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WNBC (channel 4) is a
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in
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, serving as the
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of the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Linden, New Jersey–licensed
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station WNJU (channel 47). WNBC's studios and offices are co-located with NBC's corporate headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in
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; WNJU's facilities in Fort Lee, New Jersey, also serve as WNBC's New Jersey news bureau. Through a channel sharing agreement with WNJU, the two stations transmit using WNJU's spectrum from an antenna atop One World Trade Center. WNBC holds the distinction as the oldest continuously operating commercial television station in the United States.


History


Experimental operations

What is now WNBC traces its history to experimental station W2XBS, founded by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA, a co-founder of the National Broadcasting Company), in 1928, just two years after NBC was founded as the first nationwide radio network. Originally a test bed for the experimental RCA Photophone theater television system, W2XBS used the low-definition mechanical television scanning system. Later it was used mostly for reception and interference tests. The call letters W2XBS meant W2XB-south, with W2XB being the call letters of the first experimental station, started a few months earlier at
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's (GE) main factory in
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, which evolved into today's WRGB. GE was the parent company of both RCA and NBC, and technical research was done at the Schenectady plant. The station originally broadcast on the frequencies of 2.0 to 2.1 MHz. In 1929, W2XBS upgraded its transmitter and broadcast facilities to handle transmissions of sixty vertical lines at twenty frames per second, on the frequencies of 2.75 to 2.85 MHz. In 1928, Felix the Cat was one of the first images ever broadcast by television when RCA chose a papier-mâché (later
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) Felix doll for an experimental broadcast on W2XBS. The doll was chosen for its tonal contrast and its ability to withstand the intense lights needed in early television. It was placed on a rotating phonograph turntable and televised for about two hours each day. The doll remained on the turntable for nearly a decade as RCA fine-tuned the picture's definition, and converted to electronic television. The station left the air sometime in 1933 as RCA turned its attention to all-electronic cathode-ray tube (CRT) television research at its Camden, New Jersey facility, under the leadership of Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin. In 1935, the all-electronic CRT system was authorized as a "field test" project and NBC converted a radio studio in the RCA Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center for television use. In mid-1936, small-scale, irregularly scheduled programming began to air to an audience of some 75 receivers in the homes of high-level RCA staff, and a dozen or so sets in a closed circuit viewing room in 52nd-floor offices of the RCA Building. The viewing room often hosted visiting organizations or corporate guests, who saw a live program produced in the studios many floors below. Viewership of early NBC broadcasts was tightly restricted to those authorized by the company, whose installed set base eventually reached about 200. Technical standards for television broadcasting were in flux as well. Between the time experimental transmissions began in 1935 and the beginning of commercial television service in 1941, picture definition increased from 343 to 441 lines, and finally (in 1941) to the 525-line standard used for analog television from the start of full commercial service until the end of analog broadcasts in mid-2009. The sound signal was also changed from AM to FM, and the spacing of sound and vision carriers was also changed several times. Shortly after NBC began a semi-regular television transmission schedule in 1938,
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announced TV sets for sale to the public, a move that RCA was saving for the opening of the
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on April 30, 1939, the day that regularly scheduled television programming was to begin in New York on NBC with much fanfare. In response, NBC ceased all TV broadcasting for several weeks until RCA sets went on sale; regular NBC telecasts commenced the day the fair opened.


Firsts for W2XBS

As W2XBS broadcasting on "Channel 1" (44–50 MHz), the station scored numerous "firsts". These included: the first televised Broadway drama (June 1938); the first live news event covered by a mobile unit (a fire in an abandoned building in November 1938); the first live telecast of a presidential speech ( Franklin D. Roosevelt opening the 1939 New York World's Fair); the first live telecasts of
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and
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(both in 1939), the first telecast of a
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game (also in 1939); the first telecast of a
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game (early 1940); the first broadcast of religious services (Easter Sunday 1940); the first network (multi-city) telecast of a political convention (the 1940 Republican National Convention, held June 24–28 in the Philadelphia Civic Center) seen also on W3XE in
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(now KYW-TV) and W2XB in Schenectady (now WRGB); and the broadcast of the
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'' The Crooked Circle'' on June 18, 1940. In August 1940, W2XBS transmissions were temporarily put on hold, as "Channel 1" was reassigned by the FCC to 50–56 MHz; technical adjustments needed to be made for the conversion. The station returned to the air in October, just in time to broadcast Franklin D. Roosevelt's second and final appearance on live television, when his speech at Madison Square Garden on October 28, 1940, was telecast over W2XBS.


