UNC-TV has the very first edition of North Carolina Now from January 19, 1994 available online:
http://video.unctv.org/video/2365158112/
Eventually, the cheesy sitcom intro was dumped for a more conservative style. I'm not sure when this debuted, but it lasted through much of the 2000s up until 2011:
In early 2011, the theme and logo were updated:
In January 2016, North Carolina Now retooled itself as NC Now, going from airing from every weeknight to every Thursday night, dropping the host, and keeping the feature stories, but no more one-on-one studio interviews, etc.
http://video.unctv.org/video/2365636628/
Unfortunately, it appears NC Now is no more - the last episode was produced in April 2017.
I'm not sure who did the 1994 theme, but I have a guess that the 2000s, 2011, and 2016 themes are custom compositions by Charlotte's Concentrix Music & Sound Design (as listed in
) who have done a bunch of award-winning work for UNC-TV.