It’s a Bull Market for the Bulls

Durham Bulls merchandise

WRAL-TV Sports Anchor/Reporter Mandy Mitchell recently put together a piece about the Durham Bulls and the Carolina Mudcats, the Triangle’s two popular Minor League Baseball teams.  Both teams are consistently in the top 25 in merchandise sales for MiLB.  The Bulls have been in that top group since the league started keeping sales stats for […]

Canes, 99.9 The Fan Agree to Multi-Year Broadcasting Deal

Carolina Hurricanes & 99.9 The Fan

The Carolina Hurricanes and Capitol Broadcasting Company reached a multi-year agreement Monday, July 13, 2015, ensuring 99.9 The Fan remains the flagship station for the team. As part of the deal, 99.9 The Fan will continue to carry play-by-play calls of Hurricanes games through the 2019-20 season. The station, which has carried Canes games since […]

WRAL’s 2nd Annual MEDIAthon for HungerFreeNC Today

HungerFreeNC MEDIAthon

Today, Thursday, July 16, 2015, hunger in North Carolina is the focal point at WRAL-TV.  As part of the weeklong HungerFreeNC movement created by WRAL-TV and Radio One Raleigh, the 2nd annual MEDIAthon will take over the airwaves.  The unprecedented daylong TV, radio, web and social MEDIAthon raised $112,000 for the Inter-Fait h Food Shuttle […]

High Def in an Analog World

Digital Dynamos

“I’ve got vision and the rest of the world wears bi-focals” is one of the lines delivered by actor Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy in the movie “Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid.”  The 20th century version of that line could be “I’ve got high definition in an analog world,” perhaps delivered by Jim Goodmon. […]

MIX 101.5’s Gene and Julie Finalists for National Marconi Radio Award

Julie & Gene Gates

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) announced the finalists for their 2015 NAB Marconi Radio Awards on Tuesday, July 14th, and MIX 101.5 Morning Show Co-Hosts Gene and Julie Gates made the short list for Large Market Personality of the Year. The announcement came one year to the day of the Gates’ arrival at Capitol […]

WRAL News Anchor Lynda Loveland Moves From Morning to Evening

Lynda Loveland

Loveland joins co-anchor Gerald Owens for WRAL News on FOX 50 at 4 and 10 p.m. and WRAL’s 5:30 p.m. evening news Veteran WRAL News anchor Lynda Loveland moves from WRAL’s morning newscasts to join the station’s evening news team. Loveland takes the desk with co-anchor Gerald Owens for WRAL News on FOX 50 at […]

WRAL-TV’s Binker Honored for Work in Evidence-Based Journalism

Mark Binker

TV Multimedia Investigative Reporter Mark Binker was recently honored as the 2015 recipient of the Weidenbaum Center Award for Evidence-Based Journalism. The Weidenbaum Center created the Evidence-Based Journalism award to “annually to recognize a past participant whose work represents quality journalism on public policy that embodies the principles of the Media Retreat.” Established by the […]

N&O Features Bulls’ Longtime Scorekeeper

Brent Belvin

The Durham Bulls players are frequently in the spotlight for their play on the field, but this Sunday the ballpark’s scorekeeper got some press.  Raleigh’s News & Observer focused on Brent Belvin in the July 12, 2015, edition of the paper. Nick Gray penned ‘The hits (and errors) keep coming for veteran Bulls scorekeeper’ about […]

WRAL-TV and Radio One Raleigh Expand HungerFreeNC Movement

HungerFreeNC MEDIAthon

Form Coalition of Partners, Announce MEDIAthon, Launch Website North Carolina’s top television station, WRAL-TV, and the leading regional urban music specialist, Radio One Raleigh, are partnering again for year two of a powerful movement of change. Last year, the media partners created HungerFreeNC, a week of special programming and an unprecedented daylong TV, radio, web, […]

American Tobacco Featured in NC History Blog

This Day in NC History

Did you know that each day the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources blogs about an event on that day in history?  Recently This Day in North Carolina History featured the American Tobacco Campus.  On June 24, 2004, GlaxoSmithKline became the first tenant to move into the then-newly renovated campus. So on June 24, 2015, […]