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WNBC, channel four, is the flagship station of the NBC television network, based in New York City , with studios located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in midtown Manhattan . WNBC is the sister station to Linden, New Jersey -based Telemundo flagship WNJU (channel 47), and the two stations have some cross promotion. In the few areas of the eastern United States where viewers cannot receive NBC programs over-the-air, WNBC is available on satellite via C-Band , and to subscribers of Dish Network and DirecTV , which also provides coverage of the station to Latin America and the Caribbean . HISTORY The first commercially licensed television station in the United States, WNBC traces its history to experimental station W2XBS , founded in 1928 . Full operations commenced on July 1 , 1941 with the call letters WNBT (for '''NB'''C '''T'''elevision), and broadcasting on channel one. WNBT was most likely the only television station to have a news special report about the Pearl Harbor attack, on December 7 of that year. In 1946 , the station changed its frequency from channel one to channel four after VHF channel one was removed from use for television broadcasting. The station changed its call letters on October 18 , 1954 to WRCA-TV (for NBC's then-parent company, the '''R'''adio '''C'''orporation Of '''A'''merica ), and on May 22 , 1960 channel four became '''WNBC-TV'''. In addition to channel four, NBC also operated two New York radio stations. Located on the AM band at 660 was the station that originated in 1922 as WEAF, later to become WNBC. At 97.1 on the FM band was WEAF-FM, which would eventually become WYNY. In February 1988 , NBC announced the sale of those stations to Emmis Communications , a move which triggered a complicated switch of several stations to new dial spots in October of that same year. 660 AM is now WFAN , and 97.1 is the present home of WQHT . WNBC-TV also earned a place in broadcasting history as the station at which '' The Tonight Show '' was originated. It began on the station in 1953 as a local late-night program, ''The Steve Allen Show'', and NBC executive Pat Weaver brought it to the network in 1954. The NBC studio from which ''Tonight'' was broadcast during the Jack Paar and early Johnny Carson years (it first originated at the Hudson Theatre on 44th Street) is now WNBC-TV's main news studio - Studio 6B. and Chuck Scarborough in 2005 .]] On June 1 , 1992 , channel four dropped the ''-TV'' suffix from its call letters and became simply WNBC, with the new branding slogan ''4 New York''. The accompanying station image campaign was titled ''We're 4 New York.'' WNBC was rebranded again as ''NBC 4'' on September 5 , 1995 with the newscast retitled '' NewsChannel 4 .'' For many years, in various image campaigns, the station used themes composed by Edd Kalehoff . On September 11 , 2001 , the Transmitter facilities of WNBC, as well as eight other local Television Station s and several Radio Station s, were destroyed when two hijacked airplanes crashed into and destroyed the World Trade Center towers in the Attack that day. At first the station was broadcasting from a radio tower originally built by Edwin Armstrong in Alpine, New Jersey . As of 2005 , WNBC-TV is broadcasting from the Empire State Building . In 2004, WNBC served as the model station for NBC Weather Plus , a 24 hour digital weather channel that airs as 4-2 on over the air Digital Television and on several Cable Television systems in the tri-state area. The Weather Plus channel was rolled out by other NBC stations in 2005. Logos |