SFTV 525 Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 I have to admit, this theme is real impressive certainly hearing the cleaner cuts. Right?! Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-149273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhratbrat 437 Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Indeed. I did submit the info over to NMSA and he has updated the listing Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-149338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbnews 344 Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Does anybody know who composed the WTVJ 2012 Theme and WPXI 2014 Theme? I have wanted these packages forever! Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-149342 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Just had @TMBtD confirm a find of mine by getting in touch with the composer. I think you'll be excited. This is a lead I've had for years but was reluctant to go through because I thought the @pacbell.net email the guy had was dead as a doornail. It wasn't. While I wait for him to post some confirmation (the NMSA is also in the loop on this one)... I've had a few dead leads for years and I feel like posting them may open something up. Some have been languishing at the NMSA. -Some alternate titles for the "Turn To" image song revealed other localizations, but a few didn't have leads: "Tell 'Em You're From Duluth", "Tell 'Em West Michigan's Great" and "Turn To 26". -A Telemundo News Theme in BMI composed by Alvaro Morello and published by Nuevo Mundo Music. This led me to the discovery that the KBLR 2007 theme (used for Telemundo's "Conteo de Noticias" when they had major local news cutbacks) is his work: [URL]http://alvaromorello.com/[/URL] (go to Video and then click on TV). The site seems to be a bit out of date technically now but I do remember this from 2012. -WATE 1980 or 1984 was composed by Scott Hamilton Evans, a local jingle composer. [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5in_7BtH10']Perhaps his most enduring work was "Energy Express", composed for the 1982 World's Fair.[/URL] ([URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20080724141439/http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/may/04/trains-song-on-hit-track/']Just shy of half a million records were sold of that tune![/URL]) When I found this the 1990 and 1991 themes had not yet been traced as DeWolfe and a song. The theme has to be older as he was listed in SESAC with a 615 area code number — and in the 90s 615 was removed from the Knoxville area. I suspect 1984 over 1980, but who knows. - 3 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-149550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alain 17 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Telemundo News Theme was indeed done by Mike Greene, I forwarded proof and info to NMSA. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-149552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
promoguy98 253 Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 Does anybody know who composed the WTVJ 2012 Theme and WPXI 2014 Theme? I have wanted these packages forever! I've suspected off and on that Juan C. Rodriguez may have composed the WTVJ 2012 Theme. I have no proof/confirmation, only that he mentions WTVJ on his website and references whatever he composed as "NBC WTVJ Local News" .... anyway, who knows! Hard to believe that after 4 years that nothing has shown up in BMI, ASCAP etc sites... if it's there it's listed in such a bizarre way where it's impossible to find it - OR WTVJ paid the composer in such a way where they aren't receiving back-end royalties and it's not listed... http://www.juancrodriguez.com/about Thanks to TMBtD mystery solved... Maybe one of these days somebody will figure out the composer. It'd be cool to know that answer, since it's such a big secret. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-149592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alain 17 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 I spoke with the former Creative Director from WTVJ, he said that they bought the theme outright, they own it 100% 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-149595 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4745 Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Here's two clean and clear versions from Robby Elfman's soundcloud. [MEDIA=soundcloud] [/MEDIA] I play this while playing with my little chopper 8's...we play "fire" and "earthquake". When we play politicians...we use cut 2. 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-149971 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewsMaster 226 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Here's two clean and clear versions from Robby Elfman's soundcloud. [MEDIA=soundcloud] [/MEDIA] Finally! That sounds great. Now I need to find out who did this new theme for KFSN. For some reason I thought they could be the same composer, but I guess not. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-150022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
channel2 977 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 It sounds like the work of DreamArtists Studios to me, but I don't have solid proof of that. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-150025 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpb 36 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 The KFSN theme is indeed by DreamArtists Music. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-150043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbnews 344 Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 How did you know? 5 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-150186 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpb 36 Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Matthew Kajcienski told me. (I'm the guy behind NetworkNewsMusic.com) Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-150224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
channel2 977 Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Did he say anything about why it was commissioned? Did ABC ever intend to use it on stations other than KFSN? It sounds like a candidate for a standardized ABC O&O theme, if they ever pursued that. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-150225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpb 36 Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Those are not questions I asked. My sense of the matter is that he was simply approached to do a news theme for KFSN because they liked his work for ABC News. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-150232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewsMaster 226 Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 Did he say anything about why it was commissioned? Did ABC ever intend to use it on stations other than KFSN? It sounds like a candidate for a standardized ABC O&O theme, if they ever pursued that. Hopefully such a plan would not include WPVI. Besides EWN still sounds good on most of the stations that it's used on. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-150293 Share on other sites More sharing options...
