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    Discovered composers & publishers of music themes

    in News Music & Voiceovers

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    Whoaaaaaaaa. Didn't see that coming. For context:

     

    https://www.foxcarolina.com/investigations/doj-asheville-man-defrauded-investors-of-13-5m-in-ponzi-scheme-defrauding-more-than-23/article_fabe97ee-da90-11e9-a1ac-af8b001b5238.html

    https://www.foxcarolina.com/news/feds-asheville-man-pleads-guilty-to-22-million-ponzi-scheme/article_00ab454e-3d97-11ea-80c7-ffb6ea5ccb81.html

     

    I'm not gonna derail this thread, but....... Wow.

     

    Meanwhile, speaking of Nashville... Here's some pretty high-profile broadcast work from 1986. TV Worth Watching, anyone?

     

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    "Taking Pride In..." vinyl record series

    in News Music & Voiceovers

    Posted · Edited by Samantha
    Add KTUL - turned up on Ebay in November 2023

    So this turned up on YouTube and the uploader wasn't sure what it was:

     

     

    A radio program? Part of a special? No, it's a 30-minute vinyl record! It's not from 1988 but rather 1991 (though it appears the idea originated around 1989).

     

    The Taking Pride In...series was actually something sold to a whole bunch of TV and radio stations. (A list is at the end of this) It was produced by Impact Broadcast Marketing, a Nashville shop. According to this 2014 article on the KREM version (which already was online), apparently the lyrics were nearly the same for each market (with two songs being altered) — just the narration changed.

     

    Found a mention of it on this site:

     

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    This is an odd little album, with a mildly intriguing back story... Impact Broadcast was a marketing firm based in Nashville that created a series of vinyl LPs, circa 1989-91, that were made up to look like locally-produced regional boosterism projects. All of the albums had the exact same music on them, generic, prefab songs with vague lyrics about "your town," etc., and purposefully indeterminate pop-country (which is it??) arrangements with slick, bland, contemporary production. Two of these tracks were adapted on each album to represent the individual clients, thus "Taking Pride In Portland" could become "Taking Pride In Topeka" at the drop of a hat. Likewise, many tracks feature individualized recitations that actually do reflect the town in question, albeit through rose-colored lenses. In this case, it's local TV anchor Ron Harbaugh who intones about the glories of the Kansas capitol... Impact usually partnered with a local TV or radio station, and presumably got their staff to round up financial backers: the Topeka album was sponsored by the Fairlawn Mall, TJ Maxx, and other Topeka businesses... Sadly, the Nashville studio musicians aren't credited, although many of the Taking Pride albums list a Linda Mayhew as their "creative consultant," and it's possible that she was the female vocalist featured on all the songs... Regardless, the folks at Impact Broadcast Marketing definitely had a lot of hustle, and managed to sign up several dozen clients during their short run as cookie-cutter civic cheerleaders. Other cities include: Ashville, Omaha, Peoria, Portland, Spartanburg, Spokane... you get the idea. Some albums are dedicated to entire states or regions: Central Florida, West Michigan, the state of Nevada... but one would assume these were less high-status than the folks who paid for just their own city to be feted on vinyl. This disc from Topeka is the only one I'm going to review (I got it for a dollar at a combination gun shop-antique store in Ottawa, Kansas) but if anyone wanted to send me a copy of Taking Pride In Austin, I wouldn't complain...

     

    The article mentions some of the more than 25 (!) versions that were made, and there have to be some more:

     

     

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    Discovered composers & publishers of music themes

    in News Music & Voiceovers

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    TServo2049 actually talked with Byrne in 2014, but he did ask me not to share the information he told me with the public. Unfortunately much of what was said has not circulated publicly since.

     

    KMOL '79 is also his work (he did a total of 3 to 4 themes) as is WAGA '79 (which the NMSA has since incorrectly lumped into X Belongs as sample 3). Not everything Hayes did had Byrne's music.

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    Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

    in Classic Video

    Posted · Edited by Samantha
    reduce redundancy

    This channel's adding WALA material and it's a positive treasure trove.

     

    News film as old as Camille:

     

     

    There are 6 and 10pm newscasts from April 1982 (before the fall '82 theme change):

     

    A WALA sales presentation from 2002:

     

     

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    Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

    in Classic Video

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    5 hours ago, bmasters1 said:

     

    Looks like Brad Harvey did main news and weather, and Dale Witte was on sports (how many stations these days, if any, have the main anchor also doing weather?).

     

    Not many! Kari Lake at KSAZ has spot filled in at times when necessary, but...that's spot duty.

     

    KOLR weather and close from 1986 with the unique "The Quest" theme music they used at the time (and uploaded by Ted Keller himself):

     

     

    Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

    in Classic Video

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    22 minutes ago, KnoxvilleTVFan said:


    I am not for sure about this, but I do know that the music in the WTVG open may have also been used by KOLN/KGIN in Lincoln/Grand Island, Nebraska in the mid 1980s. You can watch this video at 10:28 and hear that WTVG music being used in a news close that aired during 10/11's first late news of New Year's Day 1985.

     

    It's 4 Sure—ahem, no, it's for real.

     

    KOLN is ALSO on the Peters client list. They debuted the 10/11 Strong moniker in 1977 with this ad, which is pretty darn Peters-y.

     

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48745979/

    Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

    in Classic Video

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    It's the WTVG Noon Report for September 18, 1981:

     

     

    If you like news music, this is a 🌩 moment: it suggests a potentially different history for WTVG. Clearly this music went with the "13 Strong" theme — the ident has the same three note signature.

     

    13 Strong debuted when WTVG was WSPD-TV, either in early 1977 or very late 1976. WSPD-TV is listed as a Peters Productions client. Did this music come from them...and from then?

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    Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

    in Classic Video

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    Y'all want some more...Canadian news? Well, there's a lot of it in this video, which includes opens and partial shows from CBC, CTV and Global News in Saskatoon. At 1:05:00 is the Global open using Total News, which appears to actually be February 1999 (the NMSA doesn't have a sample for CFSK):

     

     

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    Out & About

    in General TV

    Posted

    It's a really cool logo! But it's no faux throwback. Got this higher-res version:

     

    https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Rhis8eoEk5E/hqdefault.jpg?

     

    It seems the first video with this logo was uploaded March 30.

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