“World News Tonight” Current Theme
With the start of the fall 2020 TV season, ABC’s World News Tonight went back to its roots. The top rated newscast picked up its classic...
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“World News Tonight” 2012 – 2020 Theme
This World News Tonight theme is a composition by major Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer and his co-composer at Remote Control Productions Steve Mazzaro. They had previously worked together...
“World News Webcast” Theme
The webcast was launched in 2006 as part of a larger effort by ABC News to provide more frequent newscasts. When Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff...
“World News Tonight” 2000 – 2012 theme
This is the version of the World News theme by Edd Kalehoff that was used in a period during which the broadcast underwent significant changes. Longtime...
“World News Tonight” 2000 Open (Unused)
This theme was supposed to debut when World News Tonight premiered its new graphics in 2000. It didn’t. While Peter Jennings, then-executive producer Paul Slavin, and...
“World News Tonight” 1998 – 2000 Theme
This theme was used on ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings until September 29, 2000 when they received brand new graphics. The theme was actually...
“World News Tonight” 1996 – 1998 Theme
For the first time since 1978, ABC News used a different theme for its evening flagship broadcast. It was not entirely new because this theme is...
“World News Tonight” 1990 – 1996 Theme
In 1990 the old theme was starting to sound dated, hence Score Productions produced an updated recording. The theme debuted without any new graphics and was...
“World News Tonight” 1979 – 1990 Theme
Legendary ABC News president Roone Arledge wanted orchestral music to open World News Tonight and so in 1980 the evening newscast started to use this theme....
“World News Tonight” 1978 – 1996 Theme
This is the teletype theme that was for World News Tonight in its early days. In 1980 World News Tonight stopped using this theme as its main...
“ABC News” 1975 – 1976 Theme
ABC first started a newscast in the fall of 1953. Its anchor was John Charles Daly and the broadcast lasted only 15 minutes, as was customary...