WRAL-TV Sponsors Home, Garden & Flower Show
WRAL-TV Sponsors Home, Garden & Flower Show WRAL-TV is currently sponsoring the Home, Garden and Flower Show at the Civic Center in downtown Raleigh from Thursday, February 15 to Sunday, February 19. This is TV5’s second sponsorship of the annual event. The station is also hosting its own booth. The Creation of An Indoor Garden… […]
Endowment Established For Scholarship Fund in CBC Executive’s Name
Endowment Established For Scholarship Fund in CBC Executive’s Name About four years ago, Saint Augustine’s College in Raleigh, North Carolina, established the Paul R. Pope, Jr. Scholarship Fund in honor of CBC’s current Vice President of Community Relations. Now the college is holding a fundraising to establish an endowment for this fund. On Sunday, February […]
WRAL-TV Employees See Their Shadows
WRAL-TV Employees See Their Shadows Puxatawnee Phil wasn’t the only one to see his shadow last Friday, February 2. Several WRAL-TV employees had shadows of their own for the Groundhog Career Shadow Day. In conjunction with Junior Achievement of Eastern North Carolina, Wake County Public Schools Systems, Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and Wake Education […]
WRAL-TV Celebrates Digital Transition
WRAL-TV Celebrates Digital Transition News Director Andrea Parquet-Taylor, Director/Producer Chris Bolanz and Technology Reporter Tom Lawrence celebrate the completion of a goal. The staff at WRAL-TV has been working incredible hours for the past several months to complete the newscast’s transition to digital. Staffers learned their way around brand new equipment, most of which is […]
A Special Digital Transition Thank You List
A Special HD Transition Thank You List Television history once again. WRAL launched its new digital newsroom and HD newsgathering capabilities, and showed the world that life is indeed good on the leading edge. The timing of the launch on the day after we won yet another Emmy for News Excellence is somewhat serendipitous-great things […]
Goodmons Honored By Methodist Home For Children
Goodmons Honored By Methodist Home For Children Fletcher Foundation Inducted Into Guardian Angel Society Jim and Barbara Goodmon were recently honored at “A Winter’s Tale,” the annual celebration of the Methodist Home for Children (MHC). The event took place at Embassy Suites in Cary on Saturday, January 27, 2001. The A.J. Fletcher Foundation received special […]
WRAL-TV Successfully Converts Newscasts To Digital
WRAL-TV Successfully Converts Newscasts To Digital Mission accomplished. WRAL-TV became the world’s first news operation to gather and present high-definition local news on a continuous basis with the debut of its new all-digital newsroom on Sunday, January 28th during its late night newscast. WRAL-TV broadcast the first all-digital newscast from its new studios on Sunday, […]
WRAL-TV Brings Home Regional Emmys
WRAL-TV Brings Home Regional Emmys WRAL-TV Consumer Reporter Monica Laliberte(left) & Producer Lori Lair received a regional Emmy for their story about flooded cars. WRAL-TV’s dedication to excellence garnered recognition for the station at the Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards; the Raleigh station took home six statuettes at the recent awards ceremony. The National Academy of […]
WRAL-TV To Premiere New Studio After SuperBowl/Survivor II DoubleHeader
WRAL-TV To Premiere New Studio After SuperBowl/Survivor II DoubleHeader WRAL-TV Unveils New Digital Newsroom The new WRAL-TV newsroom will premiere on Sunday, January 28th, for the 11:00pm newscast. Sunday night, January 28, will be a big night for WRAL-TV. Not only is the Raleigh station broadcasting both the SuperBowl XXXV in HD and the premiere […]
WRAL-TV Debuts All-Digital High Definition Newsroom
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 25, 2001 For more information, contact Cindy Sink, Creative Services Manager ( 919) 821-8643 William Pritchard, Panasonic (201) 348-7182 WRAL-TV Debuts All-Digital High Definition Newsroom -The World’s First HDTV News Gathering Operation- January 28, 2001 Super Bowl 6pm Survivor II 10pm WRAL High Definition News 11pm Raleigh–Ushering in a new era […]