The Houston Fearless 16mm film processor
WRAL-TV photographer O.B. Garris looks over the brand new processor that sped up the news department workflow immensely. The unit went into service summer 1958.
The Ampex VR-1000
WRAL-TV Chief Engineer Virgil Duncan inspects the stations first videotape machine in the summer of 1958.
WRAL First HD Newscast from the news set 2001
January 28, 2001. WRAL-TV converted to an all-digital news operation starting with the 11:00 PM newscast. WRAL became the world's 1st news operation to gather and present high-definition local news on a continuous basis.
Cut Loose and Cut Off documentary
The WRAL Documentary “Cut Loose and Cut Off” first aired Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. It was hosted by WRAL News anchor Bill Leslie and produced by Clay Johnson. About 70,000 unemployed workers who were cut loose by their employers were cut off by their government at the end of June. They lost federally funded extended unemployment benefits because of a ... (read more)
Ray Henderson – Dr. Jocko
Former WRAL radio disc jockey who moved to Raleighs WLLE-AM. There he became a major personality and soon moved to Detroit, where he hosted radio and television shows and worked as a Motown executive.