RALEIGH, N.C.—Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. (CBC) has announced that longtime local media leader Heather Gray has been named interim general manager of WRAL-TV (NBC) and WRAZ-TV/FOX 50 (FOX).

Gray, who currently serves as station manager for WRAL-TV, FOX 50, and WILM-TV, will oversee the stations’ strategic operations, including their news, programming, sales, community initiatives, and audience engagement efforts. As station manager, Gray worked alongside Joel Davis, general manager, who will be moving to Philadelphia in mid-March to lead NBCU Local’s Philadelphia operations.

Gray joined WRAL-TV in 2017 as the creative services director and quickly ascended through key leadership positions, including brand director and station manager.

Currently, she oversees audience development, community relations, programming, and local production teams while driving marketing strategies across digital, streaming, and broadcast platforms.

Gray has worked in local media newsrooms for more than three decades across multiple departments including news, marketing, community, sales, and executive leadership. She has also been instrumental in the success of major projects for WRAL, such as WRAL’s Nights of Lights, WRAL’s annual “Coats for the Children” campaign, many fundraising efforts for North Carolina, most recently for Hurricane Helene as well as WRAL productions of both the Raleigh Christmas Parade and Durham Holiday Parade. She serves as the primary point of contact for many of WRAL’s community partnerships.

“Heather is a dynamic and innovative leader who brings deep experience, strategic vision, and a strong commitment to local journalism and community service,” said Jimmy Goodmon, CEO and president of Capitol Broadcasting Company. “Her leadership has been pivotal in WRAL’s continued success, and we are confident that she will guide us forward during this transition.”

Before joining Capitol Broadcasting, Gray held leadership roles at 12 News/KPNX (Gannett/TEGNA), worked in the newsrooms for First Coast News in Jacksonville, FL (NBC/ABC duopoly - Gannett), KCRA-TV (NBC-Hearst), Good Day Sacramento (then WB/Paramount) in Sacramento, CA, and KHSL-TV (CBS) in Chico, CA. She is widely respected for her ability to blend journalistic integrity with creative audience engagement strategies.

Gray currently serves on the board for United Arts of Wake County and recently joined the board for the Local Media Association.

Heather graduated with honors from California State University, Chico, with a BA in Communications, Media Arts. She lives in Cary, NC, with her husband, and two adult children, one a recent graduate of North Carolina State University, the other currently a student.

CBC has announced an expansion of its free ad-supported streaming portfolio with the launch of two new entertainment channels. CBC’s "Heartland" and "Murdoch Mysteries" channels feature 17 seasons each of the popular and long-running Canadian series, available now on CBC Gem. 

The channels, which will be launching on other connected TV platforms in the coming months, join CBC Comedy as CBC’s entertainment FAST lineup. 

"We are always looking for new ways to connect audiences with our original entertainment, and as more viewers turn to FAST channels as part of their daily lives, we want to make their favorite shows even more accessible," said Sally Catto, general manager, entertainment, factual & sports, at the Canadian public broadcaster, CBC. “These two new channels will offer nonstop streaming of two of Canada's longest-running and most beloved series for audiences to enjoy whenever and wherever they want.”

CBC original drama "Heartland" Is a popular long-running family drama. Set against the stunning backdrop of the foothills of Alberta, the series follows Amy Fleming (Amber Marshall) and her family as they manage the highs and lows of life on the Heartland horse ranch, which has been a part of their family for generations. 

CBC’s most-watched show and Canada’s top-rated long-running drama, "Murdoch Mysteries" is set in Toronto around the turn of the 20th century during the age of invention, where Detective William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) enlists innovative forensic techniques to solve some of the city’s most perplexing murders. 

TORONTO—Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will soon deploy a Densitron IDS control system along with between 25 and 30 TFT touchscreens at its Toronto facility to enable control and messaging similar to the capabilities used at the CBC Montreal studios.

The deployment is the latest step in a technology relationship the broadcaster initiated with Densitron five years ago, the company said.

“Along with its flexibility of integration into new and existing infrastructures, the combination of Densitron IDS and TFT touchscreens has long provided us with the reliable and flexible approach to studio and production messaging and display that we require at CBC,” said CBC/Radio Canada chief engineer Lysanne Pinard.

