WRAL-TV Hosts Telethon For UCP
WRAL-TV Hosts Telethon For UCP Star Fest 2001 raised over $230,000 to help UCP. On Sunday, January 21, WRAL-TV held the 31st Annual Star Fest telethon for United Cerebral Palsy (UCP). Star Fest 2001 aired from 1:00-7:00pm with over 120 volunteers and guests joining to help raise over $230,000 for UCP of North Carolina. WRAL-TV […]
WRAL-TV To Air Presidential Inauguration in HD
WRAL-TV To Air Presidential Inauguration in HD Now even the President is going hi-tech. WRAL-TV will air the inauguration of the nation’s 43rd President in high-definition, live on Saturday, January 20th at 11:30am-1:00pm. WRAL will carry the digital signal its digital channel 53. WRAL-TV will follow the CBS coverage beginning at 9:00am on analog channel […]
WRAL-TV To Broadcast North Carolina Inauguration
WRAL-TV To Broadcast North Carolina Inauguration NC Governor-elect Mike Easley will take office this Saturday. The new North Carolina Governor Mike Easley will be sworn in this Saturday, January 6, in downtown Raleigh. WRAL-TV will be airing the event live at 11:00am from the steps of the Archives and History State Library Building on Jones […]
CBC Hosts Russian Telecommunications Owner
CBC Hosts Russian Telecommunications Owner Curt Tilly (right) gave Russian Serghei Terentii a tour of the Microspace control room. CBC played host to Russian Serghei Terentii during the last week of May and first day of June. Terentii is visiting Raleigh through the Community Connections program and became a temporary intern at WRAL-TV, Microspace and […]
CBC Technology Tapped For Metro’s High-tech 100
CBC Technology Tapped for Metro‘s High-tech 100 Metro Magazine has published its High-tech 100 list for 2001, and two CBC entities and one CBC partner have made the list. WRAL Digital, DTV Plus and accessDTV are all on the list of telephony, wireless or networking companies to watch according to the Triangle publication. Compiled for […]
UPDATE: The State Of Digital at CBC
UPDATE: The State of Digital at CBC As the HD conversion continues nationwide, Capitol Broadcasting Company (CBC) maintains its position as a leader in the field. From permanently converting its newcasts to digital in January 2001 to airing the first all-digital news broadcast from the N.C. State Fair in October John Greene CBC VP of […]
More Kudos For CBC’s Political Campaign Coverage
More Kudos For CBC’s Political Campaign Coverage The Alliance for Better Campaigns released a report last week showing that WRAL-TV ranked in the top five stations nationally in a survey focusing on “candidate-centered discourse” in the recent political campaign. The report from the USC Annenberg School for Communications studied 74 television stations in 58 of […]
More CBS Primetime To Be Broadcast In HD
More CBS Primetime To Be Broadcast in HD CBS Television has reached another milestone in its conversion to HD. The network recently announced that through a partnership with Panasonic and Zenith, all 18 CBS primetime comedies and dramas will be broadcast in high-definition for the 2001/2002 season beginning this fall. CBS 2001/2002 Primetime Schedule New […]
CBS Announces More HD Sports Coverage
CBS Announces More HD Sports Coverage CBS continues driving its sports into the digital age. For the third consecutive year Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America (MDEA) will sponsor High Definition coverage of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships on CBS Television. The 2001 coverage will include semi-finals and finals, featuring an HD primetime broadcast of the Women’s […]
WRAL-TV’s centralXpress.com Wins Gabriel
WRAL-TV’s centralXpress.com Wins Gabriel centralXpress.com, a WRAL-TV original program for children and teens, has received recognition for its excellence once again. The “Bomb Threat” episode of cXp has won a Gabriel Award in the Children’s Programming category. “Bomb Threat” was produced in early 2000 and originally aired on the first anniversary of the school shooting […]