Six O'Clock Soundtrack

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 25 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. 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	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.
0:05.9	The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.
0:10.6	I'm Dallas Taylor.
0:12.4	This is the story of news music.
0:24.1	You don't have to watch news all the time to know how news sounds.
0:27.8	I can tell you, just from doing that cheesy newscaster voice a second ago, getting it right
0:32.5	is not easy.
0:34.3	The sound of news has been established and refined over more than half a century.
0:39.4	It goes all the way back to TV's first anchor man, Douglas Edwards.
0:43.3	CBS News presents Douglas Edwards with up to the minute developments from all parts of
0:47.8	the world as directors.
0:49.8	Do you think everybody?
0:52.5	It became a household staple with Walter Cronkite.
0:55.1	And ultimately, it got to be so recognizable, it was just ripe for parody.
1:07.1	I'm Ron Burgundy and this is what's happening in your world tonight.
1:10.9	A la Hoyamann clings to life.
1:13.4	But the sound of news goes way beyond the voices of the anchors.
1:17.2	Recently, Flora Lichtenman, from the Fantastic Podcast, every little thing, did a report
1:22.1	about a man she met who is obsessed with news music.
1:25.5	And if you like 20,000 Hertz, I think you'll like every little thing.
1:28.8	It's about the small stuff that makes a big difference.
1:32.1	Flora takes it from here.
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