My favourite of the news themes is the 1993 version of the ITN News at Ten theme and its closing version, and I wish EMI Production Music releases clean versions of them in their stereo glory.
:-(
A former member
Still like the STV news theme 12 years and counting.
That mad pianist version is great - and is so much better than the theme we have now, IMO, which I find rather lacking. I like the 2002 theme as well - that had to be replaced with the mad pianist theme due to copyright issues.
Wait. Copyright issues? What was that?
If I remember rightly, the 2002 theme was withdrawn after a composer claimed that Sky had plagiarised the previous theme, which said composer had written, without their permission. Hence, the mad pianist theme was swiftly written and introduced.
What was the music Sky was claimed to have copied from?
Without wanting to make any comment as to that particular aspect...
The late 2001 theme was immediately preceded by the very short lived “Election 2001” theme, which lasted only about six months. It was introduced at the TOTH immediately following the seeking of the dissolution, which would have been early May, and lasted until 30th September 2001.
Without wanting to make any comment as to that particular aspect...
The late 2001 theme was immediately preceded by the very short lived “Election 2001” theme, which lasted only about six months. It was introduced at the TOTH immediately following the seeking of the dissolution, which would have been early May, and lasted until 30th September 2001.
So, this one and this one were not composed by the same musician? I thought these were from the same person.