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Full-power digital · channel 17 · RALEIGH, NC
| Facility ID | 8688 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | CAPITOL BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC. |
| Community of licence | RALEIGH, NC
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 35.67472, -78.52750 |
| Effective radiated power | 833.7 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 706 m above average terrain · non-directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | http://www.wral.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 13
|
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
| Content-Signal | search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| facility 795214 | 2 | LPD | |
| facility 795044 | 3 | LPT | |
| WAUG-LD | 4 | LPD | SAINT AUGUSTINE'S UNIVERSITY |
| facility 795033 | 5 | LPT | |
| facility 795441 | 6 | LPD | |
| WIRP-LD | 10 | LPD | DTV AMERICA CORPORATION |
| facility 795443 | 13 | LPD | |
| WRTD-CD | 15 | DCA | NBC TELEMUNDO LICENSE LLC |
| WRAZ | 15 | DTV | WRAZ-TV, INC. |
| WDRH-LD | 16 | LPD | DIGITAL NETWORKS-SOUTHEAST, LLC |
| WLFL | 18 | DTV | WLFL LICENSEE, LLC |
| WWIW-LD | 21 | LPD | WORD OF GOD FELLOWSHIP, INC. |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WRAL-TV | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WRAL-TV | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.