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Rick Gall

American news broadcaster

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ7331407 ↗
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Rick Gall is the news director for WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina, a position he has held since 2005.

Awards

Gall was named News Director of the Year in 2011 by the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas and also received the 2011 Mid South Emmy Award for News Excellence.

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“Rick Gall” enters the record as american news broadcaster. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rick, Gall and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rick, Gall and American.
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This entry incorporates text from “Rick Gall” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.