WRAL & FOX50 Receive 22 Regional Emmy Nominations
WRAL & FOX50 Receive 22 Regional Emmy Nominations Both WRAL-TV & FOX50 received numerous nominations for the 17th annual Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards. Winners will be announced at a ceremony at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville, TN, on Saturday, February 1, 2003. The 226 award nominees in 58 categories were selected from nearly 700 […]
WRAL Radio and Television Stations Help Find Missing Children
WRAL Radio and Television Stations Help Find Missing Children After the frightening numbers of children who have come up missing over the past year, more and more state governments are adopting the “Amber Alert” emergency response plan. This system alerts local media when a child goes missing, and these media outlets get the word out […]
FOX50 Wins Two Awards For Commercials
FOX50 Wins Two Awards For Commercials FOX50’s Tim Greeney FOX50’s Karen Johnson FOX 50 brought home not one, but two 2002 Promax awards. The national competition presented awards in Los Angeles at the PROMAX & BDA national conference. In the “Broadcast Television Station (In-House) – Comedy Program” category FOX50 won a silver medallion for Producer […]
FOX50 Honored By Durham Housing Authority
FOX50 Honored By Durham Housing Authority The Durham Housing Authority honored FOX50 at the organization’s Annual Scholarship Program and Recognition Banquet on Saturday, June 8, 2002. FOX50 General Sales Manager Evelyn Booker accepted an award on behalf of the station for FOX50’s sponsorship of the READS scholarship program. The Durham Housing Authority honored FOX50 for […]
FOX50’s Karen Johnson Nominated For Promax Award
FOX50’s Karen Johnson Nominated For Promax Award WRAZ Producer Karen Johnson FOX50 Producer Karen Johnson has received a nomination for a PROMAX award. Working on an idea from FOX50 Maintenance Engineer John George, Johnson created an advertisement parodying the popular movie The Sixth Sense. Johnson not only got inspiration from within the station, she got […]
Occoneechee Scouts Honor Capitol Broadcasting and Post 50
Occoneechee Scouts Honor Capitol Broadcasting and Post 50 Capitol Broadcasting Company and the Explorer Post sponsored by CBC subsidiaries WRAZ-TV/FOX50 and the Durham Bulls both received honors at a recent banquet celebrating the Learning for Life program of the Boys Scouts of America. CBC and Paul Pope, its VP of Community Affairs, hosted the banquet […]
FOX50 Launches Morning News Program
FOX50 Launches Morning News Program Capitol Broadcasting Company’s dedication to local news excellence has expanded in the form of a new morning news program. “FOX50 Morning Connection” hit the airways on Monday, March 18, 2002. The WRAZ-TV venture will air weekdays from 7-8am. The newscast will be a continuation of WRAL-TV’s 5-7am newscast. Anchored by […]
Local Anchor To Join FOX50 Team
Local Anchor To Join FOX50 Team Miriam Thomas will begin anchoring and serving as Public Affairs Director for FOX 50 in April. On Friday, February 22, 2002, FOX50 announced that Miriam Thomas, a local news figure in the Triangle for almost two decades, will be joining their news team. Thomas will become the WRAZ-TV Public […]
FOX 50 To Broadcast The Light Up Durham Holiday Parade Special
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 4 , 2001 For more information, contact Joanne Stanley, FOX 50 Program Director, (919) 595-5050 Mark Bradley, Promotion and Marketing Manager (919) 595-5103 FOX 50 To Broadcast The Light Up Durham Holiday Parade Special DURHAM – Once again FOX 50 will broadcast The Light Up Durham Holiday Parade Special – a […]
FOX 50 Covers Durham Holiday Parade
FOX 50 Covers Durham Holiday Parade On Saturday, Dec. 1, FOX 50 taped the Durham Holiday Parade which was part of the annual Light Up Durham event. Executive Producer Randy Mews and Producer Mark Bradley created a team using the talents of FOX 50 and WRAL employees to cover this event. FOX 50 news anchors […]