Washington’s news and traffic station is about to get a whole lot less newsy with the announcement that WTOP’s District reporter Mark Segraves is moving to NBC4. Segraves’ last day at the radio station will be tomorrow he tells DCist in an email, and after a few weeks away, he’ll come back as a general-assignment reporter on television.

“Mark’s a good reporter, he’s an enterprising reporter,” Matt Glassman, an NBC4 spokesman says.

Since joining WTOP eight years ago, Segraves has been the Hubbard-owned station’s reporter at the John A. Wilson Building. But at NBC4, that beat belongs squarely to Tom Sherwood. And contrary to a report on the local broadcast industry blog DCRTV.com that Segraves is being brought on to replace Sherwood, Glassman says that’s not the plan.

“Flat wrong,” he says. “Sherwood is our D.C. reporter.”

That’s not to say Segraves intends to make himself absent from the goings-on in District politics. “I will still have my ear to the ground in the District,” he adds.

Segraves is the second reporter to leave WTOP for NBC4 in recent months, following the move last year of transportation reporter Adam Tuss. The television station also counts Wendy Rieger and Derrick Ward among its pick-ups from WTOP. Glassman says the radio station isn’t being deliberately picked apart, but NBC4 has been on a bit of a hiring blitz since the 2010 merger between Comcast and NBC Universal.

“One of the things that Comcast did was invest in the stations division,” he says. “In a lot of that investment we looked around and one of the things we decided to do is hire people we consider ‘differentiators’. We’ve been hiring a lot of people, and we found a couple from our area.” Glassman mentions Tony Tull, who grew up in Columbia, Md., and reports for the midday broadcast. Now, with Segraves on board, NBC4 will have another local on its roster.

Segraves will depart WTOP tomorrow after his last installment of “Ask the Governor” with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.