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WRAL Moves To Digitally Save Its Identity

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This is to preserve the stations history according to the release.

Around 30 years ago, an employee at WRAL, Capitol Broadcasting’s NBC affiliate in Raleigh, N.C., made what Jon Accarrino calls an “unfortunate decision” to toss roughly two decades of archival video into the trash. “Maybe they ran out of space or they just didn’t know what to do with it,” Accarrino says. “I’m not sure.”What Accarrino, Capitol’s VP of strategic business development, does know is that upon hearing of the loss, management was frustrated. They only grew more upset when they learned that, like many other stations looking to conserve storage space, WRAL had been taping over additional archival tapes with new content.
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These days you can get a lot of video on a hard drive. Transfer and indexing to a digital format is money well spent!
 
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