10Viewer 333 Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 NMSA added a full sample of the "WKRC 1979 News Theme". Very dramatic late 70's theme. 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-152164 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 NMSA added a full sample of the "WKRC 1979 News Theme". Very dramatic late 70's theme. The full WKRC newscast showed up and it had the close, so I sent it in. It's the most 70s thing to ever exist. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-152198 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TServo2049 81 Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 That theme was available in the clear on YT for years, on a Dolphin Productions animation reel. However, it wasn't known to be a WKRC news theme until the original open audio clip was submitted to NMSA, and WKRC posted a vintage promo online (with the EDGE animation that also appeared in the Dolphin reel). I actually cobbled together a complete version from the audio in the Dolphin demo, but never sent it to NMSA. And the audio quality on this newscast close is better anyways... Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-152237 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBC5NewsUnova 65 Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 http://www.southernmedia-nmsa.com/#1,1,WXTV Can anyone confirm that WXTV used Network Music's "Energy II" news music package? NMSA says they used it. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-152292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 That theme was available in the clear on YT for years, on a Dolphin Productions animation reel. However, it wasn't known to be a WKRC news theme until the original open audio clip was submitted to NMSA, and WKRC posted a vintage promo online (with the EDGE animation that also appeared in the Dolphin reel). I actually cobbled together a complete version from the audio in the Dolphin demo, but never sent it to NMSA. And the audio quality on this newscast close is better anyways... Hmm, just took a look at the reel. I wonder if it's production music myself. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-152519 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TServo2049 81 Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Hmm, just took a look at the reel. I wonder if it's production music myself. I used to wonder that myself, but it feels more like it was composed specifically for news (especially the synth-only intro mix). Dolphin did graphics for WKRC concurrent with the use of this package (specifically that "EDGE" promo animation), which has to be why it showed up in their demos. (Much like how elsewhere in these demos, they took music from the custom, non-library music packages used by their clients WPIX and WUAB, and tracked it onto animations they had produced for other clients.) Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-152569 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 I used to wonder that myself, but it feels more like it was composed specifically for news (especially the synth-only intro mix). Dolphin did graphics for WKRC concurrent with the use of this package (specifically that "EDGE" promo animation), which has to be why it showed up in their demos. (Much like how elsewhere in these demos, they took music from the custom, non-library music packages used by their clients WPIX and WUAB, and tracked it onto animations they had produced for other clients.) That makes sense too. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-152571 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1915 Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 Both of these were composed by Wisconsin-based jingle composer Terry Sweet (Locals are probably very familiar with his work, he's still in business doing those awful "Step Up to Colders!" commercials) The theme from KTNV is called "TV-8 News Theme" on his 1984 demo reel. Also, I think the vocieover is then-WTMJ announcer Gus Gnorski, for what it's worth. Probably some early "hubbing" going on there. The WBRZ campaign is also on the 1984 demo reel, aptly named "TV-2 The One To Watch-WBRZ". Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-152577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesapeakeTV 311 Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 TV-8 would be WCHS, then. No wonder the opens seen in those clips seemed pretty dusty for that time... The WBRZ campaign must be tied to the 1985 theme, then. The signature could definitely spell "2's The One To Watch". Would you happen to have a link to the demo reel somewhere? I can't seem to find it. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/11/#findComment-152578 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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