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WRC/NBC4 has been rebroadcasting only MSNBC programming for the last few hours (Chris Matthews is on right now), and the station finally put up this announcement on its web site at about 5:15 p.m. "Due to major technical problems, News4 at 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. will not be seen. Please tune in to News4 at 6 p.m. with Jim Vance and Doreen Gentzler." A call to the harried NBC4 newsroom confirmed that they are still planning on broadcasting a 6 p.m. newscast, but didn't yield much more info than that. We're trying to track down exactly what the technical problem was that knocked out the entire broadcasting mechanism for the local news station, and will update later on.

Last year, local NBC news affiliate WRC/NBC4's web site got a major facelift. Gone was the relatively dull NBC4.com, and in its place was a nationally-launched web site template, in this case nbcwashington.com, that's trying to be both a home for the news content of WRC, as well as its own online brand, offering aggregated and exclusive content on top of the station's regular stories.

We hope you didn't miss this report on Inauguration Day survival tips from NBC4's increasingly eccentric Pat Collins last night, but just in case you did, here's the video. As one commenter notes, we don't recommend viewing this while eating.

As the editor of a news web site, I can sympathize with the need to find a quick photo to accompany a short item. Sometimes, when you're in a hurry, you just need to grab the best thing you can find and slap it up there. But this Getty Image that NBC4 picked to go along with its story about how the city of Herndon is launching a campaign to educate citizens about how to hire day workers is still making me giggle hours after it was first pointed out to me. NBC4 commenter matt robles said it best:

i love that picture. i sure as hell don't see that guy in herndon. i'd like to eat his chorizo con huevos

Indeed. Had I known that day laborers come without shirts and with perfect six packs, I would have hired some to do a little work around the house a long time ago.