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WRAL-TV’s Gall Honored as News Director of Year |
 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 |
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| News Website WRAL.com |
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| Investigative FIRST PLACE Waiting for Care Bruce Mildwurf, Ed Wilson & David McCorkle |
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Special Report |
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Sports Special |
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| Political-Election SECOND PLACE Election 2010 WRAL-TV |
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| Political-General SECOND PLACE Main Street, N.C. Bryan Mims & Richard Adkins |
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| Series SECOND PLACE Tornado Recovery – The Baker Family Stacy Davis, Geof Levine, Terry Cantrell & Tom Normanly |
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| Spot News SECOND PLACE NC Flooding WRAL-TV |
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- 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.
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