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Turn To News

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 and Adelaide, and was also adopted in other languages, such as French and Spanish.

Stations that used Turn to News

United States

DMA#	DMA Name	Station	Affiliation	Years Used	Other Notes
3.	Chicago, Illinois	WLS	ABC	1985-1992	WLS used Turn To News for bumpers, promos, and closings, but never used it for an open. The opening music was News Series 2000, also by Gari. Slogan was "Stand Up and Tell'em Chicago's Great".
4.	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	KYW	CBS, then NBC	1986-1991	Slogan was "Philadelphia's Proud".
9.	Atlanta, Georgia	WSB-TV	ABC	1986-1988
11.	Detroit, Michigan	WXYZ	ABC	1984-1986	Like WLS, WXYZ never used any cut from Turn To News for its openings. Slogan was "Stand Up and Tell'em You're from Detroit". After Capital Cities merged with ABC, WXYZ was sold in early 1986 to The E.W. Scripps Company, and the slogan was removed.
16.	Miami, Florida	WTVJ	NBC	1989-1990	Used only for its morning newscast.
17.	Cleveland, Ohio	WKYC-TV	NBC	1984-1990	First station to commission the package (March 19, 1984). Slogan was "Turn to 3".
18.	Denver, Colorado	KMGH-TV	ABC, then CBS	1985-1987	Slogan was "You've Got the Colorado Style"
19.	Orlando, Florida	WCPX	CBS	1987-1989	Slogan was "Channel 6 is on Your Side"
22.	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	WTAE	ABC	1986-1989	Slogan was "(Stand Up and) Tell'em Pittsburgh's Great". Rival station WPXI used again the jingle, between 2004 and 2006 as "Stand Up and Tell'em You're from Pittsburgh".
28.	Hartford/New Haven, Connecticut	WTIC-TV	FOX	1989-1991
31.	Kansas City, Missouri	KMBC-TV	ABC	1986-1988	Used only on "Good Morning Kansas City".
34.	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	WITI	CBS (now Fox)	1986-1989
38.	West Palm Beach, Florida	WPEC-TV	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-TV	ABC, then NBC	1993-1994
89.	Cedar Rapids, Iowa	KCRG	ABC	1985-1989
119.	Fargo, North Dakota	WDAY	ABC	1987-1996
124.	Monterey, California	KCBA	FOX	1987-1994
151.	Terre Haute, Indiana	WTHI	CBS	1986-1987
N/R	San Juan, Puerto Rico	WAPA-TV	Spanish independent	1986-1993

International

Telefe (Argentina, 1988-1991); "Arriba el 11" (1988-1990); "Canal 11 es ahora TELEFE" (1990-1991)
Network Ten (Australia, 1986-1988); Brisbane: "Stand Up and Tell Them Brisbane's Great"; Adelaide: "Stand Up and Tell Them Adelaide's Great"; also used by CTC-7 in Canberra and NRN-11 in Coffs Harbour.
Megavisión (Chile, 1990-1991); "El otro canal"
TV2 (Denmark, 1990-1992); "TV2, Turn 2 TV2"
M6 (France, 1987-1988); "C’est à voir, c’est sur M6!"
ATV (Hong Kong, 1986-1990); "Stand Up and Tell'em You're from Hong Kong"
RCTI (Indonesia, 1992-1994); "The Best Entertainment Is Always Here!"
Canale Cinque (Italy, 1986-1990); "Il 5 sta in tutta l'Italia"
TV3 (Malaysia, 1985-1988); "Stand up and tell'em that Malaysia's Great!"
América Televisión (Peru, 1987-1990); "La televisión que tú quieres" (1987-1989); "El canal del 89 es el 4" (1989); "Aquí en América Televisión" (1989-1990); used also as the news theme from 1988 until 1996.
GMA Network (Philippines, 1988-1992); used with the slogan "Where You Belong"
RTP1 (Portugal, 1989-1991); "Televisão começa com 1"
TV3 (Sweden, 1989-1992); "Stand Up and Tell'em that Sweden's Great"
Venevisión (Venezuela, 1988-1989); "La tele que usted ve"