Back Porch Music on the Lawn Lineup Returns to Durham!
Eight Free Concerts Welcome Returning Favorites and New Sensations to AmericanTobacco Campus Pickers, rockers, groovers and all cool cats are invited to the return of American Tobacco’s legendary Back Porch Music on the Lawn concert series, May 11 – September 14. The eight free Thursday evening concerts will once again take place on the historic campus’ interior […]
WRAL News Launches on Google Home
Station becomes first local news station on Google’s smart speaker WRAL News is now available on Google Home, making it the first local news station in the country to provide a service on the Google Assistant platform. The WRAL News service for Google Home offers users the top headlines read by WRAL’s anchors and reporters, […]
LIVE@
If you could merge “Wayne’s World” with “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” your mind might imagine a program similar to WRAL.com’s daily 10 minute program ”LIVE@” that streamed online in 2009. The first couple of questions one might ask are…LIVE at where? LIVE at when? Where = The internet. Specifically, WRAL.com When = Weekdays at […]
Governor Cooper Celebrates at Rocky Mount Mills
Rocky Mount Mills had a great time hosting Governor Roy Cooper and the North Carolina Craft Brewers Guild Friday, March 24, 2017, on campus as he proclaimed April to be NC Beer Month. Governor Cooper signed a State Proclamation Friday as he sat, signed and sipped on a beer brewed with watermelon from Tarboro Brewing […]
New WRAL Documentary Examines Effects of Wealth Disparity in NC
Rich and Poor in North Carolina Airs Thursday, March 30 at 7 p.m. Most of the wealth in this country is concentrated in the hands of a few. That holds true in North Carolina, between individuals and communities. What are the real effects of this wealth disparity? The new WRAL Documentary “State of Inequality” examines […]
RDU Airport Welcomes New Stores, Including WRAL Travel Store
Raleigh-Durham International Airport is welcoming several new stores in 2018, including the WRAL Travel Store. This store will open in summer 2018. The store will be located in Concourse D of Terminal 2, which serves airlines including Delta and American. Travelers can buy travel essentials like snacks, souvenirs and magazines. Customers will also be able […]
WRAL-TV Wraps 5th Annual CBC-UNC Diversity Fellowship Program
WRAL hosted 12 student journalists from across the country as part of the fifth annual CBC-UNC Diversity Fellowship. Each spring, WRAL teams up with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to welcome the students to participate in a five-day intensive program preparing them for future broadcast media careers. Professors and professionals from UNC’s […]
Rocky Mount Mills Announces the “Mill Music Sessions” Concert Series, New Partnerships
Rocky Mount Mills announces a free outdoor concert series to celebrate the music genres that have influenced North Carolina’s musical DNA. The Mills is partnering with Schoolkids Records and WUNC to book the debut lineup. Dubbed the SchoolKids Records presents the WUNC Mill Music Sessions offers something for everyone. This year’s roster celebrates stars of […]
Boy Scouts Honor Jim Goodmon with Lifetime Achievement Award
The Occoneechee Council of the Boy Scouts of America recently honored CBC President & CEO Jim Goodmon with its NC Good Scout Lifetime Achievement Award. Goodmon received the recognition at the 2017 Friends of Scouting Breakfast, held at the North Raleigh Hilton on Friday, March 3. “It was a reminder of the positive role Boy […]
CBC Celebrates 80 Years!
The CBC campus on Western Boulevard has been dubbed “Celebration Central”. We celebrated the 60th Anniversary of WRAL on December 15, 2016 and then we puffed up our peacock feathers on February 28 marking our one year anniversary as an NBC affiliate. But we have one more anniversary to acknowledge and it is a big […]