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WRC-TV was the over-the-air home of (formerly the Washington Redskins) preseason games from through . Before the Comcast–NBC Universal merger, games were syndicated to over-the-air stations only in , with actual rights-holder CSN Mid-Atlantic (later NBC Sports Washington, now ) exclusively airing the high definition broadcast.


WRC-TV presently broadcasts 45 hours, 55 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 7 hours, 35 minutes each weekday; three hours on Saturdays and five hours on Sundays). By 2001, WRC's newscasts had all been rated number one in the market, with some of the success attributed to and , who anchored together from 1989 until Vance's death in 2017. Vance had been with Channel 4 since 1969, and was promoted to anchor three years later. In the May 2010 sweeps, it placed first at 5 am, 6 a.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. in total viewers, and first at 6 am, 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. in the 25–54 demo. It still leads most time slots today, although WTTG's morning news and WJLA's 11 p.m. news have given it much competition in the 25–54 demo.

WRC-TV previously housed , which premiered in 1961 and is the longest-running game show in television history according to the (as of October 29, 2022, it is now aired on member station ). , Jim Henson's late-night precursor to and , got its start on WRC-TV on May 9, 1955. WRC-TV served as the production facilities for the original run of from its premiere in 1982 until May 2008, when the production facilities moved to -owned CBS affiliate and WRC-TV's rival and it remained until the original show's ending in 2016.

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In 1974, WRC-TV adopted the branding, following the three other NBC-owned stations at the time in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago in adopting the branding.

Because of its ownership by the network, WRC-TV generally carries the entire NBC network schedule, though the station airs at 7 p.m. (rather than 6:30 p.m. as with most NBC stations in the ), due to an hour-long 6 p.m. newscast. The weekend edition of the network's newscast airs at its usual 6:30 p.m. time slot. Despite being the originating station of for most of the show's history, it airs on a 90-minute delay at 10:30 a.m., competing head-to-head with ' .

In 1975, the station adopted 's song "My Mood" as the closing theme music for the 6 p.m. newscast every Friday, which remains in use by the station today. Michael Randall commissioned the news theme for WRC-TV entitled "NewsCenter Theme", which was used by the station until 1986; also, was hired by WRC-TV after his short stint at in and hosted the from its premiere in 1980 until he left the station in 1984 for . The station also hired as sports anchor, eventually launching the nationally syndicated program , which originated from the studios of WRC-TV from its entire run from 1984 until 2007 ( was distributed by the station's sister company ).

NBC took control of WZDC-CD on January 1, 2018, and added a temporary relay to WRC-TV's digital subchannel 4.3. The channel-sharing agreement took effect on March 7, 2018. Under the agreement, WZDC shares WRC-TV's physical signal as a subchannel would and is managed with its own number and license. WZDC's virtual channel changed from 25.1 to 44.1 to avoid a conflict with , which also occupies virtual channel 25.1.


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In September 2017, NBC announced they were to launch a new owned-and-operated station based out of WRC-TV. , owner of Washington's existing Telemundo affiliate (channel 25), sold the station's channel allocation in the (FCC)'s 2017–18 , accepting a $66 million payout to turn off its signal and continue operations by sharing the channel of another station. A Telemundo spokesperson stated that the sale of WZDC's spectrum "gave us the ability to take back the Telemundo affiliation for this market," without elaborating what that meant. NBC later purchased WZDC-CD with the intention of moving its over-the-air signal to that of WRC-TV through a channel-sharing agreement.

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In 1993, the station adopted the news music theme entitled "Working 4 You", which also serves as a current station slogan for News 4. In 1994, WRC-TV expanded a late weekday newscast from 4:30 p.m. to a full-hour at 4 p.m. remixed the theme in 1997, this time under the title of "Working For You". The theme was also used by other NBC affiliates (including in , in , in , and in ). In 2002, WRC-TV adopted "The Tower" news theme commissioned by 615 Music from Chicago sister station WMAQ-TV with the notes of the "Working For You" theme as a musical trademark added only in the news opens. The "Working For You" theme continued to be used as a closing theme for all of its newscasts. Both "Working For You" and "The Tower V.1 with Working For You" were both in use by the station until 2008, when they switched to 's "The NBC Collection" now with added notes of the "Working For You" theme.

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From the opening of its Nebraska Avenue facility in 1958 through 2020, WRC-TV housed ' Washington bureau, out of which the network's long-running political affairs program was based. In January 2021, NBC News moved the bureau near Capitol Hill.