Television News Theme Music - Creative Uses!

Interesting!

Here's a clip of another station using Classical Gas as a news theme -- with the Telesound version of the percussion section at the beginning and a long cut of the original instrumental at around 5:30:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TADJeooN2eo

Does anyone remember The Karelia suite (intermezzo from) by Sibelius being used as a theme for ITV's weekly news programme "This Week"? (not the current BBC programme of the same name)

The part used as the theme is from about 1:20 onwards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtIw5AkUEsE

Damn, you're good. I've had Classical Gas on CD for years and never noticed that!



Indeed - also features on hard-hitting current affairs programme, Ethel The Frog.

Lol I remember that sketch

News scoop was mentioned earlier in the thread, For anyone who is not familiar with it, I have recently uploaded it on to YT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFw5Wv3VsEs

That should bring back memories to quite a few people

Here is an interesting one I found.

It is the Awakening by Johnny Pearson, the music from which a part is used as the theme to News at ten, the recognizable part that was used is from about half way through the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAH9NnvU7G4

Interesting - never heard that version before. I don't believe it features in the K.P.M. music library in that form.

A bit of Googling reveals The Awakening is actually part of a longer work called '20th Century Portrait' by Johnny Pearson, written a few years before it was chosen for News At Ten. I don't know if this has ever been released commercially - I certainly can't find it available anywhere.

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Does anyone have any more information on 20th Century Portrait, or know if it's available anywhere?

I think it was a library release only, back in the days when library music was released on good old vinyl records. I think 20th Century Portrait was one whole side of a record back then.

20th Century Portrait is available for download from filestube.com, but you must sign up with them first, I am not signed up so I don't know how reliable they are.

Cheers, Mark. Totally awesome!!!!

Thanks to a wonderfully kind gentleman and also having an extremely clever and technically minded nephew, I have now just gained some excellent ring-tone and message alert-tones on my faithful old Nokiar (I am not a Technophobe like some of you chaps on here...................)

In any case - thanks to the aforesaid kind gentlemen - my Nokiar now plays "The World Today from BBC World Headline Vamp - 1998" as my normal ring-tone. And for sms (that's "short message somethingorother" for those of you who are not quite as advanced as me) alert tone, I now have "BBC World - 1 second ident".

And it's really caught-on in the office, with everyone twitching knowingly when my phone rings, without quite being able to "name that tune", so to speak.

So, come one then. Who else has a "newsy" ring-tone? (And don't all pretend that I'm the only anorak here on TVF Newsroom..................I know some of you have it..................)

Network News Music , a site devoted to news music from the major American networks, has relaunched with a new look and a number of new themes:

http://www.networknewsmusic.com/wp/

BTW, I love this orchestral theme used for a short-lived but critically acclaimed series from ABC News and composed by well-known TV composer Bill Conti:

http://www.networknewsmusic.com/wp/abc-news/our-world-theme