First commercial television station

On June 24, 1941, W2XBS received a commercial license under the calls WNBT (for "NBC Television"), thus becoming one of the first two fully licensed commercial television stations in the United States, alongside CBS' WCBW on channel 2 (now WCBS-TV), which had evolved from experimental W2XAB. NBC and CBS were instructed to sign on simultaneously on July 1 so that neither of the major broadcast companies could claim exclusively to be "first". However, WNBT signed on at 1:30 p.m., one full hour before WCBW. As a result, WNBC (and essentially, NBC) inadvertently holds the distinction as the oldest continuously operating commercial television station (and television network, respectively) in the United States, and also the only one ready to accept sponsors from its beginning. The first program broadcast at 1:00 p.m. EST by the
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/ opening ceremony with the U.S.
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", followed by an announcement of that day's programs and the commencement of NBC television programming. WNBT originally broadcast on channel 1. On its first day on the air, WNBT broadcast the world's first official television advertisement before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies. The announcement for Bulova watches, for which the company paid anywhere from $4.00 to $9.00 (reports vary), displayed a WNBT test pattern modified to look like a clock with the hands showing the time. The Bulova logo, with the phrase "Bulova Watch Time", was shown in the lower right-hand quadrant of the test pattern while the second hand swept around the dial for one minute. Although full commercial telecasting began on July 1, 1941, with the first paid advertisements on WNBT, there had been experimental, non-paid advertising on television as far back as 1930. NBC's earliest non-paid, television commercials may have been those seen during the first Major League Baseball game ever telecast, a game between the Dodgers and the
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, on August 26, 1939, over W2XBS. To secure the rights to show the game on television, NBC allowed each of the Dodgers' regular radio sponsors at the time to have one commercial during the telecast; these were done by Dodger announcer
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. For
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, he held up a bar of the product, for
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gas he put on a filling station attendant's cap while giving his spiel, and for Wheaties he poured a bowl of the cereal, added milk and bananas, and took a big spoonful. The pioneering special interest/documentary show ''The Voice of Firestone Televues'', a television offshoot of '' The Voice of Firestone'', a mainstay on NBC radio since 1928, became the first regularly scheduled TV program not featuring news or sports when it began on WNBT on November 29, 1943. (Though a one-time-only, trial episode of '' Truth or Consequences'' aired on WNBT's first week of programming two years earlier; it eventually returned to TV in the 1950s.) During
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, RCA diverted key technical TV staff to the U.S. Navy, which was interested in developing a television-guided bomb. WNBT's studio and program staff were placed at the disposal of the
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and used for
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training telecasts, with only a limited number of weekly programs for general audiences airing during much of the war. Programming began to grow on a small scale during 1944. On April 10, 1944, WNBT began feeding ''The Voice of Firestone Televues'' each week to a small network of stations including General Electric's Schenectady station (now called WRGB) and Philco-owned WPTZ (now KYW-TV) in Philadelphia, both of which are now affiliated with CBS (in KYW-TV's case, they are owned by CBS). This series is considered to be the NBC Television Network's first regularly scheduled program. On May 8, 1945, WNBT broadcast hours of news coverage on the
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, and remotes from around New York City. This event was pre-promoted by NBC with a direct-mail card sent to television set owners in the New York City area. At one point, a WNBT camera placed atop the marquee of the Astor Hotel in New York City panned the crowd below celebrating the end of the war in Europe. The vivid coverage was a prelude to television's rapid growth after the war ended. In the spring of 1946, the station changed its frequency from
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channel 1 to channel 4 after channel 1 was removed from use for television broadcasting. From 1946 to 2009, it occupied the 66–72 MHz band of frequencies which had been designated as "channel 3" in the pre-1946 FCC allocation table. It was renumbered Channel 4 in the post-war system ( DuMont-owned WABD, now WNYW—had been designated as "Channel 4", before that station moved to the current channel 5 but was only required to retune its video and audio carriers downward by 2 MHz under the new system). In October 1948, WNBT's operations were integrated with those of sister stations WNBC radio (660 AM) and WNBC-FM (97.1). The station changed its call letters on October 18, 1954, to WRCA-TV (for NBC's then-parent company, Radio Corporation of America or RCA) and on May 22, 1960, channel 4 became WNBC-TV. NBC had previously used the callsign on its television station in New Britain, Connecticut, from 1957 until it was sold earlier in 1960 (that station is now
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, and is once again an NBC-owned station). WNBC-TV also earned a place in broadcasting history as the birthplace of '' The Tonight Show''. It began on the station in 1953 as a local late night program, '' The Steve Allen Show'', and NBC executive
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brought it to the network in 1954. Studio 6B, the show's home under Jack Paar, Johnny Carson and today Jimmy Fallon, was the news studio for WNBC while ''Tonight'' was produced in Los Angeles. On June 1, 1992, channel 4 dropped the ''-TV'' suffix from its call letters (following the sale in 1988 of its sister radio station WNBC, which is now WFAN) and became simply WNBC, with the new branding slogan along with a new station logo and name "4 New York". The accompanying station image campaign was titled "We're 4 New York" and featured a musical theme composed by Edd Kalehoff. WNBC was rebranded again as "NBC 4" on September 5, 1995, with its newscasts being renamed ''NewsChannel 4''. In July 2007, the "4 New York" branding was revived part time, but in March 2008, it was revived full time. During the
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, the transmitter facilities of WNBC, as well as eight other New York City area television stations and several radio stations, were destroyed when two hijacked airplanes crashed into and destroyed the World Trade Center. WNBC broadcast engineer Bill Steckman died in the attack, along with Don DiFranco of WABC-TV; Gerard Copolla of WNET; Steve Jacobson of WPIX; and Bob Pattison and Isaias Rivera of WCBS-TV. In the immediate aftermath, the station temporarily fed its signal to three
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stations that were still broadcasting ( PBS member station WLIW and independent stations WMBC-TV and W26CE). After resuming over-the-air transmissions, the station broadcast from the former transmitter site of Channel 68 in West Orange, New Jersey. Since 2005, WNBC has broadcast its signal from the
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in midtown Manhattan, returning to the original transmitter site used from the 1930s to the 1970s. On May 9, 2017, it was announced that WNBC would return broadcasting from lower Manhattan at One World Trade Center by the end of the year. In 2004, WNBC served as the model station for NBC Weather Plus, a 24-hour digital weather channel that aired on its second
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(4.2) and several local cable systems; other NBC-owned stations launched their own Weather Plus channels in 2005, although Weather Plus was discontinued at the end of 2008. WNBC discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 4, at 12:30 p.m. on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its transition period UHF channel 28,CDBS Print
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using Program and System Information Protocol to display WNBC's
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as 4 on digital television receivers. As part of the
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, WNBC kept its analog signal on the air until June 26 to inform viewers of the digital television transition. During this time, the station would participate in the "Analog Nightlight" program for two weeks, with a looped video in English and Spanish explaining how to switch to digital reception. In February 2015, WNBC and the other NBC-owned stations offered live, web-based streaming of programming to subscribers of participating cable and satellite television providers, as provided through the
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Mobile Apps. On March 15, 2016, NBCUniversal pulled the signals of WNBC and WNJU along with co-owned cable channels
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, Bravo, Syfy,
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and
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from Dish Network's lineup in the
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as a result of a dispute between NBC and Dish; despite that, Dish claimed NBCUniversal had demanded that it renew its carriage of ten NBC-owned stations and sixteen Telemundo-owned stations, including those removed due to the dispute. Three days later, Dish announced it would continue to carry WNBC, WNJU and five other cable channels for another ten days while the FCC sought arbitration. On April 13, 2017, it was revealed that WNBC's over-the-air spectrum had been sold in the FCC's spectrum reallocation auction, fetching $214 million. As a result, WNBC's signal was co-located with that of sister station WNJU, which re-located its transmitter to One World Trade Center in 2017. NBC had won similar spectrum bids using Telemundo stations in
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and Philadelphia (which entered into in similar arrangements with NBC O&Os WMAQ-TV and WCAU), but stated that in this case, the Telemundo station had a superior signal. WNBC ceased broadcasting on UHF digital channel 28 from the Empire State Building on April 2, 2018, in favor of the shared broadcast with WNJU on channel 36 from One World Trade Center. WNBC along with WNJU later moved channels again on August 1, 2019, at 1:00 p.m. (EDT) to digital channel 35.