In 2018, CBC tackled how to equip its Montreal facility with a control and display solution that delivered countdowns, timers and other studio messages to talent and production personnel, Densitron said.

The broadcaster learned of Densitron’s IDS Control System during a visit to BBC’s at-the-time new Broadcasting House in London. That encounter showed the broadcaster it was possible to digitize the entire messaging process and bring the information and display elements into a unified whole, it said.

CBC deployed the IDS control system later that year and developed a close collaboration with Densitron in the process. A Lawo VSM control system and Ember+ control protocol underpinned the deployment, enabling CBC to have a fully networked-based infrastructure that used IDS for all essential messaging, including: on- and off-air countdowns; studio status and alert messaging via the Ember+ control protocol; a production timer to the spec needed for different radio and TV operations; and display of program and room scheduling information on panels outside studios, the company said.

Based on its success in Montreal and relationship with Densitron, CBC now is preparing to deploy in Toronto.

“We have developed a really good partnership with the team at Densitron, and we look forward to continuing that when we begin work on a similar deployment in Toronto,” said Pinard. 

More information is available on the company’s website.

If you live north of the U.S.-Canada border, don’t throw out your radios and broadcast TV sets quite yet.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC, Canada’s public radio/TV broadcaster), said last month that over-the-air radio and TV transmissions will continue “until adequate high-speed internet is available to all Canadians,” according to a report posted on CBC.ca.

The (somewhat) reassuring statement by CBC was a followup to a Globe and Mail newspaper interview with CBC President/CEO Catherine Tait, which stated: “The head of the CBC says it is preparing to end traditional TV and radio broadcasts and move completely digital, as audiences shift to streaming, but the move is unlikely to happen over the next decade.” The Globe and Mail quoted Tait as saying, “‘If we’re going to be audience first we have to be digital first.’”

In that interview, Tait stated that such a switchoff would not occur until “broadband ubiquity” had been achieved across Canada, so that rural Canadians would not lose their access to CBC content.

She reemphasized the point in the subsequent CBC.ca news report. “Let’s be clear. We are not abandoning anyone who’s watching on traditional television or listening on traditional radio,” Tait said. “We are looking at a two-decade horizon … We are a vast country and until we have ubiquity in broadband delivery in this country, we will leave no one behind.”

As for the notion that the CBC is pushing away from broadcast in favor of digital, Tait said in the Globe and Mail interview: “We don’t want to drag Canadians to digital. They are dragging us. We saw it in the pandemic, subscriptions to streaming go way up and those people don’t go back to conventional television.”

A similar view was stated by BBC Director General Tim Davie in a headline-making December 2022 interview with the Guardian newspaper. “Imagine a world that is internet-only, where broadcast TV and radio are being switched off and choice is infinite,” he said then. In such a world, broadcast radio/TV has no relevance. Since such a future seems imminent, “A switch-off of broadcast will and should happen over time,” said Davie, “and we should be active in planning for it.”

This article originally appeared on TV Tech sister brand, Radio World. 

OTTAWA, Canada—CBC has launched a new free ad-supported TV channel, CBC News Explore. The 24/7 service is being billed as offering audiences a new way to discover CBC News by featuring video journalism that takes a step away from breaking news to explain and explore stories beyond the headlines. 

Original programs include “About That” hosted by Andrew Chang, a daily half-hour show that takes a closer look at the biggest stories of the day. 

The free CBC News Explore stream is available on a number of digital and connected TV platforms including CBC Gem, the CBC News App, CBCNews.ca and The Roku Channel (channel 105 in Canada), with more to be added soon, the public service said.  

The service complements CBC News Network, which remains CBC’s 24-hour premium service  for live-and-breaking news, available through cable and satellite providers and on CBC Gem.

“Today's launch of CBC News Explore marks an important moment in our evolution, ensuring we will be able to serve more people across Canada whenever, wherever or however they choose to consume our content,” said Susan Marjetti, general manager of CBC News, Current Affairs and Local. “As Canada’s public broadcaster, it is important we are there for people with trusted news and information 24/7 on their platform of choice whether radio, TV, digital or via a streaming channel like this one.”

