“America Decides 2020” Theme
For its election night coverage, CBS News used a theme composed by Nick Murray on behalf of MIBE Music. The music has lots of movement and...
Elections
“The Vote” 2018 Theme
For the 2018 midterm election, NBC went back to the theme that is since 2004 most closely associated with its election coverage. Composer Michael Karp did some...
“Vote 2018” Theme
The ABC election theme for the 2018 midterms (and beyond) takes advantage of a full orchestra, electronics, and massive percussion section to convey a renewed sense...
“Decision 2016” Theme
For the 2016 election, composer Michael Karp revised his legendary NBC election theme that has been on the air since 2004. It includes an entirely new thematic...
“CBS Evening News” 2016 – 2019 Theme
Originally composed for CBS’ election coverage, this theme was adopted as the theme for the CBS Evening News in May of 2016. CBS wanted an iconic score,...
“Today” 2016 Election Theme
During the 2016 election, Today continues to use its own election theme. This theme is not used by any other NBC News program. It’s composed by...
“CBS Campaign 2016” Theme
This theme was recorded in late 2015 at the New York studios of Made Music Studio. Composer Joel Beckerman referred to it in USA Today as...
“This Week” 2012 – 2013 Theme
Since George Stephanopoulos took back the reins of This Week, the well-received “Your Voice, Your Vote” theme was slightly altered to be used as the new...
“Today” 2010 – 2015 Election Open
While all NBC News programs use the same graphics for their election coverage, they don’t all use the same theme music. Today has used its own...
“Decision 2010” Theme
After using Michael Karp’s election theme for several election cycles, NBC went into a totally different direction in 2010. This election theme is more understated and...
“Vote 2010” Theme
This new election theme package (the “Rally” package) was composed by the CCO and Founder of DreamArtists Music, Matthew Kajcienski. The package was launched on the...
“Inauguration of Barack Obama” Theme
This theme was used for CBS’ coverage of the inauguration of President Barack Obama, anchored by Katie Couric. It is a great variation on the CBS...
“Vote 2006/08” Theme
Although there was also a more traditional sounding election theme, this piece of music is most closely associated with ABC’s coverage of the 2006 and 2008...
“Campaign ’06” Theme
James Horner’s CBS package is fairly extensive, it literally contains hundreds of cuts. This is the music that CBS used for the election coverage in 2006....
“Decision 2004” Theme
Election themes don’t get much better than this. Michael Karp composed this theme for the 2004 presidential election on NBC. Since then it has become a...