WRC-TV

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WRC-TV
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Washington, D.C.
Branding NBC 4 (general)
News 4 (news)
Slogan Primary: NBC4 Connected to You
Secondary: Working for You
Channels Analog: 4 (VHF)
Digital: 48 (UHF)
Affiliations NBC
NBC Weather Plus (DT2)
Owner NBC Universal
Founded June 27, 1947
Call letters meaning W
Radio
Corporation of America
(NBC's former parent)
Former callsigns WNBW (1947-1954)
Transmitter Power 100 kW (analog)
813 kW (digital)
Height 227 m (analog)
242 m (digital)
Facility ID 47904
Transmitter Coordinates 38°56′23.7″N, 77°4′52.9″W
Website www.nbc4.com
WRC-TV's studios and tower (1962)
WRC-TV's studios and tower (1962)

WRC-TV "NBC4" is a television station in Washington, D.C. NBC owned and operated, the station broadcasts its analog signal on channel 4 and its digital television signal on channel 48. Its studios and transmitter are located at 4001 Nebraska Avenue, N.W., in the Tenleytown section of Washington, D.C.

WRC-TV originates NBC News' Washington feed for such reporters as David Gregory, Jim Miklaszewski, Andrea Mitchell, and Pete Williams.

It also offers NBC Weather Plus on digital channel 4.2.

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The station signed on for the first time on June 27, 1947 as WNBW (NBC Washington). It is the second of five stations NBC put on the air behind New York City, ahead of Chicago, Cleveland and Los Angeles. It traces its roots to experimental W3XNB in 1939. On October 18, 1954, its callsign changed to WRC-TV, along with WRC-AM-FM, reflecting NBC's ownership at the time by the Radio Corporation of America.

The 2nd presidential debate between candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon was broadcast from the station's studios on October 7, 1960. David Brinkley's Washington segment of the Huntley-Brinkley Report originated at WRC-TV between 1956 and 1970.

The earliest color videotape in existence is a recording of the dedication of WRC's Washington studios on May 21, 1958. As Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke at the event, it was also the first time a president had been videotaped in color. [1]

WRC-TV is one of three network owned-and-operated stations in Washington, D. C., along with Fox Network's WTTG and MyNetworkTV's WDCA - both owned by Newscorp.

WRC-TV's studios are home to several notable programs. These include Meet the Press, the longest-running show in U.S. broadcast television history, which debuted on November 6, 1947; "The Redskins Report;" "The Joe Gibbs Show;" "Full Court Press;" and It's Academic, which premiered in 1961 and is the longest running game show in television history according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Sam and Friends, Jim Henson's late-night precursor to Sesame Street and the Muppet Show, got its start on WRC-TV on May 9, 1955.

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NBC O&Os KNBC • KNSD3 • KNTV • KXAS3 • WCAU • WMAQ • WNBC • WRC • WTVJ • WVIT
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  1. 50%, with Viacom's Paramount Pictures.
  2. Co-owned with Microsoft in a joint venture (82% owned by NBC, 18% owned by Microsoft).
  3. The stations are co-owned with LIN TV in a joint venture (76% owned by NBC, 24% owned by LIN). KNSD also includes a repeater used for rebroadcast of Entravision's KBNT-CA.
  4. Owned by Commercial Broadcasting Corp., and operated by the NBC / LIN joint venture (see note 3)
  5. A joint venture between NBC Universal and its broadcast affiliates.
  6. Co-owned with Corus Entertainment, Classic Media, Scholastic Books and ION Media Networks
  7. The station is owned by NBC Universal, but is controlled by ZGS Broadcast Holdings.
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