Raleigh Seniors Enjoy 57th Annual Golden Years Holiday Celebration with CBC
Capitol Broadcasting has once again sponsored our favorite December event for seniors. The 57th Annual Golden Years Celebration took place at the Raleigh Convention Center on Tuesday, December 16, 2014. From the days of Fred Fletcher and Uncle Paul Montgomery squeaking out “All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth” to the modern […]
Latest WRAL Doc Tackles Domestic Violence, “Enough is eNOugh”
WRAL-TV’s latest Documentary premieres on Thursday, December 18 at 7pm. The program ties into our station’s domestic violence awareness campaign “eNOugh” with the related title “Enough is eNOough”. “Enough is eNOough” examines the case of Brandi Baggett, a Pitt County woman whose boyfriend abused her. Baggett got a domestic violence protection order against her boyfriend but he ignored the […]
WRAL-TV 2014 Coats Telethon Brings in More than $93,000 To Help Keep Kids Warm
WRAL-TV viewers generously donated over $93,000 during the station’s annual Coats for the Children Telethon on Friday, December 12, 2014. And donations continue to come in through WRAL.com and the text to give number (text ‘coats’ to 41444). WRAL-TV Director of Local Production Phyllis Parish talked with capcom about the great result. She produced the Telethon […]
CBC Launches Website to Archive Company History
Capitol Broadcasting Company is pleased to announce the launch of a new website dedicated to the rich history of our company. We’re proud to publically launch The History of Capitol Broadcasting Company on Monday, December 15, 2014, the 58th anniversary of WRAL-TV’s sign-on, indeed an important day in our company history. This new digital archive […]
Tune In For WRAL-TV’s 26th Annual Coats for the Children Telethon Today
Right now, over 8,800 Wake County children need a warm coat and will not have a new toy this holiday season unless we help. In Durham, Orange and Person counties, 1,200 children are in need. In Johnston County, over 1,100 are longing to be warm this winter. And in Cumberland County, close to 3,000 children […]
David vs Goliath, The Battle for Channel 5
December 15, 1956 is the date WRAL-TV began broadcasting to viewers in eastern North Carolina. In order to understand why this station is so driven, one needs to have insight into its founder and the first leadership team. No one can tell the story better than Tom Campbell, host of the program “NC Spin”. He […]
Reporting Live, From Buffalo, In the Snow
When Buffalo, NY, recently experienced a recording-breaking November snowfall, WRAL-TV Chief Meteorologist Greg Fishel & WRAL-TV News Photographer Richard Adkins hit the road. The pair traveled up north to bring the snow story back to the Triangle. Adkins shared their winter weather experience with Capcom: The Buffalo Experience Set the Way-Back machine to 1998. That’s […]
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 […]
WRAL-TV Tower Now Aglow for the Holidays
The WRAL-TV tower is now aglow for the holidays. The station lit the tower for the 55th time on Monday, December 1, 2014. A crowd came out to watch the lighting in person while thousands of viewers watched from home during the evening newscasts. The NC State Chorale provided holiday music in the studio while […]
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 […]