BBC News - The Music

Yep, if you can look back to 1999 or some other eras, where each BBC News service were given a distinctive theme tune, it was great. The current theme is easily identifiable but for the next few years, when there will be another relaunch, I think it's time for a change but the beeps can stay.

Really like the orchestral news themes of the 80s and 90s, especially the 93-99 Six O'Clock News theme, very suitable for a news programme. Love the Newsnight theme much, especially the 97 and 99 versions.

Who can forget the BBC World flags themes? They were perfect and most of all, authoritative. I liked the first David Lowe theme for World too.

EDIT: Dateline London still has its theme unchanged and yet, it's from the flags era.

The 1999 titles had different versions for each bulletin but within the same theme, which is exactly what they should have done in 2008 to make it go stale less quickly. I also quite liked the way they varied the bulletins just by having different camera angles in the 2003 look. Each bulletin would have a different opening shot. It just adds a bit more variety to the usual slow zoom into the presenter at the desk or stood by the BARCOs.

David Lowe uploaded the 1999 News 24 countdown on the Members site few weeks ago. I'm surprised because there is a vamp after it. You might notice that it's a bit different to the National News version due to the drums.

http://davidlowemusic.com/uploads/media/audio_290.mp3

That is how it was made, the bed after sometimes made it to air on rare occasions too.

Now I can remember, the headline bed was played straight after the countdown with no intro thunderclap on the overnights a few months before BBC World relaunched in 2000, which was very strange as it was different to the rest of the World output and the simulcasts used the BBC One news titles. An example of it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atvKkCTCFxQ

May I ask if anyone have any idea when will David Lowe will upload the Global with Jon Sopel theme?

I'm also waiting for it too. Been checking David Lowe's site from time to time and still didn't upload it. Only the countdowns were updated.