WRAL-TV To Light Tower for Holidays
WRAL-TV To Light Tower for Holidays As has become an annual tradition, WRAL-TV will turn its 300 foot television tower into a giant Christmas tree on Monday, December 1, 2003. This year, WRAL will count down to its 44th annual tower lighting with a half-hour special hosted by Anchors David Crabtree, Pam Saulsby, Gerald Owens […]
Record Crowd Lines Streets for Raleigh Christmas Parade
Record Crowd Lines Streets for Raleigh Christmas Parade Parade grand marshall Clay Aiken helped WRAL commentate the event. Wool E. Bull entertained fans from the MIX float. Santa got big cheers, but the loudest ovation of the day came for Raleigh’s Idol Clay Aiken. Grand marshal of the 59th Annual Raleigh Christmas Parade, Aiken drew […]
WRAL To Provide Live Coverage of Raleigh Christmas Parade
WRAL To Provide Live Coverage of Raleigh Christmas Parade WRAL-TV will broadcast the 59th Annual Raleigh Christmas Parade on Saturday, November 22, 2003, from 10am – noon, live. Hometown singing sensation Clay Aiken will serve as grand marshal. About 100,000 people are expected to line the streets of the 1½-mile route through downtown, with another […]
WRAL-TV Reporter Dan Wilkinson Dies Suddenly
WRAL-TV Reporter Dan Wilkinson Dies Suddenly Dan Wilkinson 1958-2003 CBC suddenly lost one of our devoted employees on Thursday, October 30, 2003. WRAL-TV Reporter Dan Wilkinson, a 9-year staffer of CBC divisions including Tobacco Radio Network (TRN), Capitol Networks & WRAL-TV, won several awards for his work in farm reporting. Wilkinson followed in his father’s […]
Parish Wins Award For Super-size Documentary
Parish Wins Award For Super-size Documentary WRAL Prodcuer Phyllis Parish won an award for the documentary “Super-sizing Our Kids”. NC Prevention Partners bestowed its 2003 Award For Excellence in the Media on WRAL-TV Senior Producer Phyllis Parish for her documentary, “Supersizing Our Kids: NC’s Epidemic of Obesity.” She won for both writing and producing the […]
CBC Stations Greet Viewers at the Fair
CBC Stations Greet Viewers at the Fair Once again the State Fair is in town, and several Capitol Broadcasting stations are greetings fans. WRAL-TV, FOX50 & WRAL-FM/MIX 101.5 are manning a tent beside the Dorton Arena, holding drawings and selling shirts, coolers, hats & more. WRAL-TV, WRAL-FM & FOX50 have a tent at the State […]
City of Raleigh Awards WRAL for Gardens
City of Raleigh Awards WRAL for Gardens Grissom accepted the award on behalf of WRAL-TV. CBC Property Manager Tim Grissom (r) & his asst Rodney Collier attended the ceremony. WRAL-TV recently won an award for the beauty of the WRAL Gardens on its property from the City of Raleigh. The 21st Annual Sir Walter Raleigh […]
Azaleas Distributed in 18th Annual Celebration
Azaleas Distributed in 18th Annual Celebration AJ Fletcher Award Winners Announced On Saturday, October 4, 2003, azaleas were distributed for the 18th Annual WRAL Azalea Celebration. North Carolina non-profits applied for the plants with their landscaping ideas to use them to beautify their properties, and winners picked up their azaleas from Capitol Broadcasting Company’s nurseries. […]
Hurricane Isabel Recovery Donation Drive Exceeds Expectations
Hurricane Isabel Recovery Donation Drive Exceeds Expectations WRAL-TV5, WRAL.com, MIX 101.5 & FOX50 Thank Generous Viewers & Listeners for Digging Deep to Help Our Neighbors to the East WRAL-FM staffers help load tons of donated items. Triangle residents were generous with their giving. Kindness and generosity were measured in tons on Friday, September 26 when […]
WRAL.com Breaks More Records
WRAL.com Breaks More Records A month after setting a record for page views, WRAL.com has done it again. The Web site registered 4,257,478 page views for the week ending Aug. 31 to break the record it had set in July for page views in a month. That week’s total gave WRAL.com nearly 26 million page […]