Winning WRAL Docs Featured in N&O
WRAL-TV’s Clay Johnson (at podium) accepts the duPont award at the January 17th ceremony in New York. In honor of WRAL-TV’s recent win of the prestigious DuPont-Columbia University Award for two documentaries, the News & Observer featured WRAL Documentary Producer Clay Johnson and the docs. N&O Staff Writer Danny Hooley wrote the piece about […]
WRAL Wins Prestigious National Journalism Award
WRAL Wins Prestigious National Journalism Award Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award Honors Two Documentaries Columbia University has announced that WRAL-TV is among 14 winners of the 2007 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for broadcast journalism. The award is for two documentaries in WRAL-TV’s “Focal Point” series, “Standards of Living” and “Paper Thin Promise”. See […]
WRAL-FM & WRAL-TV Voted Family Favorites
Whether tuning into the radio or turning on the television set, Triangle families love CBC. Both WRAL-FM and WRAL-TV recently received top honors in Carolina Parent magazine as Family-Favorite winners. Readers were asked to vote on what stores, services and destinations and people they trust and turn to most often. Hundreds of parents in […]
Share Your Lights! And Enjoy Some Others
Share Your Lights! And Enjoy Some Others Both WRAL-TV and FOX 50 have taken to the Web waves to share some of the best, and brightest, holiday lights in North Carolina. Take a picture of your yard and submit it, or simply browse the dozens of great holiday light photos on WRAL.com and FOX50.com. […]
WRAL-TV Turns 50
WRAL-TV Turns 50 Two Long-Term Employees Remember Humble Beginnings & Great Opportunities A.J. Fletcher celebrates putting WRAL-TV on the air in 1956. It all began 50 years ago today – December 15, 1956 – in what was basically a garage. CBC founder A.J. Fletcher flipped the switch to put WRAL-TV on the air for […]
Happy Birthday WRAL-TV: WRAL.com Re-Launches Web Site
Happy Birthday WRAL-TV: WRAL.com Re-Launches Web Site WRAL.com has a new look just in time for WRAL-TV’s 50th anniversary. WRAL.com, one of the nation’s most popular local media Web sites, re-launched its Web site Friday, December 15, 2006, on the 50th birthday of WRAL-TV, introducing a sleek new look, streamlined navigation, enhanced video players, a […]
WRAL-TV Raises $70,743 With Coats for Children Telethon
WRAL-TV Raises $70,743 With Coats for Children Telethon Two half-hour specials at 12:30pm & 7pm anchor the daylong WRAL’s Coats for the Children Telethon. WRAL-TV’s 18th Annual Coats for the Children will go down in the history books as a huge success, bringing in $70,743.08 to help clothe needy Triangle children for the winter. […]
New WRAL Documentary Examines High Military Divorce Rate
FOCAL POINT: Divided We Fall New WRAL Documentary Examines High Military Divorce Rate Airs Wednesday December 13 at 7pm Troop deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq led to a dramatic increase in divorce among Army couples between 2001 and 2004, including many stationed at Ft. Bragg. WRAL’s new Focal Point documentary “Divided We Fall” examines […]
WRAL-TV Takes to the Air to Collect Coats for Children
WRAL-TV Takes to the Air to Collect Coats for Children 18th Annual Telethon On Friday, Dec 8th WRAL-TV will take to the airwaves to raise money and collect coats to keep needy children in the Triangle warm on Friday, December 8, 2006. Volunteers will answer phones all day in the WRAL-TV studios for the […]
WRAL-TV Lights Tower for 47th Time
WRAL-TV Lights Tower for 47th Time Half-Hour Special Includes Memories from WRAL’s 50 Years on the Air WRAL-TV lit its 300-foot tower for the holidays, beginning with a special lighting ceremony on Friday, December 1, 2006. WRAL-TV continued an annual tradition by lighting the 300-foot tower above its studios for the holidays. The flip switched […]