Venerable WRC/NBC4 weatherman Bob Ryan bid a low key but still emotional farewell to his viewers on Friday night. The rumors are that he may soon resurface at rival WJLA/ABC7, but the man has been with NBC for 30 years. His departure is without a doubt the end of an era. more ›

As we mentioned briefly in the roundup, Adrian "Mr. Personality" Fenty resurfaced on WRC/NBC4 early this morning, during the mayor's regularly scheduled Thursday appearance on the local news channel. more ›

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. more ›