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SESAC lists Chip Davis of Mannheim Steamroller as having done a news theme and other on-air music for KSHB. Could this be his work? We don't want to blindly speculate, of course... There are also SESAC records of news themes by Davis for KMGH and KMTV. Maybe the KMTV 1990 clip in the last page is his theme? (I dunno what KMGH theme could have been his - the 1989 one?)

Well, it's clear from that clip that in '93, WXIA was still using Hello to close out the 11PM news - as another YT clip from 1990 shows. They probably didn't drop it until they went to their custom Gari package. NMSA's 1980-1990 start/end for Hello News isn't accurate - from what I've seen, I think it started in 1982, widespread use lasted until 1986 when Great News was introduced, and that 11:00 close music held out until at least '93 and quite likely into '94.

Most of the Joplin history seems to come from one source, and has been in the NMSA for years. They can't fix it unless more clips surface.

NewsActive3 returns with an hour of classic news opens. Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F1m_QyxrOs Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyng7J71cyo Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1LbPkHCrSE Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4onuRU0YUSQ Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvoo_6fcWCQ Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXNYymCV9Ts

KTVU news open, 1980 (MGM Grand Fire coverage):

Yeah, the 70s CapCities MCTYW open style (used on WKBW, WTVD, KFSN, and I assume KTRK as well) was really really cool...