WRAL-TV, CBC Family Raise $655,820 for United Way of the Greater Triangle’s Rapid Response Fund
WRAL-TV, the flagship station of locally owned Capitol Broadcasting Company (CBC), partnered with United Way of the Greater Triangle for a virtual telethon on Thursday, April 2 that has raised $655,820 to date. Joining in this fundraising effort were other divisions in the CBC family FOX 50, WRAL.com, MIX 101.5 WRAL-FM, 95.7 That Station, 99.9 […]
CBC Here to Help Virtually Raises $350,000 for NC Restaurant Workers Fund
Capitol Broadcasting divisions stepped up to help the local restaurant community with a virtual fundraiser last week, and our viewers, listeners and readers responded in a big way. The CBC Here to Help: Support Local Business fundraiser for the NC Restaurant Workers Relief Fund brought in a total of $350,000 in donations! “The CBC family […]
Shuneca Harrington Named WRAL-TV/FOX 50 Director of Sales
Veteran sales leader Shuneca Harrington has been named WRAL-TV/FOX 50 Director of Sales, effective April 20, 2020. Harrington will join the broadcast arm of Capitol Broadcasting Company (CBC) which operates WRAL News, the most-watched news team in the Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville television market with a long history of ratings dominance. Harrington comes to WRAL from Columbus, GA […]
CBC Here To Help Hosts All-Day Virtual Fundraiser for Local Restaurant Community Thursday, March 26
As the COVID-19 crisis continues, Capitol Broadcasting’s divisions are working together to help our community. Here to Help: Support Local Business will host an all-day virtual fundraiser for our local Restaurant community on Thursday, March 26, 2020. The virtual event will kick-off at 4:30am and run all day on TV, on radio and online to […]
Yebuah Calls Upon Crowd to Have Hope at 40th Annual MLK Triangle Inter-Faith Breakfast
Capitol Broadcasting Company proudly sponsored the annual Triangle Martin Luther King Jr. Triangle Inter-Faith Prayer Breakfast for the 34th year on Monday, January 20, 2020. The event took place at the Sheraton Imperial in Research Triangle Park, NC. The theme for the 40th annual breakfast was based on Dr. King’s words, “We Must Accept Finite […]
Join CBC for the 40th Annual Martin Luther King Inter-Faith Prayer Breakfast
For the past 34 years, Capitol Broadcasting Company has served as the leading sponsor for the annual Martin Luther King Triangle Interfaith Prayer Breakfast. CBC is pleased to continue its support of this very important holiday observance. The 40th Annual Martin Luther King Inter-Faith Prayer Breakfast Monday, January 20, 2020 7:15 AM Sheraton Imperial Hotel, […]
Capitol Broadcasting Serves Community with Annual WRAL Tower Lighting, Uses Event as Backdrop to Thank and Share with Clients
Capitol Broadcasting celebrated the start of the holiday season with two big events in one night. On Monday, December 2, 2019, CBC lit the WRAL-TV Tower for the 61st year and also welcomed some special clients for a party to come see the fun up close. An Annual Tradition Enhanced WRAL-TV not only highlighted the […]
Plants Distributed to NC Nonprofits for 34th Annual WRAL Azalea Celebration
The 34th Annual WRAL Azalea Celebration came to a conclusion on Saturday, October 5, 2019, with winning groups picking up their plants from the WRAL Transmitter site in Auburn, NC. Capitol Broadcasting distributed 4,820 azaleas to 114 nonprofit groups from across North Carolina on Saturday, October 5, 2019. The winners included a mix of public […]
Behind the Scenes at CBC: How Rescan Day Meant Changes at WRAL-TV Transmitter Site
By now WRAL-TV viewers know about the Rescan Day on September 11, 2019, originally slated for September 6 but postponed due to Hurricane Dorian. (To continue receiving the signal for WRAL-TV and FOX 50, viewers watching via antenna need to rescan their television sets.). But behind the scenes at CBC, preparing for the rescan has […]
Bee Downtown Completing a ‘Highway of Honeybees’ Across Triangle – Longest Such Corridor in US
It’s being described as a “highway of honeybees” – more than 150 beehives amounting to some 9.5 million honeybees stretching from Durham to Garner. And Bee Downtown’s CEO and founder Leigh-Kathryn Bonner says it will become the “longest strategically connected healthy honeybee corridor” in the nation with the addition of hives at MetLife’s corporate campus. “MetLife’s […]