“NBC News at Sunrise” 1985 – 1996 Open
This is another cue from The Mission by John Williams. NBC selected it as the opening for NBC News at Sunrise, which was the network’s early...
This is another cue from The Mission by John Williams. NBC selected it as the opening for NBC News at Sunrise, which was the network’s early...
This is the cue from The Mission that NBC selected to open the Today Show and is the only John Williams cue that was still used...
This is the third part of the four-part package that John Williams composed for NBC News. For the Today Show he composed the Scherzo for Today....
In 1985 NBC wanted to do away with the synthesizer sounds forever and so they commissioned a full orchestral news theme package from famous movie-score composer John...
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...
This electronic piece was used to open almost all NBC News programs in this era, such as Nightly News, Meet the Press, NBC News Digest and...
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...
“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...
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...
This bright and sunny piece called “This is Today” is perhaps one of the most popular themes used on the Today Show. It’s the second theme...
John Williams is not the first famous movie composer to do a news theme for NBC. This funky theme, used during the latter period of the...
NBC used this theme by Henry Mancini for a long time, from the election of Jimmy Carter as president to Bill Clinton. It has the patriotic...
When Chet Huntley retired, the Huntley-Brinkley Report became NBC Nightly News. While there were various changes to the anchor lineup, John Chancellor was the lead anchor for...
This jazzy theme by Ray Ellis was used on the Today Show for a number of years but ultimately forced off the air due to a...