Hello! I am looking for some vintage TOTH radio news sounders, particularly those of ABC.........The sounders from the pre-split network and the four network sounders from 1968 are all readily available, but I am looking for this that came in the 80s and 90s. The only ones who's sounder history is well documented is the Information network, and the Entertainment network........does anyone have sounders from the Contemporary, FM, Rock and Direction networks from the 1980s and 1990s? If so, please toss them here! TIA!
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ABC Radio TOTH Network sounders
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Some of those networks (perhaps all four) didn't use sounders in the 80s. I'm pretty sure Direction didn't. I think it just started cold, and the only time "direction" was said was at the SOC. Information used an edit of the World News Tonight theme.
Contemporary may have used music into the 80s and even the early 90s. The only evidence I have of this though is an air check from WDIF in Marion, Ohio, who was an ABC/C station, and even then, it may have been station music instead of network music. The air check in question, from 10/24/1990:
1990 WDIF Flashback - ABCNEWS Radio - OCT 24 Gov't Shutdown Crisis/Surtax on Rich, Iraq Deployment
That was station music, not network music.
Ah, gotcha
Check out this page. It has a lot of sound files from all the networks.
Love that site! He's posted quite a few interesting pieces. Was listening to his recordings of CBS covering the Marshall plane crash from 1970 just a couple days ago
Would anybody happen to have clear recordings of the ABC/E themes?
There's this one from '81 (the carnival sounding variant of the '68 theme):
ABC American Entertainment Radio Network Complete Newscast 09/12/1981
This one, which is the four-note loop intro (starts at 2:09):
And this one, which is the clearest version of the '94 ABC/E theme I could find:
There's this one from '81 (the carnival sounding variant of the '68 theme):
ABC American Entertainment Radio Network Complete Newscast 09/12/1981
This one, which is the four-note loop intro (starts at 2:09):
And this one, which is the clearest version of the '94 ABC/E theme I could find:
Here is a summary of the ABC News radio sounders.
Here is one from the ABC/I studios.
I prefer the ABC Information sounder of '80-'94:
That one still gives me goosebumps when I hear it. Great stuff
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Hearing the clips on this site, I found out that ABC discontinued the "mosquito buzz" sometime in October, 1973. They were there on the 10th, and on the 20th they were gone.
They had an updated buzz/chirp/whatever you want to call it in the 80s-you can hear it here at the 10 second mark. I believe that chirp lasted into the 90s:
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