Programming

WNBC has long presented events such as the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, the
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(until 2006, when coverage moved to WNYW and currently
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), the Columbus Day Parade (until 2010, when coverage moved to WABC-TV), the
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, and the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting. They have sponsored an annual two-day Health & Fitness Expo Fair at MetLife Stadium every summer. The station has sponsored a Food Drive together with local retailer Stop & Shop named "Feeding Our Families" which has been held on the second Saturday in April since 2017. Beginning in 1995, they were the exclusive local English-language carrier of the annual New York City Marathon until 2013 when WABC-TV took over. From 2010 to 2014, the station was an official local broadcast partner of
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. From 2012 to 2014, the station along with the ''
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'' had partnerships with Mount Sinai Health System, Live Well New York and Popular Community Bank (''Popular Tips''). The station, along with Maury Povich and Fox owned-and-operated WNYW, co-funded the 1998 PBS documentary ''NY TV: By the People Who Made It'' produced by WNET. During the
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season, the station has an annual Holiday Sing-Along. The station also produces ''Visiones'', a weekly segment about Hispanic culture, that also airs in Spanish on sister Telemundo station WNJU, and ''Positively Black'', a weekly segment about African-American culture. As of January 2021, WNBC is one of nine NBC-owned stations that distributes programming either nationally and/or regionally (along with KNTV, KNBC,
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, WCAU, WVIT, WTVJ, WMAQ-TV and
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).


