Unlike most news sounders, which are commissioned by broadcasters, the "Eyewitness News" theme started out as part of the sound track to the movie "Cool Hand Luke."
3:03 is ABC’s “American Entertainment Radio” sounder which was heard during Don McNeil’s final “Breakfast Club” as heard 50 years ago this week on December 27th 1968 on KFOX-FM in Los Angeles, CA (now KKLQ-FM).
I remember hearing it in the mid 1970s, on my Great Grandma's big old wooden console radio set, and I'm pretty sure it was on one of the shortwave bands/other than US AM.
Good afternoon, our top story: Newscasts spend more time composing catchy, grabber music than reporting the news. A spokesperson for the broadcast industry denied the allegations. More after this message from Rolaids!
The last theme in this video could be recycled and used as a weather alert theme on radio today. Mainly conservative talk stations, all news formats, soft adult contemporary stations, and classic hits stations.
"From the Golden Tower of the Fisher Building, this is the great voice of the great lakes, where you hear Paul W. Smith(TOH Chime), Mornings 5:30 to 9, NewsTalk 760, WJR Detroit!"....then the ABC News Sounder
James McDonnell Oh yes, I forgot to put that in there. When I lived in Ohio WJR was a semi-local to me, I still hear it on skywave propagation(It being a 50,000 Watt "Clear Channel" signal) here in Tennessee every night
Timothy Parry Jr Speaking as a Detroiter, it's not worth listening to anymore. For AM, I usually keep it at 580, CKWW Windsor. Great fun, great oldies!
Yes, your right, much of AM radio has been consolidated due to Cumulus and iHeartMedia taking over everything...sadly, its just not the same anymore. Too bad CKWW is only 500 Watts(I can get CKLW, but not CKWW). Can you get the 50,000 Watt "Air Castle of the South" WSM 650 AM Home of the Grand Ole Opry from here in Nashville there in Detroit at night?
That third sounder was used a lot by KVOO in Oklahoma for their hourly news report. I remember it well when traveling back to see Uncle Richard before he passed in the Spring of 1979.
The first one sounds like what ABC used in the late 80's and early 90's, replacing all the old American Information Network sounders, and Direction Network sounders from before.
It was used on ABC-TV's "World News Tonight" starting in the early 1980's (from 1978 until then, an electronic version of that sounder had been used on "WNT").
Lets see: ABC News theme, followed by Eric Siday's quarter-hour cuts that were used by New York's WCBS News Radio in the '70s, followed by the "Eyewitness News" theme used by WABC-TV that same period. The last theme I don't recognize.
KATU channel 2, the ABC affiliate in Portland, Oregon also used the Eyewitness News theme during the early 1970s. I suspect most ABC affiliates probably used it at that time.
+Headset Guy - yes. It was made in the '70s and used by a couple of other UK stations, though I believe some US stations had to remove similar ones due to copyright.
Can someone find the news music used in NIS, the News and Information Service It used a bevy of cellos. Really great. NIS didn't last very long. The internet kind of phased them out. A national all news radio network wasn't saleable enough. It was a shadow service of NBC.
It would've been nice if each of the sounders was identified. Most easily recognized here was the first, that of ABC News Radio.
Good Lord this is Solid Gold.
This is grand!
Hey you got some great Mutual sounders in there, this is awesome. Holy crap, the one at 3:15 is epic...Transcends decades...is that a Mutual sounder?
Royal Fanfare
2:51 1:54
1:55 NUMBER ONE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA! CHANNEL 7, KABC-TV LOS ANGELES
3:15, A Rather Odd Sound for a News Intro
These sounds bring me back to the old days of my childhood when I was too little to turn a radio knob.
The First Theme is ABC's WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
The 1978-1990 theme. Main one from 1980-1990.
Unlike most news sounders, which are commissioned by broadcasters, the "Eyewitness News" theme started out as part of the sound track to the movie "Cool Hand Luke."
BoiseSJ Country music station KVOO (The Voice of Oklahoma) used that in 1978-1979 for their hourly sounder for world and local news.
Are you sure?
@@alexkije Absolutely it was. The track is known as 'Tar Sequence.'
KABC still uses it for the news intro.
3:03 is ABC’s “American Entertainment Radio” sounder which was heard during Don McNeil’s final “Breakfast Club” as heard 50 years ago this week on December 27th 1968 on KFOX-FM in Los Angeles, CA (now KKLQ-FM).
I remember hearing it in the mid 1970s, on my Great Grandma's big old wooden console radio set, and I'm pretty sure it was on one of the shortwave bands/other than US AM.
