Durham Bulls, Runaway Clothing Team Up for Uniform Design
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Team Collaborates with Clothing Company to Design Uniforms for ‘DURM Night’ The Durham Bulls and RUNAWAY have collaborated on a uniform design for the team’s first-ever DURM Night, to be held on Thursday, June 9, at Durham Bulls Athletic Park. The uniform, designed by Durham-based RUNAWAY, is the first Bulls uniform created by a company […]
Tack
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Ned Attayek is a Johnston County boy who became known as “Tack” on WRAL-FM, called “101” back in the ‘70s. Today, he still works at WRAL-FM but has gone high tech as the WRAL-FM Web/Computer Network Supervisor. The name Tack was bestowed upon him by his college buddies who could not properly pronounce Attayek, so […]
A History of Family, Broadcasting and Revival: Jim Goodmon on ‘The State of Things’
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CBC President and CEO Jim Goodmon spent some time on the Monday after Easter in a studio, but not for television. Goodmon sat down at WUNC for an interview with Frank Stasio on “The State of Things” on Monday, March 28, 2016. The pair talked about Goodmon’s long history in broadcasting and the work he’s […]
Durham Bulls Announce Extension of Telecommunications Partnership with Frontier Communications
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Frontier to remain exclusive provider of Wi-Fi and internet access at Durham Bulls Athletic Park The Durham Bulls recently announced that they have signed an agreement with Frontier Communications, (NASDAQ: FTR), a leading provider of broadband Internet, video and phone services, that will extend Frontier’s role as the Bulls’ exclusive telecommunications provider for an additional […]
A Bright Future for Broadcasting: CBC-UNC Diversity Fellowship 2016
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Another CBC-UNC Diversity Fellowship is in the books! A dozen students from across the country took part in the five-day journalism intensive program to prepare them for future broadcast media careers. The students represented the University of Southern California, Suffolk University, Samford University, Loyola University, the University of Maryland, Boston University, Northwestern University, North Carolina […]
“I hope this station goes on forever and ever.”
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There are days when we hit the CBC History jack-pot. One of the days was in January 2016 when John Harris and I were digging through one of the boxes filled with old corporate papers in his office. Lo and behold we discovered what looked like a larger and heavier-than-usual record album. The label referenced […]
CBC Staffers Support Public Television at UNC-TV’s FESTIVAL 2016
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CBC staffers once again helped support public television on CBC/WRAL Night at UNC-TV’s FESTIVAL, as has become an annual tradition. Employees from a variety of divisions helped cap off the annual fundraiser, manning the phone banks on the last day of FESTIVAL 2016 on Monday, March 21st. WRAL-TV anchors and reporters also made on-air pitches […]
Bull City Blues, Durham Bulls Celebrate City Legacy with Special Uniform
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The Durham Bulls unveiled a very special uniform on Wednesday, March 16, 2016. The Bull City Blues uniforms will serve as a tribute to the past, present and future of the Bull City. The Bull City Blues uniforms will be worn on Saturday home games beginning in mid-May. The Durham Bulls ‘D’ is iconic, with […]
WRAL News Sets Through the Years
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Our WRAL/Action News 5 news sets have morphed from a simple curtain backdrop to a high tech news gathering center. We’ve come a long way. During the ‘70s, many stations introduced the curved “gull wing” anchor desk and sleek architecture. The “gull wing” created better camera angles to transition from one anchor to another and […]
WRAL Reporter Wins NC Open Government Award
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WRAL reporter Tyler Dukes was honored with a journalism award Monday, March 14, 2016, at the North Carolina Open Government Coalition’s annual Sunshine Day event, which celebrates government transparency. Dukes was recognized for his efforts to make thousands of UNC academic fraud records more accessible to the public and for his reporting on the death […]