WRAL-TV’s Gall Honored as News Director of Year

WRAL-TV’s Gall Honored as News Director of Year
WRAL-TV Takes Home Multiple RTDNAC Awards

The RTDNAC hsa honored WRAL-TV News Director Rick Gall with its Margaret Murchison News Director of the Year honors.

The Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas recently honored WRAL-TV with multiple awards, one particularly special to the Big 5 news organization. WRAL-TV News Director Rick Gall received the News Director of the Year honors. The newsroom staffers secretly nominated him.

“In my more than three decades in this profession, I have never worked with a better, more fair and thoughtful News Director,” said WRAL-TV Vice President & General Manager Steve Hammel. “I am very proud of Rick and proud for WRAL-TV to have a News Director named News Director of the Year.”

The awards were presented at a luncheon on Saturday, October 29, 2011, at The Speedway Club at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

And the WRAL winners are:

Margaret Murchison News Director of the Year Rick Gall
News Website WRAL.com
Investigative FIRST PLACE Waiting for Care Bruce Mildwurf, Ed Wilson & David McCorkle
Special Report FIRST PLACE Deadly Tornadoes WRAL-TV
Sports Special SECOND PLACE NHL All Star Special Leesa Moore, Stephanie Beck, Chris Burn, Debra Morgan, Jeff Gravley

Political-Election SECOND PLACE Election 2010 WRAL-TV
Political-General SECOND PLACE Main Street, N.C. Bryan Mims & Richard Adkins
Series SECOND PLACE Tornado Recovery – The Baker Family Stacy Davis, Geof Levine, Terry Cantrell & Tom Normanly

Spot News SECOND PLACE NC Flooding WRAL-TV

Check out the WRAL.com story about Gall’s win: Congrats to our ‘News Director of the Year’
Read one of WRAL-TV’s nomination letters for Gall here
See photos from the awards ceremony on the RTDNAC’s Facebook page

Thanks to WRAL.com for the capcom photo of Rick Gall.