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 others had cleared it, Senior Management had not. And that was a problem. At the very last minute, they decided that the show already had altered its appearance enough and that it might alienate viewers if it also changed it’s long established theme. That’s very unfortunate because it is a good theme. It’s composed by the people at VideoHelper. The story, however, continues. Good Morning America later adopted this as their opening theme.
VideoHelper – World News Tonight theme (unused)
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Do you know who the voiceover announcer in this clip is? I know he did voice for ABC News for years from the 1990s to the 2010s but have never been able to find his name.
That’s Bill Rice. He was the announcer for World News Tonight from the beginning in 1978 until 2009, when Mike Rowe replaced him.