Hello News V.2

[TheRolyPoly 3510]

You read that right. KWQC commissioned it (thanks to Cyle Dickens' help nonetheless) and will debut on June 10th.

 

 

[Dave Lampstein 287]

Didn't they do this already?

[T.L. Hughes 958]

21 hours ago, Dave Lampstein said:

Didn't they do this already?

Warner-Chappell, which owns the rights to the original Hello package, composed this new series of themes, effectively Hello News v.2 (or Series 5, if you want to go by how Gari called their theme updates). Chris Majka composed a custom theme using the Hello signature that debuted last year, alongside selected cuts from Gari’s first three Hello series (the ones KWQC brought back in 2023 for their 75th anniversary).

Edited May 31, 2025 by T.L. Hughes

[Guest]

I composed two themes that are used daily; the entire QCL package, and the tease and talent themes, Plus, several handfulls of suplimental cuts, which will still be used.

[MidwestTV 1358]

It's a good open but my goodness is it long

[sfomspphl 545]

Here is the remake of the close.

 

Nice alternative, hits a lot of the sentimental tone of the original that remakes often miss, at least for the first 3/4ths of it.

 

When you get to the lead up to the close where the original had prominent strings and a crescendo into a horn floursh this version feels a little thin, almost like a mixdown that deleted those tracks. Feedback on the Youtube comments is pretty positive.

 

Hope they keep the original open and close on Fridays or something like that. 

 

The opens/bumpers in the demo are a little generic sounding to me, not as distinct with the signatures as the originals or this remake of the close. I suppose mgmt wanted some updates and as far as that goes could have been a lot worse. But hope there are some more distinctly melodic cuts that get used. 

 

 

Edited June 14, 2025 by sfomspphl