Channel 4 News (United States)

Channel 4 News is the name shared by various local newscasts - primarily NBC affiliates - throughout the United States. The branding is a successor to the NewsCenter brand.

Beginning circa 1974 (when the previous The Sixth/Eleventh Hour brand was discontinued on most NBC stations), the NewsCenter brand and program format for local newscasts was distributed among NBC-owned stations and affiliates as a response to the rising popularity of Eyewitness News, created by Westinghouse Broadcasting and popularized further by ABC-owned stations; and Action News, which originated at Capital Cities Communications.

In 1982, WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. moved away from the NewsCenter branding, a move that other NBC stations mirrored in the subsequent years. By 1985, the Channel 4 News name had spread to KNBC in Los Angeles. KCNC-TV in Denver and WTVJ in Miami, both of which were acquired by NBC later in the decade, switched to the Channel 4 News name as well. KNBC used the Channel 4 News name until summer 2011, when the station changed its newscast title to NBC 4 News. WNBC in New York City, although it used the NewsCenter brand from 1974 to 1980, did not use the Channel 4 News brand, instead adopting its own brand, News 4 New York, in 1980 (although it would use NewsChannel 4 as its branding from 1995 to 2008, when it reverted back to News 4 New York).

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