Carolina Ballet | Media Partners


In order to raise awareness and assist in ticket revenues, Carolina Ballet partners with the region's top media companies each season.
Program Sponsor for Nutcracker	The News and Observer The News & Observer is one of the nation's top regional newspapers, providing in-depth news and comprehensive lifestyle, arts, sports and business coverage in print and online. Coverage of arts and entertainment throughout the Triangle is anchored in What's Up, a Friday weekend entertainment magazine, and A&E, a Sunday section devoted to broad and deep coverage of both fine and popular art forms.
Media Sponsor for Sleeping Beauty	Time Warner Cable Time Warner Cable donated more than two and a half million dollars in cash and in-kind sponsorships to non-profit organizations throughout the Eastern Carolina Division in 2007. Our contributions emphasize the arts, education, health and human services, chambers of commerce and economic development. • TWC provides Cable in the Classroom to more than 650 schools. • TWC's leadership team members serve on more than 50 non profit boards throughout the community. • TWC has donated time, cash or in-kind services to more than 250 community organizations this year alone. • TWC was recognized in the summer edition of Cary Business magazine as a company who has a "Business of Giving." • TWC has partnerships with five community colleges in the area. • TWC has revamped its volunteer policy to match volunteer hours with cash for the non profit agencies where they volunteer. • The Eastern Carolina Division covers 183 towns and 703,410 customers in 36 NC counties. • The Eastern Carolina Division has nearly 2400 employees.
	Mix 101.5 WRAL-FM (MIX 101.5) is an adult contemporary radio station that has served the Raleigh, NC community for over 55 years. Over 200,000 adult listeners per week tune into the best MIX of the 80's, 90's and today. MIX's high programming standards reinforce family values throughout all of its programming and community activities. Each spring, Mix holds a Radiothon to benefit Duke University's Children's Hospital. This event has grown into one of the top radio fundraisers in the Nation, raising over $5 million in nine years.
	FOX 50 FOX 50 WRAZ-TV, owned by Capitol Broadcasting Company, is a FOX affiliate that provides popular entertainment programs, professional sports, and a prime time newscast seven nights a week. FOX 50 responds to community needs through various public service efforts, including but not limited to two weekly, locally produced public affairs programs.
	The Independent Locally owned and independently published since 1983, The Independent Weekly covers the booming Research Triangle Park market in the heart of Raleigh, Cary, Durham and Chapel Hill. Boasting the highest per capita PhD population in the nation, as well as a huge student population with three major universities--North Carolina State, University of NC at Chapel Hill and Duke--the entire Triangle looks to us every Wednesday for news and arts coverage with an attitude. The Independent's reporters have won most of the major national investigative awards including the George Polk Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the Green Eyeshade Award for the South's best journalism and the Baltimore Sun's H.L. Mencken Writing Award. In addition to our extensive weekly A&E coverage, we offer a Rock 'n' Roll Quarterly and a monthly Independent Reader--strong special sections complementing the music, film, visual arts, theater, dance and pop culture our readers love.
Media Sponsor for Balanchine Favorites Week 1	The Raleigh Downtowner The Raleigh Downtowner is the only locally-owned and operated newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mainly covering the downtown and "inside the beltline" areas, we feature stories on local entertainment, arts, people, events, and more. Our readers live and work all around the Triangle, and go out in the downtown area every week. We reach over 20,000 readers each month.
Media Sponsor for Balanchine Favorites Week 2	Boom! Boom! Magazine is the Triangle's exclusive publication that inspires, motivates, educates, and delights active adult readers with a vigorous new image of Phase II living. In fact, Boom! is the only lifestyle magazine in the Triangle that specifically targets the baby boomers and their parents. Monthly topics include financial news for living smart, health and wellness information for living well, and lifestyle and entertainment topics for living large! Boom! reaches 50,000 readers monthly in Orange, Durham, Wake, Chatham, Johnston, and Lee counties. To find a distribution location close to you, visit the Web site, www.BoomNC.com, and look under "Get the Magazine."
Media Sponsor for Cabaret	Ignite Social Media Ignite Social Media is North Carolina's first social media agency. Ignite helps clients put blogs, podcasts, wikis and social networks to work, using social media marketing to better connect with customers and prospects.
Media Sponsor for Carolina Jamboree	Curtis Media Group Curtis Media Group began in the 1960's by Don Curtis. From then to now, the company has grown to 19 locally owned and operated radio stations, serving listeners and advertisers from the Mountains to the Coast. The formats range for Country to Rock to News Talk to Gospel...something for everyone. WQDR is the leading radio station in central North Carolina, reaching more than 400,000 people each week. WQDR has a strong commitment to the local community including the North Carolina Children's Promise radiothon, Halloween Harvest Ball and the QDR Hometown Tour highlighting different communities in our area throughout the Summer with live broadcast with the Q Morning Crew.
Media Sponsor for Waltzes of Old Vienna	Starpoint Digital Media
	Fifteen 501
	Wake Living
	Metro Magazine
	M.D. News