itsrobert post_id=60047 time= user_id=913 Wrote:It was so fitting to play Jon out with the original version of the C4 News theme, 'Best Endeavours,' and a nice extended outing at that. The rarely-heard middle 8 section really brought a lump to my throat as Jon was being congratulated by his colleagues in the newsroom.
Not only a testament to Jon, but also to the recently-departed composer, Alan Hawkshaw. Two C4 News legends in their own right.
Ahh - the tradition of clapping a departing hack out of the newsroom on their last day. Just to prove the point, that whilst its a television programme, it has very firm roots in journalism.
Whilst I'm not normally a sentemental old boot, even I had a slightly 'moist' left eye as the credits rolled...
A brilliant way to end the show, and to mark Jon's leaving the presenting chair.
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Stuart post_id=60184 time= user_id=875 Wrote:C4 News had a very different original theme tune for the first months.
I accept that I'm musically tone deaf, but it doesn't sound like what they used afterwards, or any of the variations. :?
https://youtu.be/wXy_FeoxB_U
Ah yes, the "exception", as I like to call it. This was the first theme, but they went on to use Best Endeavours, and has been a signature of C4 News, like the beeps and the bongs. To be frank I was quite surprised when I heard Best Endeavours on a news evolution on Channel 4 News, because prior to that, I heard that theme on an intro evolution on ABC News, when it was called ABC National (unsuccessfully). I liked the theme, but didn't know what it was called. Until I discovered Channel 4.
Thanks, Jon Snow. You truly were one of a kind.
<t>Here is the British Broadcasting Corporation with the Nine o’clock News. <br/>
1988 theme plays, but the melody at the end is the Tagesschau theme.</t>
Any update on who is taking over Jon Snow as 'main' presenter of Channel 4 News, yet?
