Grew up on that classic theme! It gave a gravity of seriousness and an epitome of the best in news casting and journalism in the 80s and early 90s. My four best presenters in the 80s: Trevor McDonald, Allister Burnett, Allister Stewart and John Suschet.
When I was a child in the 80s, one of the local stations where I come from (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) showed a version of ITN newscasts for a couple of years, and I remember Trevor McDonald.
0.57-1.26 versions by far the best and most dramatic ITN News intros ever, total badass!! screams 'sit your ass down and watch the news right now or you're dead!
4:07 | I find it interesting how they just brought back an old intro from the dead and modernised it, even the music sounds like the first version but modernised, must be my favourite
I heard that the complex aerial shot from the Isle of Dogs to Big Ben had to be reshot because the London Eye was illuminated in BBC red and they had to shoot it again once it was arranged that it could be lit up in ITV blue!
What's even more amazing is the clock really worked, I'd love to know how they were rendering that. Eg If the news was even running 3 mins late that clock would show the time as 10:03. I bet there is a cool programming story behind it.
@@craigixI never knew that! I wonder whether they just rendered, like, 21 versions of it from ten to to ten past, and picked the right tape for the time of day
Also the Sardinian regional television broadcaster Videolina also uses Johnny Pearson's "The Awakening" for its own news called TG Videolina, (from 1976 to 1999 it was called Sardinian TGS - telegiornale sardo). In 2000 a rearranged version was introduced while two years earlier a motif of launeddas, a typical Sardinian musical instrument, was introduced.
@@adambirchenall if ITV use this with little change (add itv logo in the begining for 3 seconds then disspear and this should play with little effect at the end)
Very nice collection, thanks! I think the most 'slick' presentation in your offering was the "underground car park of news". I preferred the one before that with the sweeping VR image of the river in the background. But that didn't last long either. It's such a shame ITV can't decide what they want from this programme these days.
These are brilliant - the dramatic, attention-grabbing music plus the iconic shot of the most famous clock in the world, the serious tone of the introduction and then the BONGS as bullet-points to each news story...has there ever been a more perfect way of bringing the news to the public?
2:27 to 2:57 -- "Nightly News" instead of "News at Ten": this was the start of the 1999-2007 move of the late evening news, first to 23.00 and then all over the place (giving rise to the buelletin's being referred to mockingly as "News at when?"). It's been back at ten on weekdays since 2008.
Great theme, instantly recognisable. The Awakening was used in the 1973 film Beyond Atlantis during a fight scene near the end. I challenge anyone to watch it without going 'bong!' where you do listening to the tune
At 1:28 - there is another version of this, where we get a swooping view of the ITN Newsroom when Trevor McDonald was hosting - the link here for it in TV Ark is here if you want - www.tv-ark.org.uk/mivana/mediaplayer.php?id=b5f731c7aa8dd19b9fd667c8e7112b24&media=newsatten_1992_open&type=mp4
I preferred it before 1999, they brought the original News at 10 music back in 2008 but only for a year ( I wish they kept it for that slot ). The current one is remake of the 1999 version. I don't miss the 2004 or 2009 versions but the 2004 studio set was cool at the time. I'm also pretty sure ITV use the same studio Channel 4 News use since they are both owned by ITN and they have looked the same since 2009.
A hark back to when the news opening credits were more dramatic, sat here in 2020 in unbelievable times! The 1980s credits seem more appropriate for our situation!
I thought that a Philadelphia TV station in the 1980's did their own version of this intro, using ITN's "News At Ten" theme music, featuring a camera pan across the Philadelphia skyline to Independence Hall with the clock showing 10 P.M.
Do you guess what it is? (A. Altair) (B. ERT) (C. Ant1) (D. MEGA) (Leave the questions on the reply section of this comment.) The answer is..... A. Altair.
The 2008 version gets it absolutely perfect, with the classic imperial theme finally combined with HQ CG visuals of London and Big Ben. Why did they ditch it so quickly for something extremely limp and characterless?
News At Ten didn't start until the autumn of 1967. Before that, there was news at 17:55 and another short bulletin at 20:55, clearing the airwaves for ITV's main offering of the evening (whatever it was) at 21:00.
Sorry to be picky, but just to add some more detail -- Before the advent of News at Ten the weekday news schedule on weekdays was 17.55--18.05 and 20.55--21.10 (the main bulletin), with news headlines at 22.35. This allowed for the "big programmes" to go out at 20.00--20.55 and 21.10--22.05, the "ITV hour" in those days generally lasting 55 minutes, inclusive of adverts.
I thought the 1969 intro was actually the original introduction filmed in 1967 when "ITN News At Ten" began, and was shot in colo(u)r, even though the newscast was still in black-and-white until 1969.
