The Walltown Park Recreation Center a "community day" this Saturday -- its first since the facility has been renovated.

The event is free, open to the public and will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Walltown Center, located at 1308 West Club Blvd.

The event will feature food, games, and entertainment for the entire family. The Mt. Olive Dancers, Fierce Eclipse All-star Cheerleading Dancers, Walltown Wildcat Cheerleaders, Walltown Baton Twirlers and various step teams will be among the many performances at the event.

For more details contact Pam Sellars at 560-4296, ext. 27421.

Ticketmaster is teaming up with Walmart to offer consumers another outlet to buy tickets for concerts and other events.

Ticketmaster has installed touch-screen kiosks in the electronic departments of 42 Walmarts across North Carolina, as part of a nationwide partnership. That includes about a dozen in the Triangle.

Walmart employees will assist customers buying and printing tickets.

For the retailer, the arrangement could help increase traffic as Walmart seeks to boost its electronics business. And it allows Ticketmaster to provide consumers another choice if they don't want to buy tickets online.

Customers still pay the dreaded "convenience" fees. But they don't pay order-processing or delivery fees, said Ticketmaster spokeswoman Jacqueline Peterson.

The Durham Bulls won't ditch their team bus.

Just in time for next week's season-opening games, the minor league baseball team announced today that Delta Air Lines will be their official airline for the 2011 and 2012 seasons.

The partnership reinforces Delta's interest in the Raleigh-Durham market, said airline vice president Jeff Robertson.

Delta will install advertising on signs and scoreboards at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, and airline employees at RDU will wear Bulls hats and logos.

The Durham Performing Arts Center finished 2010 with 59 of its 151 performances being sellouts.

The events drew a total of 307,000 guests to the center, which finished its second year in operation.

DPAC begins its 2011 schedule on Tuesday with Disney's The Lion King, which will run through Jan. 30.

DPAC's 2010 sellouts included: Vince Gill, Harry Connick Jr., Hairspray, Moody Blues, Wilco, Experience Hendrix, David Gray, Wicked, Chicago, Beauty & the Beast, Ringo Starr, Norah Jones, Lyle Lovett, Lewis Black, Vince Gill/Amy Grant, Cedric the Entertainer and the Moscow Ballet.

Time Warner Cable this morning characterized its business partner, Sinclair Broadcasting, as a liar and scoundrel in an escalating public brawl over programming fees.

The show-stopper behind the nasty rhetoric is a contract dispute over how much Time Warner should pay to carry Sinclair's CW22 and MyRDC signals in 2011. Popular shows include "Gossip Girl," "Nikita" and "Vampire Diaries."

Sinclair has threatened to pull its programs at midnight tonight if it can't renew its contract with Time Warner. For its part, Time Warner says that it would be forced to raise its customers' rates to cover Sinclair's proposed price hikes.

"Sinclair is threatening to take its stations off the air if Time Warner Cable does not agree to its demands for larger fees," the cable company said in a press release.

Time Warner Cable rejected the latest offer from Sinclair Broadcasting, and is refusing further negotiations, Sinclair officials said today.

The escalating feud over programming fees will mean that Time Warner Cable customers could lose the CW22 and MyRDC signals as of midnight Friday. Popular CW shows include "Gossip Girl," "Nikita" and "Vampire Diaries."

Sinclair proposed a fee increase that averaged about 10 cents per subscriber, but officials said today that Time Warner "refused to provide a financial counter-proposal, effectively ending negotiations."

Time Warner responded that Sinclair's statement is false.

"Time Warner Cable has at no time told Sinclair that we were terminating negotiations," Time Warner wrote in its own statement today. "We remain open and willing to negotiate a reasonable agreement for our customers and have no intention of declaring negotiations to be at an end, even in the event that Sinclair decides to pull their signals from Time Warner Cable on December 31st."

Among the signs of a new year: a ball (or acorn) dropping, champagne popping and TV titans fighting.

Television broadcasters and pay-TV providers are increasingly at odds over programming fees. With many contracts tied to the calendar year, those disputes tend to flare up as Jan. 1 approaches.

This year's edition pits Time Warner Cable, the Triangle's dominant pay-TV provider, against Sinclair Broadcasting, which owns WLFL, or CW22, and WRDC, or MyRDC. Both sides are warning customers of blackouts when their contract expires at midnight on Dec. 31.

An extended blackout could disrupt fans of popular CW shows such as the Vampire Diaries, Nikita, 90210 and Gossip Girl, left.

Christmas has arrived for Triangle radio listeners.

Officials with WRAL-FM (Mix 101.5) this morning converted the station's broadcast to all-holiday music. They had planned to wait until Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, for the annual switch but decided to do it a few days early.

The station has been streaming holiday music at its website and on its HD sister channel for several weeks. The volume of listeners on those outlets and an "enormous number of emails and calls from listeners asking that we start sooner" prompted the earlier switch,  program director Barry Fox wrote in an e-mail.

Visitors to North Carolina's six ski areas spent $88 million last season on lift tickets, equipment rentals, lodging and more.

The total economic impact of the industry was $146 million, according to an economic-impact study commissioned by the N.C. Ski Areas Association. That includes an estimate of employment value and other ripple effects of the industry.

The industry provides 96 year-round jobs and 1,556 seasonal jobs, according to the analysis, conducted by RRC Associates, a market-research firm in Boulder, Colo.

The Triangle's largest pay-TV provider has added a feature that allows digital cable subscribers to go back and watch shows they missed during the previous three days.

Time Warner Cable's "Look Back" service is the latest extra the company is marketing in this region to stand out from competitors and sell higher-priced digital bundles.

The company also offers a "Start Over" function that allows viewers to restart a show in progress.