[IainJohnston]

Great stuff from Jonno and The Prof…

“I think it was maybe 2-3 years ago some of us posted news stuff montages?”

To my embarrassment, I’ve found my previous two contributions were actually compiled in 2008 !
SEVEN years… Tempus fugits…

If in doubt, insert holding pattern until an entirely new selection can be compiled…here’s a merged version of the 2 original ones…
https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles04/ij-classicnewsintros-1and2-rev

[mbMember]

So here are my top three;-

Radio City 194 from EMISON, Beacon Radio mid 80’s BRMB Because “2” Package news intro
Oh and a few more news some good, some not so but topped off with the awesome 1987 Radio aire first for news jingles – short, fast, punchy, great biddleybiddley beeps

https://soundcloud.com/michaelboltona/news

[loujosephs]

Hellers wvbf and wnap
Heller news Bird for wibg
Heller wibc various

[LenGroat]

Thanks for all the suggestions and audio!

Although I was in ILR (r.i.p.) from 1974 to 1994 I never heard half of the UK ones first time around!

[LenGroat]

Okay – here’s the ‘news’ :after 3 years of using the BEST News jingle ever recorded, (from Top News from JAM) how do you follow it?

Well – search dozens of JAM package for great News jingle. And we found it!!

But it needed a little plastic, err digital surgery – it had no vocal – so we had to find a place to put that + well what else is DIFFERENT (?) and who can spot whose it WAS before Jon kindly semi-customised it for us

https://soundcloud.com/len-groat/sggam-news

It’s hard to follow the best news jingle ever – but we love it – hope you do too!

[IainJohnston]

Ok – I’ve failed – I haven’t a clue which package, even with the hint of the Double-You (rest) F-I-L (or even W, MAQ) logo :^(
…but the bed has a “flavour” of a certain Radio 1 bed circa 1990…
https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles/r1-1990newsbed
…so that might put a time-line on it at least…

[jonnoMember]

I’m hearing America’s Country

[IainJohnston]

Spot-on Jonno – I’ve just had to play my (only, and MP3) copy of the demo – and the cut is at the front & end of the demo.

AND I should have twigged it – the logo is as on the (cut 12?) “Night-Time Heart & Soul, Ocean (or Southern…) FM” from when YOUR “local stations” had their damn good JAM “country packages re-sung for MOR” composite (1992 ? 93 ?) !

Len – you must have dug VERY deep through how many JAM demos to find THAT news cut!

[jonnoMember]

Iain, indeed it was Ocean / Southern ’92 that gave me the lead as the arrangements on those packages are very similar, so it didn’t take long from there having established KUSA as the original station.

[LenGroat]

Well spotted Jonno!

Iain: I did dig deep and I really like the KUSA (and KYGO) packages- as quite a few of them don’r really sound ‘Country’ when they have an oldies lyric, they are just a BIG brassy/string sound with some great transitions

However, as regards the ‘logo’ melody – listen again – ours is different + the intro is longer Jon went back to the master tracks to mix us up a ‘semi-custom’ – he never does things by halves. We ended up with 3 distinctly different versions

[TheBigCheese]

I can’t choose 3, so I’ll just mention one of the jingles I have worked with which I like the most. The Chiltern news intro from the mid 80s. I don’t know which package or company made it, but it was certainly powerful and worked well over a number of years.

[AH3RD]

Here’s my all-time personal favorite:

[enerjee]

Beacon’s for the first two years:

[AH3RD]

1. The Best Things In Life. (Otis Conner strikes again!!)
2. The Action News Theme.
3. Move Closer To Your World.

[glen]

ABC Network — Score Productions
Yours Truly –Jam Creative Productions
KGO — TM

[radioboy949]

Mid 1980s AP Network News sounder. If anyone has it, I’d love to hear the whole package again. There was a full :60 instrumental track, and the main news hourly sounder was based on that, plus a dynamic sports sounder. I was told it was produced by Shelly Palmer. Anyone? I’ve been trying to get my hands on this for over 20 years. Thanks.

[enerjee]

I’m not a fan of sung news sounders. The first two on here are my all time favourites:

https://soundcloud.com/michaelboltona/beacon-radio-news-intros-over

My third favourite is difficult to find, but it was used by Liberty Radio in London around 2001.

[jingleone]

The news intro from id rather be for kimn

If Lou is referring to the WROR news intro from the “I’d Rather Be in Boston” era, I believe it was from JAM’s “Focal Point.”
One of my all time favorites!

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