LTSC1980 112 Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 WBIR was using production music for headlines when they soft launched new look in 2017: Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-220323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
10Viewer 334 Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 (edited) I'm guessing this must be production music from some European library. WBNS used it from Dec. 1993-June 1996. Looks like WITI used it for promos around 1995 and WTOG used it as a 'breaking news' bed Edited January 16, 2019 by 8Viewer Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-220382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnoxvilleTVFan 286 Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 (edited) I need someone to please identify this thematic piece as used on Mazda Sports Look which aired on ESPN in 1986. You can listen to the theme at 4:19. I've got one more...American Movie Classics from 1988. Listen for a hint of the WROC early 1980s news theme in the intro. You can watch the intro at the beginning of the video. But, it begs the question...who did this theme? Edited January 26, 2019 by KnoxvilleTVFan Added an American Movie Classics video from 1988. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-220909 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TServo2049 81 Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 (edited) Oh, wow! I thought I’d never see that AMC intro again! Someone else posted that open on YT maybe 11-12 years ago (no idea who; that video disappeared at least a decade ago), and I noticed the WROC resemblance even then. (I also have vague memories of the station ID music being similar to WROC’s, but I could be misremembering.) I hear a hint of Tuesday in there (the brass and percussion), but my memory suggests that I sent Tom DiNoto audio of the similar WROC theme some years back when I was corresponding with him via email, and he didn’t recognize it. Edited January 28, 2019 by TServo2049 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-221031 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFloTVClassics 972 Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Another rename, Frank Gari's The reporter is now The CBS-AM News theme. http://www.southernmedia-nmsa.com/#3,1,73 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-222248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidnightJunkie 55 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 (edited) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m51U82j-ttY the best cut of the bumper/headline theme is at 16:58 and it appears this was a full theme as each segment has it's own custom cut. the NMSA has this theme listed as being a custom composure, however, if there are no other stations who used this theme I was wondering if anyone would be able to identify the artist? I'm asking because this is the newscast that I grew up watching so by default this is my favorite news theme. Edited February 21, 2019 by MidnightJunkie Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-222281 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnoxvilleTVFan 286 Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 After looking at an earlier R&R program supplier guide, I have determined that the "Watch What We're Doing Now" promo package for stations such as WCCB Charlotte and KADN Lafayette was done by American Image Productions back in 1982. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-222650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnoxvilleTVFan 286 Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 (edited) I went to YouTube just now and saw some news stories about the Wichita Wings indoor soccer team. Well, just to find out, KSNW's 1985 news theme began before 1985. It started out sometime in the early 1980s, say 1983 which is the same time KETV in Omaha used the KSNW theme. If you watch the video at 9:54, you can hear a few seconds of KSNW's classic news theme. Six seconds later at 10:00, we hear a drum beat in the theme that is reminiscent of the WRAL/KTXL 1982 news theme. So, this leads me to believe that the composer of the KSNW theme may have also done the WRAL/KTXL theme around that timeframe. But...but, I may be wrong plus it is not known who composed the theme. I am including a video of WRAL's 1982 news theme for comparison. (Drum beat is heard at :34) Edited March 10, 2019 by KnoxvilleTVFan Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-223023 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Yeah, I can hear that too! (BTW, the first half has a promo for a game telecast using an instrumental bed of Hello.) Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-223049 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Info Junkie 1286 Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 If anything, maybe THIS open was what KSN used after the call letter change in 1982. I also pondered that as well that KSNW and WRAL had similar news themes. I’ll take a shot at guessing - VTS???? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-223053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TServo2049 81 Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 I may have asked Hal Brown some years back about WRAL 1982; if so, he didn’t recognize it, because I’d have told people if I had gotten a composed ID. (VTS did, of course, do WRAL’s next package “The Place to Be.”) I’d previously theorized that WRAL/KTXL was by the same composer as the KTLA 1982 theme (a company called AdMusic; I got the information by asking some KTLA veterans and have corresponded with one or both of the principals). But IIRC, the former AdMusic writer/co-owner I spoke to did not recognize it - though he said they did one other station package for a station in Charlotte, I forget if they remembered which one. (Strangely, nobody I have spoken to remembers the KTLA package being used by KSTW, or being syndicated to a bunch of other stations in conjunction with a graphics package. That seems odd, but memory *is* fallible.) Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-223075 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnoxvilleTVFan 286 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 It's been over a month, but it's time to check into a news theme that needs to be identified. Does anyone know who composed this theme? