MIX 101.5 First-Ever Christmas Choir Competition Concert Held at Crabtree
MIX 101.5 wrapped up their 2014 Christmas Choir Competition Monday night with their first-ever Christmas Choir Competition Concert! First, second and third place choirs from Division I and II joined MIX 101.5’s Gene & Julie at Crabtree Valley Mall to perform their winning entries in the Christmas Choir Competition presented by Lowes Foods. These six […]
A Broadcaster’s Worst Nightmare
Sunday, December 10, 1989 is a day etched in the memory of so many employees at Capitol Broadcasting. It was the day the 2000’ “Tall Tower” crashed to the ground. A devastating ice storm moved through the area Friday afternoon, December 8. Two days of freezing rain loaded tons of ice onto the tower and […]
Voting Underway for MIX 101.5 Christmas Choir Competition
Voting for the 2nd Annual MIX 101.5 Christmas Choir Competition is now underway. Beginning Monday, December 1, 2014, MIX debuted the first three semi-finalists in Division 1, which includes grades K-8. Listeners went online to vote for their favorite all day. Three more semi-finalists were revealed on Tuesday, and the remaining three on Wednesday. The […]
CBC Hosts 6th Annual Enable America Career Mentoring Day
Capitol Broadcasting and WRAL hosted the 6th Annual Enable America Career Mentoring Day on Tuesday November 18, 2014. Enable America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing employment for veterans and individuals with disabilities. A total of eight job seekers, including three US Army veterans each with multiple deployments to Iraq/Afghanistan, learned about the broadcasting […]
NC Health Care Providers and CBC Ask Consumers to “Get Smart About Antibiotics”
What do sinusitis, most sore throats, bronchitis, runny noses and the regular cold have in common? They are upper respiratory tract infections usually caused by viruses, which can′t be cured with antibiotics. Yet, each year, health care providers in the U.S. prescribe tens of millions of antibiotics for viral infections. The North Carolina Quality Center, […]
Win For Your School: MIX 101.5 Now Accepting Christmas Choir Entries
Does your school have the best choir in the Triangle? MIX 101.5 is now accepting entries for the 2014 Christmas Choir Competition presented by Lowes Foods. If chosen as a semi-finalist, MIX 101.5 will showcase your choir on-air this holiday season and you could win up to $5,000 for your school! Because we want to […]
MIX 101.5 Listeners Give Right Arm For WICKED Tickets!
You know the old saying “I’d give my right arm”? Gene and Julie Gates, co-hosts of The Gene & Julie Show, on MIX 101.5 WRAL-FM took that saying to heart and wanted to see just how far listeners would go to win four FRONT ROW seats to WICKED, one of the hottest events of the […]
Newly Completed MIX Miracle Home Wins Gold
MIX 101.5’s 2015 Miracle Home is now complete and recently made a splash on the recent Parade of Homes in the Triangle. The 31st Annual Parade of Homes, presented by the Home Builders Association of Durham, Orange & Chatham Counties (HBADOC) won the Gold, first place award, in its price category ($469,000-$482,000). Constructed by Garman […]
CBC Domestic Violence Effort #eNOughNC Generates National Following
It started thirteen days ago with a late afternoon meeting to talk about what sister stations WRAL and WRAZ (FOX 50) could do about domestic violence. Twelve hours later, it was a company-wide, multi-media effort that would start a community conversation about help and hope. The company launched “eNOughNC” with a 60-second PSA and a 90-second […]
WRAL To Host Domestic Violence Phone Bank Thursday Night
Capitol Broadcasting launched a campaign to combat domestic violence last week during NFL Thursday Night Football and will continue the effort this Thursday, September 18, 2014, with a phone bank during the evening news. The eNOughNC effort to prevent and end domestic violence is getting national press: TVNewsCheck: WRAL-TV Tackles Domestic Violence During NFL Game […]