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.
In his second term, he laid the financial groundwork for what would become Durham Bulls Athletic Park, persuading the owner of the minor league team to keep the Bulls in Durham.
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His 30 years of experience includes professional golf with the PGA, professional baseball with the Durham Bulls, and anchor announcing duties for NBC in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Sports film buffs will recognize the Generals as one of the teams the Durham Bulls played against in the 1988 movie Bull Durham.
Manuel is an expert on college baseball, minor league prospects and the draft, leading to radio and television appearances on ESPN and as a color analyst for USA Baseball and the Durham Bulls.
The rival Durham, North Carolina based Durham Bulls franchise who also played in the Carolina League and were a New York Mets affiliate acquired the Raleigh franchise.
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This team merged into the Durham, North Carolina based Durham Bulls in 1968 who also played in the Carolina League (now playing in the International League).
The game also had many invited guests such as the NCSU Cheerleading Squad, Stormy, the mascot of the Carolina Hurricanes, and Wool E. Bull mascot of the Durham Bulls.
Capitol, already in the process of moving their minor league baseball team, the Durham Bulls, into the new Durham Bulls Athletic Park being built by the city, announced plans to move WDNC into the ballpark upon its completion in 1995.
However the effect changed when the new team would absorb the Durham Bulls name and the Bulls' Carolina League history because the Bulls starred in the film Bull Durham and also the Triple-A expansion team was awarded to the Bulls' owners the Capitol Broadcasting Company in which automatically the new team would be operated by the Bulls' operating entity Durham Bulls Baseball Club, Inc. which operated the Bulls in the Carolina League.