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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 ).


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.

In 1982, after 8 years of using the branding, the news branding was changed to . The station added a 5 p.m. newscast in 1984. On September 7, 1987, the station changed its news branding to . In 1989, the station used a new promotional campaign "We Work Well Together", produced by Music Oasis, which was also adopted as its news theme until 1992. In 1991, WRC-TV added a morning newscast under the title of . From January 14 to October 25, 1991, the station also produced a 7:30 p.m. newscast for then- WFTY (now affiliate ) entitled . The newscast suffered low ratings throughout its run.

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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.

On January 14, 2009, WRC-TV and WTTG entered into a (called LNS) agreement in which the two stations pool video and share news helicopter footage. The agreement is similar to ones already made between Fox and NBC owned-and-operated stations in Chicago (WMAQ-TV and ) and ( and ). WUSA later joined that agreement. In 2012, News Director Camille Edwards announced the station would no longer participate in LNS, but the stations would continue to share the helicopter. In 2016, the station launched its own helicopter, Chopper4.

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.

On April 8, 2010, the station began test broadcasts of its news programming in high definition during local news updates seen during ; regular newscasts continued to be broadcast in standard definition. WRC-TV started broadcasting its newscasts from a temporary set on February 8, 2010, while "upgrades" were being made on its main set and the station made final adjustments for its switch to high definition. On April 22, 2010, WRC became the fourth (and final) television station in the Washington, D.C. to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. It is the only station in the Washington market that shoots most of its remote field video in ; other stations still shoot live field video in and then either or stretch this content to widescreen—though WRC's field video is shot in standard definition.


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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.

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Starting with on February 27, 2023, WRC-TV's newscasts moved to a new studio that formerly housed , where an entirely new set debuted for the first time in almost 13 years.

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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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On September 9, 2024, WRC-TV's morning newscast moved its starting time back to 4:25 am, leaving WTTG as the only station in the Washington market to start its morning newscast at 4 a.m.

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WRC-TV ended regular programming on its analog signal, on channel 4, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition channel 48, using virtual channel 4.