“While some focus on traditional TV audience numbers as the only measure of success, the real story of how a news organization reaches and grows its audience today is much more complex,” said Brodie Fenlon, editor in chief, CBC News in an Editor’s Blog. “Streaming audiences in Canada are sizable and growing, and hungry for high-quality, fact-based video journalism — just not in the places we’ve traditionally offered TV news. We won’t treat them as an afterthought. While CBC News Network remains our premium live-and-breaking news service, CBC News Explore is an important part of our future to serve Canadians on the platform of their choice.”

TORONTO—The Canadian public broadcaster CBC is reporting record digital audiences for its coverage of the Tokyo Olympics, with Canadians streaming 37 million video views on CBC digital platforms during the Tokyo games, up 62 percent over PyeongChang 2018. 

The network also reported that 28 million television viewers - 74 percent of all Canadians - tuned in for CBC/Radio-Canada’s coverage of Tokyo 2020, with CBC ranking as the most-watched network in Canada for 17 consecutive days, delivering a 21.4 percent audience share

“With so much uncertainty in the lead up to Tokyo 2020, it’s been incredible to see Canadians rally around the Games and the athletes, and gravitate to CBC’s coverage across all of our platforms and at all hours,” said Chris Wilson, executive director, Sports and Olympics, CBC. “Whether watching online, through apps, social media or on television, millions of viewers across the country tuned in and engaged with CBC’s coverage each day, demonstrating the continued relevance of the Olympic Games. We couldn’t be more proud to share the stories of these athletes with Canadians, and bring them every moment of importance from the world’s biggest stage. We look forward to continuing our coverage with the Paralympic Games beginning August 24, and doing it all again in six months from Beijing.”

The CBC also reported that live views made up 61 percent of all video views, highlighting the increasing popularity of live streaming on CBC digital platforms, and Connected TVs accounted for about 68 percent of the total time spent streaming Tokyo 2020 content on CBC Gem. 

In total, Canadians consumed nearly 17 million hours of digital Olympic content on CBC digital platforms, with time spent reaching the highest one-day total on record for CBC on Friday, August 6, the day of the women’s soccer gold medal game. 

There is a price to be paid for the multiple benefits of an IT infrastructure that supports media over IP—one not best measured in dollars but in the effort to plan for and deploy an effective way to manage the complex nature of an IT network and endpoint devices, according to Felix Poulin, director, Media Transport Architecture Lab at CBC/Radio-Canada.

“The greater flexibility that media-over-IP technology will provide us comes with a greater complexity compared to SDI,” he said Nov. 11 during the “Continuous Deployment of CBC’s Media-over-IP Data Center” presentation at the SMPTE2020 virtual event.

Poulin, joined by Alexandre Dugas, project leader for Core Systems Engineering at CBC/Radio Canada, discussed the Canadian national public broadcaster’s new IP-based production center in Montreal, which is targeted for completion in 2021, and other planned national deployments. 

“…[W]e have each endpoint that requires thousands of parameters to be configured, including IP and multicast address, PTP parameters and media specific configurations,” said Poulin.

Recognizing the tedious, error-prone nature of manually configuring or reconfiguring each piece of equipment on its network, CBC looked for and found in IT data centers the tools and strategies needed to sustain making initial and subsequent configuration changes over the long haul, he said.

CBC’s approach relies on applying “many of the concepts from continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) and Dev Ops practices that have [a] proven track record of operating [at] data centers throughout their lifecycles,” said Poulin.

Those concepts include scripted provisioning and configuration, updating and changes, performing sanity checks and monitoring. “This is indeed a major shift for broadcast operations,” he said.

THE PROJECT

The new 420,000-square-foot CBC/Radio Canada headquarters in Montreal is dedicated to the broadcaster’s French language network. It operates a continuous news channel with 10 studio floors under the control of four automated control rooms. There are also two TV studios and two multifunction studios with two control rooms, multiple radio studios and post-production facilities, according to Poulin.

The facility’s centralized master control room, which controls all the French-language stations throughout Canada, is designed to handle 20 TV channels and 80 radio stations delivered via OTA and streaming, he added.

CBC/Radio Canada is also preparing to move the machine room of its Toronto headquarters to a new data center and is at the beginning of a technology refresh for all of its facilities in Canada.

The Montreal facility is the broadcaster’s first major project to be designed around IP technology. The architecture is based on JT-NM TR-1001-1 and uses SMPTE ST 2110 (-20, -30 and -40) for transport and a dual spine-leaf COTS network with SMPTE ST 2022-7 redundancy, said Poulin.

IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol operating with the SMPTE ST 2059 profile maintains accurate timing. The broadcaster also is using AMWA NMOS, Ember+ and proprietary API protocols for control, he said.

“With this… [size] of project to deliver over the coming years, we believe that investigating and automating the deployment is the only way to achieve… [this] huge task,” said Poulin.

AUTOMATING DEPLOYMENT

Poulin laid out three steps to automating deployment, including proper network configuration, which eliminates the need for separate staging stations and the risk of errors from human manipulation; initial staging of endpoint devices, which centers on programming the minimum set of device parameters to make it possible to reach the devices’ management interfaces; and device configuration, entailing “software programming all of the media-specific parameters to make the endpoint usable and ready to be provisioned in the broadcast control room,” he said. 

While Poulin tackled the deployment from a high-level, Dugas laid out the details of the solution.

Several components make up the architecture of the solution. They include the continuous delivery pipeline, an IP address manager (IPAM), a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server to automatically provide and assign IP addresses; a firmware repository running on a file server; a network infrastructure physical path (NIPP) generator; and a sanity check pipeline that runs on a daily basis. “All of these components… [revolve] around IT automation tools,” he said. 

“The role of the continuous delivery pipeline is to organize sets of tasks into what the broadcaster calls workflows—which are involved in the initial staging process, can play a role in network configuration and “perform function calls in an organized manner with proper metadata that are fetched to the IT automation tool,” said Dugas. “Continuous delivery pipeline tools provide a level of abstraction to the end user that is not necessarily familiar with scripting language.”

The architecture has three “sources of truth” to ensure error-free automated configuration—a schematic database providing a view and clear understanding of the physical network, a source version control tool that regularly saves the state of the IT automation tool and the IPAM, which provides “a source of truth for all of the logical network components,” said Dugas.

At the heart of the automated deployment system is an agentless IT automation tool that translates staging parameters into a series of comments, synchronizes various components of the system and provides current information on endpoints and network infrastructure, he said.

An “idempotency criterion” is the other core principle of the automated deployment system. “We can say a task is idempotent if it provides the exact same results regardless of the initial stage of the IT automation tool and also regardless of the number of times it was executed,” he explained.

Closing the loop on the deployment is the automated sanity check pipeline, which runs after a new device is enrolled and then again once a day to report any differences between the current state of devices as well as the network and the IPAM, NIPP and source version control sources of truth, he said.

LESSONS TO SHARE

Poulin closed out the presentation by offering some of the lessons CBC/Radio Canada has learned during the deployment.

“We realized that media-over-IP devices take five to 10 times as long to test, stage, configure, troubleshoot… [as does the] equivalent equipment based on SDI,” said Poulin. “It became obvious that we needed automaton tools like those found in data centers to… [make deployment and continuous operation] manageable.”

Broadcasters looking to transition to IT should decide on a “single source of truth” for each aspect of the system, including IP and multicast addresses, VLAN assignments, device inventory list and network configuration, before ever beginning a deployment, he said.

“Build your deployment tools before actually building your system,” he said. “That way you can recover your investment by automating the initial deployment and avoid having to reconcile the state of your system with the configuration scripts [which would be necessary] if you waited to automate at a later stage of the project.”

Poulin also advised broadcasters to involve all key stakeholders, including architect, system designer and operation. “Using a continuity of deployment methodology is a major change of practice, and you need to bring everybody on board so they can implement efficiently the new methodologies,” he said.

The director of the CBC/Radio Canada Media Transport Architecture Lab concluded by reminding those attending the presentation that this approach isn’t business as usual for broadcasters.

“This is a major shift for a broadcast media organization,” he said. “But it is a change that is necessary to adopt the IT technology at the core of our media infrastructure and get the expected benefits of flexibility and agility promised by the complex transition.”

SMPTE 2020 content is available on-demand at 2020.smpte.org.

MONTREAL—The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)/Radio-Canada has selected Synamedia’s video network portfolio for its transition from an SDI to IP-based infrastructure as part of its relocation to its new broadcast center in Montreal, the company announced.

