More Highlights for Auburn, NC

• WRAL Azalea Celebration Back in 2021 with Over 5,000 Plants Awarded to NC Nonprofits

  Nonprofits across North Carolina descended on the WRAL-TV Transmitter site in Auburn, NC, on Saturday, September 25, 2021, to pick up the plants awarded them in the 35th Annual WRAL Azalea Celebration.  The celebration returned after being cancelled in 2020
• Plants Distributed to NC Nonprofits for 34th Annual WRAL Azalea Celebration

  The 34th Annual WRAL Azalea Celebration came to a conclusion on Saturday, October 5, 2019, with winning groups picking up their plants from the WRAL Transmitter site in Auburn, NC.  Capitol Broadcasting distributed 4,820 azaleas to 114 nonprofit groups from
• CBC Awards 140 Non-Profits Through 32nd Annual WRAL Azalea Celebration, Special Honors to Three Groups

  The 32nd Annual WRAL Azalea Celebration culminated with the distribution of plants to the winning non-profits on Saturday, September 30, 2017.  CBC Property Management staffers worked with volunteers at the WRAL Transmitter site in Auburn, NC, as the winners came
• Early news studio

  The first WRAL-TV news studio in the late 1950s. The studio was located at the transmitter facility in Auburn, NC. Pictured is Promotion Department staffer Herb Marks, who also portrayed Capn 5 on the air.

• New transmitter building under construction

  WRAL-TV transmitter building going up following tower collapse. Note the steel ice shields above the roof. Tons of melting ice brought down the tower in December 1989.