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). The only exceptions involved ACC football and basketball from Raycom Sports, both of which aired on the station from 1982, when they moved from WTVD, until the end of the syndication package in 2019. ACC-preempted NBC programming aired either as originally scheduled on digital subchannel 5.2 (which is otherwise an affiliate of Cozi TV) or overnights on the main signal. "The More You Know" is split over two days; the first hour airs on Saturdays from 10 to 11 a.m., with "Brain Game" and "Smart Start Kids" (both of which count toward WRAL's E/I commitments) airing from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., and the second hour airs on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.