The NBC Collection

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The NBC Collection is a television news music collection consisting of six different news theme packages, composed by musician Frank Gari. It was composed exclusively for NBC's local stations, whether owned and operated by NBC-Universal itself or otherwise affiliated with the network. The collection has been used by at least 60 NBC television stations around the United States.

The collection features a total of between 120 and 150 cuts of opens, closes, stingers, bumpers and promo beds in a bold format. It is the largest news music collection made for NBC stations, and consists of the following theme packages (with original clients in parenthesis):

NBC Premier (KNBC Los Angeles)
NBC News Now (WTVJ Miami)
NBC Speed of Life (WXIA Atlanta)
NBC New Millennium (KSDK St. Louis)
Flagship (WPXI Pittsburgh)
NBC New Generation

Of the six packages listed above, the first four were composed in the late 1990s, and initially each of them was marketed individually. Upon composing Flagship, Gari rolled all of these packages into one, and began marketing them as the most extensive collection of NBC themes to present. NBC New Generation was released in late 2005, and made its debut on WNCN in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, although WNCN was not the original client for that group of themes.

All of the stations that license The NBC Collection are given access to each of the six themes, and it is not uncommon for a client to use more than one at a time. For example, WPXI uses Flagship as its main theme, but uses cuts from News Now for stingers and franchise opens, and a cut from New Millennium for its breaking news opens and stings. Until January 2006, WTVJ used News Now as its primary theme, but used Flagship for its morning newscast.

External links

["The NBC Collection" at SouthernMedia's NMSA] - listing of American stations which have used the collection
[Gari Communications at News Music Now] - Hear some samples of some of Frank Gari's greatest work for television stations

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