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 […]
Morgan Among Spectator’s Best
Morgan Among Spectator‘s Best Spectator magazine recently published its “Best In The Triangle” issue and WRAL-TV News Anchor Debra Morgan made the list. The readers voted Morgan the Best TV News Personality, a category WRAL has commandeered for almost a decade as Meteorologist Greg Fishel nabbed the title the previous eight times. WRAL-TV Anchor Debra […]
WRAL-TV Wins Regional Murrow Awards
WRAL-TV Wins Regional Murrow Awards The Radio-Television News Directions Association (RTNDA) announced the winners of the regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Excellence in electronic journalism and WRAL-TV made the list twice. WRAL-TV’s Five On Your Side team won in the Investigative Reporting category for their story on “Flood Cars.” WRAL OnLine won the award […]