Sports programming

Through NBC's coverage of the National Football League, WNBC has televised two
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championships won by New York teams: the Jets' upset victory over the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, and the Giants' win over the
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in Super Bowl XLVI. WNBC also serves as the official flagship carrier of Giants preseason football games and is the New York area station for NBC's national broadcasts of ''
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'' featuring either one of the two teams. The station also served as the default home station of the Jets from
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(when NBC became the broadcaster for the
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of which the Jets were then a part) until
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, when WCBS-TV became the new broadcast rightsholder (through CBS) of what was by now the
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; it also aired occasional New York Giants games from 1970 (with the completion of the AFL/NFL merger) to
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; these were limited to home interconference contests. Even as the station became the first to broadcast Major League Baseball games in 1939 with the pioneer broadcast being that of an August 26 doubleheader at Ebbets Field between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the
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, it does not have any broadcasts today. They are currently on WNYW and
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during the season. Baseball broadcasts were expected to return to the station in 2020 as part of the network-wide coverage of the baseball events of the
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in
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, with on-air news updates during the duration of the event; however, the games were postponed to 2021 due to the global effects of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. The station has aired numerous
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(since 1962) and
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games (and before 1957, games of the Dodgers and Giants) as part of MLB's broadcast contract with NBC from 1947 to
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, The Baseball Network in 1995, and playoff-only coverage from 1996 to 2000. The station has aired 18 of the Yankees'
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appearances (12 of which the team won), and three Mets World Series appearances (two of which the Mets won). As the network's flagship station, per its ''
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'' obligations (which end in 2021), it broadcasts several
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games all the way to the Cup Final, in addition to the ''
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'' (if the Rangers, Islanders or New Jersey Devils are playing). It would be only in 2012 when it aired the Stanley Cup Final as part of the network-wide coverage when the
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lost out to the Los Angeles Kings. Also, the station aired the 2014 Cup Final, where the Rangers also lost to the
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. From
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to 2002, the station aired
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and New Jersey Nets games through the '' NBA on NBC''; this included the Knicks' appearances in the
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and 1999 NBA Finals, as well as the Nets' appearance in the 2002 NBA Finals.


