WRAL streaming TV apps get a fresh, intuitive design

WRAL streaming apps

WRAL’s streaming apps for Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Android TV received an update with a cleaner and clearer user interface and an improved user experience. The update makes finding the live or latest on-demand newscast easier to find and watch, and dramatically simplifies the app’s navigation to drive engagement with WRAL’s rich news archive. […]

Nominations Now Open for 2021 HighSchoolOT Honors

HSOT Honors

HighSchoolOT Honors will return this school year, handing out awards to players, coaches, teams, and school in many different categories. The nomination process opened on Monday. Submit your nominations for HighSchoolOT Honors Each year, HighSchoolOT accepts nominations from the public for players of the year in sanctioned sports, nominations for best games and performances, spirit awards, […]

Share the Love with Healthcare Heroes

Share The Love

Wake County, the Raleigh Chamber and WRAL-TV are joining forces to Share the Love with our local healthcare heroes this month and beyond—and we need the community’s help to do it. “For the past year, healthcare workers have met unprecedented challenges and changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Wake County Commissioner Sig Hutchinson. […]

WRAL Joins Local Arts Organizations For Big Night In For The Arts

Big Night In For The Arts

Featuring ARIANA DEBOSE, MANDOLIN ORANGE, BRANFORD MARSALIS, MIKE WILEY Regional fundraising initiative to be broadcast LIVE on WRAL-TV Thursday, March 11 at 7 p.m. After nearly a year of closures and cancellations, the arts have suffered disproportionately from the destructive impact of the pandemic. WRAL-TV is partnering with arts councils from Chatham, Durham, Orange, and […]

WRAL-TV One of Two Newsrooms Chosen to Participate in Pilot Program on Data Journalism

WRAL-TV has been selected by Local Media Association (LMA) to participate in a pilot project on data journalism.  LMA, in partnership with Facebook Journalism and Crosstown, is offering the opportunity to “empower smaller and mid-sized newsrooms to access and transform data into high-impact local journalism.” WRAL-TV is one of two local news organizations selected for […]

WRAL Voters’ Choice Awards Go Virtual for Winner Announcements with Live Watch Party

WRAL Voters' Choice Awards

“The Voters Choice awards exceeded my wildest expectations. Despite not being able to celebrate in -person, the WRAL team truly made this event just as special.” – WRAL-TV Anchor & WRAL.com Voter’s Choice Awards Co-Host Mikaya Thurmond The 6th Annual WRAL Voters’ Choice Awards announced the 2020 winners on Thursday, January 14, 2021. WRAL-TV Weekend […]

Annual MLK Interfaith Prayer Breakfast Goes Virtual, Relays Message of Love

Bishop Michael Curry

“Today in 2021 I believe that love is the vision that we as Americans need to hold on to now more than ever during these troubling times.” — Lauren Cornelius, Freshman at Knightdale High School The 41st Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Triangle Interfaith Prayer Breakfast went on despite COVID on Monday, January 18, 2021.  […]

Overcoming Chaos with the Radical Action of Love, Focus of MLK Day Event on WRAL

Triangle MLK Interfaith Prayer Breakfast 2021

The 41st Annual Triangle MLK, Jr. Holiday Celebration on Monday, January 18, 2021 Watch on WRAL-TV at 8am, or Entire Program on WRAL.com Beginning 7am For the first time in 41 years, Triangle residents will not be able to gather for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Interfaith Prayer Breakfast, but the event will go […]

WRAL Documentary: MaryAnn Premieres Wednesday, Jan. 13th at 7:30pm on WRAL

WRAL Documentary: MaryAnn

Warm. Giving, Caring. Compassionate. Those are just some of the adjectives used to describe MaryAnn Black from people who knew and worked with her. “MaryAnn” premieres on WRAL-TV in Raleigh and WILM-TV in Wilmington on Wednesday, January 13 at 7:30 p.m. and on WRAZ Fox 50 on Saturday, Jan. 16 at 5 p.m. Black was […]