North Carolina
WTVI-TV’s Carolina Business Review is the longest-running and most widely watched syndicated program on business and industry in the Carolinas. For more than 18 years CBR has provided in-depth analysis of the week’s business highlights through conversations with CEOs and business, political, and academic leaders in the Carolinas. Topics addressed include general business indicators, the economy of both North and South Carolina, the financial market, and corporate and real estate development.
Broadcast every Monday on North Carolina Now, UNC-TV's flagship public affairs series “North Carolina Rising” is a UNC-TV multiyear initiative of special reports that raise awareness of effective rural economic development throughout the state. The reports examine how communities are reinventing themselves through innovative options such as tourism, small business, alternative crops, biotechnology and biomanufacturing, food processing, military contracts, and education. Every month, UNC-TV produces two “North Carolina Rising” feature stories and re-airs several of the 12 segments created in the first phase of the project. In addition, “North Carolina Rising” reports were compiled into two hour-long programs that aired in the fall of 2011.
Black Issues Forum, originated in 1987 as a quarterly investigation into the needs, concerns, and problems of the black community. Now a weekly series, Black Issues Forum continues to address the prevailing issues that shape, affect, and define African Americans in North Carolina and beyond.
With one in four North Carolinians reported to be providers of regular care for someone age 60 or older, Caregiving in North Carolina is a weekly half-hour panel discussion that delves into the many issues involved with caregiving and the resources available to caregivers in the state.
North Carolina Voices, produced by WUNC-FM in Chapel Hill, transcends daily news coverage by taking an in-depth look at large-scale, complex issues that deeply touch the lives of North Carolinians. Previous series have explored issues such as education, unemployment, war, and poverty. In 2006, North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty won a duPont-Columbia broadcast news award.