News Title Music

I'm probably going to stick my neck out here but I think the music used during the flags era of News 24 was fantastic!

Here is my Top 3 of the best news title music:

1. Newyddion BBC
2. BBC Breakfast
3. RTL News Holland

The way that news music is going nowadays.the really is no future for it. It`s quite clear that most news channels/programmes seem to copy each other in styles,etc.

Stu

The groovy Central News (West) theme circa 1997 (can anyone confirm?), when they had the multicolored look which initially involved Central's long running 'cake' logo, but this was adapted to squares when the station lost it's 'cake' in favour of the Carltonised logo (CENTRAL).

The original BBC Breakfast Time music from 1983 was great.

The sky news current theme tune is fantastic.
I did not like it at first, but now ive listened to it a few times, its fantastic.

Espeically the news @ 10 outro.

Id be chuffed to meatballs if someone could get me the full version!!!!

My favourites are probably

* Sky News 1997
* Look North (Leeds) 1997
* Look East 1997 / 1999

Snu, J2k very kindly sent me a clean version of the Sky News music, very good it is too. Also, I've got the old News at Ten ending if you want it.

I've always liked Channel 4 News, but I think I'm going to have to say NBC News, especially their Decision 2000 music. Fantastic.

CNBC US have some excellent music too. As do Bloomberg. Far better than any of the stuff that BBC News, Sky News and ITN use for their bulletins.

I have to agree with you there!

The 5 ones I like the most are:

- 7 Nightly News (Channel 7 Australia / This is amazing!!!!)
- CNBC
- Sky News 1996
- London Tonight (Current)
- News 24 (Flags)
- Previous Spotlight (Why did they scap the lighthouse and gone bloody coporate! grrrrrr!!!! )

The 5 worst ones of all time are:
- TF1 Journal - Current (France)
- BBC News (Current - except world is okay(ish)
- Westcountry News (Maybe it was ok back in '93, but its so outdated now!
- HTV West
- Meridian News

Looking at all the files I have on my computer, these are my favourite regional news titles on ITV1 and BBC1 (Ignoring the corporate look)...

Central News (East) 1998
Central News (South) 1998
Central News at 6 (South) 1999
Central News (West) 1997/1998
Central News at 6 (West) 1999
Granada Tonight 1992
Granada Reports 2001
London Tonight 2000
Network North 1993
Westcountry Live Current
Westcountry Lunchtime Current
Westcountry Weekend Current
Calendar 2001
Calendar Pick of the Week 2001

Look North (the proper one) 1985, 1989, 1991, 1995
Look East 1993, 1995
Midlands Today 1999
North West Tonight 1993, 1997
Newsroom South East 1999
Spotlight 1993, 1996, 1999

Channel News is quite good too, a lot better than Border, and Channel are a lot smaller!

Special Award for 'It Doesn't sound like a news programme'

Border News Early 2001
Granada Tonight 1997

Look North 1992 (rejected Crimewatch titles anyone?)


There you go, If its not mentioned its either rubbish IMO, or I haven't found myself downloading it!

TF1 has always sounded crap. LCI (La Chaîne Info), which is TF1's news channel and France's equivalent of Sky News, sounds crap but looks rather impressive. Some good programming on there too and they have the best desk I've ever seen.

LCP, (La Chaîne Politique), has graphics which are worryingly similar to Sky's new look. They look a lot better though.

Buzz, where's this Channel 7 News theme? I've always liked Australian idents, but have never actually seen 7 News. 'National Nine News', and Eight for that matter, look and sound awful.

Best news theme ever? Nine O'Clock News 1985-88, the one with the flying fish fingers in the titles.

Best news theme currently? BBC London News of course!