News Series 2000 Plus

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News Series 2000 Plus is a television news music package composed by American musician Frank Gari. This package was based on an alternate version of the News Series 2000 package. This package was made after Lalo Schifrin, who composed the "Tar Sequence" score from the soundtrack of the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke, demanded an increase in royalties, causing the Cool Hand Luke theme and News Series 2000 package to be phased out from use in the early 1990s. Most of the updated themes from News Series 2000 was recomposed into the News Series 2000 Plus package by changing the instrumentation, avoiding any elements of the Tar Sequence score.

WLS-TV in Chicago was the first station to commission custom themes from this package in September of 1992, and the station continues to use the same music to this day. In 2001, Gari composed WLS's current morning theme by incorporating this package's signature into the First News package. Before that, the station continued to use a morning theme from the News Series 2000 Package. Currently, WLS-TV has used the same music package longer than any other station in the city of Chicago.

DMA#	DMA Name	Station	Affiliation	Years Used	Other Notes
3.	Chicago, Illinois	WLS-TV, formerly WBKB	ABC	1992-Present	The first station to commission a custom-made package in 1992.
6.	San Francisco, California	KGO-TV	ABC	1998-2000
11.	Detroit, Michigan	WXYZ-TV	ABC	1992-1996
13.	Tampa, Florida	WTSP-TV	CBS, formerly ABC	1994-1999
27.	San Diego, California	KFMB-TV	CBS	-1996
28.	Raleigh, North Carolina / Durham, North Carolina	WTVD-TV	ABC, formerly CBS	1993-1995
68.	Tucson, Arizona	KVOA-TV	NBC	1998-1999
73.	Des Moines, Iowa	WOI-TV	ABC	2006-present
110.	Lansing, Michigan	WLAJ-TV	ABC	1992-1996
135.	Wilmington, North Carolina	WECT-TV	NBC	1994-2001
159.	Wheeling, West Virginia	WTOV-TV	NBC	1998-2000