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 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 Other Clients Hong Kong Cable News See also Frank Gari News Series 2000 Eyewitness News External links SouthernMedia's NMSA - listing of American stations that have used News Series 2000 Plus