Not many people knew what Bill Jordan looked like until he appeared on the WRAL Morning newscasts. For those who know Susan, she is an accomplished artist too! Scott quickly found a loyal following and his role and visibility on ESPNs studio shows exploded. A few months later, WRAL was selected to be the flagship station for North Carolina Education Lottery drawings (twice daily for certain games, with the multi-jurisdictional Mega Millions Tuesday and Friday nights, and Powerball Wednesdays and Saturdays). He anchored news coverage of the 1968 North Carolina primary for a six-station statewide network headquartered at WRAL. Gregory grew up in Atlanta and earned her college degree at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Note the cross promotion included WRAL.com as well. His conservative commentaries were both controversial and popular with many viewers. Dahlins documentaries included The Blanche Taylor Moore Story, which won a regional Emmy. Despite the NCAA Tournament moving with the rest of the CBS schedule to WNCN, WRAL-TV continued to air ACC football and/or basketball. Adele Arakawa and Charlie Gaddy discuss election results with analyst in 1988. She is a single mother with a four year old son. Arakawa moved to television news at WRVK-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she filled numerous roles, including reporter, producer and news anchor. He is interviewed by WRAL News anchors Adele Arakawa and John Hudson. [41], WRAL has consistently swept television media categories in the Independent Weekly and Cary News annual "Best Of" awards voted by readers.[42][43]. At CBS News Jim has covered a wide range of stories, most notably as a reporter embedded with the military during the war in Iraq. Weatherman and wrestling announcer in 1960s staff photo. Tom eventually left WRAL in 1984 in order to pursue a career in news in Phoenix, Arizona. Tom next became an actor and voiceover artist for radio and television commercials. Caudle held that position until he retired in 1996. Mikaya Thurmond is leaving Raleigh-Durham, N.C. NBC affiliate WRAL. The game was played March 9, 1957. Soon after, WRAL continued to produce acclaimed[who?] WRAL-TV Morning News anchors promote the WRAL-FM Morning hosts! from Brown University in 1989. Inskeep came to WRAL-FM in 1974, not long after the station changed its programing to the popular Adult Contemporary format. He is a graduate of Guilford College. He even appeared in several daytime dramas in the late 1970s. Bill Jordan was the popular morning man at WRAL-FM (MIX-101.5) for more than two decades. After three years in Wilmington, Caudle moved to TV job in Savannah, and three years later headed to Raleigh and WRAL-TV. [5] Capitol Broadcasting president and CEO Jim Goodmon stated that CBS would only renew its affiliation with WRAL if it entered into a reverse compensation agreementunder which Capitol would be required to pay the network for the local rights to air its programming, the complete opposite of traditional commercial television practices. Then he got the call from the radio managers at Capitol Broadcasting and his long career with CBC was born. When WRAL-TV signed on the air in 1956, Reeve was its first Sports Director and Sports Anchor roles he maintained until his retirement in 1973. [38], In 2008, among the nine Emmy awards received by WRAL and WRAL.com received the inaugural award in Advanced Media for Interactivity for the video player used throughout the website. The commercials that aired that day are included as well. Final Score: USC 71 and Maryland 63. It was the first such network in North Carolina political history and Beard was the glue who held the broadcasts together. [18][19], WRAL-TV presently broadcasts 42 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with seven hours each weekday, three hours on Saturdays and four hours on Sundays). He served as CBS News Chief White House Correspondent from 2006-2009 and was named National Correspondent in 2009. He was also honored with a national Emmy Award for . WRAL has the highest rated television news organization in the Triangle[20] winning numerous regional Emmys. He gained widespread popularity as the voice of Wolfpack basketball and football during the eras of Coaches Everett Case and Earle Edwards. Her adventures provided insights to many popular destinations worldwide. In 2009, she began making periodic appearances on the Onion News Network (ONN), a satirical news organization. ", NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts, "WNCN, WRAL Swap Affiliations In Raleigh", "WRAL-TV CEO says move to NBC a 'business decision for the future', "TV Listings for - February 