ITV News theme... in Slovenia

The famous ITN / ITV News theme (not the latest version) is now being used in Slovenia... complete with the bells! It can be heard on a 6PM newscast that premiered yesterday on Kanal A, a privately-owned commercial channel. You can watch the open and hear the music by clicking HERE and selecting "Svet, 1. del" from the options below.

The open feels like ITN-meets-Fox News!

WOW!

It's strange hearing that music again!

once again..

WOW!

You'd think that music would be copyrighted??!

It's weird hearing that on a foreign news programme..

It is, but its also licenced to a music library, therefore making it an infamous library track so anyone with enough money can use it.

Three Rivers: While I don't know exactly how this theme ended up in Slovenia, it is not unusual for the same news music to be heard in various countries. It's usually American news music written by specialized composers that is picked up by various stations around the world. Sky News' first theme, for instance, was composed by an American company and was used by many local stations in the US and elsewhere. Australian stations have used American-composed news music for decades. Usually, this is music specifically composed for news broadcasts, but sometimes it's just library music.

It's considerably more unusual for a UK theme to be heard abroad, although this is also not unheard of: In fact, the ITN theme was used by a radio station in Baltimore (IIRC) and even on a fictional political talk show on The West Wing .

EDIT: I didn't see Ben's response; so it's from a music library.

That theme is also used in Greece, and the current version is used in Vancouver.

That's right! I completely forgot about Vancouver (and didn't know about Greece).

Even the original ITN News Theme "Non Stop" (as opposed to the 'News at Ten' theme which we're discussing here) appeared in the Spongebob Squarepants movie last year. It was from Francis, Day & Hunter's library, and its composer only wrote and submitted it to FD&H for a bet. He went on to have a glittering legal career!

More often than not, these news themes (including ITV News, I believe) are specifically commissioned for the original broadcaster and copyrighted in the normal way. But in order to offset the enormous cost of commissioning such a piece, the broadcaster and composer then allow it to be used in a library so that costs may be recouped from those using the library. In these cases, it is only now library music because of a subsequent agreement to make it so.

I like the way they've just ignored the bongs and they just sound every 5 seconds all across the headlines!

The even stranger thing is that if you watch the video to the first two-way, you'll hear the current ITV News headline bed!

I find it odd the way a mixture of the themes are used as mentioned above, the older version for the majority but for a moment at 18:10 the newer bed can be heard... which is kinda strange really. Is there anymore video examples of Brit-themes being used elsewhere?

I myself have used it for my own personal student news bulletins (HERE) but I've attempted to use a more tradtional ITN stance with it using our local clock instead.