I know the intro was copied for ERT (aka the main Greek television channel) they did use it on et 1 news. They're using the intro not the music itself. For More information just check out this video. →ua-cam.com/video/caivjK_V5rU/v-deo.html
Sometimes when you watch ITV news the theme and intro music can be abit more sad than the news catch the one at4:30 made in 2010 what comes to mind when you hear that sound? For me it's sadness, suffering , obstacles and at the End reasoning I will never forget this one
The old intros were particularly scary.
How?
@@Matt78778 the music at the beginning seems more austere. The voice of the newsreader is also very strict and serious.
You re telling ME........
Very sinister & a bit creepy
The font on the earlier titles was serious and strict too by the looks of it.
The 00's looked so tame compared to it's more dark and serious in the 90's.
Ah they were tough times back then. Gainful blue collar employment, affordable housing, the list goes on
That's what I was thinking! It's like that graphics went down in quality!
Trevor Mcdonald owns news at 10. Simply the best
Do you remember Paul Green aswel work with Itn 1994-96
To be fair, it was Alastair Burnet that owned it - that I can remember.
No Huw Edwards for the BBC
Lenny Henry called it - TMD was the king
He was on the telly the other week from outside his home after Prince Philip died, still looking good, still looked like he could host a bulletin
That intro theme is utterly bonkers, and I love it.
The original tune is called The Awakening and was composed by Johnny Pearson who also composed the music for All creatures great and small and 321!
Grew up on that classic theme! It gave a gravity of seriousness and an epitome of the best in news casting and journalism in the 80s and early 90s. My four best presenters in the 80s: Trevor McDonald, Allister Burnett, Allister Stewart and John Suschet.
The classic theme gave a gravity of seriousness to the news. I must say that your statement is well said.
When I was a child in the 80s, one of the local stations where I come from (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) showed a version of ITN newscasts for a couple of years, and I remember Trevor McDonald.
Wow! they must be very strict to their principles to always have the same melody over the years
DUM DUM DUM DUM
*BONG*
"Something terrible"
One night you're going to hear the bell toll and it'll just be video of a fire with the anchor screaming in terror.
@@dcbandnerd "WHAAAATT"
Well I think the intro in 1969 with the music lasted till 1992 then itv created a different tune with itn news theme
There's a banging old rave tune that also uses samples from the old News at ten theme.
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The second intro is the one I grew up on. Back when news MEANT something and had integrity.
Time for bed
Booooo! 👎🏽
I remember my dad use to give me the look when this came on to say fuck off to bed
😂😂
Antiques roadshow Sunday evening meant Bath time and school next morning
Cvjjjvjjvjjvfxljggp
0.57-1.26 versions by far the best and most dramatic ITN News intros ever, total badass!! screams 'sit your ass down and watch the news right now or you're dead!
4:07 | I find it interesting how they just brought back an old intro from the dead and modernised it, even the music sounds like the first version but modernised, must be my favourite
50年にも渡り同じ楽曲を使っているなんて素晴らしい…
映像も全て手が込んでいて凄い
"From NHK NewsWatch 9...."
Nostalgia at Ten with Trevor McDonald
The fact that they still use this theme for ITV News today is insane.
It ain't broke, don't fix it.
It seems like yesterday I remember ITN from childhood miss it so much bring it back
I heard that the complex aerial shot from the Isle of Dogs to Big Ben had to be reshot because the London Eye was illuminated in BBC red and they had to shoot it again once it was arranged that it could be lit up in ITV blue!
For which bit in particular? Anything post-London Eye will surely be entirely CGI?
Hard to believe that the first CGI intro is from the late 80's, it looks so impressive for its time.
What's even more amazing is the clock really worked, I'd love to know how they were rendering that. Eg If the news was even running 3 mins late that clock would show the time as 10:03. I bet there is a cool programming story behind it.
4:07 That intro was so amazing to the point that ITV redone the 1988 intro
@@craigixI never knew that! I wonder whether they just rendered, like, 21 versions of it from ten to to ten past, and picked the right tape for the time of day
3:47 "bleh"
Yup, all news intros these days are bland, unimaginative and corporate
News bleh bleh bleh.
I know....
Not ITV, actually. I think they are doing a good job with theirs.
News at 10 with Trevor McDonald
My childhood👀😍👌🏻
Also the Sardinian regional television broadcaster Videolina also uses Johnny Pearson's "The Awakening" for its own news called TG Videolina, (from 1976 to 1999 it was called Sardinian TGS - telegiornale sardo). In 2000 a rearranged version was introduced while two years earlier a motif of launeddas, a typical Sardinian musical instrument, was introduced.
It's so weird hearing it without the bell
The news intro that is unrivalled in the world. Authoritative. Momentous.