I kept wanting to pretend I was anchoring 1010WINS and such...
CAN I KEEP HITTING THUMBS UP????????
You're so right!!!!
At the Very Beginning is the Iconic ABC NEWS Theme.
The 1978-1990 theme
Television news are not made like this anymore.
Good afternoon, our top story: Newscasts spend more time composing catchy, grabber music than reporting the news. A spokesperson for the broadcast industry denied the allegations. More after this message from Rolaids!
The last theme in this video could be recycled and used as a weather alert theme on radio today. Mainly conservative talk stations, all news formats, soft adult contemporary stations, and classic hits stations.
"From the Golden Tower of the Fisher Building, this is the great voice of the great lakes, where you hear Paul W. Smith(TOH Chime), Mornings 5:30 to 9, NewsTalk 760, WJR Detroit!"....then the ABC News Sounder
Timothy Parry Jr Don't forget the top of the hour chime!
James McDonnell Oh yes, I forgot to put that in there. When I lived in Ohio WJR was a semi-local to me, I still hear it on skywave propagation(It being a 50,000 Watt "Clear Channel" signal) here in Tennessee every night
Timothy Parry Jr Speaking as a Detroiter, it's not worth listening to anymore. For AM, I usually keep it at 580, CKWW Windsor. Great fun, great oldies!
Yes, your right, much of AM radio has been consolidated due to Cumulus and iHeartMedia taking over everything...sadly, its just not the same anymore. Too bad CKWW is only 500 Watts(I can get CKLW, but not CKWW). Can you get the 50,000 Watt "Air Castle of the South" WSM 650 AM Home of the Grand Ole Opry from here in Nashville there in Detroit at night?
I'll try tonight and let you know.
Cool hand Luke theme for KABC, WABC, WLS, KGO TV CH 7
as well as WXYZ Action news when it was a ABC O&O
"Direct from ABC News, on the ABC Direction Network, this is Bob Houck, from Washington.... "
Brings back a lot of memories
That third sounder was used a lot by KVOO in Oklahoma for their hourly news report. I remember it well when traveling back to see Uncle Richard before he passed in the Spring of 1979.
"LUKE WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SAY 50 EGGS ? "
Now they use that first one in ABC World News.
Headset Guy From ABC, This is WORLD NEWS TONIGHT with Peter Jennings!
Headset Guy A very short form was used by ABC News for the top of the hour newscasts.
Was probably done to unify all the ABC News Networks with those on ABC Television by using the World News Tonight theme.
The first one sounds like what ABC used in the late 80's and early 90's, replacing all the old American Information Network sounders, and Direction Network sounders from before.
It was used on ABC-TV's "World News Tonight" starting in the early 1980's (from 1978 until then, an electronic version of that sounder had been used on "WNT").
Lets see: ABC News theme, followed by Eric Siday's quarter-hour cuts that were used by New York's WCBS News Radio in the '70s, followed by the "Eyewitness News" theme used by WABC-TV that same period. The last theme I don't recognize.
KATU channel 2, the ABC affiliate in Portland, Oregon also used the Eyewitness News theme during the early 1970s. I suspect most ABC affiliates probably used it at that time.
the WABC Eyewitness news theme was also the WXYZ Action News theme (as at the time that was used, WXYZ was a sister station to WABC)
After the "Eyewitness News" theme are news openers/sounders used by ABC's American Entertainment Radio Network, which debuted on January 1, 1968.
And then there was this from UK station Beacon Radio: www.radiojingles.webspace.virginmedia.com/audio/beacon_1976/news.mp3
+Candolad "Shaft" much?
+Headset Guy - yes. It was made in the '70s and used by a couple of other UK stations, though I believe some US stations had to remove similar ones due to copyright.
What was the last theme 3:16
ABC Info net, followed by a bunch of Eric Siday cuts, then ABC Entertainment net and last sounds like something from Ken Justiss or TM productions
Who composed these??? Anyone know? Let us know.
Bob Israel and Score Productions did the ABC World News Tonight themes.
Lalo Schifrin composed the sounder at 1:55.
The second news sounder appearing here was used by a number of CBS affiliates, including KIRO 710 in Seattle.
THIS IS A.B.C. NEWS. IM. JOHN BELMONT . 1991. WAS A SOLID YEAR FOR. ABC. NEWS AND ITS AFILLIATES
He spoke at my HS graduation. His real name was Jon Detrow.
Can someone find the news music used in NIS, the News and Information Service It used a bevy of cellos. Really great. NIS didn't last very long. The internet kind of phased them out. A national all news radio network wasn't saleable enough. It was a shadow service of NBC.
Haha neat!