NBC's Today theme - aka "The Mission Part III (Scherzo for Today)"

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♫ "The Mission" is four parts of music composed by John Williams for the NBC television network in 1985.

♪ "The Mission" composition was used as the theme for NBC's Nightly News,Today, Before Hours and Meet the Press in America. Outside the US, the theme was remixed for Channel 7 news in Australia. (go to my favourites to hear it!).

♫ The Mission: Part 1 (for NBC Nightly News): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc8QLB05rLk

♪ The Mission: Part 2 (Fugue for Changing Times): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvtDoA3tZgg

♫ The Mission: Part 3 (Scherzo for Today): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwP5nAJZEWw

♪ The Mission: Part 4 (Pulse of Events): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LviYtRXX51E

♫ Visit my page for more uploads and favourites of the NBC news theme!

♪ I got the music from http://www.networknewsmusic.com. Click on "NBC News" on the left.

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[Frederik5495]

why please has this music bad quality and the other tracks are a brilliant? :'(

[nbcnewstheme]

@Frederik5495 because this was last recorded in 1985, but the other themes have been re-recorded since then, but this one hasn't. The shorter Today show themes were re-recorded on their own, but not this whole track.

[jaybee1973jaybee]

This theme was used daily on "Today" in the late 1980s, but very few viewers were able to listen to it. It was used during local commercial breaks when the affiliate-by-affiliate weather forecast was played. WXIA-TV in Atlanta was in the first break; the scroll ended in the 8:30 a.m. half-hour with WHIZ-TV in Zanesville, Ohio. Few NBC affiliates broadcast these breaks because most sold advertising during those time slots. Occasionally other stations showed them, often after a technical problem.

[MrMrmike5]

@MrSmartypants why is everyone trying to cast williams as a plagerizer...i hear music

[ORCoastGuy1]

The last few seconds of this theme were also used to end the show's final hour in the late 80s and through much of the 90s, I believe.

[ORCoastGuy1]

The last few seconds of this theme was also used to end the show's final hour in the late 80s and most of the 90s, I think.

[MrSmartypants]

Anyone else hear Prokofiev in there?

[Frederik5495]

@nbcnewstheme

good, thanks! :-)