The Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. ( CBC ) is an American media company based in Raleigh, North Carolina . Capitol owns three television stations and nine radio stations in the Raleigh–Durham and Wilmington areas of North Carolina and the Durham Bulls minor league baseball team as well as the Coastal Plain League, a college summer baseball league. It is one of the few family-owned broadcasting companies left in the country, owned by four generations of the Fletcher-Goodmon family.
7-433: Tobacco Radio Network was a radio network owned and operated by Capitol Broadcasting Company of Raleigh, North Carolina . Begun in 1942, the network was dedicated to educating and keeping farmers informed of the latest agricultural news , stories, and market standings. With the help of broadcaster Ray Wilkinson , the network went from being broadcast on one North Carolina affiliate to affiliates from Virginia to Florida. In
14-563: A radio show or program in the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Capitol Broadcasting Company A.J. Fletcher founded the Capitol Broadcasting Company in 1937 when he founded Raleigh radio station WRAL (1240 AM, now WPJL ). WRAL radio began transmission two years later in 1939, using a 250-watt transmitter, becoming Raleigh 's second radio station (after WPTF ). In 1942, Capitol created
21-789: The Indianapolis area. WTTV and WTTK were sold in 1991 to River City Broadcasting . In 1996, WRAL-TV was granted the first experimental high definition digital television license in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission. On October 13, 2000, WRAL became the first television station in the world to broadcast a news program entirely in high-definition ; the station would begin broadcasting all of its local newscasts in high-definition in January 2001. In 2001, Capitol purchased WFVT (now WMYT-TV ) in Charlotte, creating
28-677: The Tobacco Radio Network , a farm news radio service that was discontinued in 2002. On September 6, 1946, Capitol Broadcasting received a license with the Federal Communications Commission for WCOY-FM (whose callsign was later changed to WRAL-FM), operating from a 250,000-watt transmitter. In 1960, CBC founded the North Carolina News Network , a statewide radio network that now provides news, weather, and sports content to about 80 radio stations. This property
35-609: The late 1940s, a sister station was formed called the Tobacco Sports Network, which carried North Carolina collegiate football and basketball. In 1959, the two networks were merged into the Tobacco Network and later that became the Capitol Agribusiness Network. In 1996, all of Capitol Broadcasting's radio networks were restructured and merged into the North Carolina News Network . This article about
42-578: The market's second television duopoly . On October 14, 2005, Capitol Broadcasting signed on WCMC-FM on 99.9 MHz in Raleigh with a country music format, "Genuine Country". In July 2008, Capitol Broadcasting acquired five radio stations in Wilmington from NextMedia Group for $ 12 million. On April 14, 2009, Capitol Broadcasting and the City of Raleigh partnered to introduce the first mobile digital television in
49-577: Was sold to Curtis Media Group in 2009. On December 15, 1956, Capitol Broadcasting's flagship television station WRAL-TV went on the air in Raleigh. In 1979, WRAL-TV became the first television station in North Carolina to have a dedicated helicopter for newsgathering. In 1987, Capitol acquired independent station WJZY-TV in Charlotte . The following year, Capitol also acquired another independent station, WTTV and its satellite station, WTTK , in
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