“CBS Evening News” 1991 – 2006 Theme
This theme started being used by the CBS Evening News in 1991 and lasted until September 2006. The theme is most closely associated with the Dan...
Evening newscasts
“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...
“NBC Nightly News” 1985 – 2004 Theme
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...
“NBC Nightly News” 1983 – 1985
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...
“NBC Nightly News” 1979 – 1983 Open & Close
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...
“CBS Evening News” 1982 – 1987 Bumper
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...
“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...
“NBC Nightly News” 1977 – 1979 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...
“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...
“NBC Nightly News” 1972 – 1977 Theme
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...
“Huntley-Brinkley Report” Theme
“Good night, Chet. Good night, David. And good night, for NBC News.” From the very first edition in 1956 until the last in 1970, that is...