WRAL-TV Reaches Out To Latin Americans In The Community

WRAL-TV Reaches Out To Latin Americans In The Community A large group assembled to celebrate the partnership between WRAL-TV and LARC which will enable Spanish translation WRAL’s news. WRAL-TV and the Latin American Resource Center (LARC) joined forces announce a new venture. Within a few weeks, WRAL-TV and LARC will launch a Spanish translation of […]

Survivor II’s Jeff Varner Visits WRAL

Greensboro-Native Survivor Visits WRAL Survivor II’s Jeff Varner (left) joined Bill Jordan (right) & Mike Morse (center) of WRAL-FM on the air. After hearing, “The tribe has spoken” and having his torch doused, Greensboro native Jeff Varner came to the Triangle on Thursday, April 19th to appear on both WRAL-FM and WRAL-TV. A cast member […]

The Masters On HD Begins Today

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 5, 2001 For more information, contact John Greene, Vice President of Special Projects, CBC, jgreene@cbc-raleigh.com The Masters On HD Begins Today RALEIGH — Get ready to watch the premier golf tournament on WRAL-DT! The Masters begins today at 4pm with WRAL Digital bringing you all the action! If you have a […]

Triangle Viewers See The Entire NCAA On WRAL

Triangle Viewers See The Entire NCAA On WRAL HD set owners aren’t the only ones who will be seeing the 2001NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament in multi-casting this March. Triangle Time Warner Cable customers who have digital cable service will be able to watch all 64 games during March Madness as well. Last year WRAL-TV made […]

WRAL-TV Sponsors Home, Garden & Flower Show

WRAL-TV Sponsors Home, Garden & Flower Show WRAL-TV is currently sponsoring the Home, Garden and Flower Show at the Civic Center in downtown Raleigh from Thursday, February 15 to Sunday, February 19. This is TV5’s second sponsorship of the annual event. The station is also hosting its own booth. The Creation of An Indoor Garden… […]

WRAL-TV Employees See Their Shadows

WRAL-TV Employees See Their Shadows Puxatawnee Phil wasn’t the only one to see his shadow last Friday, February 2. Several WRAL-TV employees had shadows of their own for the Groundhog Career Shadow Day. In conjunction with Junior Achievement of Eastern North Carolina, Wake County Public Schools Systems, Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and Wake Education […]

WRAL-TV Celebrates Digital Transition

WRAL-TV Celebrates Digital Transition News Director Andrea Parquet-Taylor, Director/Producer Chris Bolanz and Technology Reporter Tom Lawrence celebrate the completion of a goal. The staff at WRAL-TV has been working incredible hours for the past several months to complete the newscast’s transition to digital. Staffers learned their way around brand new equipment, most of which is […]

A Special Digital Transition Thank You List

A Special HD Transition Thank You List Television history once again. WRAL launched its new digital newsroom and HD newsgathering capabilities, and showed the world that life is indeed good on the leading edge. The timing of the launch on the day after we won yet another Emmy for News Excellence is somewhat serendipitous-great things […]

WRAL-TV Successfully Converts Newscasts To Digital

WRAL-TV Successfully Converts Newscasts To Digital Mission accomplished. WRAL-TV became the world’s first news operation to gather and present high-definition local news on a continuous basis with the debut of its new all-digital newsroom on Sunday, January 28th during its late night newscast. WRAL-TV broadcast the first all-digital newscast from its new studios on Sunday, […]

WRAL-TV Brings Home Regional Emmys

WRAL-TV Brings Home Regional Emmys WRAL-TV Consumer Reporter Monica Laliberte(left) & Producer Lori Lair received a regional Emmy for their story about flooded cars. WRAL-TV’s dedication to excellence garnered recognition for the station at the Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards; the Raleigh station took home six statuettes at the recent awards ceremony. The National Academy of […]