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 […]
WRAL-TV To Premiere New Studio After SuperBowl/Survivor II DoubleHeader
WRAL-TV To Premiere New Studio After SuperBowl/Survivor II DoubleHeader WRAL-TV Unveils New Digital Newsroom The new WRAL-TV newsroom will premiere on Sunday, January 28th, for the 11:00pm newscast. Sunday night, January 28, will be a big night for WRAL-TV. Not only is the Raleigh station broadcasting both the SuperBowl XXXV in HD and the premiere […]
WRAL-TV Debuts All-Digital High Definition Newsroom
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 25, 2001 For more information, contact Cindy Sink, Creative Services Manager ( 919) 821-8643 William Pritchard, Panasonic (201) 348-7182 WRAL-TV Debuts All-Digital High Definition Newsroom -The World’s First HDTV News Gathering Operation- January 28, 2001 Super Bowl 6pm Survivor II 10pm WRAL High Definition News 11pm Raleigh–Ushering in a new era […]
WRAL Digital and “CompleteTV” Bring Together High Definition Broadcasting and Internet-Based Content
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 24, 2001 For more information, contact John Greene, Vice President of Special Projects, CBC, jgreene@cbc-raleigh.com Matt Godin, Rainier Corporation, (978) 464-5302, x142 Ian McMurray, Texas Instruments, 44-1604-663075, i-mcmurray@ti.com WRAL Digital and “CompleteTV” Bring Together High Definition Broadcasting and Internet-Based Content RALEIGH – WRAL Digital will give a select number of Raleigh […]
WRAL-TV Hosts Telethon For UCP
WRAL-TV Hosts Telethon For UCP Star Fest 2001 raised over $230,000 to help UCP. On Sunday, January 21, WRAL-TV held the 31st Annual Star Fest telethon for United Cerebral Palsy (UCP). Star Fest 2001 aired from 1:00-7:00pm with over 120 volunteers and guests joining to help raise over $230,000 for UCP of North Carolina. WRAL-TV […]
WRAL-TV To Air Presidential Inauguration in HD
WRAL-TV To Air Presidential Inauguration in HD Now even the President is going hi-tech. WRAL-TV will air the inauguration of the nation’s 43rd President in high-definition, live on Saturday, January 20th at 11:30am-1:00pm. WRAL will carry the digital signal its digital channel 53. WRAL-TV will follow the CBS coverage beginning at 9:00am on analog channel […]