Reminds of going to bed at 10 o’clock
@@paulmajor8865reminds me of lying in bed pretending to sleep at 10 o'clock :)
@@marnanel what time did you go to bed
@@paulmajor8865 must have been around nine, but this was when I was in infant school
4:08 It’s a damn shame this intro didn’t have a longer run. This is the bring-back of THE CLASSIC!!! Such a tribute to the iconic zoom into Big Ben!
Still as scary as fuck after all these years.
0:41 is by far the best.
I am only 30 but remember growing up with News at Ten and the intro felt so hard hitting not like today
Always remember begging my mum and dad just to stay up to hear the start credits then promising to go to bed..... what a theme tune
2:27 when it started to go downhill
True, but it got better from 4:08 but only lasted a very short time, then it got even worse after
Hobby birchy it’s really shit nowadays
@@adambirchenall if ITV use this with little change (add itv logo in the begining for 3 seconds then disspear and this should play with little effect at the end)
Very nice collection, thanks! I think the most 'slick' presentation in your offering was the "underground car park of news".
I preferred the one before that with the sweeping VR image of the river in the background. But that didn't last long either.
It's such a shame ITV can't decide what they want from this programme these days.
From 1988 the only ITV programmes with frontcaps was the ITN News bulletins and sport
Born early seventies...you know it was late when you heard this back then..it's early now of course..night's just started...
Sir Trevor McDonald is the news 😎
This is so good to watch!!!! Takes me back!
2:10 overly dramatic, less graphics = more, and of course the legend that is and always will be, Trevor McDonald
This reminds me of when I was about five years old and stayed up late watching spitting image and having night mare's because of those puppets
BENN!
That is an awesome news intro. I love the consistency of the theme song throughout the years.
Lot of memories starting from, best remembered from 1967 when I was 11 years of ago, was a time when Ten was off the air, returning in 2008.
The early ones mean business!!!
Love the latest 2, delitefully modern yet with a wonderful nostalgic feel too! perfect blend of old and new :)
Incredible that they somehow managed to sneak this theme into the opening credits of "Journey Back To Oz" 😜
These are brilliant - the dramatic, attention-grabbing music plus the iconic shot of the most famous clock in the world, the serious tone of the introduction and then the BONGS as bullet-points to each news story...has there ever been a more perfect way of bringing the news to the public?
2:27 to 2:57 -- "Nightly News" instead of "News at Ten": this was the start of the 1999-2007 move of the late evening news, first to 23.00 and then all over the place (giving rise to the buelletin's being referred to mockingly as "News at when?"). It's been back at ten on weekdays since 2008.
The theme music is a piece of tv library music called the awakening composed by Johnny Pearson. Post 1992, a new arrangement by Dave Hewson was used .
Great theme, instantly recognisable. The Awakening was used in the 1973 film Beyond Atlantis during a fight scene near the end. I challenge anyone to watch it without going 'bong!' where you do listening to the tune
Awesome... Cheers for this
The intro in 1967 sounds like something you hear from a murder mystery suspense thriller.
3:44 i KNEW that wasn’t a random fever dream I had years ago 💀
+deutsh news this is what i was looking for. I have long been waiting for is finally appeared. thank you!😊
Aditya WS137
You're welcome
At 1:28 - there is another version of this, where we get a swooping view of the ITN Newsroom when Trevor McDonald was hosting - the link here for it in TV Ark is here if you want - www.tv-ark.org.uk/mivana/mediaplayer.php?id=b5f731c7aa8dd19b9fd667c8e7112b24&media=newsatten_1992_open&type=mp4
The link might not be working, but if you look up TV Ark ITN News at Ten 1992 you will find it.
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Please uPload news at tens title sequence from 1967
I preferred it before 1999, they brought the original News at 10 music back in 2008 but only for a year ( I wish they kept it for that slot ). The current one is remake of the 1999 version.
I don't miss the 2004 or 2009 versions but the 2004 studio set was cool at the time. I'm also pretty sure ITV use the same studio Channel 4 News use since they are both
owned by ITN and they have looked the same since 2009.
A hark back to when the news opening credits were more dramatic, sat here in 2020 in unbelievable times! The 1980s credits seem more appropriate for our situation!
Ah, Alistair Burnett - there was a newsreader!
Oh yes 👏
Back in the day when most houses stopped when the old iconic tune came on,
That used the shit me up as a kid in the 70s & 80s
I've just heard this music in an action sequence in a spaghetti western movie called Five Bloody Graves
"The Awakening" has a similar vibe to our "Move Closer To Your World" theme used on many stations here in the states.
Ah memories of when my mum would say time for bed apart from school holidays or Friday at my grandparents.
News at 10 was brilliantly friendly for itv
Excellent intro of the news
Gostei muito! Parabéns :)
The original 1967 version is best...no nonsense, just straight to it.
