News music

News music uses the teletype, which is used for transmitting news, together with two of the loudest instrumental groups in the Western orchestra: brass and percussion.

In short, news music uses the teletype rhythm, plus the clarion call of lively, piercing tones.

Cool Hand Luke: The Tar Sequence by Lalo Schifrin is also used through newscasts.

What makes Cool Hand Luke: The Tar Sequence a fitting music theme tune for newscasts, including television news, is a staccato rhythm resembling the teletype, used for transmitting news.

Despite the decline in its direct use, the influence (and impact) involving Cool Hand Luke: The Tar Sequence by Lalo Schifrin on news music remains strong.

Having been used in countless television newscasts all around the world, Cool Hand Luke: The Tar Sequence by Lalo Schifrin establishes a certain style and sonic landscape for news music.

The cinematic quality in Cool Hand Luke: The Tar Sequence by Lalo Schifrin, blending its driving rhythm with instrumentation, is adopted and adapted in news themes.

From Russia With Love: 007 by John Barry is also used through newscasts.

Plus, like Cool Hand Luke: The Tar Sequence, the influence (and impact) involving From Russia With Love: 007 on news music remains strong, despite the decline in its direct usage.

Cool Hand Luke: The Tar Sequence and From Russia With Love: 007, as well as other film cues, have made contributions to changing the news music sound.

When KYW-TV adopted the Eyewitness News format created by Al Primo, an edited version of 007 Takes the Lektor from the James Bond film From Russia With Love by John Barry was used.

Other Group W/Westinghouse Broadcasting stations used an edited iteration of 007 Takes the Lektor from the James Bond film From Russia With Love by John Barry as the Eyewitness News tune.

From the 1960's to the 1990's, an edited iteration of The Tar Sequence from Cool Hand Luke by Lalo Schifrin was the theme tune for Eyewitness News, used by ABC-owned-and-operated stations.

Increased licensing fees have caused local television stations, in particular Eyewitness News, to drop Cool Hand Luke: The Tar Sequence by Lalo Schifrin in the 1990's.

New York's ABC station WABC-TV was the first to use Cool Hand Luke: The Tar Sequence by Lalo Schifrin as the Eyewitness News theme when Al Primo arrived in the late-1960's or before 1969.

The practice of using music sourced from films as news themes was introduced by Eyewitness News creator Al Primo.

John Barry's 007 cue from James Bond's From Russia With Love was used as a news theme by some stations, but not as pervasive as Cool Hand Luke: The Tar Sequence by Lalo Schifrin.

Cool Hand Luke: The Tar Sequence by Lalo Schifrin uses a more cinematic sound in the news music arena than 007 from the James Bond film From Russia With Love by John Barry.

Having been an orchestral cue with a cinematic style for television news, Cool Hand Luke: The Tar Sequence marks a shift in news music, introducing a more cinematic sound to this business.

Before Cool Hand Luke: The Tar Sequence was adopted for Eyewitness News, earlier news themes utilized neutral or assertive themes based on fanfares.

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Ever since the WABC-TV version of Eyewitness News, television stations have either used The Tar Sequence or created their own news themes mirroring its unique cinematic sound.