More Highlights for Bill Armstrong

• Bill Armstrong

  First News Director at WRAL-TV

• 1964 Election coverage on WRAL-TV

  Bill Armstrong, Sam Beard and Scottie Stephenson on set election night at WRAL-TV.

• WRAL 60th Anniversary “The Early Years” by The Tar Heel Traveler

  WRAL celebrated 60 years of broadcasting on December 15, 2016. In recognition of that anniversary, Scott Mason – better known as The Tar Heel Traveler – took viewers on a time travel, via black and white film footage, to witness several news events covered by WRAL during the early years.

  A few of the highlights include President John F. Kennedy’s visit to the campus of UNC to WRAL News Director Bill Armstrong’s interview with NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong while he was training at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill. Meet Marlene Carole, WRAL’s first female weatherperson who used a chalkboard to write the high and low temperatures – with an eye-wink. Later we see WRAL transition to color and then lead the nation in HD technology.

  Feature edited by WRAL Tar Heel Traveler photographer Bob Meikle.

• Man on the Moon

  In 1963, WRAL News director and anchor Bill Armstrong landed an interview with NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong, no relation, at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill. Neil Armstrong and other astronauts were there January 28-30, 1963 learning about celestial navigation.
• Through the viewfinder

  WRAL-TV News Director Bill Armstrong delivering the news as seen through old camera viewfinder