WRAL-TV Wins Regional Murrow Award for Innovation for Second Year in a Row
WRAL-TV has been honored with a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation for the second year running. The station took home the 2019 honor for the news series “Presumption of Fear.” The Radio Television Digital News Association made the announcement on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. First presented in 1971, the Murrow Awards […]
American Tobacco Announces Line Up for 2019 Down Under Music Series
American Tobacco has announced the lineup for their FREE 2019 outdoor concert series, which kicks off Thursday, May 9, 2019, with the Project 919 Band. American Tobacco Music in the Down Under will take place in the area adjacent to the Crowe Building, in the interior of the campus. Check out the full line up: […]
New at the DBAP: Bulls Launch Podcast with 2019 Season
The Durham Bulls are now podcasting! The fun launched with the new season in April 2019. Have a listen to the pilot episode of “Hit Bull Win Podcast,” where the hosts, DBBC Assistant General Manager of Operations Scott Strickland and DBBC Director of Marketing & Communications Matt Sutor, sit down with new Bulls manager Brady […]
Paddling Down the Neuse: WRAL-TV’s Richard Adkins Shares Behind the Scenes of New WRAL Doc
After working on the WRAL Documentary “New Trouble on the Neuse River,” WRAL photojournalist Richard Adkins takes WRAL-TV viewers and WRAL.com visitors for a multi-day, ground-level look at North Carolina’s important waterway. “New Trouble on the Neuse River” premieres on Thursday, April 18, 2019. In the new WRAL Documentary, 30 years after bi-partisan action saved the Neuse […]
Bill Leslie Revisits Troubles of Neuse River in New WRAL Documentary
Retired WRAL-TV Anchor Bill Leslie will be back to discuss current problems for the Neuse River, a natural resource he first reported on 30 years ago. The WRAL Documentary “New Trouble on the Neuse River” premieres this Thursday, April 18, 2019, at 7pm on WRAL-TV. Leslie shares about the “Troubled Waters” documentary he created three […]
Remembering Scottie Stephenson
Many CBC’ers have asked about the parking spot reserved for Scottie Stephenson near the entrance of the company headquarters on Western Blvd. Today is a special anniversary, which seems an appropriate time to provide a reminder. Scottie Stephenson, one of the pillars on which this company began, died on April 15 in 2002. She had […]
Durham Tech to Open New Culinary Arts Program in American Tobacco
New program will use former Art Institute space in Tobacco campus Durham Technical Community College has signed a lease for a commercial kitchen space at the American Tobacco Campus in downtown Durham to house the College’s new Culinary Arts degree program. The program is scheduled to begin Fall 2019. The lease for the Tobacco campus […]
WRAL-TV Welcomes 12 Students to Mentor in 7th Annual CBC-UNC Diversity Fellowship
For five days in the middle of March, Capitol Broadcasting welcomed 12 top journalism students from universities around the country into the WRAL newsroom for a hands-on learning opportunity. The 7th annual CBC-UNC Diversity Fellowship included students from the University of Florida, UNC Chapel Hill, Georgia State, Kent State, Virginia Commonwealth, West Chester, Howard, High […]
Meet the New Bull City Boss, Brady Williams
At just 39 years of age, you can barely tell Brady Williams apart from one of the guys one step from “the show.” Yet, the fresh-faced skipper is the new boss of Bull City. “There’s going to be challenges for myself, learning to deal with an older player,” lists Brady Williams, new Durham Bulls manager. […]
The Greatest of All Time at WRAL-TV
Three years after becoming the heavyweight champ, Muhammad Ali paid an impromptu visit to WRAL-TV. Thanks to quick thinking by a young crew member, Ali ended up being interviewed for the late newscast. Dave Scoggins, a 36-year employee of Capitol Broadcasting who now works as a Satellite Senior Systems Engineer at Microspace, had the famous […]