WPXI
Channel 11 News 1987-1992
WPVI Action News Theme by Al
Ham/Walter Liss. Jr.
NOTES FROM TELEVISION
NEWS THEMES
This is the original
"Move Closer to Your World" package in the early 70s.
Albert W. Ham composes this theme. He also wrote "Part of
Your Life" with Walter C. Liss Jr. It's the pure thundering
sounds of Action News. Back in the early and late 70's, the
station used to loop this theme over and over to make it longer.
Mel Kampmann, originating news director of ACTION NEWS from then
WFIL-TV, Philadelphia explains... "There was an earlier and
more original ACTION NEWS theme written by a music major at
Temple University, once we told him how the show would run. It
ran from the original date of April 6, 1970 to about mid 1972.
The station, by then, was WPVI-TV, having been taken over by
CapCities a year earlier. Our greatest thrill was to hear a
local high school band march into Veterans Stadium at half-time
of an Eagles football game, playing the original ACTION NEWS
theme, and getting a standing ovation. (When did the crowd EVER
cheer for something in Philly, instead of BOO?) Triangle
Broadcasting for the rights paid the writer of the original
$75.00. By todays standards, and by how popular and
successful the program became, that is really eye opening."
Opening
Theme
Closing
Theme
Original Theme
Full Theme (2 min. 10 sec.)
WPXI Channel 11 News 1998-Present
Total Coverage by 615 Music
Opening
Theme
Here's the montage
from 615 Music
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