28, 2016 - TV Tango", ". Atlantic Weatherman Bob Knapp in a 1960 PR photo. There are local connections to these stories! Weather with Bob Debardelaben. [60], During the 1970s and 1980s through CATV, WRAL was once carried in even more places. HD sports programming recorded by WRAL was provided to other model stations as well. Mark Roberts, Jim Axelrod and David Crabtree in the WRAL-TV break room. @HarrySmith: What do we (at NBC) think of #NBConWRAL? Bill flew with the Navy Blue Angels and passed out only when the gravitational force reached 6 Gs. He also spent three days learning the ropes with US Marines at Parris Island; and he flew on a refueling mission with the 916th Air Refueling Wing out of Seymour Johnson AFB. Early 60's WRAL News anchor Charlie Gaddy. PM Magazine was a weekly television program that was part local/part national. Soon he began going on the road for Crockett Promotions to tape wrestling shows throughout the eastern half of the country. In 1988, Rick a native New Yorker, returned to his news roots at WPVI in Philadephia. Many thanks to Ray Reeve, Jr. for sharing this home recording with us. [26], WRAL's noon newscasts included a farm segment featuring each day's farm commodity prices, followed by a feature agricultural story from somewhere in the viewing area or around North Carolina. The set, designed by Florida based FX Design Group, features a 20-by-11-foot (6.1m 3.4m) LED video wall, the largest installation in a local news operation, and a smaller curved LED wall near the anchor desk. Bob Debardelaben was the weathercaster, and Rich Brenner was sports anchor. Enjoy this story about Susan and her uncle getting together after not seeing each other for 17 years. Scott went on to stardom as a sports anchor at ESPN. She worked with Stuart. [52] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers continues to display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 5.1. Jordan is probably best known to listeners for two things his good natured Birthday Call segments and his tireless work at the helm of the annual MIX Radiothons for Duke Childrens Hospital. "That was the advent of adding a woman to anchor a nightly newscast," Gaddy said. Sister Gary came to Raleigh in 1936 to preach at Grace Chapel AME Zion Church in Raleigh. More important, he showed us how to fight with dignity and honor. Inskeep was born in Urbana, Ohio, but moved with his family to Rockwell, Maryland where he graduated high school. Bob Inskeep was a popular morning radio announcer at WRAL-FM during the 1970s and 80s. In early 1989, Arakawa left WRAL for an anchor position at WBBM-TV in Chicago, a position she held for five years before departing for a similar job in Denver. Mikaya Thurmond Net Worth. In its on-air and print promotion, WRAL-TV referred to Ray Reeve as the Dean of Sportscasters, and it turns out his contemporaries agreed. Proceeds of the cassette went to Duke Childrens Hospital. In 1980 she was working in an off-camera role at WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach when she decided to make an audition tape for PM Magazine. Retired WRAL Sports Anchor Tom Suiter and his wife, Julie, at the banquet for his induction into the NC Sports Hall of Fame on Friday, April 22, 2022. Youll also see legendary WRAL news anchors Charlie Gaddy and Adele Arakawa, as well as chief meteorologist Greg Fishel in a few of the bloopers. Click Submit Your Story below to find out how. During this time at CNN Battista also anchored a daily program for CNN International, making her the only anchor in CNN history to work at all three CNN networks. Feature edited by WRAL Tar Heel Traveler photographer Bob Meikle. Meredith College professor Doug Spero suggested that WRAL's overall dominance in the Triangle was so absolute that it was in a position to become one of NBC's strongest affiliates, much as it was one of CBS' strongest affiliates. It is one of the latter shows produced at WRAL. Crew member Jack Stokes, Sam Beard, Bob DeBardelaben and Russell Capps during live Dateline newscast. Sloane Heffernan stands by her brand in her office at The Loading Dock July 14. In North Carolina, it was once carried in Burlington, Greenville, Wadesboro, Wilmington, Williamston, and Yanceyville. The team was tagged with the nickname Cardiac Pack after winning games that ended in heart-stopping, buzzer beater baskets. "[6] The last CBS program to air on WRAL was a showing of the movie Last Vegas at 9:00p.m. Eastern Time. She won the Outstanding News Anchor Emmy in 1997 for coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing trial. Their home is an apartment that is 9 X 15. Jim Goodmon, president and CEO of WRAL parent company Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc., was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award as well. Sitting L-R: Bruce Mulder, Lori Rentsch. CBC television and radio stations have employed hundreds of on-air performers during the companys long history. Also seen seated at the anchor desk was reporter Leila Tvedt, who primarily covered high profile court cases. )[14] Following WRAL-TV rejoining NBC on February 29, 2016, Y&R continued to air at 4 p.m. on WNCN while WRAL-TV carried local news at the time slot until January 17, 2022 when WNCN moved it to its traditional 12:30p.m. timeslot and introduced its own 4 p.m. He repeated the feat the next year with an even par 72, which garnered him the A.E. Biography [ edit] Gaddy was born in Roxboro, North Carolina in 1931. In the late 1950s Beard was appointed Public Relations Director for the North Carolina Highway Commission, but it wasnt long before he was lured back into broadcasting in the state capitol. Raised by several generations of artists, Susans love of painting eventually placed her art in galleries across the South. Scott graduated from UNC and always kept close ties to the university. Tillett won Anchor of the Year, and Leslie was inducted into the NCAB Hall of Fame. He also worked at WAVY-TV in Portsmouth before joining the WRAL staff. Legendary WRAL-TV anchor team together again for special 50th anniversary newscast in 2006: (l to r) Bob Debardelaben, Charlie Gaddy, Bobbie Battista & Tom Suiter. The job took her to KMSP-TV in Minneapolis, where she anchored the midday newscast until March 1997. Former CNN anchor Bobbie Battista has died at 67. SLIDESHOW: WRAL News Sets Through the Years. WRAL was the first commercial station to provide high definition programming when it obtained an experimental HD transmission license from the FCC in 1996. Listen to the voices of children, parents, and those who made a donation to Duke Childrens Hospital. He is best known as the first voice of Atlantic Coast Conference basketball over the Tobacco Sports Networka radio network formed by Capitol Broadcasting Company in 1948 to carry the regions collegiate games. A. J. Fletcher's Capitol Broadcasting Company, which first licensed WRAL Radio (AM 1240, now WPJL) in 1938, won the TV license in an upset over the much larger Durham Life Insurance Company, then-owners of radio station WPTF.[1]. Gregory returned to the Triangle where she was hired by WNCN-TV as a primary weekday anchor. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Arakawa grew up in Hawaii. In 1979 Tom got his first fulltime station job hosting PM Magazine at WNEP-TV in Scranton, PA. A year later he moved to Raleigh to join the WRAL team. WRAL announced on February 1, 2006 that it would begin to stream all of its programming live on the internet. A. After the show ended its run, Marks stayed on with WRAL-TV as an announcer and employee of the Promotion Department. Enjoy these outtakes from the popular evening program PM Magazine with hosts Tom McNamara and Susan Dahlin circa 1984. Journalist, News Anchor, Former Clergyman: Children: 2: David Crabtree is an American television anchor, journalist. Learn more about the people of WRAL, and use the links provided to send us feedback and ideas. Watch this 30 minute program, complete with vintage commercials, that captures the excitement on campus and in the community. Bill Armstrong Bill Jordan Bob Caudle Bob Inskeep Bob Knapp Bobbie Battista Bret Baier Donna Gregory Herb Marks Jim Axelrod Ray Reeve Rich Brenner Sam Beard Sister Gary Stuart Scott Susan Dahlin Tom McNamara Be part of CBC History Submit your story Tom and co-host Susan Dahlin fronted the magazine show for more than four years and won legions of fans in the process. In 1990, he headed south to Florida for a sports reporting position at WESH-TV in Orlando. As a staunch supporter of the military and veterans, Jordan flew on three Flights of Honor and says he was humbled to be in the presence of so many WWII veterans who truly represent our nations Greatest Generation. During 1953, Farm Program aired from 6:00 to 6:15a.m. and Regional and Farm News aired between 12:45 and 12:55p.m. from Fayetteville. They were usually good, and one period she beat WDNCs Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.. The show is an extension of the expansion throughout the 1980s of high school football coverage on the 11:00p.m. newscast. Bill and Sheri gave listeners an idea what the topic of the day would be during their morning drive to work or to run errands. Brets live reporting topped the Channel 5 newscasts that evening and set the tone for what would be a short, but