Ultimately, NBC News decided to move out, headed for an expanded presence at 400 North Capitol Street NW, inside a building where it already had some small studios overlooking the Capitol Rotunda as well as workspaces strategically located near the center of power. The building was outdated and in need of some key infrastructure updates, but it had also served both the station and network well over the years. In the years leading up to 2019, NBCUniversal had been debating what to do with the Nebraska Avenue building that WRC and the high-profile NBC News Washington bureau had occupied since it opened.
The story behind that actually starts years ago - before the words “COVID-19,” “PPE” and “social distancing” had entered most people’s vocabulary. “While it was home for us, it was definitely time for a change,” said Mike Goldrick, the station’s vice president of news in an interview with NewscastStudio.Īs it happened, WRC had a very large space to fill. These days, the building is full of contractors and construction as WRC and Telemundo sister station WZDC work to transform it into an updated broadcast facility devoted to local television.įor years, WRC’s local newscasts originated from Studio B. Names such as David Brinkley and Tim Russert have strolled down the halls and one of the pivotal Kennedy-Nixon debates took place within. Originally built in 1958, the Nebraska Avenue home of WRC, the NBC-owned station in the Washington, D.C., market is packed with history.
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