“From ABC News around the world and into your home, the stories that touch your life. With Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters, this is 20/20.” That’s how every edition of 20/20 in the 90’s started. For this version of the 20/20 theme, all whooshes and pows known to man were included. Network news, generally speaking, has gone easy on sound effects but cable news certainly has has not. Almost all graphics and transitions are accompanied by a woosh or other sound effect. That’s what gives it the cable news feel. Why do they do it? It grabs your attention. Cable news channels feel it makes them look and sound more urgent and exciting — like something big is going on — which keeps viewers tuned in.
Score Productions – 20/20 theme
(126 votes, average: 4.10 out of 5)
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I like this as well as the original version from ’79 and yet another rearrangement from ’98.
I like this opening theme from ABC News 20/20. I have always enjoyed watching co-anchors Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters. They are true icons in the news media industry, and they will be greatly missed.