Channel 4 News (United States)
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Channel 4 News is the name of various local newscasts throughout the United States, mostly on NBC affiliates. Its link to the NBC network began in 1982 when WRC-TV in Washington, District of Columbia renamed its newscasts after using NewsCenter 4 since the mid-1970s. By 1985 the Channel 4 News name was spread to KNBC in Los Angeles, California, and by the end of the decade, NBC-owned stations in Denver, Colorado and Miami, Florida began using the Channel 4 News name. At the same time, many television stations on Channel 4, mostly NBC affiliates, began using the Channel 4 News name for their newscasts, and NBC affiliates not on Channel 4 began using variations of the Channel 4 News name, most notably WMAQ-TV in Chicago, Illinois, which named its newscasts the "Channel 5 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, which previously used Ford News and Weather, KNBC News Service, NewsCenter 4, and News 4 L.A. as its newscast names, still uses the Channel 4 News name for its newscasts today, as do several other stations on Channel 4, including WSMV in Nashville, Tennessee. (Among other stations, WRC's newscasts have been called News 4 since 1987.) KNBC also uses an updated version of the NewsCenter Theme, currently composed by Groove Addicts, Inc., as its current theme.