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WRAL

U.S. center / center-left (local)

WRAL is the NBC-affiliated TV station and news website for Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, owned by the privately held Capitol Broadcasting Company. It is a mainstream local news outlet whose coverage of national politics, including the Trump administration, is generally straight, fact-focused reporting rather than opinion-driven; outside media-bias trackers rate it center to center-left.

Owned byCapitol Broadcasting Company, a privately held, family-controlled media company based in Raleigh, North Carolina (long associated with the Goodmon family)

LeaningU.S. center / center-left (local)

On the administrationmostly neutral

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2.9average bias score across 148 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun

Stories

4 North Carolina Votes Tuesday on Open U.S. Senate Seat, a Photo ID Amendment and All 14 U.S. House Seats
3 North Carolina Early Voting Ends With 2.6 Million Ballots in State Count, Up More Than 37% From 2022; Aggregator Puts Total Near 2.8 Million, With Registered Democrats at 38.4% and Registered Republicans at 26.2%
3 North Carolina Among 20 States Joining FTC Suit Alleging Dollar General Charged More at Register Than on Shelf
3 Union-Backed Group Launches N.C. Medicaid Outreach Campaign; Gov. Stein's Office Estimates More Than 250,000 Could Lose Coverage Under Federal Rules Starting Jan. 1, 2027
3 Stein and Jackson Ask Regulators to Require Data Centers to Help Pay for New Power Plants in Duke Tariff Deal
2 Libertarian State Senate Nominee Jonathan Miller Charged After Hours-Long Armed Standoff in Cary; No Shots Fired
5 Gov. Stein Asks N.C. Supreme Court to Review 2-1 Appeals Ruling That Let the State Auditor Appoint Elections Boards
3 Stein Urges In-Person Voting, Says Mail Ballot Rejections Are 'Twice as High' as 2022; State Board Data Show 3.1% So Far vs. 2.6% at Same Point in 2022
5 Trump Cites $1.5 Billion in Pentagon Chip Funding for North Carolina at Greenville Rally; Figure Matches Oct. 7 Conditional Wolfspeed Loan Offer
4 Trump Rallies in Greenville for Whatley as Two October Polls Show Cooper Leading N.C. Senate Race by 7 and 14 Points
5 WRAL/WSOC Poll: 74% of N.C. Adults Back Medical Marijuana, 63% Recreational; Data Center Views Split 43% to 42%
3 Two New Polls Show Cooper Ahead of Whatley by 7 and 14 Points as N.C. Early Voting Opens
2 At Least Five Tornadoes Reported in Central North Carolina as Isaias Remnants Bring Mountain Flooding; Peak Outages Topped 22,000
2 Energy Secretary Chris Wright Tours Duke Energy's Roxboro Coal Plant, Touting Up to $28.4 Million in Federal Upgrade Funds
4 Judge Denies Bond to NC Highway Patrol Sergeant Indicted on First-Degree Murder Charge in Death of Cumberland Sheriff's Capt. Adam Bean; Order Notes Self-Defense Claim