Posts Tagged ‘news music’

615 Music updates site with new news music for WSFL-TV and KTLA-TV

615 Music has updated its site with some recent work including a package created for WSFL-TV and KTLA-TV.

The package for WSFL-TV, which debuted a few weeks ago, features an upbeat pace and light acoustics. The package is used for WSFL-TV’s morning show “The Morning Show” and is named “First Report.” The package works well for a morning show setting and lacks the usual full orchestral, sweeping, urgent tempos found in 615’s regular news music.

KTLA-TV’s package, named “Connect,” features a unique sonic brand that helps create a multi-note theme for the entire package. The package contains 11 main themes and over 565 mix outs and cuts. This package is more well rounded and features various cues you would expect from a full news music package with a more urgent pace and tone.

It’s interesting to note that both packages have a disclaimer in the descriptions that “This package is not available for licensing.” Is 615 Music doing more custom work that is on an exclusive basis or did these clients just want a different license?

Breaking: Broadcast ownership groups sue music rights licenser SESAC

Today a class-action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court of New York claiming broadcasters are being overcharged for music “as a result of anticompetitive practices by SESAC.” Filling the suit are Meredith, E.W. Scripps, Hoak Media and other broadcasters from around the country.

“SESAC’s strategy has been to sign up composers of music in popular television programs, guarantee them significantly higher incomes than they had received elsewhere, and then raise its prices without regard for the amount of music a station uses, employing threats of copyright infringement lawsuits as a bargaining tactic,” said the Television Music License Committee, a nonprofit that negotiates music rights for TV stations, in a release about the lawsuit.

“The complaint alleges that essentially all television stations are compelled to pay SESAC the price it demands for a license because they cannot control what music is used in most of the programs and commercials they broadcast, and they cannot remove the music,” the TV Music Licensing Committee said. “Thus, to avoid broadcasting music without a license–a violation of copyright law–they have no choice but to accept SESAC’s licensing terms.”

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Stephen Arnold Music composes theme for ‘Amanpour’

Stephen Arnold Music composed the new theme for Amanpour, the new weekly issues show on CNN. The theme features a dramatic sound that builds in the background with a great musical signature.

SAM has been the recent composer of choice for CNN, also composing the updated Inside the Middle East theme.

Stephen Arnold Music strikes a similar chord with iNews

Stephen Arnold has unveiled their latest news music package, iNews. The package first debuted on KIAH-TV, the CW affiliate in Houston.

A direct expression of the soundtrack that accompanies your viewers lives, this unique package takes current music trends and fuses them with your newscast, as relevant to today as the stories in your headlines.

iNews is built around an unyielding sonic brand that speaks the timeless language of news but in todays vernacular. It uses rhythms that you hear in your car speakers as you drive to work and grooves you hear in your headphones when you listen to your playlists.

iNews is what your audience is listening to - on air, online, on demand.

Continue reading for our take and some of Stephen Arnold’s other recent work.
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615 Music composes custom package for WSB-TV

615 Music has updated their site with a new packaged called “Coverage.” It appears the package is composed for WSB-TV, the Atlanta ABC affiliate. We cannot confirm if this package has debuted on WSB-TV as of yet, but currently the NMSA lists WSB-TV as still using News 2000 by Music Partners.

The package uses a rock and percussion base and features 16 themes and over 900 cuts. The package draws heavily on big percussion beats and then a rock theme with orchestral stabs emerge. With 16 themes, this package has many many variations and sounds different than recent 615 Music work.

Congrats to Stephen Arnold Music

Earlier we congratulated some Promax BDA winners for design awards, but today we learned Stephen Arnold Music also won a Promax BDA Silver Award for their Indie Band News Music Package. Stephen Arnold Music was also recognized for some of their other custom work.

Megatrax launches AirCast Production

Megatrax has recently launched a new division for custom music and scoring called Aircast Music. The company creates custom scores, custom image campaigns, program theme packages, news music and ringtones.

“Aircast is a music and media production company that specializes in custom scoring, imaging and theme packages.”

As part of the company, Aircast Production has acquired the news music packages composed by In The Groove Music, including: Heart Of Our City, Hometown Community and Pride Collection.

“Aircast Production does one thing very well - it helps you get your point across. Whether it moves in the background underneath a voiceover, its front and center for a theme or transitioning from one song to anther on the radio, it does its job.”

For more information and samples visit Aircast Production.

Non-Stop to unveil ‘Frequency News’ at RTNDA@NAB

Non-Stop Music will be unveiling its newest syndicated news music package “Frequency News” at RTNDA@NAB. The package contains a new five-note logo and includes NewsTools. NewsTools allow stations to mix the package to their needs and create their own sound.

This package will bring Non-Stop’s offerings to 15 syndicated news music packages. Stay with NewscastStudio for complete coverage of the 2009 NAB Show including RTNDA@NAB.

615 Music ‘chimes in’ with the Tower V. 4

With up to 13 themes and 468 cuts, 615 Music has debuted its latest NBC package, Tower V. 4. Building on its previous big orchestral themes, Tower V. 4 features a rich orchestral bed with an dramatic tempo of urgency.

The package also features many motiffs built on previously established Tower themes that add to the packages depth. For a sample of the new package from 615 Music, visit their demo page.

Break into The Vault by Stephen Arnold Music

Rolled out in mid-summer, The Stephen Arnold Music Vault is your one stop source for all of Stephen Arnold’s Music. The Vault is the anti-library, comprised of original tracks by Stephen Arnold and others that each break a music mold. (more…)

615 is ‘Moving Forward’

As first reported on NewscastStudio during our NAB 2008 coverage, WFOR in Miami has unveiled a new 615 Music produced package.

The new package features 8 themes and up to 100 cuts. The package is centered around a distinctive guitar riff. The riff is heard in all the main themes with many variations. 615 Music describes this package as an “energetic package with a distinctive Sonic Brand.” It is also interesting to see them use the words Sonic Brand… (more…)