WRAL-TV, CBC Properties Join United Way for Virtual Telethon Apr. 2

CBC Help The Helpers

Capitol Broadcasting divisions will be Here to Help the Helpers with a daylong virtual telethon to benefit the United Way of the Greater Triangle on Thursday, April 2, 2020.  The fundraising effort for the United Way’s Rapid Response Fund kicks off at 4:30am on the WRAL News.  More than 50 United Way volunteers will then […]

CBC and WRAL-TV Continue FREE Webinar Series for Local Triangle Businesses

CBC Here to Help Webinar

Capitol Broadcasting and WRAL-TV will host their second in a free series of webinars to help local Triangle businesses on Thursday, April 2, 2020.  The Here to Help webinar will take place at 2pm.  Registration is free for local businesses to tune in and get advice from industry experts and hear ideas from other local business […]

MIX 101.5 Uses #WorkFromHome Selfies with Listeners as Fundraiser for Food Bank

Kristen Kokkelenberg

WRAL-FM MIX 101.5 created a MIX of fun things for a good cause last week.  Taking selfies + working from home = donations to help the Triangle community.  MIX ran a #WorkFromHome promotion on the station’s Facebook page.  For every selfie posted in the comment, showing MIX how listeners work from home, WRAL-FM donated $1 […]

CBC Here to Help Virtually Raises $350,000 for NC Restaurant Workers Fund

Here to Help

Capitol Broadcasting divisions stepped up to help the local restaurant community with a virtual fundraiser last week, and our viewers, listeners and readers responded in a big way.  The CBC Here to Help: Support Local Business fundraiser for the NC Restaurant Workers Relief Fund brought in a total of $350,000 in donations! “The CBC family […]

Holliday: Sports Journalism Just as Important When The Cheering Stops

Bob Holliday

Former WRAL-TV Sports Anchor and frequent WRALSportsFan contributor Bob Holliday penned this piece about reporting on sports when sports are not happening due to the COVID-19 pandemic: It’s a rare event that brings the sports world to a complete pause. Not even the murder of 11 Israeli athletes by the Palestinian terror group Black September […]

Shuneca Harrington Named WRAL-TV/FOX 50 Director of Sales

Shuneca Harrington

Veteran sales leader Shuneca Harrington has been named WRAL-TV/FOX 50 Director of Sales, effective April 20, 2020. Harrington will join the broadcast arm of Capitol Broadcasting Company (CBC) which operates WRAL News, the most-watched news team in the Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville television market with a long history of ratings dominance.  Harrington comes to WRAL from Columbus, GA […]