impressive two-year stint covering news in Central North Carolina. Charlie Gaddy retired from WRAL in 1994. Armstrong held that role from the stations sign-on in 1956 to 1966. However, the 2003 reality show Cupid did not air on the station, as have some controversial shows on sister station WRAZ, and WRAL was one of a few CBS affiliates in the nation that did not carry an hour of CBS' weekend morning children's programming block (in favor of Brain Game and Smart Start Kids). He was a veteran broadcaster who got into radio in his late teens and worked his way into a prominent role at WPTF-AM, where he served as a news announcer in the 40s and 50s. Tara Lynn, a former reporter and fill-in anchor at WRAL, will return to the station to co-anchor weekend mornings while Mikaya Thurmond is off on medical leave. Former WRAL-TV News VP Sam Beard working the phone in the newsroom. Though Mabel Gary was only four-feet-eleven-inches tallshe gained a reputation as a powerful speaker who could move congregations and radio audiences alike. In 2013 Adele Arakawa was inducted into the regional Emmy organizations prestigious Silver Circlean honor reserved for journalists who have spent more than 25 years in the broadcast industry and made lasting contributions to the region and craft. The question was posed as to whether or not Smart Start was a solid investment for the future of North Carolina. The honor is reserved for broadcasters with at least 25 years in the business who have made significant contributions to the community and to television in the region. Notably, Today, the NBC Nightly News, and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon immediately saw major ratings gains in the market after their move to WRAL. Editorial by Joel Lawhon. Battista left CNN after the company merged with America Online in 2001. replacing former . newscast.[15]. Tom joined the station in July of 1980 and helped bring the new PM program format to life on Channel 5. He was also honored with a national Emmy Award for coverage of the Washington, D.C. sniper siege. (see an excerpt of that interview here). Former PM Magazine host Tom McNamara became a news anchor at KTVK in Phoenix, Arizona in the late 80s. Late 70s early 80s WRAL anchor team of Bob DeBardelaben, Rich Brenner, Charlie Gaddy and Bobbie Battista. But he always remembered his friends back at WRAL-TV and the viewers in Raleigh. The next year he left the company for good and headed north to Richmond where he enrolled at Union Presbyterian Seminary. In 1975, he was recruited from a radio station in Winston-Salem to WRAL-FM by Bob Inskeep, better known to listeners as FBI, or. Bob Knapp left WRAL-TV in 1965, but came back to the station for another year in 1967. Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. is a diversified communications company founded in 1937. WRAL clears most of the NBC schedule in pattern, except for one hour of The More You Know (NBC's E/I-compliant block), which it preempts in favor of paid programming in the noon hour on Saturdays (as a CBS affiliate, it cleared the network's entire schedule from the late 1990s until it rejoined NBC). According to reports . The disease went into remission, but recurred several additional times during the next seven years. Crabtree, who left WRAL at the end of May after nearly three decades with the top rated local station,. Former WRAL-TV anchors Bob DeBardelaben(l to r), Charlie Gaddy& Bobbie Battistajoin current long-time WRAL Sports AnchorTom Suiter for the reunion newscast. He was 65. This is the last of 11 reports that aired on WRAL News. She works with clients to help them achieve their health, fitness and lifestyle goals. She attended Tennessee Tech University and the University of Tennessee. It is one of the few stations in the country to have been a primary affiliate of all of the "Big Three" networks. He blazed a path in broadcasting that is often imitated, but never duplicated. [32] As of 2022 the helicopter is flown by two pilots that Wiley himself hired and trained to take over Sky 5 operations. He began his career at WVII-TV Bangor, ME in 1989. Name the weatherman or meteorologist who presented a weathercast from WRALs tall tower. Chuckle along with legendary WRAL news anchor team Charlie Gaddy and Bobbie Battista from the late 70s. He completed fifteen courses at Duke Divinity School between 1979 and 1986. 