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The "Turn To News" package was composed by American composer Frank Gari in 1983 and its first client was WKYC-TV in Cleveland. The station composed a jingle around the theme called "Turn to 3", with Gari himself singing the lead. A year later, Gari was asked by WXYZ-TV in Detroit, which had used his "So Good To Turn To" news package, to update "Turn to 3". He came up with "Stand Up and Tell 'em You're from Detroit!" The promo campaign for WXYZ became a huge success and spread to several stations around the country, including KMGH in Denver, WDSU in New Orleans, WSMV in Nashville, and WHOI-TV in Peoria, IL. The last station to use this package, according to the News Music Search archive, was WNCT-TV in Greenville-New Bern-Washington, NC in 1998. The package was not only used in the United States. It was used also by Australia's Network Ten's Brisbane station TVQ-10, and was also adopted in other languages, such as French and Spanish.
[edit] Stations that used Turn to News
| DMA# |
DMA Name |
Station |
Affiliation |
Years Used |
Other Notes |
| 4. |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
KYW |
CBS, then NBC |
1986-1991 |
|
| 9. |
Atlanta, Georgia |
WSB-TV |
ABC |
1986-1988 |
|
| 17. |
Cleveland, Ohio |
WKYC-TV |
NBC |
1984-1990 |
First station to commission the package |
| 18. |
Denver, Colorado |
KMGH-TV |
ABC, then CBS |
1985-1987 |
|
| 19. |
Orlando, Florida |
WCPX |
CBS |
1987-1989 |
|
| 22. |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
WTAE |
ABC |
1986-1989 |
|
| 28. |
Hartford/New Haven, Connecticut |
WTIC-TV |
FOX |
1989-1991 |
|
| 38. |
West Palm Beach, Florida |
WPEC |
CBS, ABC until 1990 |
1987-1992 |
|
| 40. |
Birmingham, Alabama |
WBRC |
FOX, then ABC |
1985-1990 |
|
|
| 42. |
Norfolk, Virginia |
WVEC-TV |
ABC |
1984-1991 |
Used a customized update from 1989-1991 |
|
| 43. |
Las Vegas, Nevada |
KVBC |
NBC |
1986-1990 |
|
| 44. |
Memphis, Tennessee |
WMC-TV |
NBC |
1986-1995 |
Used a customized update from 1993-1995 |
| 47. |
Greensboro, North Carolina |
WGHP |
FOX, then ABC |
1984-1988 |
|
| 48. |
Louisville, Kentucky |
WHAS |
ABC, then CBS |
1985-1989 |
|
| 54. |
New Orleans, Louisiana |
WDSU |
NBC |
1985-1987 |
|
| 55. |
Fresno, California |
KFSN |
ABC |
1986-1994 |
|
| 79. |
Syracuse, New York |
WTVH |
CBS |
1986-1989 |
|
| 82. |
Champaign, Illinois |
WICD |
ABC, then NBC |
1993-1994 |
|
| 89. |
Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
KCRG |
ABC |
1985-1989 |
|
| 119. |
Fargo, North Dakota |
WDAY |
ABC |
1987-1996 |
|
| 151. |
Terre Haute, Indiana |
WTHI |
CBS |
1986-1987 |
|
| N/R |
San Juan, Puerto Rico |
WAPA-TV |
Spanish independent |
1986-1993 |
The slogan was changed to La televisión que tú quieres (TV can you want) |
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