New Tegna (Gannet) news theme.

[SoFloTVClassics 972]

Listen if you dare.

 

http://www.southernmedia-nmsa.com/#3,1,2158

[Mrtraveler01 738]

Listen if you dare.

 

http://www.southernmedia-nmsa.com/#3,1,2158

 

And we have the name of the group that made this package.

 

https://www.sixiemeson.com/en/

 

Looking at their website their speciality is "sonic branding". So basically TEGNA commissioned these people to come up with something similar to the 4-note signature Hearst uses for their branding.

 

I will admit though, I'm slowly warming it to it since it seems like stations are finally figuring out how to use it properly.

[LOWERCASE GUY 262]

It's stuck in my head! I've seriously caught myself humming the 4 note signature.

[Guest]

It's anti-News Music. It's pretty great, actually.

[LorenKarr 18]

Ah, yes. This sickeningly perky music makes it so much easier to stomach video of cars of a passenger train dangling from an interstate overpass. And pictures of a body covered with a sheet, in the background a car is wrapped around a telephone pole -- still, the music makes you feel all warm and fuzzy. Mmmm, bop, bop, mmmmm.......