Like in the USA, The Mission continues to be a popular theme in Australia. This is the latest arrangement, provided to you as a bonus. It’s off the air and sounds kind of rough–the heavy sound effects contributing to that.

Brian Williams joined NBC News in 1993 and was quickly groomed to be the next anchor of NBC Nightly News. At first he was named White House correspondent followed in 1996 (with the launch of MSNBC) by his own hour-long news program called “The News”. He anchored the program, which later moved to CNBC, until 2004 when John Siegenthaler temporarily took over before the program was cancelled. This theme is what I believe to be the second theme to the program (the first being composed by Shelly Palmer). It is composed by Peter Fish.

Seven Nightly News in Australia uses this remixed version of John Williams’ The Mission…The Mission on XTC! They previously used the original, but have switched over to a sort of club mix of the original. Coincidentally this is not the only similarity between Australian TV news and American TV news. The National Nine News uses a theme from the famous movie Cool Hand Luke, the same theme used most notably by owned and operated ABC stations as their news theme. The Ten Evening News, for a while, used opening graphics that were more than just inspired by the late 80s open for the CBS Evening News. And over at Channel 9 they have, since 1978, their own version of 60 Minutes.