CBC New Media Offers Better Brackets and More for NCAA Tourney
WRAL.com and WRALSportsFan.com are THE team for online coverage of the NCAA Tournaments. “We’re fortunate to live at the epicenter of great college basketball,” said WRAL.com General Manager John Conway. “We have four teams in the NCAA tournament field, so we have to treat this like election night or a hurricane headed for our coast. We […]
CBC Joins the March Madness with NCAA Basketball Coverage
WRAL-TV and CBC Sports Radio are your headquarters for the NCAA basketball tournaments. Capcom checked in with WRAL-TV Director of News Operations, Sports & Special Projects Leesa Moore in the midst of her scheduling, planning and juggling in the newsroom for the 2014 tournaments. “‘March Madness’ pretty much sums up our newsroom this time of […]
WRAL-TV Hosts Second Annual CBC-UNC Diversity Fellowship Class in March
Last week WRAL-TV hosted a group of college students from across the country in the second annual CBC-UNC Diversity Fellowship Program, a journalism intensive program to prepare them for future broadcast media careers. WRAL-TV and WRAL.com work together with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication on the […]
WRAL-TV Names New Morning News Anchor Renee Chou Longtime Staff Anchor/Reporter
The new face of Raleigh’s most-watched morning news is one well-known to the market. Renee Chou is an Emmy award-winning journalist in her 9th year at WRAL. She takes over the co-anchor seat on the Morning News after filling in for the last six weeks. Chou officially joins 30-year WRAL veteran anchor Bill Leslie, meteorologist […]
College Students Visit WRAL-TV
Students and advisors from the James Sprunt Community College in Kenansville recently stopped by the studios of WRAL-TV for a tour. This was their annual cultural trip arranged by the TRIO Student Support Services program at the school; they toured the local museums, the State government complex, and had lunch at Big Ed’s. The final […]
A Catering Option with an Added Bonus
The Triangle has a myriad of options for catering, but WRAL-TV Creative Director Shelly Leslie recently told Capcom about a choice with a way to give back. The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle (IFFS) has a catering division. Catering with a Cause NC provides a professional catering service with the added bonus of “choosing a delicious way […]
CBC Hosts Annual Job Shadow Day for Local Students
CBC recently hosted our annual “Job Shadow Day” for middle & high school students who have expressed an interest in exploring a career in broadcasting. A roster of talented professionals from the staff were approached and graciously volunteered. Van Williams and Mary Eaton of CBC Corporate HR, along with WRAL-TV News Anchor Ken Smith, greeted […]
More on WRAL’s Google Glass Experiment
We reported last week on WRAL-TV’s latest experiment, broadcasting the morning news program with four different staffers wearing Google Glass during the week of February 11-14, 2014. WRAL kept the feature going even as the winter storm many dubbed Snowmageddon hit the Triangle and the station broadcast news live for 32.5 out of 38 hours […]
How Local TV Covers Snowmageddon in the South
WRAL-TV Creative Services Shelly Leslie gave WRAL viewers and fans across the Internet a behind-the-scenes view of the myriad ways the Big 5 covered the winter storm that hit our viewing area during the second week of February 2014. Quickly dubbed “Snowmageddon,” the storm dumped inches of snow and ice around the Triangle causing traffic […]
WRAL-TV To Broadcast Live Using Google Glass
Livestream on WRAL.com to show continuous coverage The station known across the local television industry as an innovator will broadcast live using Google Glass. WRAL-TV will use the experimental technology for a half hour during its morning news February 11-14, showing viewers a unique perspective both on TV and on wral.com. Google Glass is a […]