One Day in North Carolina
Our WRAL news photographers are the best-of-the-best and have the awards to back-up that claim. Most of their news assignments do not typically lend themselves to visually artistic story-telling, but if photographers could have their druthers, they would strut their photographic stuff by picking their own subjects and have a little extra time to complete […]
Team WRAL Races for Cure, Inspired by Social Media and More
The cool temps and rainy weather did not stop Team WRAL from pulling out all the stops for the 2017 Komen Race for the Cure. For the first time, the event moved to May, taking place on Saturday, May 6, with a full slate of WRAL staffers on hand for the fun. For the second […]
“King of the Hill” Drops In On The Raleigh City Council
This is going to read like “fake news”, but the following really happened on Friday, September 7, 2001. Wanna know how we know it happened? Well, if you read it or see it in the news, it must be true – right? Hank Hill, the main character of the FOX network hit animation series “King […]
WRALSportsFan.com Columnist Caulton Tudor Named to N.C. Sports Hall of Fame
WRALSportsFan.com columnist Caulton Tudor was one of eight new inductees named to the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame Thursday, May 4, 2017. Tudor, who has been a columnist for WRALSportsFan.com since 2013, was named part of the 2017 North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame induction class that also includes Glenn Bass, Dwight Durante, Mike […]
WRAL-TV Honored for News Stories, Documentary
Two national organizations recently honored WRAL-TV with awards, one for a series a stories and another for a WRAL documentary. Gabriel Award WRAL-TV won a national Gabriel Award in the Short Feature category for the entry “A Heart for Al-J,” a series of stories by WRAL-TV Anchor/Reporter Bryan Mims about a boy who received a […]
WRAL-TV’s Fishel Honored for Efforts to Raise Awareness of Climate Change
The City of Raleigh recently honored WRAL-TV Chief Meteorologist for his efforts to raise awareness of climate change. Fishel received a City of Raleigh Environmental Award at the 10th annual awards ceremony on Tuesday, April 25, 2017. The event took place in the A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing […]
May Out and About TV Airs Wednesday
The May edition of Out and About TV, a monthly TV series inspired by our popular website, airs Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on WRAL. Coming up this month: Explore North Carolina’s State Parks, collecting stamps and earning prizes along the way Enjoy farm fresh summer salads at the Root Cellar in Chapel Hill. Discover the […]
CBC Hosts Area Students for Annual Job Shadow Day
On Tuesday, April 25, 2017, almost 50 students from 18 area middle and high schools came to the WRAL-TV Studios for the annual CBC Job Shadow Day. Ironically, the students got to hear about more news than expected. WRAL-TV stayed on-air live during all the programming between the morning and noon news due to the […]
Former WRAL Reporter Mark Binker Dies
Veteran statehouse journalist and former WRAL News multimedia investigative reporter Mark Binker died unexpectedly at his home early Saturday. He was 43. Binker leaves behind his beloved wife, Marla, and sons Mason and Max. He also is survived by his parents, Gerald and Barbara Binker; mother- and father-in-law, Fran and Bob Smith; and brothers-in-law Richard […]
“We Belong Together” WRAL – The Place to Be!
In spring 1987, WRAL-TV pulled out all the stops with a Hollywoodesque film production for the image promo called “We Mean a Lot to Each Other.” The two minute – long promo starred the duo Roberta Flack, best known for her Grammy Award winning hit record “Killing Me Softly with His Song”, and Lee Greenwood, […]