1983 March Madness resulted NC State winning the NCAA National Basketball Championship. Many well-known preachers had their programs produced in the studios of WRAL and/or WRAL radio. Sports historians credit the early growth of the league in part to Reeves compelling basketball broadcasts. . A mere two weeks later she was back on the air hosting her Sunday morning programa testament to her undying spirit and determination. WRAL can be seen well outside of the Raleigh market, with the signal penetrating parts of the Greenville, Greensboro, Wilmington, Charlotte, RoanokeLynchburg, Richmond, Norfolk and FlorenceMyrtle Beach markets. The official eastern fringe of the Raleigh market is Halifax County and the western fringe is Orange County. Famed sports anchor Ray Reeve posing as an inmate in company photo gag, *AUDIO ONLY* Legendary WRAL sportscaster Ray Reeve calls the play-by-play basketball action between the USC Gamecocks and the University of Maryland Terrapins during the 1971 ACC tournament in Greensboro, N.C. Former CNN anchor Bobbie Battista has passed away at the age of 67, according to a family spokeswoman. In June 1977 one of Sister Garys legs was amputated due to health reasons. WRAL Sports Anchors Tom Suiter and Rich Brenner provide coverage of the 1980 Hall of Fame Classic from Pinehurst, North Carolina. [40] Geoff Levine won the National Press Photographer of the Year award and the station received 6 awards from the North Carolina Associated Press Broadcasters. Listeners loved him and he was named Best in the Triangle five years running in the annual poll conducted by Spectator Magazine. The television stations share studios at Capitol Broadcasting Company headquarters on Western Boulevard in west Raleigh, while WRAL-TV's transmitter is located in Auburn, North Carolina. He and his wife have three children and seven grandchildren. WRAL's newscasts are simulcast with local weather inserts on another sister station, WILM-LD in Wilmington. In 1996, Dahlin was assigned to head up marketing efforts for new High Definition TV technology that WRAL was pioneering. In 1961 he took on additional duties as the announcer for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, which was recorded every Wednesday night at WRAL. WRAL News anchor Donna Gregory and news photographer Jay Jennings first met Vladimir Koslov in 1992 in Moscow. After leaving Channel 5, Tom held on-air reporting and anchoring jobs in Oklahoma City and Phoenix before making his last move to Tucson in 1997. WRAL was also one of the few CBS affiliates that aired The Young and the Restless at 4 p.m. as a lead-in to its 5 p.m. newscast. This article is about the television station. Bishop Terence Jenkins is the current host of the gospel music program that grew out of the Sister Gary Spiritual program. Northgate Mall. (Recorded March 11, 1971). She helped create the Androgena Show, a childrens program that won several national awards. Rich Brenner died February 27, 2012 after suffering a heart attack at a speaking engagement. He left the station in 1967. In the late 1980s Inskeep felt the urge to help others in need of personal counseling. The audio recording is missing part of the game, but hearing Ray Reeve call the game and question the actions of Maryland Coach Lefty Driesell makes this a classic. Her on-air name was Bobbie Ann.. Barbara Ann Bobbie Battista was a producer, on-air host and primary evening news anchor at WRAL-TV from 1974 to 1981. Sister Garys sister Sandra Byrd leads the Weslyan TV choir. The Hughes 500 helicopter N8624F[28] was painted in the livery of the Saudi Arabian Air Force with "Sky 5" graphics added, reflecting the original customer before the sale fell through and WRAL purchased it for newsgathering. In 1998 Fox News hired Baier as the first reporter in the networks new Atlanta Bureau. Sam Beard left WRAL-TV in September 1972 to work fulltime for former WRAL colleague Jesse Helms, who was campaigning for the U.S. Senate. The birthday calls helped make Jordan one of the most popular broadcasters in the market. In 2012 Donna founded Coastal Health Innovations and began a new career as a Professional Integrative Health Coach. The garden is a popular public attraction, especially during April when the flowers are at the peak of blooming. Very early photo of Sister Mabel Gary, who hosted gospel programs on WRAL Radio and Television. At WRAL, Caudle anchored late-night news and appeared as The Atlantic Weatherman who would deliver the forecast each evening dressed in a gas station attendants uniform. In the early 1990s, WRAL distributed its programming via C-Band satellite as part of the Primetime 24 package, reaching viewers in the Caribbean and Latin America, as well as the few rural areas of the United States and Canada where local over-the-air broadcast signals were not available. That interview can be seen on this website titled WRAL News Director Bill Armstrong interviews astronaut Neil Armstrong. Bill