“West 57th” Theme
60 Minutes for a younger generation. That’s what West 57th was intended to be. It was named after the address of the CBS Broadcast Center in...
60 Minutes for a younger generation. That’s what West 57th was intended to be. It was named after the address of the CBS Broadcast Center in...
In 1976 NBC introduced the concept of red states and blue states. To graphically illustrate the election results, they colored a state red if a Democrat...
“We’re With You” is the name of the promo campaign that ABC used during the 1984-85 TV season. It’s composed by Richard Lavsky who has also...
Business Brief was an ABC News Brief featuring only financial news anchored by ABC’s chief economics correspondent, Dan Cordtz. News Briefs were the 30, 60 or...
ABC News Directions was the name for a program that consisted of town hall meetings, talk shows and documentaries that usually had a religious or spiritual...
This is the theme used for a few years on the long running ABC News documentary series titled Closeup. The first documentary that ran under the...
This electronic theme was used to open nearly all NBC News programs of the era, including Nightly News, Meet the Press, NBC News Digest, and NBC White Paper, a documentary...
When it debuted in 1983, NBC News at Sunrise was the early morning counterpart to Nightly News. At the time it was an important program on...
CBS News Nightwatch was an overnight newscast. It debuted in October of 1982 and was replaced with Up to the Minute in 1992. For most of...
Since the 1960’s the title CBS Morning News has been used for various programs on the CBS schedule. In the early 1980’s it was used for...
“You hear something that may be music or may be the sound Donald Duck would make if you held his head underwater a while,” that is...
NBC Nightly News debuted in July of 1970 after Chet Huntley left the Huntley-Brinkley Report. David Brinkley anchored with John Chancellor and Frank McGee as part...
World News This Morning has had a variety of anchors since its debut in 1982, including Steve Bell, Anderson Cooper and Paula Zahn. This theme was...
Because there was a regulation at CBS that music could not be used for the Evening News, they used a teletype-like sound for bumpers and long...
The next Ellis theme, a different arrangement of his “This is Today” theme, debuted during Bryant Gumbel’s first show on January 4, 1982, and was used...