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ITV News theme... in Slovenia

Video available online (February 2007)

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JH
Jonathan H
Andrew posted:
I like the way they've just ignored the bongs and they just sound every 5 seconds all across the headlines! Laughing

What about the fact that there are fifteen (count 'em) bongs! Does this programme go out at three in the afternoon, or something? Laughing
CR
City Road
WW Update posted:
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.


Thanks..

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DB
dbl
Nothing new, the old ITV News theme can be heard on a local station in Canada as well.
WW
WW Update
lewsnews posted:
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?


You can watch a clip from that Vancouver station with the new ITV theme (adopted in 2004, dropped in 2005) HERE -- just go to "VI News" Fall 2004 approximately two-thirds of the way down. It's a Geocities-hosted site, so I suppose it could exceed its bandwith limit.

Jonathan H posted:

What about the fact that there are fifteen (count 'em) bongs! Does this programme go out at three in the afternoon, or something? Laughing


[OT]It's on at 6PM, so I guess eighteen bongs would theoretically work! Wink Besides, this is somewhat appropriate because Slovenian church bells often toll for minutes at a time (really loudly) -- so much that people have recently launched campaigns to regulate bell ringing![/OT]
ST
Stuart
Well, the cheeky b*$£%^s using that music!! hehe!
SE
seamus
Once I heard the c4 theme (Best Endevours) on a local cable show in NY.
DB
dbl
seamus21514 posted:
Once I heard the c4 theme (Best Endevours) on a local cable show in NY.

That's Library music as well, ABC News (Australia) used it before they made their own decades ago. Razz
AB
ABC Australia
actually we only used the C4 News theme very briefly in the mid 1980s when "The National" was being broadcast

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