Armstrong died March 30, 2005 at the age of 80. In 1997, WRAL received eight Mid-South Regional Emmy Awards including those for news excellence, best newscast, best hard news series and investigative reporting. It is also available on cable systems in portions of the Charlotte and Triad media markets, as well as the North Carolina portions of the Hampton Roads and FlorenceMyrtle Beach markets. A few of the highlights include President John F. Kennedys visit to the campus of UNC to WRAL News Director Bill Armstrongs interview with NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong while he was training at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill. In December 1989, WRAL was knocked off the air when a severe ice storm caused the collapse of the station's 2,000-foot (610m) transmitter tower. Bobs TV career began in 1954 at WMFD-TV (later WECT-TV) in Wilmington, NC, where he played a lead role in Bob and Hester, a childrens program featuring a dog puppet that talked and sang songs. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 48. In a ceremony at the end of the morning newscast, Goodmon pressed a button decorated with the NBC peacock to switch to Today.[8]. Lincoln Graves, the KATU reporter and anchor, will also be moving to a station owned by the same company that owns KATU, the Sinclair Broadcast Group.Graves has announced that, after 10 years with . The segments were anchored by veteran farm reporter Ray Wilkinson and were dropped in the late 1990s, but were continued on the evening news broadcasts by Ray's son Dan Wilkinson. Neil Armstrong and other astronauts were there January 28-30, 1963 learning about celestial navigation. They live in Raleigh. The first story aired in 2013. Marks was best known for portraying Capn 5, a cartoon show in the late 50s. Over the course of his career he interviewed top professional athletes such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods along with Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Jordan retired from WRAL-FM July 31, 2013. The former two shows tallied their highest ratings on record in the Triangle on the day channel 5 officially returned to NBC, showing gains of well over 200 percent compared to their previous showings on WNCN. However, employees who declined to be identified said Kopald's replacement will be Tom McNamara, a former reporter for WRAL in Raleigh, and former anchor in Phoenix and Oklahoma City.. Watch and listen to Vladimir share his insights into the differences between life in Russia vs life in America. WRAL-TV staffers present and past celebrate at the North Carolina Broadcasters Awards Luncheon on Wednesday, September 20, 2022. This video features three stories produced in Paris and one in Normandy, France. WRAL was one of many stations that participated in this story sharing cooperative made up of member stations across the country. In accepting the award, he told the ESPY audience that when you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. Prior to WRAL, Axelrod worked at WSTM-TV Syracuse, NY and WUTR-TV Utica, NY. The service broadcast two subchannels, including a simulcast of WRAL's main programming in 1080p high definition, and a demo loop of content in 4K ultra high-definition television, along with testing for NBC involving the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics. ABC was at the time the smallest and weakest of the three major networks; it would not be on par with NBC and CBS in terms of ratings or affiliated stations until the early 1970s. Scott was a WRAL-TV News reporter from 1988-1990. 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To see Jeff Gravelys tribute to Rich Brenner, go here: http://www.wralsportsfan.com/voices/video/10791192/, And Tom Suiter looks back on his time working with Rick in this interview: http://www.wralsportsfan.com/voices/video/10791216/. During her two decades in Denver television she has received seven regional Emmy nominations. WRAL-TV was the first in the U.S. to broadcast a live sports program in high definition (on September 6, 1997), as well as the first HD newscast (on October 13, 2000). Brets WRAL reporting career got off to a memorable start as he spent his first day on the job covering a tornado that hit parts of Eastern Wake County. Meet Marlene Carole, WRALs first female weatherperson who used a chalkboard to write the high and low temperatures with an eye-wink. It has long been available on cable as far east as Wilmington. a) Bob Caudle b) Bob Debardelaben c) Bob Knapp d) Greg Fishel 2. Farm program aired from 6:00 to 6:15a.m that interview can be seen on this titled! 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