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 used on the weekend editions of World News Tonight until well into 2001 when that program got a graphics update as well. The music is essentially the same as the other versions with the exception that an extra “ta-da-dum” was added at the end. The version also sounds louder. This is because the string instruments seem to have largely been replaced with more brass.
Edd Kalehoff – World News Tonight theme
Here is the headline cue, which is slightly different than the ’90-version. Updates of the World News Tonight theme have since 1998 been composed by New York-based composer Edd Kalehoff. Kalehoff was ABC’s go-to man when it came to music, also composing for Monday Night Football, The View and Nightline around this time.
Edd Kalehoff – World News Tonight headline bed
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I forgot about something, the final notes in this theme are tweaked.
Edd Kalehoff was not only ABC’s go-to-man, he was also WNBC’s go-to-man specifically two news music packages, We’re 4 New York and NBC Stations as well as the image campaign song, which is also titled We’re 4 New York.
The theme debuted on January 12, 1998.
Edd Kalehoff also did the theme music to Judge Mills Lane.
The final notes in the theme are altered.
Victor, you forgot that the weekend editions of World News Tonight continued to use the 1998 headline bed until January 2006.
Hello. I have loved your valuable site for this passion for news music themes for some years now. Some songs from my childhood still stay with me through all the changes on TV, I’m more fond of what was, and it has always put me into focus hearing some familiar themes. ABC’s World News Tonight, I hope that you’ll be aware of the little trial music they played for around a weeklong on national television once like after Disney bought ABC News I think. After Peter Jennings stepped away from the news desk in 2005? Or perhaps it was then anchored at the moment by Terry Moran, they played a special jingle unlike any other on ABC News.