{"id":1896,"date":"2012-01-19T00:28:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T00:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2012-01-19T00:33:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T00:33:38","slug":"nbc-debuts-updated-versions-of-williams-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=1896","title":{"rendered":"NBC Debuts Updated Versions of Williams&#8217; Themes (Video Now Available)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Today Show&#8221; and &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; debuted updated versions of their respective opening themes on Monday, January 16. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203893404577098730827733806.html\" target=\"_blank\">a recent article at the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, last year the network hired Williams to &#8220;freshen up&#8221; the two compositions, which he originally wrote in 1985 as part of a TV news music package entitled &#8220;The Mission&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the updated version of The Today Show opener below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KD9XcjnLmPg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"540\" height=\"303\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?showtopic=14064&amp;view=findpost&amp;p=780239\">Discuss this topic in our forums<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Today Show&#8221; and &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; debuted updated versions of their respective opening themes on Monday, January 16. According to a recent article at the Wall Street Journal, last year the network hired Williams to &#8220;freshen up&#8221; the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=1896\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concert-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}