WRAL Closes November Ratings Period as the #1 Local News Station
WRAL News Tops Ratings in Raleigh-Durham Market as the Most Watched Local News The results are in for the 2019 November Nielsen ratings period, and WRAL (Raleigh, Durham, Fayetteville DMA) has once again clinched its position as the Triangle’s top news station with the overall most watched newscasts in the market. WRAL News topped the […]
Capitol Broadcasting Serves Community with Annual WRAL Tower Lighting, Uses Event as Backdrop to Thank and Share with Clients
Capitol Broadcasting celebrated the start of the holiday season with two big events in one night. On Monday, December 2, 2019, CBC lit the WRAL-TV Tower for the 61st year and also welcomed some special clients for a party to come see the fun up close. An Annual Tradition Enhanced WRAL-TV not only highlighted the […]
WRAL Announced as 2020 Host Newsroom by Report For America
WRAL will employ a journalist to cover issues in eastern North Carolina WRAL, a division of Capitol Broadcasting Company in Raleigh, N.C., is proud to announce Report for America has selected the station to be a 2020-2021 host newsroom. Report for America is a national service program that places talented, emerging journalists into local news […]
December 2019 WRAL Out And About TV Airs Wednesday
The December 2019 edition of WRAL’s Out and About TV covers the some of the best food, fermentation and figure skating. The latest installment of the program airs this Wednesday, December 4, at 7:30pm on WRAL-TV. On the month’s episode viewers can see the world class flavors, excitement and fire from a new downtown Raleigh […]
CBC Towers at WRAL-TV, American Tobacco & Rocky Mount Mills Light for the Holidays This Week with Special Celebrations
It will soon look a lot like Christmas at the CBC towers across the Triangle: WRAL-TV Tower Lighting CBC will light the WRAL-TV tower for the 61st time on Monday, December 2, 2019. A special will air at 7pm to celebrate the lighting of the 300-foot tower to light Santa’s way to Raleigh for the […]
WRAL-TV Launches 2019 Coats for the Children Campaign
WRAL-TV has launched its 31st Annual Coats for the Children Campaign with the arrival of the holidays. The station invites viewers to donate gently used, clean coats, hats and gloves to outfit children for winter, as well as new toys to make the holidays brighter for children at the Salvation Army. A coat. It seems […]
WRAL Winter Wonderland Brings Holiday Cheer Despite Damp Weather
The rain and cold could not dampen the fun at the 2nd Annual WRAL Winter Wonderland on the campus of St. Mary’s School in Raleigh on Saturday, November 23, 2019. Crowds gathered early to kick off the holiday season with the post-Raleigh Christmas Parade event. “Some folks lined up before 10am to make sure they […]
MidSouth Emmy Nominations Announced, WRAL-TV and Capitol Broadcasting Earn Multiple Nods
The Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) announced the nominees for the 34th Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards on Thursday, November 21, 2019, and WRAL-TV and Capitol Broadcasting Company are proud to have made the list multiple times. The station received a total of 21 nominations, including the overall nomination for News […]
WRAL-TV’s Jennings and Jennings Showdown on Fun Football Friday Recap
A father-son duo lobbed a perfect play for the first round of high school playoffs coverage on WRAL-TV last Friday. WRAL-TV Documentary Photographer Jay Jennings and his son, WRAL-TV Multimedia Sports Journalist Jason Jennings, tag-teamed on a game package to surprise WRAL-TV Sports Anchor Jeff Gravley, who is in his final season as host of […]
WRAL Partners with PolitiFact NC to Fact Check Political Stories
As the hotly contested 2020 election season nears, our country and our state appear more divided than ever. While the political left and right seem to disagree over truth itself, WRAL is committed to cutting through the noise and bringing you facts. WRAL is now the official partner in North Carolina of PolitiFact, the Pulitzer […]