News operation

From the late 1960s through the 1980s, WNBC was involved in a fierce three-way battle with WCBS-TV and WABC-TV for the top spot in the New York television ratings. This continued during a lean period for NBC as a whole. WNBC's hallmark over the years has been strong coverage of breaking stories and straight news products that also feature light-hearted and/or entertainment elements (such as '' Live at Five'' and ''
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''). Many of WNBC's personalities have been at the station for over 20 years. Chuck Scarborough has been the station's main anchor since 1974. From 1980 to 2012, he was teamed with Sue Simmons at 11:00 p.m., and the two were the longest-serving anchor team in New York City television history. Senior correspondent
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was at the station from 1956 until he died in 2017, except for a seven-year stint (from 1972 to 1979) at WNEW-TV (now WNYW). WNBC-TV was the first major-market station in the country to have success with a 5:00 p.m. newscast, adding that program to its ''Sixth Hour'' show at 6:00 p.m. in 1974 and renaming all of its local newscasts ''NewsCenter 4'' (three other NBC owned-and-operated stations in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, also adopted the ''NewsCenter'' name). The moniker remained until September 1, 1980, when the newscasts were renamed ''News 4 New York''. Shortly before then the 5:00 p.m. program was renamed ''Live at Five'', and the hour was reformatted from a straight news program to a mix of news and celebrity interviews. ''Live at Five'' eventually became the most-successful local program in New York City, a feat that resulted in landing the show's hosts on the cover of '' New York'' magazine. For most of the time during the 1980s and early 1990s, WNBC-TV used various themes written by Scott Schreer. His theme for ''News 4 New York'' was based on a synthesized version of the
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, with a graphics package featuring a lightning bolt striking its logo from 1980 to 1990, a fancy die-cut "4". In 1992, the station began calling itself ''4 New York'' and the campaign song, written by Edd Kalehoff, was quickly adopted as the theme for the newscast. The theme was briefly brought back after the September 11 attacks in 2001. In 1995, after the station rebranded itself as "NBC 4" and its newscasts as ''Newschannel 4'', Kalehoff wrote a new theme called "NBC Stations" featuring the NBC chimes, the chime sequence being the musical notes G-E-C. It remained in use for eight years, along with a graphics package using a simple red line for the lower thirds. The 2003 graphics package was created by
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-winner Randy Pyburn of Pyburn Films. Pyburn has produced several promotions for the station and the now-defunct ''Jane's New York'' specials hosted by former WNBC reporter Jane Hanson. The graphics package was also used on other NBC stations. The music was written by Rampage Music and featured a brassy version of the NBC chimes, and lower thirds featured a shimmering
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(fellow NBC O&O KNTV adopted the theme in 2007 and currently uses the same four tone variant of ''LA Groove'' used by WNBC). In March 2008, concurrent with the restoration of the ''4 New York'' branding, the newscasts began to be called ''News 4 New York'' once more. Many WNBC personalities have appeared, and have also moved up to the NBC network, including: Marv Albert, Len Berman, Contessa Brewer, Chris Cimino, Fran Charles,
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,
Maurice DuBois Maurice DuBois (born August 20, 1965) is an American television anchorman for WCBS-TV in New York City and the CBS network. Early life and education DuBois was born on Long Island, New York, the son of immigrants to the U.S. from Dominica, an is ...
,
Joelle Garguilo Joelle Garguilo is an American journalist, host, digital journalist and reporter, working for NBC Universal, appearing on all platforms, including NBC News, ''Today'', today.com, msnbc.com, iVillage and WNBC, incl. daily lifestyle show "New ...
,
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, Tony Guida,
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,
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, Matt Lauer, Tom Llamas,
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, Al Roker, Shiba Russell, Scarborough and Tom Snyder. In the past, Albert, Berman, Brewer, Charles, Cimino, DuBois, Guida, Hartz, Lauer, Llamas, Roker, Russell, Scarborough, and Snyder have worked at WNBC and NBC at the same time. Price, Rodriguez, Huff, Joelle Garguilo, and Michael Gargiulo currently work for both. One monthly feature was Berman's ''Spanning the World'', a reel of odd and interesting sports highlights from the past month, including a recorded introduction and closing by NBC staff announcer Don Pardo. The segment aired monthly on '' Today''. When Simmons joined the station in early 1980, she was paired with Scarborough on both the 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. newscasts. However, for most of the time until 2005, WNBC's weeknight anchor rotation had Simmons and another male anchor (including Jack Cafferty, Guida, Lauer, and briefly Scarborough) at 5:00 p.m.; Scarborough and various anchors (
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, Pat Harper, and Michele Marsh among them) at 6:00 p.m.; and Scarborough and Simmons together at 11:00 p.m. That changed in 2005 as ''Live at Five'' anchor Jim Rosenfield jumped back to WCBS-TV, where he had once been the noon and 5:00 p.m. anchor and took on the role as lead anchor for their 5:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. newscasts. Former reporter Perri Peltz returned to WNBC to co-anchor ''Live at Five'' with Simmons, making New York City one of the few large markets with two female anchors on an evening newscast. The move harkened back to three decades earlier, when the station paired
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with Melba Tolliver on its 5:00 p.m. news hour, creating one of the first all-female anchor teams on a major-market American television station. It was short-lived as Simmons and Peltz were both displaced from ''Live at Five'' because of changes in the station's early evening news lineup that went into effect on March 12, 2007:
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and Lynda Baquero became co-anchors of a truncated, 30-minute-long ''Live at Five'' broadcast, followed by Peltz with a 30-minute, soft-news program, ''News 4 You''. Simmons was moved to co-anchor at 6:00 p.m. with Scarborough. On September 13, 2006, WNBC became the first New York City television station to broadcast its newscasts in high definition. On May 5, 2007, WNBC brought back its popular campaign song "We're 4 New York", composed by Kalehoff, after nearly six years off air (after the September 11, 2001, attacks). In early autumn 2007, additional changes were brought to WNBC's early-evening lineup. On September 10, the station moved the newsmagazine series '' Extra'' to 5:00 p.m., and cancelled ''Live at Five''. ''News 4 You'' remained at 5:30 p.m., but was replaced on October 15, 2007, with a traditional newscast, anchored by Simmons and Michael Gargiulo. The 6:00 p.m. newscast became anchored by Ushery and Baquero, and ''New York Nightly News'', a new half-hour newscast with Scarborough as sole anchor, debuted at 7:00 p.m. These changes did not lead to an increase in WNBC's ratings in the November 2007 sweeps period, partially because of the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike. The most shocking of WNBC's ratings decreases was its 11:00 p.m. newscast, which fell to third place, behind WCBS and WABC. WNBC altered its 5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. hour on January 2, 2008, swapping the half-hour news at 5:30 p.m. with ''Extra''. On March 9, 2009, with the launch of ''New York Nonstop'' on digital subchannel 4.2, ''New York Nightly News'' was moved to the subchannel and expanded to one hour, while ''Extra'' was moved back to 7:00 p.m. and a full hour of news returned to the 5:00 p.m. hour. Still, WNBC's ratings struggled: during the March 2009 sweeps period, its newscasts were a distant third in all-time slots, except during the weekday mornings, where it remained in second. On May 7, 2008, NBC Universal announced plans for a major restructuring of WNBC's news department. The centerpiece of the restructuring was the creation of a 24-hour all-news channel on WNBC's second digital subchannel (4.2). Channel 4's news operations were revamped and melded into the all-news channel, which serves as a "content center" for the station's various local distribution platforms. The digital news channel was launched on March 9, 2009. In the fall of 2008, WNBC started beta-testing a new website which was apparently poised to be one of the major platforms for the content center. On November 17, 2008, WNBC moved its news studio from Studio 6B to 7E and rolled out a new set design, graphics package, and theme song written by veteran TV composer
