Six O'Clock Soundtrack: The art of TV news music
Twenty Thousand Hertz
Musicologist James Deville
Before television, people got their news in moving images through newsreels. Walter Cronkite and CBS moved to a half-hour format in September 1963. This is the birth of the evening news format as we know it. Around this time, you also start to hear the first TV news themes.
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