Turn to News

The "Turn to News" package was composed by American composer Frank Gari in 1983 and its first client was then-NBC O&O WKYC-TV in Cleveland. The station composed a jingle around the theme called "Turn to 3," as an expansion of WKYC's then-current campaign, "You've Got a Friend," with Gari himself singing the lead, hence the closing lyrics "You've got a friend, turn to 3!" A year later, Gari was asked by WXYZ-TV in Detroit, which had used the ABC localized So Good to Turn to slogan, to update "Turn to 3". He produced "Stand Up and Tell 'em You're from Detroit!" The promo campaign for WXYZ became an enormous 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 image campaign and news music package

International

Country Station Years Used Other Notes Argentina Telefe 1988–1990 "Arriba el 11" ("11 Alive") Australia Network Ten 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 "Stand Up and Tell Them Canberra's Great" and NRN-11 in Coffs Harbour "Stand Up and Tell Them Coffs Harbuor's Great". Chile Megavisión 1990–1991 "El otro canal" ("The Other Network"). Only used as a campaign. Denmark TV2 1990–1992 "TV2, Turn 2 TV2". France M6 1987–1988 "C’est à voir, c’est sur M6!" ("It's to see it on M6!") Hong Kong ATV 1986–1990 "Stand Up and Tell'em You're from Hong Kong" Indonesia RCTI 1992–1994 "The Best Entertainment Is Always Here!" Italy Canale Cinque 1986–1990 "Il 5 sta in tutta l'Italia" ("Channel 5 is all over Italy") Japan TBS (Tokyo) 1994–1996 "Turn to 6". Between 1991 and 1994, TBS also used another package by Gari, Hello News between 1991 and 1994. Malaysia TV3 1985–1988 "Stand up and tell'em that Malaysia's Great!" Peru América Televisión 1987–1989 "La televisión que tú quieres" ("TV you want"); used also as the news theme from 1988 until 1990. Philippines GMA Network 1988–1992 "Stand Up and Tell'em Manila's Great!" (only used for Great Manila) Portugal RTP1 1989–1991 "Televisão começa com 1" ("Television begins with 1") Sweden TV3 1989–1992 "Stand Up and Tell'em that Sweden's Great" Venezuela Venevisión 1988–1989 "Lo que usted quiere ver" ("What you want to watch") External links List of American stations that have used the TURN TO NEWS package List of American stations that have used the STAND UP/TURN TO image campaign

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