The Newsroom

Channel 4 News

(November 2011)

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Mouseboy33
My doesnt this theme sound familiar.
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Interceptor
Aye, it's a library piece called Best Endeavours.
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VMPhil
I think there's a clip somewhere of an American local news bulletin using it back in the '80s or '90s.
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A former member
I just shocked people are still asking about this piece of music to this day in age Razz
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WW Update
I think there's a clip somewhere of an American local news bulletin using it back in the '80s or '90s.


That was KTSP in Phoenix (in the mid-'80s):



The music was also used in Australia around that time for The National, a short-lived newscast on the ABC:



And in the trailer for the movie Pale Rider:

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pato_londres
Hi, does anyone know who makes the presenter's chairs in the revamped Channel 4 news and now some ITN news studios. I would be grateful to know. Thank you for any insight.
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Brekkie
So this is worth a mention. Youtube subtitles clearly can't handle it!
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AxG
Seems to be doing the rounds online, I've seen it on Aftonbladet and TV Tonight
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Omnipresent
It was also featured on Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN USA tonight.
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Mouseboy33
and on hundreds of local stations across the US..the little kicker story usually at the end of the newscast before signing off.
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Gary McEwan
NBC's Today covered it as a side story as well...
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London Lite Founding member
Great to see Jon Snow presenting the Saturday edition of C4 News.

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