Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The network was so-named because tobacco was the leading agricultural crop in Eastern North Carolina, where the oldest stations of the network were based. With the establishment of WRAL-FM in 1946, the network took advantage of its static-free reception and wide coverage area to begin relaying programming to other stations that desired ...
A native of Devonshire, [1] Evans started his screen acting career in 1914 at the World Film Company in Fort Lee, New Jersey. [2]His performances include the Earl of Glenheather Castle in The Three Stooges comedy The Hot Scots and its remake Scotched in Scotland, the well-meaning but clueless butler Wilkes in Vagabond Loafers’’ and in the Our Gang short Shrimps for a Day.
Ivy Burne, also known as the John Murchison Hodges, Sr. House, is a historic home and farm complex and national historic district located near Linden, Harnett County, North Carolina. It encompasses eight contributing buildings and one contributing site on a rural farm complex.
Herbert Evans may refer to: Herbert McLean Evans (1882–1971), American anatomist and embryologist; Herbert Evans (politician) (1868–1931), British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Gateshead 1931; Herbert Evans (actor) (1882–1952), British-born American film actor; Herbert Evans (lawyer) (1884–1970), solicitor-general of New Zealand ...
CMG is the largest privately held broadcast company in North Carolina, and claims that WQDR-FM is the highest-billing radio station in the state. Don Curtis formed a company, Inner Banks Broadcasting, in partnership with eastern North Carolina broadcaster Henry Hinton, which in 2006 purchased WMFR from CBS Radio , and simulcasts talk WSJS and ...
The stations hired legendary agricultural broadcaster Ray Wilkinson in 1948, and along with WRAL-FM Raleigh and WGBR Goldsboro, started the Tobacco Network. It was sold to WRAL-FM owner A. J. Fletcher, and has grown into what is now known as the North Carolina News Network. Two years after its first sign on, the WCEC-FM call sign was changed to ...
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
North Carolina Highway 217 passes through the town as Linden Road and Mill Road, leading northeast 7 miles (11 km) to Erwin and west 2 miles (3 km) to U.S. Route 401. Via US 401 it is 18 miles (29 km) southwest from Linden to Fayetteville , the Cumberland County seat.