Triangle Business Journal Honors Capitol Broadcasting as a Healthiest Employer
On Thursday, December 11, 2014, the Triangle Business Journal honored Capitol Broadcasting Company as one of the Top 35 Healthiest Employers in the Triangle. CBC earned a spot on the list for a variety of benefits and a workplace atmosphere that support making and health and wellness and priority for our employees. CBC was the […]
CBC Launches Website to Archive Company History
Capitol Broadcasting Company is pleased to announce the launch of a new website dedicated to the rich history of our company. We’re proud to publically launch The History of Capitol Broadcasting Company on Monday, December 15, 2014, the 58th anniversary of WRAL-TV’s sign-on, indeed an important day in our company history. This new digital archive […]
CBC Sponsors Whirligigs in Wilson
Folk artist Vollis Simpson is known far and wide for his whirligigs, towering works of art made from junkyard scraps powered only by the wind. He never considered himself an artist but continued making his creations until his death in 2013 at age 94. Now the town of Wilson is using Simpson’s work as the […]
A Broadcaster’s Worst Nightmare
Sunday, December 10, 1989 is a day etched in the memory of so many employees at Capitol Broadcasting. It was the day the 2000’ “Tall Tower” crashed to the ground. A devastating ice storm moved through the area Friday afternoon, December 8. Two days of freezing rain loaded tons of ice onto the tower and […]
CBC Hosts 6th Annual Enable America Career Mentoring Day
Capitol Broadcasting and WRAL hosted the 6th Annual Enable America Career Mentoring Day on Tuesday November 18, 2014. Enable America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing employment for veterans and individuals with disabilities. A total of eight job seekers, including three US Army veterans each with multiple deployments to Iraq/Afghanistan, learned about the broadcasting […]
The Headless Horseman Horses Around at CBC
The Headless Horseman stopped by CBC last week for some fun at the WRAL News Desk and behind the scenes with employees. He spent Wednesday, November 19, 2014, “chatting” with WRAL Anchors Lynda Loveland and Michelle Marsh and crashing a meeting or two. On Thursday, November 20, he helped with the annual turkey distribution for […]
NC Health Care Providers and CBC Ask Consumers to “Get Smart About Antibiotics”
What do sinusitis, most sore throats, bronchitis, runny noses and the regular cold have in common? They are upper respiratory tract infections usually caused by viruses, which can′t be cured with antibiotics. Yet, each year, health care providers in the U.S. prescribe tens of millions of antibiotics for viral infections. The North Carolina Quality Center, […]
CBC’ers Celebrate Carolina Parent Family-Friendly Award
Several Capitol Broadcasting staffers from various departments represented CBC at the annual Carolina Parent Women@Work Breakfast in honor of the company’s 2014 inclusion on the publication’s N.C. Family-Friendly 50 list. The breakfast, featuring keynote speaker and local personality Sharon Delaney McCloud, took place at the Embassy Suites in Cary. She spoke about “How to Turn Battle […]
CBC Renovation Honored by AIA
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) presented one of three 2014 Honor Awards for the addition and renovation to Capitol Broadcasting Company’s headquarters on Western Blvd in Raleigh. Architectural firm Szostak Design designed the buildings and LeChase Construction built them. The multi-phase project began in 2011. The AIA Triangle Design Awards Program recognizes “excellence in […]
Capitol Broadcasting’s Goodmon Receives Boy Scout Honor
Capitol Broadcasting Company CEO and President Jim Goodmon was honored Thursday night, October 2nd with the 2014 Terry Sanford Citizen of the Year Award from the Boy Scouts of America’s Occoneechee Council. Goodmon and then-WRAL-TV engineer Powell Kidd chartered the Boy Scouts’ Explorer Post 5 in 1969 to introduce high school students to the skills needed […]