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My answer would be production music. The newscast was produced by INN out of Davenport, Iowa.

No. This Jim has worked at KYMA, WPDE and WBNS (in that order). He's a Phoenix native.

I put in a comment to Jim Heath. This guy, however irregular his uploads are, has been one of the best sources for Phoenix material we've ever had.

Wow, there's a whole song to the KOOL 1981 Theme! Apparently it was made in 1980 with members of the Phoenix Symphony. (with vocals) (without)

Now that I'm hearing this this morning I completely agree that this is Stephen Arnold. But how did an Arnold package from the 90s manage to go undercover for so long? I bet we're talking about a "WCSC Custom News Package" here.

They did use Stravinsky from 1997 on and other SAM packages until 2008. Charleston can be a hard market to build a news music history. I think a lot of material got wiped out when Hurricane Hugo made a direct hit on the city and so it is very, very hard to get Charleston material from before 1989. In the 80s we have one WCBD open, some WCSC Hello jingles, and that's it. No WCIV. No other opens. The only reason we know WCSC used MCTYW is because someone posted on a video of MCTYW that they remembered it being used on the station (and I found the comment and referred it to the NMSA).

I'm in love, I'm in love! WCSC 1995 "Live 5 Newshour" open with a new theme, the awesome voice of Don Harrison and great video work!

WJBF with a close from 1989. This theme is completely unknown to us: And continuing the theme, a WTVR 1996 news story on the Media General acquisition of Park Communications: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=WJBF%201996&sm=3

KDLH 1987. Man, this open is not great visually: A CKCK (Regina, SK) News Service update from 1988. Is that a Tuesday package? Never heard it before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNbC5aCS8vw A KAMR 5-second promo from 1986 with the WLKY/KAMR unknown theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BB4-fJqzU KTGF, 1986 with "Energy II" from Network: WISH, 1989 with Non-Stop's First News. Earliest use of theme by WISH:

ASCAP/BMI and the Copyright Office don't have everything. And only the latter covers the 1980s well.

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KDLT "12 at 10" 10pm newscast, 1996.

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What *was* Project Pride, anyway? Also, a non-news item: short-lived Richmond independent WVRN-63 in 1986 with JAM's " " (the one WJZ commissioned). And KBTX from 1985 with a jingle of " ". Sounds like Tuesday to me.

While not complete or exhaustive, this incomplete list of TM reference reels from the '80s does not include any Shreveport TV stations. We have some additional ones that aren't on there (WPDE with Get to Know Us) but we don't have everything that is (e.g. KDRV with Spirit of Ohio or KOLD with Spirit of Texas). (Speaking of that list last year I landed a 1.8 second partial sample of , which the list has (look for the "Action News" snippet) but the NMSA will not take it as proof because it's too short.)

I've made an attempt at correcting the pitch in Audacity: http://cl.ly/3Z0d2U3I0P1X/KDBC%201990%20CORRECTED%20PITCH.mp3 I won't submit this to the NMSA unless I get some assurance that it sounds normal. I used the voiceover as a sort of basis to do the work.

I'd need to hear the piece first before I could begin digging, unfortunately.

We believe it's Silvertree because their client list includes KGTV, and it has to be pre-2001. Also Silvertree was *in* San Diego, like Peters and Tuesday.

I agree on the early Tuesday/Network Music sound. But I don't know how we could source an ID of that package.

I would agree with that assessment. The themes are obviously from the same composer, with similar instrumentation (particularly the background rhythms and the jazzy cuts—this is why the WISC tease screamed at me). They also split the signature in the exact same way.

Some others I forgot: WBBM, graphics AND music, got ripped off in a couple different parts of the country. Their 1989/90 graphics were used on WHTM (which picked up an Enforcer-type theme from Sheldon Elias, who also seems to have composed WBBM 1988), while both those and their 1991 graphics showed up on KFDA (which paired them with a local theme, composed by Eric Enfalt). Definitely the latter qualify for the thread.

If he did, that would explain a lot, and it would also make a whole lot of sense. WHTM even ripped off WBBM's early 90s open graphics. (Also: KFDA, but that theme has a local composer.)

I wouldn't trust WeatheRate with a dime. In 2009 WFTV blasted WESH for using WeatheRate and promoting it, resulting in this gem of a post from this site: A couple years ago the topic came up and we had a discussion on it. I love how Bruce Fixman, who owns WeatheRate, did not even know of Bay News 9's existence.

And some fresh stuff from Jacky: a with 615's Power News and an unknown theme for this open. A open from the "Stay In Touch With 10" series, very late in the run. The top story, a Sarasota circus performer dies in Hialeah, Florida, dates this to April 17, 1988. A (love the logo with the shape of Minnesota in negative space) and a . A WRCB 1996 "Walls and Balls" open. For more Chattanooga, at one minute in the background music in the WDEF newsbreak in this video is TuesdayC, which was unknown for WDEF. And to round it out, a cut of Newsleader you *haven't* heard before in !

WHTM 1990 and WISC Early 90s even sound sorta similar, similar enough that I'd say you're right. EDIT: You nailed it! Listen to this WISC 10pm tease from 1993. The rendering of the signature is slightly different but there's no mistaking that this is from the same guy as WHTM 1990. We just needed the evening cut to do it. We have a 1991 CBS promo with the current "3", so it's not far off the mark to say WISC might have debuted it in 1991. 1990 is the earliest date I'd give for the theme.