CBC/Radio-Canada will rely on the company’s virtualized Digital Content Manager (DCM) in its SMPTE ST 2110 IP-based infrastructure, Synamedia’s PowerVu professional receiver (D9800) to enable the transition to next-generation distribution networks and the company’s Video Network Service Manager to configure, monitor and manage Synamedia’s array of  video network solutions, it said.

“This is a major achievement of [sic] us, given we managed to replace equipment that’s been in use for two decades,” said Synamedia product marketing manager Bart Van Daele. “This is really a major win.”

After a rigorous selection process, CBC/Radio-Canada chose Synamedia for its SMPTE ST 2110 upgrade to enable transfer of compressed and uncompressed video packets over IP without any loss in quality, the company said.

The Synamedia solution addresses the desire on the part of the CBC/Radio-Canada team for a partner with capabilities and expertise in encoding and transcoding, multiplexing, satellite receivers and decoders, and monitoring and network management, the company said.

“We’re thrilled to be CBC/Radio-Canada’s partner of choice in assisting with the broadcaster’s relocation and transition to IP-based infrastructure,” said Julien Signes, senior vice president and general manager, Video Network at Synamedia.

More information is available on the company’s website.  

WATERLOO, Ontario—CBC/Radio-Canada (CBC) has renewed a multi-year agreement with Dejero to be the broadcaster’s primary field contribution solutions provider and to assist with its transition to IP workflows, the company announced.

Currently, CBC is relocating its French Services HQ to the groundbreaking all-IP Maison de Radio-Canada (MRC) broadcast center in Montreal. Upon completion later this year, the new SMPTE ST 2110-compliant MRC will be one of the most advanced IP broadcast facilities in the world, supporting CBC's multiplatform and digital strategy.

Dejero is supporting the all-IP infrastructure at the MRC by providing the broadcaster with its latest solutions, including WayPoint 204 SMPTE ST 2110 receivers, EnGo 260 mobile transmitters, rack-mounted PathWay transmitters and the LivePlus mobile app for iOS and Android devices across the network. Dejero is also providing CBC with connectivity and cloud-management services, the company said.

“Dejero’s proven track record, partnership and ongoing support have been invaluable to CBC over the last decade," commented François Vaillant, executive director, engineering solutions at CBC/Radio-Canada. "Some of the key factors that stood out for us when we examined Dejero’s technology during the selection process were that their solutions clearly met CBC’s needs and expectations, being reliable and agile, particularly when broadcasting in bandwidth-constrained scenarios from the field."

“We are thrilled to have been re-selected as the field contribution technology partner of CBC/Radio-Canada, a close relationship we have cultivated for over a decade," said Bogdan Frusina, founder of Dejero. “We look forward to continuing our support of CBC/Radio-Canada as it transitions to IP workflows and completes its groundbreaking project in Montreal.”

More information is available on the Dejero website. 

WUPPERTAL, Germany & MONTREAL—CBC/Radio Canada’s planned state-of-the-art Montreal headquarters, Maison de Radio-Canada, will have a touch of German in it upon completion, as Riedel Communications will supply its Artist and Bolero wired and wireless intercom systems as part of the broadcast center’s communications backbone.

The MRC, which will open in 2020, will be entirely IP-based, utilizing SMPTE ST 2110-30/31 and NMOS IS-04/05/07 standards. Riedel will assist with this by providing the Artist-1024. The latest software-defined node in the Artist series offers 1024 nonblocking ports in a 2RU frame and uses software-definable Universal Interface Cards that combine networking, mixing and management on a single card. A card can be configured to act as a SMPTE ST 2110-30/31 or MADI subscriber card, or as an Artist fiber/router/processor card. There is also the Director configuration software that allows for the changing of connectivity type and scaling up of port count.

Bolero, an AES67-based wireless intercom system that integrates with Artist for a unified wireless communications environment, will handle all wireless communications in the MRC. Bolero is a six-channel, 1.9 gigahertz system that incorporates Riedel’s Advanced DECT Receiver technology for RF environments that can create multipath reflections.

In addition, more than 250 Riedel 1200 Series SmartPanels are set to be installed at MRC. The SmartPanels are ST 2110-30/31 native and provide an app-based user interface for intercom, high-quality audio monitoring and integration of third-party control systems via the SmartPanel Control Panel app.

Riedel says that this installation will be one of the largest for Artist in North America upon completion.

