 32nd Annual WRAL Azalea Celebration culminated with the distribution of plants to the winning non-profits on Saturday, September 30, 2017. CBC Property Management staffers worked with volunteers at the WRAL Transmitter site in Auburn, NC, as the winners came to pick up their azaleas. Corp Assistant Property Manager Amy Trudo reported that the day […]
Goodmon Honored for Sports Legacy on 30th Anniversary U.S. Olympic Festival
Over 30 years ago CBC CEO Jim Goodmon and Capitol Broadcasting came on board as their first major sponsor of the U.S. Olympic Festival in the Triangle. In the fall of 1984, NC Amateur Sports landed the festival that would take over the Triangle in 1987. Goodmon recently received a U.S. Olympic Festival-’87 Legacy Award […]
James F. Goodmon, Jr. Named President & C.O.O. of Capitol Broadcasting Co.
Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. (CBC) announced today that James F. Goodmon Jr. (“Jimmy”) has been named President and Chief Operating Officer, effective September 4, 2017. Goodmon succeeds his father, James F. Goodmon (Jim), who has served as President of the Raleigh-based communications company since 1975. Jim Goodmon will remain CBC’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman […]
Microspace! CBC WARP Drive
Microspace is almost stealth-like among all the divisions at CBC. We know they are there, but they excel without fanfare. In most of our CBC work-a-day world we are dealing with terrestrial matters, but at Microspace they are launching digital data packets faster than the newsroom can consume caffeine. Microspace was formed March 4, 1988. […]
Capitol Women’s Network Spends Morning Working at Inter-Faith Food Shuttle Farm
Team Building While Serving the Community Last Thursday, July 13, 2017, 24 CBC women met up to give back to the community at the Inter-Faith-Food Shuttle Teaching Garden. Members of the Capitol Women’s Network (CWN) turned a group get together into a morning of service. The women in CBC’s Durham divisions usually meet separately from […]
DREAMS OF GOLD. The Olympic Festival 1987
Everyone is familiar with the Olympics, summer and winter. But did you know there was an event, a warmup of sorts, for the Olympics? It was called the U.S. Olympic festival. This amateur sport spectacular started in 1978 and was originally called the National Sports Festival. It was the nation’s largest amateur sporting competition. The […]