newsteam13 382 Posted December 31, 2024 Share Posted December 31, 2024 I wonder who composed that awesome 80s news theme package. Before and after the switch from KBTV to KUSA in 1984, Channel 9 started using it in 1983. What made the KUSA news opens with that theme ever better...Mr. ABC himself Ernie Anderson opening for Mike Landess/Ed Sardella and the rest of the 9NEWS team. When Gannett bought sister station KARE (the WTCN) Channel 11 in 1983, it brought KUSA's Joe Franzgrote to the Twin Cities. Along with him came that theme music package and some of his KUSA news team. I'm dying to know who composed that 1983-88 news theme music package Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfomspphl 475 Posted December 31, 2024 Share Posted December 31, 2024 13 hours ago, newsteam13 said: I wonder who composed that awesome 80s news theme package. Before and after the switch from KBTV to KUSA in 1984, Channel 9 started using it in 1983. What made the KUSA news opens with that theme ever better...Mr. ABC himself Ernie Anderson opening for Mike Landess/Ed Sardella and the rest of the 9NEWS team. When Gannett bought sister station KARE (the WTCN) Channel 11 in 1983, it brought KUSA's Joe Franzgrote to the Twin Cities. Along with him came that theme music package and some of his KUSA news team. I'm dying to know who composed that 1983-88 news theme music package Was wondering the same after that documentary it’s a great theme with a heartland kind of feel. Maybe Peters since they did the prior It’s All Right Here theme? Also wonder if there were lyrics haven’t run across a vocal promo. Interesting the WTCN/KARE and WXIA set of the time was a lookalike of the KOA/KCNC set in Denver, KUSAs competitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsteam13 382 Posted January 4 Author Share Posted January 4 On 12/31/2024 at 1:41 PM, sfomspphl said: Was wondering the same after that documentary it’s a great theme with a heartland kind of feel. Maybe Peters since they did the prior It’s All Right Here theme? Also wonder if there were lyrics haven’t run across a vocal promo. Interesting the WTCN/KARE and WXIA set of the time was a lookalike of the KOA/KCNC set in Denver, KUSAs competitor. YEP! Both news sets from both WXIA and KARE (KUSA's sister stations) DID give off that vibe of the news set from KOA-TV/KCNC (KUSA's competitor) from their NewsCenter 4 days. All of them NBC affiliates, except one affiliate in Denver was owned by GE and then the NBC network itself (became a CBS O&O in 1995). KCNC's color scheme was different from the patriotic red/white/blue American flag color scheme that KUSA, KARE, WXIA and other Gannett stations have used 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsteam13 382 Posted January 4 Author Share Posted January 4 If you were an ABC affiliate in a big city, and if the owner was wealthy and could afford it, you couldn't go wrong with Mr. ABC himself Ernie Anderson. That was exactly the case when KUSA was an ABC affiliate in Colorado's capital, and its parent company Gannett (now Tegna) had a lot of money to burn. Gave KUSA carte blanche to make their 9NEWS product kick-ass, including hiring the voice of ABC to do promos and news opens for KUSA. Here's one of the 9 Country/11 Country cuts with Ernie promoting the call letter switch from KBTV to KUSA in 1984 And here's the main cut of 9 Country/11 Country with Ernie opening for Landess and Sardella Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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