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. This move came after months of planning the new content newsroom with its 24-hour news digital subchannel. It was also their debut of the updated 4 New York logo, using letters in Media Gothic Bold font and the "New York" wording was switched from its script font to All caps font, which is designed by Brit Redden of Modal Pictures. On June 16, 2009, WNBC announced that its 5:00 p.m. newscast would be replaced in September by a one-hour daily lifestyle and entertainment show by
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entitled ''LX New York''. After this change, WNBC, with only three hours per day of local news, had the shortest airtime devoted to local news of any "big three" network-owned station. In the fall of 2009, WNBC began sharing its news helicopter with Fox owned-and-operated WNYW (channel 5) as part of a
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agreement. The SkyFox HD helicopter operated by WNYW when used by WNBC was called "Chopper 4" on-air. This agreement ended in 2012, with WNBC returning to use its own helicopter when the contract expired. In the summer of 2010, ''The Debrief with David Ushery'' began to air on Sunday at noon on WNBC after launching on
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; it now airs Sunday mornings at 5:30 a.m. ''LX New York'' was renamed to ''New York Live'' on May 26, 2011. The program was set to move to 3:00 p.m. on September 12, 2011; at that time, WNBC would resume airing a 5:00 p.m. newscast. However, due to Hurricane Irene, the 5:00 p.m. newscast's start date was moved up to August 29, 2011, with ''New York Live'' moving to its new 3:00 p.m. slot then. On November 18, 2011, WNBC launched a noon newscast that replaced ''The Rundown'' with Russell and Llamas as the anchors. In December 2011, WNBC struck a news partnership with
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news-reporting organization ProPublica. The organization, which won a
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in 2010, already has partnerships with several media outlets including ''
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'', '' Reader's Digest'', ''
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'' and '' Businessweek''. However, ProPublica's reports are incorporated across all NBC O&O stations, not just WNBC. This is part of larger efforts for NBCUniversal's television stations to partner with nonprofit news organizations following its acquisition by Comcast. WNBC relocated from Studio 7E to Studio 3C (the studio previously used by '' NBC Nightly News'', which now originates from Studio 3B) on April 21, 2012. Channel 4 also updated its graphics and switched to the "L.A. Groove" theme that has been in use by sister station KNBC. On June 15, 2012, Sue Simmons left WNBC as her contract with the station was not renewed. In January 2013, the station expanded its Sunday 11:00 p.m. newscasts to one hour, possibly to compete with WABC which expanded its late news in January 2012. On June 6, 2016, WNBC revamped its website. On June 11, 2016, beginning with the 11:00 p.m. newscast, its news graphics were also changed and it began using Look N graphics from NBC Artworks, becoming the first NBC-owned station to use the new graphics that were rolled out to other NBC-owned stations around this time. On June 13 of the same year, the station debuted its 4:00 p.m. newscast, thus becoming the second New York television station to expand its newscasts to that time period after WABC-TV (which had their 4:00 p.m. newscasts since May 2011). On October 10, 2016, WNBC relocated from studio 3C to studio 3K (the studio also used by '' Dateline NBC'' and sister cable network MSNBC), which bears similarities to the previous set in 3C, albeit a lot larger in size and with several changes (i.e. a new weather center area, a touchscreen display similar to ''Today''s Orange Room, an LED wall, and a work space and presentation pod). In fall 2016, WNBC entered a content-sharing agreement with WOR to include news and weather content supplied by the station; WNBC's weather content is also heard on other iHeartMedia radio stations throughout the New York metropolitan area. On December 21, 2016, WNBC announced that it would be launching a new
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radar system, called Storm Tracker 4, which is planned to launch in winter 2017. On December 27, 2016, the station announced it would move the midday newscast to 11:00 a.m. (the first and only 11:00 a.m. midday newscast in the New York media market), and its locally produced lifestyle/entertainment program ''New York Live'' to 11:30 a.m. beginning January 16, 2017. As part of the changes of the daytime lineup at the station, it would move ''
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'' from the network's default Eastern Time Zone slot of 1:00 p.m. to the early time slot of 12:00 p.m., followed by '' Access Hollywood Live'' at 1:00 p.m. On June 30, 2017, it was announced that Chuck Scarborough would step down as the anchor of the 11:00 p.m. newscast on July 14 but would continue to anchor the 6:00 p.m. newscast. 4:00 p.m. anchor
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, whose father Lester presides over ''NBC Nightly News'' down the hall from Studio 3K, assumed duties for the late newscast beginning July 17. On July 31, 2017, the station expanded its morning newscast ''Today in New York'' by a half an hour, beginning at 4:00 a.m. for a total of three hours; this is the first 4:00 a.m. newscast in the New York media market since WPIX had one from 2010 to 2014. Six days later on August 6, 2017, the Sunday edition of the morning newscast had an extra half-hour added after 9:30 a.m.; the 6:00 a.m.–8:00 a.m. portion remained unchanged. As part of the changes to the station's Sunday morning lineup, ''Sunday Today with Willie Geist'' was moved to the network's recommended time of 8:00 a.m. followed by the LXTV-produced program ''Open House NYC'' at 9:00 a.m. ''
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'' remained at 10:30 a.m. In November 2017, WNBC opened the
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news bureau led by bilingual reporter Julio "Gaby" Acevedo; the bureau delivers daily English and Spanish-language news and updates for the station and its sister station WNJU as well as all NBC and Telemundo-owned stations across the country; the new bureau operated through February 2018. On August 19, 2020, it was announced that after four years with the station, Stefan Holt would be leaving to rejoin Chicago sister station WMAQ-TV to anchor its 4:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. newscasts, beginning in October. On August 31, 2020, the station announced that 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. news anchor David Ushery would succeed Holt on the 4:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. newscasts, beginning October 12, 2020; however, due to Holt's early departure on September 25, the official start date was moved up to September 28. Meanwhile, weekend anchor Adam Kuperstein succeeded Ushery in the 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. newscasts. On June 7, 2021, WNBC started airing a new half hour weekday 7:00 p.m. newscast. In January 2022, WNBC announced plans to launch a new channel for NBCUniversal's streaming service
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, called "NBC New York News"; this announcement follows the simultaneous rollout of streaming news channels from its sister stations in Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia and Boston on January 20. The channel was launched on March 17, 2022. In the summer of 2022, WNBC indicated it would return to Studio 3B, which will be split with WNJU once that station relocates operations to Rockefeller Center.