I thought that a Philadelphia TV station in the 1980's did their own version of this intro, using ITN's "News At Ten" theme music, featuring a camera pan across the Philadelphia skyline to Independence Hall with the clock showing 10 P.M.
What's it's name
WTXF Channel 29 Ten O'Clock News 1990
(Doesn't use the same theme, but same concept).
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0:4:56 - My old police sergeant (as then was), Peter Spindler. Iconic, enduring tune. Serious but not bombastic.
The fact they still use the same into music is insane and its so Iconic
I always watch ITV in my life.
I found something from ITN Archive you can use for the upgraded intro history.
Sir Trevor McDonald as a kid I remember this guy I hate they have changed up the theme tune these days the old one was so iconic
News at Ten started in 1967. Great video.
The same news soundtrack was used for a Greek channel from 2002 to 2009.
Do you guess what it is?
(A. Altair) (B. ERT)
(C. Ant1) (D. MEGA)
(Leave the questions on the reply section of this comment.) The answer is..... A. Altair.
@@12345marios You mean Alter.
@@therandomdude6736 yes.
0:20 The Big Ben chime of 1967
BRING THE CLASSIC ITHEME TUNE BACK BUT WITH MODERN INTRO BACK
The late ones without the bongs were terrible. The 80s and 90s era ones are the best .
The 2008 version gets it absolutely perfect, with the classic imperial theme finally combined with HQ CG visuals of London and Big Ben. Why did they ditch it so quickly for something extremely limp and characterless?
3:22 is my childhood.
1:28 is mine
0:36 Hahaha, for one brief moment I honestly thought that was a picture of Morecambe and Wise.
Note: there is footage of the 1967 logo, but most of it has an annoying voiceover of someone counting down
2009-2010 version in this video is for ITV Lunchtime News.
2:44 Intro music to Channel 6 News in Saints Row 2.
One of Saints Row 2's characters, Jane Valderama, is the anchor for Channel 6.
The music still same since its begin, but it get improvitation every news series. I Like It.
*sorry for my bad english
wierd to see the news intro for when my dad was born
I went to bed an hour and a half ago but I can’t get to sleep. I’m going to be so tired at school tomorrow.
On Wikipedia Savile page, the abuse is described as 'hysteria' yet on 5:15 Natasha Kaplinsky clearly states the finding of state prosecutor.
Both Mark Austin ( blimey he was young here) and Dermot Murnaghan are with Sky News now.
Oh my god like this intro
Those are nice intros
News At Ten didn't start until the autumn of 1967. Before that, there was news at 17:55 and another short bulletin at 20:55, clearing the airwaves for ITV's main offering of the evening (whatever it was) at 21:00.
Sorry to be picky, but just to add some more detail --
Before the advent of News at Ten the weekday news schedule on weekdays was 17.55--18.05 and 20.55--21.10 (the main bulletin), with news headlines at 22.35. This allowed for the "big programmes" to go out at 20.00--20.55 and 21.10--22.05, the "ITV hour" in those days generally lasting 55 minutes, inclusive of adverts.
ITV Broadcasts on Thailand until 2008 (Just an ITV Franchise in Thailand)
Judging by this, everything went to shit in about 2003
Classic itn news at 10pm.
I preferred the gravitas of the original theme.
I thought the 1969 intro was actually the original introduction filmed in 1967 when "ITN News At Ten" began, and was shot in colo(u)r, even though the newscast was still in black-and-white until 1969.
Music used at 3:49 was also used for a time by a television station in Victoria, BC, Canada.
I know the intro was copied for ERT (aka the main Greek television channel) they did use it on et 1 news. They're using the intro not the music itself. For More information just check out this video. →ua-cam.com/video/caivjK_V5rU/v-deo.html
Have a link anywhere?
@@petermasefield8403 ua-cam.com/video/c0pRAkXKYlo/v-deo.html
Stessa sigla del TG di videolina😍😍
Does anyone know the exact dates the 1988 version started, and also when it was shown for the last time? It's my favourite version.
The same music was played in ALTER CHANNEL (GREECE) early 2000s
The second/ third one is the coolest one lmao
Sometimes when you watch ITV news the theme and intro music can be abit more sad than the news catch the one at4:30 made in 2010 what comes to mind when you hear that sound? For me it's sadness, suffering , obstacles and at the End reasoning I will never forget this one
Also unfair
proud to be British
Pounamu Johnson Me too
It’s just a tv intros. Is that’s all for prouding?
Александр Графский не ожидал увидеть славянского человека в комментариях:)
Frank Garrett The Nazis we’re socialists.
What about different ITV regional news intros? Can you possibly do that?
When I was a kid I used to think the newsreaders were inside Big Ben*
*as we knew it then
I have always loved this music and I still do.
Me too remember it well being a 1980s child back then now I'm 46/ 47 next July
@@tracyhedges3142 Wishing you a Happy Birthday.