Full Frame Announces Partnership with Capitol Broadcasting Company and American Tobacco Campus

Full Frame Road Show

Partnership presents free documentary screenings through the Full Frame Road Show The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Capitol Broadcasting Company and the American Tobacco Campus recently announced their exciting partnership for the Full Frame Road Show presented by Capitol Broadcasting Company and the American Tobacco Campus. The Road Show presents free documentary film screenings to […]

CBC Launches Multi-Year Campaign to Fight Human Trafficking

Awards and Top Ten lists are usually a good thing, but that isn’t the case when it comes to an issue plaguing North Carolina.  Capitol Broadcasting recently embarked upon a campaign to raise awareness about human trafficking and help its victims. Project NO REST launched in January 2017 and will continue through September 2018. A […]

Watching the Radio

From Note to Self, the blog of Capitol Sports Vice President George Habel: Do not attempt this in you car, but you have my permission to try it at work – watching the radio. We are streaming video of our local sports radio talk shows – live from the Highwoods studio – to your phone […]

Go To Extremes with WRAL-TV’s Tar Heel Traveler on Thursday

Tune in to WRAL-TV at 7pm on Thursday, January 26, 2017, for the latest Tar Heel Traveler special.  The edition features opposites and extremes:  The state’s biggest, smallest, shortest, oldest, fastest and longest. People, places, landmarks, milestones. Join WRAL-TV Tar Heel Traveler Scott Mason on a thrilling journey across the state, from top to bottom, […]

A Ride in SKY 5 with a Big CBC Greeting Make Wish Come True for Mac

Make-A-Wish at WRAL-TV

Just two days after his birthday, the newly-8-year-old Mac Hogstrom had a dream came true as he rode in a helicopter for the first time.  Mac is no run-of-the-mill kid; he’s undergone constant medical treatment in his young life for liver issues.  And the helicopter was no ordinary chopper; Mac flew in SKY 5! Capitol […]

WRAL-TV Brings Home Seven Awards from MidSouth Emmys

Justin Arner

The 31st annual MidSouth Regional Emmy Award winners were crowned in Nashville on Saturday, January 21, 2017, and WRAL-TV came home with seven statuettes.  WRAL-TV Promotion Writer/Producer Justin Arner took home three awards himself, as well as being part of a team winning a fourth. WRAL-TV’s honors included nods for promotions, a documentary, and one […]

WRAL-TV Coats for the Children Breaks Record, Biggest Total Ever!

WRAL-TV Coats sorting

Ironically the coats sorting for WRAL-TV’s 2016 Coats for the Children Campaign had to be rescheduled due to the winter weather Mother Nature dished out in early January.  However, volunteers, including WRAL-TV Anchor/Reporter Ken Smith, gathered at the Salvation Army on the MLK Day of Service on Monday, January 16, 2017, and sorted the 6,423 […]

More National Kudos for the Bulls

Durham Bulls

Stadium Journey, a website devoted to the review of sports venues across the country, released its Top 100 Stadium Experiences of 2016. The site reviewed 761 different stadium experiences, and out of all of them, Durham Bulls Athletic Park checked in at ninth on their list. Check out the full scoop on the latest “Hit […]

Talkin’ Countryfide!

Ray Wilkinson & Bob Sadler

Do you know the meaning of “settin’ up, puttin’ in, comin’ off, and comin’ out?” If not – you are not as smart as a North Carolina tobacco farmer. Today, you will become learned (pronounced “learn -ed”) in talkin’ countryfide. Your teacher is Ray Wilkinson (1925-2004), CBC Vice President and General Manager of Tobacco Radio […]

MIX Washes Away Reminders of Winter Storm with Xpress Promotion

MIX 101.5 Car Wash

Great ideas come from the most basic of places.  After the winter storm, MIX 101.5 staffers talked about how they needed to get a car wash, especially Promotions Coordinator Justina Kruser, who just got a new car. So, on Friday, January 13, 2017, MIX 101.5’s Two Men and a Mom announced they would be taking […]