Eight Wins in Ten Years: WRAL-TV Outstanding News Operation in NC Again
Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas (RTDNAC) and the Associated Press (AP) presented their 2015 awards over the weekend, and WRAL came home a big winner. WRAL-TV brought home 17 total awards, 10 of them first place honors. The station once again received AP award for NC Outstanding News Operation, making WRAL the […]
CBC’s Venable Honored by Triangle Business Journal
CBC’s “legal eagle” is getting press for her outstanding work. The Triangle Business Journal recently honored Corp Vice President & General Counsel Jennifer Venable among its Corporate Counsel of the Year Awards for 2015. The awards recognize “outstanding attorneys who keep the business world running. These are in-house lawyers who are leaders in the Triangle […]
WRAL Staffers Create App to Make UNC Academic Fraud Records Available to Viewers
When the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill posted 200,000-plus pages of public records on its website last month, it allowed the public to read some of the 5 million pages of emails, memos and other documents collected as part of the investigation into the school’s long-running academic fraud scandal. What the university did not […]
CBC Distributes Azaleas to Non-Profit in 30th Annual WRAL Celebration
Next spring a brand new crop of CBC azaleas will be brightening North Carolina. Through the 30th Annual WRAL Azalea Celebration, Capitol Broadcasting distributed over 5,000 azaleas to 140 different groups from the mountains to the coast. The non-profits came to collect their plants from WRAL’s Tower site in Garner, NC, on Saturday, October […]
One Man; Many Voices
Rowell Gormon created “theater of the mind” through various characters conjured up in his creative cranial recesses. In 1975, he was recruited from a radio station in Winston-Salem to WRAL-FM by Bob Inskeep, better known to listeners as “FBI,” or “Famous Bob Inskeep.” By 1986, Rowell held the position of Station Production Director and had […]
WRAL-TV and UNC-EX to broadcast 2015 Fayetteville Veterans Day Parade
Presented by the Cumberland County Veterans Council and the City of Fayetteville Live coverage begins at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 7 For the fourth year, WRAL-TV and UNC-EX will broadcast the 2015 Fayetteville Veterans Day Parade, presented by the Cumberland County Veterans Council and the City of Fayetteville. Live coverage begins at 10:00 a.m. […]
Former WRAL Staffer and ESPN Star Inducted into UNC Journalism Hall of Fame
WRAL-TV Director/Producer Clarence Williams helped represent Capitol Broadcasting at the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame induction on Friday, October 23, 2015. He and several other staffers came to show support for the posthumous induction of former WRAL staffer and standout Stuart Scott. Williams shared some thoughts about Scott and the event: “Boo-Yah!” “As cool […]
WRAL-FM Rockin’ Down the Highway
Check out this vintage 1985 photo of Keith Harrison, Director of radio engineering, getting ready to kick the tires of the recently – arrived 1976 GMC RV converted into a mobile news van. I hope you noted the age of the vehicle when the station took possession of it; nine years old! The description of […]
WRAL-TV’s Longest Term Employee Clarence Williams Retires This Week
WRAL-TV Director/Producer Clarence Williams joined the staff of the Big 5 when only a teenager. Now, almost five decades later, he’s finally donning his fedora and heading out the newsroom door for the last time as an employee. How do you say good-bye to an institution? Those of us CBC long-timers know that you never […]
New WRAL Documentary Examines North Carolina’s Troubled Fishing Industry
“Net Effect” Premieres Monday, October 26 at 7pm on WRAL-TV Some of the state’s saltwater fish are being wiped out, threatening our state’s commercial and recreational fishing industries, and pitting fishermen on both sides against each other. From overfishing to politics, the issues are complex and passions run high. The issues: What is the real […]