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-225155 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOneManHerd 553 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 1 hour ago, KnoxvilleTVFan said: It's been over a month, but it's time to check into a news theme that needs to be identified. Does anyone know who composed this theme? Sounds a lot like Peters to me. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-225163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnoxvilleTVFan 286 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Does anyone have a list of campaigns that Peters used? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-225242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJClementeFan69 477 Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 (edited) KOVR 95 theme composer hypothesis? Compare this to "Newscast A" by Sonoton, used by WKCF. I hear some similarities, especially at the end of the KOVR open. Edited April 27, 2019 by AJClementeFan69 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-225365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWUpdate 1292 Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 Here's another clip of Gari's unidentified theme used by POP TV in Slovenia (used in conjunction with Eyewitness News in the close): 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-225372 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 On 4/27/2019 at 6:47 PM, KnoxvilleTVFan said: In the video description, I noticed that for the WTVR news open they used WSLS' 1988 news therme. Considering the newscast was recorded back in 1986, it was used way before 1988. And, it may have a name according to YouTube user Channel 37. WTVR used a JDK Music package titled "Shenandoah" due to the fact that the Shenandoah Valley is in Rockingham County in Virginia. The Shenandoah name I don't have a source on, but it was definitely written for WTVR. On 8/8/2017 at 1:49 PM, Ntropolis said: WTVR was using the "WSLS 1988 News Theme" in '86... I'm thinking it was made for them since they were the Roy H. Park flagship station and John Keltonic is out of Richmond. Several years back, WTVR did a Charles Fishburne retrospective and they played a bit of the news open at the time, and it was the same theme used in the WBMG opens. (That was in response to a newspaper article excerpt I found from 1986 mentioning Keltonic as having composed WTVR's theme of the time.) Additionally, it appears in ASCAP as "WTVR News Theme". (He also co-wrote the WTHR Rainmaker theme from 615.) 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-225474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 NMSA "KZTV 1995" is a CBS Newspath theme... 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-226715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
onthesea 292 Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 This is not about TV: it's about radio, but I think you can help me. These are two bumpers used by Argentine radio station Mitre (AM 790) on its gossip segment that airs twice a day (weekdays at 7am and 4:30pm). I'm not sure if it's production music or not. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-228939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnoxvilleTVFan 286 Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 I am going to share a video with all of you, because I am hoping someone will identify this news theme. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-229129 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmaxhanson 650 Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 49 minutes ago, KnoxvilleTVFan said: I am going to share a video with all of you, because I am hoping someone will identify this news theme. Easy one, that's News 80's by VTS Productions, which was known for years on the NMSA as the WLOX 1989 News Theme. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-229130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFloTVClassics 972 Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 Here's a theme you might find interesting. 7 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-231612 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 This might be one of my biggest finds this year: The Spirit of Tampa Bay is Gari! It's rare to find unknown Gari works, but this appears to be one of them. It also appears there is a v2 of this image campaign that debuted in 1983. From Walt Belcher's April 11, 1983 Tampa Tribune TV column: Quote Getting the spirit going Remember the jingle WXFL introduced last year to go with the "Spirit of Tampa Bay" campaign? Well, it has begun to wear a little thin, so Channel 8 news consultant Diana Richardson went back to the original composer, Frank Gari, a New York musician who has done a lot of work for ABC, and got him to punch it up. Gari added a few horns, a drum beat and increased the tempo. The result is that the "Spirit of Tampa Bay" no longer sounds like elevator music. 4 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-231980 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Info Junkie 1286 Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 2 hours ago, Samantha said: This might be one of my biggest finds this year: The Spirit of Tampa Bay is Gari! It's rare to find unknown Gari works, but this appears to be one of them. It also appears there is a v2 of this image campaign that debuted in 1983. From Walt Belcher's April 11, 1983 Tampa Tribune TV column: The horn sections in this close do scream Gari: 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-231996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOneManHerd 553 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 3 hours ago, Samantha said: This might be one of my biggest finds this year: The Spirit of Tampa Bay is Gari! It's rare to find unknown Gari works, but this appears to be one of them. It also appears there is a v2 of this image campaign that debuted in 1983. From Walt Belcher's April 11, 1983 Tampa Tribune TV column: I remember speculating quite a long time ago that SOTB was a Gari composition. I must have said that on YouTube or something, though, because I can’t find me saying that here. The instrumentation in many cuts sound a lot like Hello News; still others sound like So Good To Turn To. I guess I’m not crazy after all. 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13323-discovered-composers-publishers-of-music-themes/page/25/#findComment-232003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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