Former WRAL weatherman & NC native has died at age 95. How he’ll be remembered
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- Bob Caudle, longtime WRAL broadcaster and wrestling announcer, died at age 95.
- He started covering the weather and news for WRAL in the 1960s.
- Caudle shaped Mid-Atlantic Wrestling broadcasts, interviewing legends and calling matches.
A former WRAL weather and news reporter who also worked as a broadcaster for the National Wrestling Alliance has died; he was 95.
North Carolina native Bob Caudle died Saturday, Nov. 15, the NWA posted on X, formerly Twitter.
Caudle died peacefully in his sleep, his son Michael told Mid-Atlantic Gateway, a website dedicated to Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling.
Originally from Charlotte, Caudle began his broadcasting career in Wilmington, before moving to a new job in Savannah, Georgia, where he first started reporting on wrestling, he said in a previous interview for Mid-Atlantic Gateway.
Bob Caudle’s work at WRAL and in Raleigh
In the 1960s, he moved to Raleigh and started at WRAL covering the weather and “late news,” he said in the interview. While at WRAL, he was hired by pro wrestling promoter Jim Crockett to do a wrestling show filmed at the Triangle studio that was broadcast to audiences elsewhere, including in Virginia.
The show was initially called “All Star Wrestling” before being renamed to “Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling” in 1973, according to Mid-Atlantic Gateway.
Caudle covered the news for WRAL and announced wrestling for many years, remaining at WRAL “in a non-wrestling capacity through 1980,” he said in the Mid-Atlantic Gateway interview.
In 1981, Caudle started filming wrestling shows from a television studio in Charlotte. That lasted for about two years, Caudle said in the interview, and then the shows started to be filmed on-site at arenas.
Also after Caudle left WRAL, he started working for the late U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms — who also worked for WRAL owner Capitol Broadcasting Co. — at his Raleigh office. He retired in 1996, Caudle said in the interview.
Bob Caudle remembered for work in wrestling
“Throughout the ‘70s and 1980s, Bob was the cornerstone of NWS Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling,” NWA said in the X post.
He interviewed and called matches for people including Dusty Rhodes, The Four Horsemen, Harley Race and Ivan and Nikita Koloff, becoming “part of the very tapestry of National Wrestling Alliance lore and an NWA legend in his own right,” NWA said.
In a post on X, Ric Flair, a pro wrestler and former Charlotte resident, paid tribute to Caudle as a “great friend” and “great man.”
This story was originally published November 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM.
