Theme
- "Huntley-Brinkley Report/NBC Nightly News Ticker" (August 3, 1970–November 10, 1972; the theme had been used since 1962, when the program was still The Huntley-Brinkley Report)
- "NBC News Ticker" (November 13, 1972–April 22, 1977)
- "NBC TV-Radio Newspulse" by Fred Weinberg Productions (April 25-September 5, 1977)
- "NBC Nightly News" by Henry Mancini (September 6, 1977–April 2, 1982)
- "NBC News" by Joseph Paul Sicurella, Tony Smythe, and Bob Christianson (1979–1982 as a bumper; April 5, 1982–September 6, 1985 as main theme)
- "The Mission" by John Williams (September 9, 1985–)
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Famous quotes containing the word theme:
“Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.—A theme for a great poet would be God’s boredom on the seventh day of creation.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“It seems to me that upbringings have themes. The parents set the theme, either explicitly or implicitly, and the children pick it up, sometimes accurately and sometimes not so accurately.... The theme may be “Our family has a distinguished heritage that you must live up to” or “No matter what happens, we are fortunate to be together in this lovely corner of the earth” or “We have worked hard so that you can have the opportunities we didn’t have.””
—Calvin Trillin (20th century)
“Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)