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WRAL-TV, virtual channel 5 (digital channel 48), is a CBS-affiliated television station in Raleigh, North Carolina. WRAL-TV has been the flagship station of Capitol Broadcasting Company since its inception, and serves the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill/Fayetteville area, known collectively as the Triangle region. The two stations share studio and office facilities on Western Boulevard off I-440 in Raleigh, and its transmitter is located in Auburn, North Carolina. WRAL-TV is co-owned with Fox affiliate WRAZ (channel 50) and radio stations WRAL-FM (101.5 MHz), WCMC-FM (99.9 MHz), WDNC (620 kHz), WCLY (1550 kHz). WRAZ's operations are co-located at WRAL-TV's studios. WRAL-TV is available on cable channel 3 in most of the Triangle, except in outlying areas of the market, where it is available on channel 5. It is also available on cable in large portions of eastern areas of the state. ==History== WRAL-TV began broadcasting on December 15, 1956. The first program aired was the movie ''Miracle on 34th Street''. A.J. Fletcher's Capitol Broadcasting, which began in 1939 with WRAL radio, won the license in an upset over the much larger Durham Life Insurance Company, then-owners of radio station WPTF.〔"Peoria, Springfield, Raleigh TV grants Issued by FCC" ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', July 2, 1956, pg. 9. ()〕 WRAL was originally an NBC affiliate, taking that network from Durham-based WTVD (channel 11, which included Fletcher's son, Floyd, among its founders). When WNAO-TV (channel 28), the Triangle's ABC affiliate, went dark at the end of 1957,〔"WNAO-TV to go black, joins WTOB-TV in Ch. 8 shift plea." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', December 30, 1957, pg. 10. ()〕 WRAL shared ABC with WTVD until August 1, 1962, when channel 5 took the ABC affiliation full-time.〔"ABC-TV acquires two new primary affiliates." ''Broadcasting'', May 7, 1962, pg. 80. ()〕 This was unusual for a two-station market, since ABC did not have the ratings or affiliated stations of NBC and CBS until the early 1970s. WRAL did continue to carry ''The Huntley-Brinkley Report'' until January 3, 1967, when ABC's own evening newscasts expanded to 30 minutes. WRAL also continued to carry ''My Three Sons'' for several years after that show switched to CBS. From 1960 until his election to the United States Senate in 1972, Jesse Helms was an editorialist on WRAL-TV's news broadcasts. His conservative commentaries were both controversial and popular with many viewers. In March 1985, WTVD's owner, Capital Cities Communications, purchased ABC, resulting in WTVD becoming an owned-and-operated station of that network. The CBS affiliation moved to WRAL-TV on August 4, 1985.〔("In brief." ''Broadcasting'', July 15, 1985, pg. 80 )〕 Within six months of the switch, WRAL-TV had become one of the strongest CBS affiliates in the country. In December 1989, WRAL was knocked off the air when a severe ice storm caused the collapse of the station's 2,000-foot (610 m) transmitter tower. Within hours, channel 5 cut a deal with the then-struggling Fayetteville station WKFT-TV (channel 40, now WUVC-DT), allowing WRAL to return to the air in only three hours. WKFT ran the entire WRAL schedule during this time. The station's new, stronger tower was activated on October 25, 1990, at which point WKFT reverted to broadcasting its own programming. In the early 1990s, WRAL distributed its programming via C-Band satellite as part of the Primetime 24 package, reaching viewers in the Caribbean and Latin America, as well as the few rural areas of the United States and Canada where local over-the-air broadcast signals were not available. It was replaced in the late 1990s with fellow CBS affiliate WSEE-TV from Erie, Pennsylvania. WRAL-TV is still viewed and is quite popular with many outside of the Triangle, mainly in portions of the Piedmont Triad, Eastern North Carolina, and even into parts of Southside Virginia and the Pee Dee region of South Carolina. It has long been available on cable as far east as Wilmington. The station is also known for its award-winning documentaries, children's shows and news staff, which has attracted viewers from outside of the Raleigh market. Halifax County in Southside Virginia is frequently mentioned by WRAL, although it is located in the Roanoke-Lynchburg market. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WRAL-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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