WRAL-TV’s Fishel To Lead Town Hall Discussion “Smart Growth” on March 30
WRAL-TV Chief Meteorologist Greg Fishel will continue his quarterly Town Hall meeting series at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences on Thursday, March 30, 2017. Discussing the topic “Smart Growth: Making Our Cities Sustainable,” Fishel will be joined by Vatsal Bhatt of the U.S. Green Building Council and Kenneth Bowers, Director of Planning for the […]
Boy Scouts Honor Jim Goodmon with Lifetime Achievement Award
The Occoneechee Council of the Boy Scouts of America recently honored CBC President & CEO Jim Goodmon with its NC Good Scout Lifetime Achievement Award. Goodmon received the recognition at the 2017 Friends of Scouting Breakfast, held at the North Raleigh Hilton on Friday, March 3. “It was a reminder of the positive role Boy […]
CBC Celebrates 80 Years!
The CBC campus on Western Boulevard has been dubbed “Celebration Central”. We celebrated the 60th Anniversary of WRAL on December 15, 2016 and then we puffed up our peacock feathers on February 28 marking our one year anniversary as an NBC affiliate. But we have one more anniversary to acknowledge and it is a big […]
Dateline NBC Interviews WRAL-TV’s Sims for Episode about Peterson Case
WRAL-TV Reporter Julia Sims recently got a chance to sit on the other side of the microphone. After the Mike Peterson murder case closed its latest and final chapter, Dateline NBC reached out to interview her. Sims has been covering the case for WRAL-TV over the years. She shared about her experience with Capcom: Dateline […]
CBC/WRAL-TV Night at UNC-TV’s 2017 Spring Fundraiser: Supporting Public Television
Over the past 15 years, Capitol Broadcasting and WRAL-TV have established a tradition of supporting public television. On Monday, March 6, 2017, CBC volunteers kept that tradition going while helping UNC-TV with the first night of its Spring Fundraiser, a revamp and refocus from the previous UNC-TV FESTIVAL. CBC’ers helped debut the brand new set, […]
One Year After NBC Transition: WRAL-TV #1 NBC Affiliate in Top 25 Still Top-Rated News in Raleigh-Durham Market
Just a year since changing network affiliation, WRAL-TV has cemented itself as the number one rated NBC affiliate in the Top 25 markets, and continued its 60-year legacy of local news leadership. In February, WRAL News was the most watched weekday news franchise in Raleigh-Durham day in and day out among households, total viewers, total […]
1967 Summer of Love and a Time Capsule
“If I could save time in a bottle – the first thing that I’d like to do is to save every day till eternity passes away.” (Music by Jim Croce) If you are not old enough to know anything about what was happening in Raleigh in 1967, don’t feel like the lone ranger – even […]
WRAL-TV First to Offer Local News Coverage with a Fleet of Drones
The locally owned NBC affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina has launched a fleet of drones bringing unmanned aerial technology to local news coverage. WRAL-TV was one of the first broadcasters in the country to obtain a remote pilot’s certificate from the FAA and has been working on its drone program since 2014. It was one […]
Jay Jennings and Russian “Strangers in the Night”
We conclude our TBT Russian theme with another news trip to the “land of the bear.” It is 1992 and our intrepid international correspondents are WRAL News anchor Donna Gregory and photographer Jay Jennings. The name of the country has changed from Union of Soviet Socialist Republic to simply Russia. In fact, the name changed […]
WRAL-TV’s Leslie Honored by NC State Parks
The NC State Parks has recognized WRAL-TV Anchor/Reporter Bill Leslie for his contributions to a documentary for the organization’s centennial. “Last year NC State Parks officials ask me to narrate ‘Here In This Place’– a 30 minute documentary detailing the 100 year history of the parks system in NC,” explained Leslie. “They also asked if […]