The RAL stands for RALeigh.

7/5/2023 12:25:14 AM

Send Bill Brawley to Rawlee!

7/5/2023 7:11:30 AM

Quote :

"The RAL stands for RALeigh."

7/5/2023 10:04:12 AM

The w stands for western

7/5/2023 11:37:33 AM

BigMan157 is using digital blackface ITT.

7/5/2023 12:10:38 PM

oh all right then qntm eddie (vedder)

7/5/2023 2:34:44 PM

They seem to keep making more and more mistakes in their story. I hadn't seen this before, it appears they accidentally left a note from the editor to the writer in the story they posted:

Quote :

"Following an investigation, Ethan Cole Fleming, 21, was arrested and charged Wednesday with the battery thefts. – what was the exact charge? Theft?"

https://www.wral.com/story/vance-county-man-charged-with-school-bus-battery-theft/21197063/

12/15/2023 1:17:17 PM

I think a fair amount of their articles aren’t edited at all

they’re also guilty of just repeating things they see on Facebook. I had to reach out last year to correct them on a pretty big thing they just copied and pasted that was just flat out wrong

[Edited on December 15, 2023 at 1:58 PM. Reason : .]

12/15/2023 1:58:00 PM

I'm a big fan of that news anchor they have

12/15/2023 2:28:39 PM

^^did they issue a correction or make any meaningful changes?

12/15/2023 3:21:58 PM

^Big, if true.

12/15/2023 4:36:23 PM

^^ they did

not sure that it’s stopped them from doing the same, though

12/15/2023 5:21:48 PM

Watching wral just for the hell of it even though I'm here in TX...the anchor on now has like too fake of a "gravitas" voice. You'd think he was anchoring world news tonight like david muir

2/16/2025 11:39:32 PM

they’ve pivoted to AI writing a bunch of their stories, especially on weekends

you can always tell when an article is credited to “WRAL Staff”

2/16/2025 11:48:05 PM

They lost all real credibility when they forced out Fishel.

2/17/2025 9:05:37 AM

^
what happened there

2/17/2025 11:26:57 AM

Lots of rumors, lots of assumptions, no real answers.

2/17/2025 11:42:14 AM

I assume it was for a legit reason... because it probably lost them viewers/$.

2/17/2025 11:50:38 AM

Yeah they aren't just going to fire a popular long-time employee just for the lulz

And if it was a salary/contract thing, you can bet he would have ended up at another local station. The fact that he didn't is pretty telling

2/17/2025 12:37:26 PM

he was an Uber driver in SC (Myrtle Beach?) for a bit

2/17/2025 1:32:19 PM

He had a super-bowl commercial for the HVAC company he hocks for

2/17/2025 2:04:03 PM

that wasn’t a national ad

local ads are played during halftime

[Edited on February 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM. Reason : .]

2/17/2025 2:13:22 PM

I didn't think it was a national ad, but that's good to know (local ads play during half-time).

I still assume it was still much more expensive than a regular ad?

2/17/2025 2:46:47 PM

yeah, the local broadcast has slots that they let go nationwide for local stations.

Some do a bidding war for the commercial, some have a flat rate.

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Fishel rumors were alcohol related from what I heard. And that he had a falling out with some of the upper neck ties which eventually led to them having a 'mutual parting of ways'

Fishel doesn't ever talk about it much or mention it. Just a few here and there things about it all.

2/17/2025 4:05:55 PM

I heard it's because he wanted to take a career detour and get into the air conditioning and plumbing sales business

2/17/2025 8:16:07 PM

I bet it was tangentially related to poontang

2/17/2025 8:17:00 PM

Nerdy TV weather guy = no ladies
Kewl air conditioning and plumbing sales guy = all the ladies

2/17/2025 8:25:13 PM

Fishel wanted to follow his dreams of being a Domino's driver

2/17/2025 9:53:02 PM

there's positions at the Garner Amazon center
employees voted 3 to 1 against unionizing

2/17/2025 10:46:51 PM

And their sister station FOX 50 WRAZ...the RAZ stands for bRAZil

2/18/2025 7:09:37 PM

2/19/2025 1:15:52 PM

wraLOL

2/19/2025 7:40:14 PM

Something about that pic creeps me out. Its like there is a secret he is hiding

2/19/2025 7:48:12 PM

he got fired for looking at porn at work i read somewhere

[Costanza voice/] is that wrong?

2/20/2025 5:35:52 PM

Did they say what kind?

2/20/2025 9:13:29 PM