Notable current on-air staff

;Anchors * Pat Battle – (also reporter) *
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*
Darlene Rodriguez Darlene Rodriguez (née Pomales) is an American journalist and co-anchor of ''Today in New York'' on WNBC. Rodriguez became co-anchor of the show in July 2003 after serving as a reporter for WNBC and then co-anchor of ''Weekend Today in New Yor ...
* Chuck Scarborough *
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;Weather *
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(Member, AMS) – chief meteorologist *
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(Member, AMS) – meteorologist * Raphael Miranda (AMS Seal of Approval) – meteorologist *
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;Sports team * Bruce Beck – sports director; also host of ''Sports Final with Bruce Beck'' ;Reporters * Lynda Baquero – consumer affairs and general assignment reporter *
Joelle Garguilo Joelle Garguilo is an American journalist, host, digital journalist and reporter, working for NBC Universal, appearing on all platforms, including NBC News, ''Today'', today.com, msnbc.com, iVillage and WNBC, incl. daily lifestyle show "New ...
– correspondent; also '' Weekend Today'' correspondent *
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– NBC television stations division reporter * Jacque Reid – co-host of ''New York Live'' * Melissa Russo – political reporter *
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– correspondent for ''New York Live'' (formerly served as traffic reporter) * Ida Siegal – general assignment reporter


Notable alumni

* Asa Aarons * Cindy Adams * Marv Albert (later with
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and Turner Sports, now retired) * Tex Antoine (later with
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) * Len Berman (now with WOR) * Lynn Berry (now with HLN) *
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* Contessa Brewer (now with
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) * Bill Boggs * Mel Brandt * Jack Cafferty (later with
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and CNN) * Ti-Hua Chang (was most recently with
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) * Fran Charles (now with MLB Network) * Linda Church (later with WCBS-TV and WPIX, now retired) * Chris Cimino (now with WPIX) * Katherine Creag *
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(now with WCBS-TV) * Fred Facey * Frank Field (later with WCBS-TV and
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) *
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(later with WCBS-TV) *
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(later became the original host of ''
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'') * Betty Furness) * Arthur Gary *
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* Marty Glickman * Cat Greenleaf * Erica Grow (now with WPIX) *
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Controversies and incidents


Chopper 4 helicopter crashes

1998 saw the introduction of a brand-new Chopper 4, a brand new Eurocopter EC135 that the station heavily promoted. But the new chopper ended up crashing into the
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near Harrison and Newark on December 3, 1998; reporter Kai Simonsen and pilot Terry Hawes survived. Hence, the older model, a Eurocopter AS350, was returned to service and remained until May 4, 2004, when it crashed while covering a shooting in Brooklyn. Reporter Andrew Torres, pilot Russ Cowry and pilot trainee Hassan Taan survived the crash and were taken to area hospitals. The crash occurred at about 6:30 p.m. as the crew was preparing for a live report from the scene of a shooting in East Flatbush. Before the cut-in, Chopper 4 appeared to begin a steep nosedive. WABC's own helicopter captured the initial nosedive and the chopper's subsequent tailspin until crashing into a rooftop.


