Six O'Clock Soundtrack: The art of TV news music

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ever wonder how the music on your favorite news stations is created? Dive in with news music appreciator + journalist Victor Vlam; Composer Matthew Kajcienski, Composer Irad Eshel, Composer Adarsh Thottetodi, Composer David Lowe, Musicologist James Deaville, Film and TV studies Professor Deborah Jaramillo to find out. Twenty Thousand Hertz is hosted by Dallas Taylor and produced out of the studios of Defacto Sound. Follow Dallas on Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn. Watch our video shorts on YouTube, and join the discussion on Reddit and Facebook. Consider supporting the show at donate.20k.org Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/sixoclocksoundtrack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's a new year and many of us are committing to exercising and eating healthier.
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0:19.7	That's Z-O-C-D-O-C.com slash H-E-R-T-Z.
0:24.1	Zocococ.com slash Hertz.
0:29.4	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz. The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.
0:41.3	I'm Dallas Taylor.
0:42.3	This is the story of news music.
0:49.3	You don't have to watch news all the time to know how news sounds.
0:58.5	And I can tell you, just from doing that cheesy newscaster voice a second ago,
1:02.5	getting it right is not easy.
1:05.0	The sound of news has been established and refined over more than half a century.
1:10.1	It goes all the way back to TV's first anchorman, Douglas Edwards.
1:13.6	CBS News presents Douglas Edwards with up-to-the-minute developments from all parts of the world, Mr. Edwards.
1:20.6	Good evening, everybody.
1:22.6	It became a household staple with Walter Cronkite.
1:25.6	This is Walter Cronkite. Reporting from Madrid, from the Great Wall of China.
1:30.2	From Paris, from Moscow.
1:32.3	And ultimately, it got to be so recognizable.
1:35.6	It was just ripe for parody.
1:38.1	I'm Ron Burgundy, and this is what's happening in your world tonight.
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