To combat the rise of the "Eyewitness News" format ... WPVI commissioned a brass-filled, hard-charging theme song to open its Philly "Action News" broadcasts, but that lasted just two years ...

Warner Brothers licensed the “Tar Sequence” music to ABC News for its program “Eyewitness News” in 1968, and the theme spread to other local ABC affiliates. It was a “big move forward ...

Primo had developed the Eyewitness News concept earlier ... He believed that the set, graphics, pacing and theme music were essential to the viewing experience, and it was he who selected the ...