Capitol Broadcasting Company

Not to be confused with Capital Cities Communications or Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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.

Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc.

Company type	Private
Industry	Media
Founded	1937
Founder	A.J. Fletcher
Headquarters	Raleigh, North Carolina , U.S.
Key people	James F. Goodmon (Chairman/CEO) James F. Goodmon, Jr. (President/COO) Daniel P. McGrath (Vice President/Treasurer)
Products	Television Radio Sports
Website	www.capitolbroadcasting.com

History

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 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 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 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 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.^[1]

On April 14, 2009, Capitol Broadcasting and the City of Raleigh partnered to introduce the first mobile digital television in a public transit bus.

On January 28, 2013, Fox Television Stations announced that it had entered into an agreement to purchase WJZY and WMYT from Capitol for $18 million;^[2][3] the deal was completed on April 17.^[4][5]

Major assets

(**) – Station that was built and signed-on by Capitol Broadcasting Company.

Television stations

City of license / Market	Station	Channel TV (RF)	Owned since	Primary affiliation
Raleigh, NC	WRAL-TV **	5 (17)	1956	NBC Cozi TV Start TV Ion Mystery
	WRAZ	50 (15)	2000	Fox MeTV Dabl Heroes & Icons
Smithfield-Selma, NC	WNGT-CD	34 (23)	2020	Independent
Wilmington, NC	WILM-LD	10 (15)	1999	Independent MeTV Heroes & Icons

Radio stations

Note: Stations operated within the Wilmington radio station cluster are operated under the name Sunrise Broadcasting;

City of license / Market	Station	Owned since	Current format	Notes
Boiling Spring Lakes, NC	WKXB 99.9	2008	Rhythmic oldies	Serves the Wilmington market
Durham, NC	WDNC 620	2009	Sports radio	Serves the Raleigh market
Holly Springs, NC	WCMC-FM 99.9	2005	ESPN Radio affiliate	Serves the Raleigh market
Raleigh, NC	WCLY 1550	2009	Sports radio	Simulcasts WDNC
	WRAL-FM 101.5	1947	Adult contemporary
Jacksonville, NC	WRMR 98.7	2011	AAA	Serves the Wilmington market
Southport, NC	WAZO 107.5	2008	Contemporary hits	Serves the Wilmington market
Wilmington, NC	WILT 103.7	2015	Adult contemporary
	WMFD 630	2008	Sports radio

Sports

• Durham Bulls – Triple-A minor league baseball team in the International League
• North Carolina Courage – minority stake
• Holly Springs Salamanders – collegiate summer baseball team in the Coastal Plain League
• Wolfpack Sports Properties – joint venture with Learfield IMG College covering NC State Wolfpack sports
• Coastal Plain League

Investments

• TitanTV Media^[6]

Former stations

Television

City of license / Market	Station	Channel	Years owned	Current status
Bloomington–Kokomo–Indianapolis, IN	WTTV	4	1988–1991	CBS affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
	WTTK[a]	29
Rock Hill, SC–Belmont–Charlotte, NC	WJZY	46	1987–2013	Fox affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
	WMYT-TV	55	2000–2013	MyNetworkTV affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group

1. Satellite of WTTV.

Radio

• North Carolina News Network (now owned by Curtis Media Group)
• WILT – Wilmington, North Carolina (now owned by Bible Broadcasting Network with the call sign WYHW)
• WWMX – Baltimore (now owned by Audacy)
• WOCT-FM – Baltimore (now owned by iHeartMedia with the call sign WZFT)
• WRNL – Richmond, Virginia (now owned by Audacy)
• WRXL – Richmond, Virginia (now owned by Audacy)
• WSTF – Cocoa Beach, Florida (now owned by iHeartMedia with the call sign WJRR)