A full edition of the 11:00 news on NBC O&O WNBC (channel 4) in New York City. The newscasts were branded as "NewsChannel 4" from 1995 to 2008.

Chuck Scarborough and Jane Hanson anchor the news, with meteorologist Janice Huff and Len Berman reporting from the World Series. Reporting are Ti-Hua Chang, Jane Wells, Jocelyn Apollon, M.D., Glen Walker and Joe Avellar. As of now, Scarborough and Huff are the only personalities still working at the station.

News of the day includes the latest on OJ Simpson's murder case, a "more accurate" way to find out an expected baby's due date, a shooting in the Bronx, funding for the homeless, and an officer indictment. WNBC was still under a "tabloid" format for its news, so a lot of crime stories were being reported on. It was still a lighter tabloid style than that of WNYW, but NYC isn't a very flashy DMA regardless.

In the weather Janice's forecast calls for mild and pleasant temperatures to close out October, while in sports the Yankees enjoy a World Series run. Len Berman gives status updates on the game as it unfolds (part of it was airing on WNYW as this newscast aired). Glen Walker does the rest of sports, including news on golf and hockey matches. Look for a young Tiger Woods in the golf report!

WNBC was also the commissioner of "NBC Stations" by Edd Kalehoff, which WNYT picked up the following year. While its sister stations changed their on-air looks in 2000, WNBC kept the NBC Stations opens well into 2003. For the largest of its O&O stations by market size, this wasn't a good move on NBC's part; you'd think they'd want their biggest stations to look the best out of all of them. Maybe NBC didn't think its standardized look would fit in NYC, I don't know.

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