Bats and Beer: Two New Additions at the DBAP As 2015 Season Opens
Tax Day won’t be all bad this year. The Durham Bulls kick-off their 2015 home season with an opener on Wednesday, April 15, 2015. When they do, fans will find two new companies on the concourse. Durham Bulls Beer Co. Coming to Durham Bulls Athletic Park First-of-its-Kind in Minor League Baseball, Brewery to Start Pouring […]
A Successful Trip to the NCAA Finals for CBC and Duke
Capitol Broadcasting gave the Final Four and the NCAA Championship a full court press as the Duke Blue Devils brought home the national title to the Triangle. The Championship game on Monday, April 6, 2015, drew 36.2/54, the highest rated NCAA final game on WRAL since 2005 when UNC-Illinois achieved a 41.0/53. The Duke-Wisconsin game […]
Capitol Broadcasting Wins 2015 NAB Service to Community Award
Capitol Broadcasting Wins 2015 NAB Service to Community Award for eNOughNC Domestic Violence Initiative Hundreds of times over the course of any average day, employees of Capitol Broadcasting contribute in many ways to the mission of serving our communities. In 2015, there was one achievement that stood out because it involved many contributors and divisions […]
Newsletter Flashbacks
I hope you will enjoy reading a few snip-it’s of CBC news from yester-year. Through the ages, there has been an employee newsletter that has been printed or posted under a variety of names including; Tele-news Letter, The Capitol Letter, The Frequency, and CapCom. Tele-news Letter, July 1958 Progress is being made on the construction […]
Full of Memories, Always Adapting DBAP Set to Turn 20
The Durham Bulls built it two decades ago. Today, they are still coming. On Thursday, April 15, 2015, the Bulls will begin their 20th season of play at the famed Durham Bulls Athletic Park, a venue that has provided many memorable moments on the field and has helped revitalized the Tobacco District. The Bulls will […]
Barbara Goodmon Honored for Contributions to Shaw University
Estey Hall located on the campus of Shaw University has seen untold numbers of events since it was built in 1873, but recently it was the site of a celebration of one of the “life blood” institutions of the university. The Hall hosted Shaw University’s 2015 United Negro College Fund Scholarship Gala. It was also a […]
Tower of Power
We chronicled WRAL’s worst nightmare in the December edition of CapCom, when the broadcast tower, located in Auburn, crumbled to the ground on December 10, 1989. The cause was uneven thawing of heavy ice on the tower. WPTF’s tower, owned by Durham Life Broadcasting Company, met the same fate thirty minutes earlier. Instead of hand-wringing, […]
The Sports Fan Meets The Sportscaster
Five ACC basketball teams have been selected to advance to the big dance, better known as the NCAA Basketball Tournament. The perennial cream of the ACC tobacco road crop includes UNC, Duke, NC State, Virginia and the new geographical interloper, Notre Dame. To complement the stellar performances on the hardwood, a collection of marque commentators […]
Goodbye Film. Hello ENG.
In the beginning there was film, the format that ruled the world of television news in the 1950s and 60s. It was news film that captured the Civil Rights movement, the Kennedy assassinations and the war in Vietnam. But in the mid-1970s, television news experienced an electronic revolution called ENG, or Electronic News Gathering. This […]
Free the Ikegami
In 1982, the relationship between the governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and America was in a deep freeze. The Berlin Wall remained as a visual reminder that an “Iron Curtain” divided Europe into two separate ideological and geographical areas. Glasnost and perestroika, openness and political reconstruction, were still a few years […]