Durham Arts’ Students Create Outdoor Art at American Tobacco
In early 2015, American Tobacco Campus partnered with Durham School of the Arts on an outdoor public art project. The project consisted of transforming an outdoor concrete slab between the Lucky Strick and Noel buildings into a tile mural. Larry Downing, an artist and DSA teacher, spearheaded the project with 11th grader Monica Lee. Monica […]
Some of NC’s Best Food: WRAL’s Tar Heel Traveler Eats Special Airs This Thursday
WRAL-TV Tar Heel Traveler Scott Mason has a tough job. He spends part of his working life chowing down in the best, sometimes hidden, North Carolina eateries. At least he’s kind enough to share. Mason’s next Tar Heel Traveler special, the annual restaurant show, airs this Thursday night, August 6, 2015, on WRAL-TV at 7pm. […]
Logan Leaves, But the Show Must Go On
Changes are in store for WRAL-TV’s Sunday morning football show. WRAL-TV Sports Anchor Jeff Gravley shares the new game plan: by Jeff Gravley Last fall I had so much fun working with Coach Steve Logan on our Sunday football show, the Logan Zone. It was a Top 10 career assignment. Well, Coach Logan got the […]
Powerade State Games Recap
Capitol Sports Vice President George Habel gives us a look at the recent Powerade State Games, sponsored in part by Capitol Broadcasting, in his Note to Self blog this week: I’m ringing the bell for the just-concluded Powerade State Games of NC. The Games returned to the Triangle this summer for a two-year run. The […]
Bees and the City: A Surprisingly Good Combination
Leigh-Kathryn Bonner started out as an intern for American Tobacco’s non-profit hub MissionPost last year while working towards an International Studies degree at NC State. The third-generation bee keeper has now graduated, with an additional non-profit minor, and created a non-profit of her own, headquartered in American Underground, ATC’s entrepreneurial hive (pardon the pun). For […]
SKY 5 Turns 36 on July 31, The Early Years
WRAL was the first station in North Carolina, and among a handful of stations in the nation, to purchase – not lease, a helicopter dedicated for news coverage. WRAL General Manager John Greene said “Live coverage is the name of the game. SKY 5 can take us to places we couldn’t cover before, and it […]
Reporting from Far Flung Places
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain WRAL’s geographical broadcast coverage area is eastern North Carolina. But […]
WRAL-TV and Radio One Raleigh Raise Over $78,000 to Help Combat Hunger with 2nd Annual MEDIAthon
WRAL-TV and Radio One Raleigh brought back an unprecedented daylong TV, radio, web and social MEDIAthon for a second year. On Thursday, July 16, 2015, the 2nd annual HungerFreeNC MEDIAthon raised over $78,000 to help combat hunger in the Triangle. In addition to supporting the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, this year the event expanded to include […]
WRAL-TV’s Ken Smith Honored for Dedication to Special Olympics
WRAL-TV Anchor/Reporter Ken Smith was involved in the Special Olympics well before he came to WRAL-TV and brought that commitment to the station. He has served several terms on the Special Olympics of North Carolina (SONC) board over the past decade and is currently serving. Keith Fishburne, President & CEO of SONC gave this insight when […]
A View from Dorothea Dix: The Latest Art Installation in the CBC Lobby
“I feel lucky to work in place that not only values art, but allows its employees to contribute to the beauty of the building.” – FOX 50’s Glenn Dion The backdrop behind the reception desk at CBC’s headquarters on Western Blvd now has a new look. On Thursday, July 16, 2015, the scene changed from […]