More Highlights for Susan Dahlin

• Travel Stories by Susan Dahlin featuring Paris and Normandy

  Susan Dahlin, best known for hosting WRAL PM Magazine and Evening Magazine, joined WRAL news as a travel reporter. Her adventures provided insights to many popular destinations worldwide.

  This video features three stories produced in Paris and one in Normandy, France. There are local connections to these stories!

  Circa 1988.

• WRAL presents “Attack Of The Cardiac Pack” NCSU 1983 Champs

  1983 “March Madness” resulted NC State winning the NCAA National Basketball Championship. The team was tagged with the nickname “Cardiac Pack” after winning games that ended in heart-stopping, buzzer beater baskets.

  Watch this 30 minute program, complete with vintage commercials, that captures the excitement on campus and in the community. GO PACK!

• PM Magazine full episode September 28, 1987

  PM Magazine was a weekly television program that was part local/part national. WRAL was one of many stations that participated in this story sharing cooperative made up of member stations across the country.

  This particular episode aired September 29, 1987. It is one of the latter shows produced at WRAL. Susan Dahlin was the co-host along with former news reporter Rick Williams who replaced the original co-host Tom McNamara who accepted a news anchoring position in Arizona. In 1988, Rick – a native New Yorker, returned to his news roots at WPVI in Philadephia.

  Vintage commercial and promos are included in this episode.

• WRAL PM Magazine in Norway

  PM Magazine host Susan Dahlin and the production crew decided to explore outside of North Carolina, waaaay outside and explore Norway. Susan’s family roots run deep in that Scandinavian country. One of the segments featured Susan catching up with her Uncle Arne in Oslo, the capitol of Norway. Arne Dahlin is a very gifted artist, as you will see in this story. For those who know Susan, she is an accomplished artist too!

  Enjoy this story about Susan and her uncle getting together after not seeing each other for 17 years.

  Aired in 1989.

• Former PM Magazine host Tom McNamara sends Christmas greeting from AZ

  Former PM Magazine host Tom McNamara became a news anchor at KTVK in Phoenix, Arizona in the late ’80s. But he always remembered his friends back at WRAL-TV and the viewers in Raleigh. Tom sent this Christmas greeting and an update on what was happening in life in Arizona.

  Tom is now retired from working in television. His last position was with KVOA in Tucson, Arizona. He anchored the evening newscast for 18 years. Tom announced his retirement in December 2014.