Highlights for News Specials

• Scheduling Change: WRAL-TV Coronavirus Specials at 7pm, 11pm News Expands to One Hour

  Due to the coronavirus concerns, WRAL-TV will make two major scheduling changes beginning Monday, March 16, 2020: WRAL-TV will produce and broadcast 7pm local news specials all week. The programs will be 30 minutes long.  (Inside Edition will move to
• Gaddy and Hefner before WRAL 50th anniversary reunion newscast

  Charlie Gaddy chats with WRAL GM Jim Hefner before reunion newscast in 2006

• DeBardelaben and Gaddy

  Legendary anchors Bob DeBardelaben and Charlie Gaddy share a moment following the WRAL 50th anniversary newscast in 2006

• WRAL anchors old and new at 50th reuncion newscast

  Bob DeBardelaben, Bobbie Battista, Charlie Gaddy and Tom Suiter are joined by successors at reunion in 2006

• 1992 NC Friendship Force Trip to Moscow Final report of 11 Elle Lysova

  The USSR ceased to exist on December 26, 1991. A few weeks later, WRAL News anchor Donna Gregory and WRAL photographer Jay Jennings accompanied the NC Friendship Force on a trip to Russia, now formerly the USSR, in mid-January 1992.

  Meet Elle Lyosa, a physical therapist who works at Moscow State University. She is paid the equivalent of three dollars of month. She is a single mother with a four year old son. Their home is an apartment that is 9‘ X 15’. Her outlook is positive as she seeks to better her life.

  This is the last of 11 reports that aired on WRAL News.