WRAL-TV Wins Seven Regional Emmys, Including News Excellence

WRAL-TV staffers represent the station at the Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards in Nashville, TN, on Saturday, February 27, 2016.

WRAL-TV had a busy weekend for two reasons. As staffers prepared the station for the change to NBC on Monday, several WRAL-TV employees traveled to Nashville to attend the 30th Regional Emmy Awards. They picked up 7 statuettes for the station during the annual awards presentation on Saturday, February 27, 2016.

WRAL-TV won the prestigious Emmy for News Excellence, the final award of the evening. WRAL-TV Anchor Debra Morgan accepted on the station's behalf.

I'm so proud of everybody at WRAL, these folks here, the folks I know who are at home watching in North Carolina, said Morgan from the podium. Everybody day in and day out work so hard. When I bring people to the TV station, I tell them you see very few of our faces on TV, but look at the people who make this news operation run. It is a team effort. We work so hard to serve the people of our community. It's not about us. It's about the people on the other side of the camera.

And the WRAL winners are:

NEWS EXCELLENCE

WRAL-TV

MORNING NEWSCAST

February Snow Noon Newscast Miriam K. Melvin, Keyetta Mangum, Elizabeth Gardner, Nathan Johnson, Michelle Marsh, Amanda Smith, Jenna Auman, WRAL-TV

SPOT NEWS

Durham Black Lives Matter March Lori Grant, Ken Smith, Mark Simpson, Kevin Davis, James A. Ford, Jr., WRAL-TV

BREAKING NEWS

Scaffolding Collapse- Rick Gall, Miriam K. Melvin, Joseph Thomas, Laura Leslie, Monica Laliberte, Waliya Lari, Michelle Marsh, Keyetta Mangum, Kianey Carter, Sloane Heffernan, Miranda Dotson, Jenna Auman, WRAL-TV

GENERAL ASSIGNMENT NO TIME LIMIT

Swatting Renee Chou, Randall Kerr, Greg Clark, WRAL-TV

INTERACTIVITY

#HungerFreeNC Shelly Leslie, Jodi Leese Glusco, Wendy Gatlin, Steve Loyd, WRAL-TV

PROMO SPOT/PROGRAM

An Obvious Suspect Jay Yovanovich, WRAL-TV

This is incredibly special when we have sat here through this evening and honored the journalistic integrity in this room, said Morgan as she accepted the News Excellence Emmy for WRAL. I'm honored to be standing up here in front of all of you. Congratulations to all of you and all of the work you do. Amazing.

Congratulations to our deserving winners!

LINKS:

Find a full list of the 2016 Midsouth Regional Emmy Winners HERE

Watch the video of the 2016 Midsouth Regional Emmy Live Broadcast HERE

Find a full list of all WRAL & FOX 50 nominees HERE

Thanks to WRAL-TV's Miriam Melvin, Sloane Heffernan & Wendy Gatlin for these capcom photos. Thanks so NATAS for the screen capture of WRAL-TV's News Excellence win.

WRAL-TV staffers represent the station at the Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards in Nashville, TN, on Saturday, February 27, 2016.

WRAL-TVs Miriam Melvin accepts the Emmy for Morning Newscast on behalf of her team at the Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards in Nashville, TN, on Saturday, February 27, 2016.

WRAL-TVs Wendy Gatlin accepts the Emmy for Interactivity on behalf of her team at the Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards in Nashville, TN, on Saturday, February 27, 2016.

WRAL-TVs Miranda Dotson (l to r), Miriam Melvin, Debra Morgan, Ken Smith & Sloane Heffernan show off their new hardware at the Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards in Nashville, TN, on Saturday, February 27, 2016.

WRAL-TVs Amanda Smith (left) & WRAL-TVs Miriam Melvin show off their new hardware at the Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards in Nashville, TN, on Saturday, February 27, 2016.

WRAL-TVs Miriam Melvin accepts an Emmy at the Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards in Nashville, TN, on Saturday, February 27, 2016.

WRAL-TVs Wendy Gatlin accepts the Emmy for Interactivity on behalf of her team at the Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards in Nashville, TN, on Saturday, February 27, 2016.

WRAL-TVs Miriam Melvin (left), Ken Smith & Sloane Heffernan show off her new hardware at the Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards in Nashville, TN, on Saturday, February 27, 2016.

The WRAL team reacts as WRAL-TV wins the Emmy for News Excellence at the Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards in Nashville, TN, on Saturday, February 27, 2016.

WRAL-TVs Miriam Melvin and her husband, Marcus, help represent WRAL at the Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards in Nashville, TN, on Saturday, February 27, 2016.

WRAL-TVs Miriam Melvin show off her new hardware at the Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards in Nashville, TN, on Saturday, February 27, 2016.

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