2008 weeknight infomercial issue

On March 25, 2008, WNBC carried a paid program leading into NBC's Tuesday night prime time and after the 7:00 p.m. newscast for mortgage lender
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, replacing that night's ''Access Hollywood''. Several 'Big Four' stations throughout the United States had carried paid programs leading into prime time in a period during the
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to some varied controversy (and often do to this day during Saturday evenings, a little-trafficked time period with no complaint), but the one airing in New York of the Lend America infomercial, which was hosted by ex-WNBC reporter Joe Avellar, attracted massive criticism from viewers and local media critics, especially involving Avellar's role as host and Lend America's part in the housing crisis, and to a much lesser extent, preemption of regular weeknight programming. Earning the station $130,000 for the -minute program, it generated low ratings and led to a quick fallout, with general manager Frank Comerford resigning his position from the station for approving the airtime sale. Although Lend America expressed interest in buying more early access time on the station, WNBC has never again carried a paid program before prime time on weeknights.


Sue Simmons "F-bomb" incident

On May 12, 2008, a prime time promo for that night's 11:00 p.m. newscast was thought by anchor Sue Simmons to be on tape for later broadcast but was actually going out live. After completing the first portion of the tease, Simmons noticed co-anchor Chuck Scarborough distracted with something on his on-desk
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, and thinking the take would be trashed and another take would be shot for air, shouted "The
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are you doing?" towards him in a manner seemingly meant as an
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among colleagues, while
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b-roll of a cruise ship departing Manhattan continued to roll before the promo's end. Later during the actual newscast, Simmons profusely apologized for the live outburst, saying, "I have to acknowledge an unfortunate incident. I used a word that many people find offensive. It was a mistake I made and I'm truly sorry." No further comment was made by the station or Simmons about the incident. '' Late Show with David Letterman'' used clips from the promo in several sketches mocking the incident.


I-Team Super Bowl promo editing controversy

On February 5, 2012, the station premiered the I-Team promo during
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' coverage of Super Bowl XLVI featuring former NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly, but later on the day after the Super Bowl, they edited out Kelly's clip due to some complaints from rival WCBS-TV. However, the spokesman declined to comment, and criticisms arose from WABC-TV, WNYW, and WPIX, the station's rivals. Station general manager Michael Jack said in the statement that "our investigative team is among the most experienced in the industry, and to suggest that the station won't cover the NYPD fairly, accurately and with balance simply because the commissioner appeared in a station promotional spot is simply not true." After the promo was edited out at the station, Lynda Baquero resigned from the investigative team but continued as a reporter for the station. She was replaced by Pei-Sze Cheng and Jonathan Vigliotti (though Vigliotti later left for WCBS-TV).


Tweet regarding anti-Semitic violence

On January 2, 2020, WNBC posted a tweet on its
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account linking to an
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wire article, syndicated to its website, on the recent wave of anti-Semitic violence in the United States, coming three weeks after a targeted shooting at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey. The text of the message, likely automatically generated by the station's content management system, featured one of three bullet points summarizing the article as a whole, and stated that
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moving from the core of New York and New Jersey and into their own self-established communities on the fringe of the Tri-State area due to
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was a reason for an increase of violent anti-Semitic attacks in the broader region; WNBC's headline, and its inclusion in the tweet, was met with backlash from Jewish groups and people, including the progressive
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group Zioness and the
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, which called out the station for "blaming the Orthodox community for the attacks". Others prominent in the community also questioned the message, including
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, former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind,
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''s Batya Ungar-Sargon. The station later apologized for the original headline, deleted the original tweet, and then re-sent the article tweet with an edited headline.;


Technical information


Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed: On December 20, 2012, WNBC and other NBC-owned stations began carrying Cozi TV. It replaced NBC (New York) Nonstop, which had been carried on digital subchannel 4.2 since 2009.


See also

* Channel 4 virtual TV stations in the United States *
Channel 35 digital TV stations in the United States The following television stations broadcast on digital channel 35 in the United States: * K35AX-D in Hawthorne, Nevada * K35BW-D in Lewiston, Idaho * K35CH-D in Cortez/Mancos, etc., Colorado * K35CK-D in Price, Utah * K35CR-D in Tillamook, etc ...
*
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*
List of television stations in New York (by channel number) This is a list of broadcast television stations licensed to cities in the U.S. state of New York. Full-power stations VC refers to the station's PSIP virtual channel. RF refers to the station's physical RF channel. Defunct full-power station ...
*
List of television stations in New York (by region) This is a list of broadcast television stations serving cities in the state of New York, as of 2016–2017. The branding that the stations are commonly use are shown in bold. Albany/Schenectady/Troy Area *Channel 6: WRGB - (CBS) - Schenectad ...
* Media in New York City * New Yorkers in journalism


References


External links

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WNBC-TV logos and screenshots from 1950s to the present day

WNBC's analog farewell video and signal shutdown
June 26, 2009; archived video at YouTube
WNBC America Technical Information


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