Winter Storm Brings Record Page Views to WRAL.com
Winter Storm Brings Record Page Views to WRAL.com WRAL-TV is a proven ratings leader in the Triangle, especially when it comes to covering weather events, and its website is no exception. During the bout of winter weather in late February, WRAL.com broke its record page views for a single day and continued racking up monster […]
AWRT Luncheon Features TV General Managers
AWRT Luncheon Features TV General Managers FOX50 VP & GM Tommy Schenck WRAL-TV VP & GM Jim Hefner WRAL-TV VP & General Manager Jim Hefner and FOX50 VP & General Manager Tommy Schenck represented CBC at the annual Triangle Chapter of American Women in Radio & Television (AWRT) panel of television GMs. The luncheon took […]
WRAL Hosts Job Shadow Day for Wake Students
WRAL Stations Host Job Shadow Day for Wake Students WRAL-TV once again contributed to the future of its community by hosting over two dozen Wake County students for Job Shadow Day on Monday, February 2, 2004. A host of WRAL-TV managers talked to the students about the nuts and bolts of television production, gave them […]
WRAL Follows the Panthers In Houston
WRAL Follows the Panthers In Houston The Carolina Panthers are in the last stages of preparing for their first Super Bowl, and WRAL-TV has been with them every step of the way. WRAL-TV practically has set up another news studio in Houston and is sending live and taped reports back home several times a day. […]
WRAL-TV Snags Four Emmys in Nashville
WRAL-TV Snags Four Emmys in Nashville WRAL-TV won four statues at the 18th Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards ceremony on Saturday, January 24, 2004, in Nashville, Tennessee. WRAL-TV and FOX50 received a whopping 22 nominations in 58 categories among some stiff competition. WRAL-TV Anchor/Reporter Cullen Browder WRAL-TV News Photographer Gil Hollingsworth WRAL-TV Anchor/Reporter Cullen Browder […]
WRAL Celebrates Success of 15th Coats for the Children Campaign
WRAL Celebrates Success of 15th Coats for the Children Campaign WRAL-TV’s Coats for the Children campaign for 2003 wrapped up last weekend as over 45 volunteers got together to help sort the donated coats. Approximately 7,500 coats were sorted and bagged at Baker Roofing Warehouse, who donated their space, on Saturday, January 17, 2004. Volunteers […]
Baseball Greats Visit WRAL
Baseball Greats Visit WRAL The WRAL-TV crew prepares for the 12:30pm interview. WRAL-TV’s Phillip Boyd (left to right) joins Tommy John, WRAL-TV’s Debbie Bare, Helen Hunter & Gaylord Perry for a quick photo. Former major league pitchers Tommy John & Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry stopped by the WRAL-TV studios for a live interview on […]
Oliver & Fishel To Produce Special For Durham Museum
Oliver & Fishel To Produce Special For Durham Museum WRAL-TV is currently shooting a short film in HD for the Museum of Life & Sciences in Durham. WRAL-TV Producer Dan Oliver is in charge of production of “Magic Wings Butterfly Exhibition” presentation, and WRAL Chief Meteorologist Greg Fishel narrates. The clip lasts approximately three minutes […]
WRAL Featured in Industry Magazine Multicasting Piece
WRAL Featured in Industry Magazine Multicasting Piece In an article entitled “Suddenly It’s Hip To Spectrum-Split, The second coming of multicasting,” Broadcasting & Cable writers John Eggerton and Ken Kerschbaumer re-visit the medium of digital multicasting. The technology met with a controversial reception when first surfacing in 1997, but the fireworks have subsided to the […]
WRAL Reporter Remembered By Wake Board
WRAL Reporter Remembered By Wake Board WRAL-TV Reporter Dan Willkinson died in October. WRAL-TV lost one of its valued reporters in October, and the Wake Soil and Conservation District Board of Supervisors recently found a way to permanently honor his memory. WRAL-TV Farm Reporter Dan Wilkinson died suddenly on October 30, 2003, at the age […]