Channel 4 News (United States)

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.

History

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 ABC and Westinghouse's Eyewitness News and Capital Cities' Action News brands/formats.

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, California, and by the end of the decade, NBC-owned stations in Denver, Colorado and Miami, Florida were using the Channel 4 News name as well. KNBC, which previously used Ford News and Weather, KNBC News Service, NewsCenter 4, and News 4 L.A. as its newscast names, uses the Channel 4 News name to this day. 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.

NBC stations and affiliates not on channel 4 also began using variations of the Channel 4 News name: WMAQ-TV in Chicago, Illinois named its newscasts the Channel 5 News, and WGRZ-TV in Buffalo, New York, one of the last to adopt the phrase, uses Channel 2 News.

The newscast theme used on KNBC, WRC, and several other NBC affiliates with the Channel News branding was an updated version of composer Michael Randall's NewsCenter Theme. KNBC's current version of the NewsCenter Theme was composed by Groove Addicts, Inc.

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