e/Channel 4 News (United States)

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has gloss	eng: 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, D.C. 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, such as WMAQ-TV in Chicago, Illinois (a NBC O&O), which named its newscasts the "Channel 5 News," and WGRZ-TV in Buffalo, New York (one of the last to adopt the phrase), which currently uses "Channel 2...
lexicalization	eng: Channel 4 News
instance of	c/Franchised formats