The CBS Enforcer Music Collection
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The CBS Enforcer Music Collection is a television news music package distributed by Gari Communications.
The package, originally known as CBS Enforcer, was commissioned by Chicago's WBBM-TV in 1994. The package is based on the station's 1975 news theme, which in turn was based on a song called "I Love Chicago, Chicago My Home". WBBM has dropped the package twice (once in 1997 and once in 2001), only to reintroduce it a few years after each attempt.
Gari Communications soon renamed the package Enforcer (and later, The Enforcer) in an attempt to market it to non-CBS stations. A few non-CBS stations did start using the package, such as KRIV/Fox 26 in Houston, KVII ABC 7 in Amarillo and WVIT/NBC 30 in Connecticut.
In 2005, Gari Communications acquired the rights to several music suites by composer John Hegner, including News in Focus, a news theme package by which also featured the "I Love Chicago" signature. Since then, News in Focus has been marketed jointly with The Enforcer as the CBS Enforcer Music Collection.
See also
- Palmer News Package, a news theme by Shelly Palmer which also features the "I Love Chicago" signature
External links
- ["The CBS Enforcer Music Collection" at SouthernMedia's NMSA] - listing of American stations which have used the package
- ["News in Focus" at SouthernMedia's NMSA] - listing of American stations which used News in Focus when it was a standalone package
- [Gari Communications at News Music Now] - Hear some samples of some of Frank Gari's greatest work for television stations
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