Celebrate The Season with WRAL-TV as Tower Lights for Holidays

A WRAL-TV holiday tradition continues this year as the station’s 300-foot TV tower is transformed into a 300-foot Christmas tree at 7:30pm Monday, Dec. 3, 2008.

Located at the WRAL-TV Studios at 2619 Western Boulevard in Raleigh, the lighted tower can be seen for miles through New Year’s Day.

Three 5-foot stars adorn the top of the tower and 2,805 colored lights keep it glowing throughout the holiday season.

WRAL-TV’s tower turns into a giant Christmas tree for the holidays.

Performances for the “Tower of Lights” special include Raleigh Jazz, Tar Heel Voices and soloist Evette Anderson.

The “Celebrate the Season” program will begin at 7:30pm on WRAL-TV, and culminate with the flipping of the switch on the tower lights.

This year’s tower lighting also will make history. It will be the first time a local TV station has streamed live video on mobile phones.

The tower lighting can be viewed live on mobile phones in several different ways.

• WRAL Wireless subscribers on Sprint will be able to view it through their downloaded application.
• Subscribers to the My Local TV channel on Sprint TV will be able to view it there.
• Viewers can watch it free on any Sprint video phone.
• Type wral.com in the URL, or text WRAL to 46988 and follow the link to “Mobile Access.

For more information on how to get WRAL Wireless,  visit http://mobile.wral.com.

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