Transcript: ABC Dropping TV Series Theme Music Reflects Trend

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NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
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October 16, 1994
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STEVEN STARK, Popular Culture Commentator: Television's new season has now swung into high gear, and the most striking new development may well be at ABC, where the president of the entertainment division has asked all new shows to try to eliminate theme songs.

LIANE HANSEN, Host: Weekend Edition popular culture commentator, Steven Stark.

STARK: The theory is that these once-pervasive opening themes take up precious time and encourage restless viewers to reach for the remote and another station. If the ABC practice takes hold, it will mark a dividing line in broadcasting history. Theme songs, after all, have been one of the major identifying marks ...

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