WRC-TV
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Washington, D.C. United States |
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| Branding | NBC 4 (general) News 4 (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
Washington's news leader Working 4 you |
| Channels |
Digital: 48 (UHF) Virtual: 4 () |
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| Owner |
NBCUniversal (NBC Telemundo License LLC) |
| First air date | June 27, 1947 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Radio Corporation of America (NBC's former parent) |
| Sister station(s) |
Comcast Network Comcast SportsNet Washington |
| Former callsigns | WNBW (1947–1954) |
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| Transmitter power | 813 kW |
| Height | 242 m (794 ft) |
| Facility ID | 47904 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°56′24″N 77°4′54″W / 38.94000°N 77.08167°WCoordinates: 38°56′24″N 77°4′54″W / 38.94000°N 77.08167°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WRC-TV, channel 4, is an NBC owned-and-operated television station located in the American capital city of Washington, District of Columbia. The station is owned by the NBC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal. WRC-TV's studios and transmitter are co-located in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington.
WRC-TV houses and originates NBC News' Washington bureau, out of which the network's long-running political events program, Meet the Press, is based.
The station traces its roots to experimental television station W3XNB, which was put on the air by the Radio Corporation of America, the then-parent company of NBC, in 1939. On June 27, 1947, the station received a commercial station license and signed on the air as WNBW (standing for "NBC Washington"). Channel 4 is the second-oldest licensed television station in Washington, after WTTG (channel 5), which signed on six months earlier in January 1947. WNBW was also the second of the five original NBC-owned television stations to sign-on, behind New York City and ahead of Chicago, Cleveland and Los Angeles. The station was operated alongside WRC radio (980 AM, frequency now occupied by WTEM; and 93.9 FM, now WKYS).
On October 18, 1954, the television station's callsign changed to the present WRC-TV to match its radio sisters. The new calls reflected NBC's ownership at the time by RCA. It has retained its "-TV" suffix to this day, more than two decades after the radio stations were sold off.
In 1955 while in college and serving as a puppeteer on a WRC-TV program, Jim Henson was asked to create a puppet show for the station. The series he created, Sam and Friends, was the first series to feature the Muppets, and launched the Jim Henson Company.
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