MONTREAL—When CBC/Radio-Canada opens its new broadcast center Maison de Radio-Canada in Montreal in 2020, it will do so with the support of Grass Valley’s iTX integrated playout platform as part of its infrastructure. With the iTX system, which supports SMPTE ST 2110, the broadcast center’s production teams will be able to manage multiple formats and mix IP live inputs using back-to-back IP sources and file-based clips for more than 100 TV, radio and web channels.

The iTX platform provides IP/SDI format flexibility and scalability for future readiness, as well as an advanced end-to-end workflow. This open standards-based IP approach enables CBC to be fully format and resolution agnostic, while also being able to adapt its services the changing viewer demands.

In addition, the iTX comes with full disaster recovery between the broadcaster’s facilities in Toronto, which has its own iTX system, and Montreal. A second phase of this development will be an upgrade to the Toronto facility, expected to begin sometime in 2020.

CBC/Radio-Canada Executive Director Francois Vaillant says that utilizing the same technology between the two language services in Toronto and Montreal simplifies the broadcasters operation, training and maintenance process.

SYDNEY, AMSTERDAM & NEW YORK—CBS and Network Ten, one of three major commercial broadcast networks in Australia, have come to terms on a deal that will add Network Ten to CBS’ global content and distribution portfolio. The acquisition includes the core linear channel TEN, the digital terrestrial television channel ELEVEN, the DTT channel ONE and the digital platform TENPLAY.

This deal will also allow CBS to launch its subscription video-on-demand service CBS All Access in the Australian market. This is the second international territory that CBS is expanding its service too, having previously announced it will be made available in Canada next year.

The transaction will be completed in accordance with the Australian voluntary administration process and is subject to certain regulatory approvals.

SUNNYVALE, CALIF.—In an effort to replace its aging file system, Cologne Broadcasting Center (CBC) recently installed Pixit Media’s PixStor scale-out NAS software that runs on NetApp E-Series storage arrays. This new infrastructure is used for centralized graphics production storage and online disaster recovery.

NetApp E5660

The PixStor is a unified scale-out NAS and SAN system that provides flexible scalability and reliable performance. It works with the NetApp E5660 storage arrays with NL-SAS drives to support video production and the EF560 all-flash arrays to support audio production. The overall infrastructure delivers 6 GB per second of video performance to sustain 450 streams of simultaneous XDCam HD422 at 50Mbps playback.

“An integrated storage infrastructure provides central storage and nearline disaster recovery for CBC’s postproduction and audio departments,” said Jason Danielson, product and solutions marketing at NetApp. “With the combination of NetApp and PixStor, CBC can now transition from expensive Fibre Channel connectivity to more flexible and inexpensive 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity via SMB 3.”

TORONTO—CBC is gearing up for its coverage of the 2016 Olympics Games in Rio de Janeiro. As part of that the Canadian broadcaster has announced that it will offer for the first time virtual reality and 360 video programming coverage of the games.

In partnership with Visa and the International Olympics Committee, CBC Virtual Reality will provide both a 360-degree-motion-sensitive stream and an immersive virtual reality stream that can be viewed through compatible headset technology. CBC is planning to offer more than 100 hours of coverage through VR.

According to CBC, it will provide more than 850 combined hours of English language television and more than 4,000 live streaming hours. Live and on-demand content will be available through social media platforms and up to 23 live streaming channels will be available at cbc.ca/olympics, as well as through a dedicated Rio 2016 app for iOS and Android devices.

The 2016 Olympics Games are set to take place from Aug. 5-21.

Read more about how broadcasters are covering the Rio Games at our Live@TheRioOlympics social media hub.

RALEIGH, N.C.—Capital Broadcasting Company has announced that it has upgraded its WRAL News app to deliver content to the Apple Watch. Users of the app can now get breaking news, headlines, the DUALDoppler 5000 radar, and seven-day and hourly weather forecast on the smartwatch.

The ability to use the WRAL News app on the Apple Watch is available through an update that is free for all iOS users. The app will only work on Apple watchOS 2.

CBC also announced that WRAL News is also accessible on Apple News for iOS 9 users. Users can add WRAL News into the aggregating news app feed and favorites.

WRAL News and other WRAL apps can be found through the app store and on the WRAL.com mobile download page.