Here are two more…
WDVM (now WUSA) in Washington, D.C.:
And, as seen in another thread, a slightly different approach for Sky News (UK):
The same music and the graphical style were also used by WSOC in Charlotte, SC, U.S.A.:
This distinctive visual style was the signature of a company called Collier Concepts. Were they also responsible for the news open used by BTV6 and GMV6 in the News Centre 6 era ? It would certainly seem so:
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Here’s another TEN10 promo from Collier Concepts (via user E.R. at TVNewsTalk.net):
And returning to Collier’s The One to Watch series, here’s a version from Hawaii:
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Use of Melbourne footage in the Sydney promo. They must not have had enough of their own material to use.
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Staggering, really, that it is loaded with Melbourne images. It’s not like they wouldn’t have local images to use?
In Australia, TEN10 and ATV0 famously used an excerpt from Macarthur Park for IDs and other elements in the 1960s and '70s:
In the U.S., that same part of Macarthur Park was used as a news theme:
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Love Macarthur Park as a news theme. I wonder if 0-10’s use of the track ever extended to news?
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Also used by TVQ 0 in Brisbane.
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Some “color” versions of the TEN ident
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SAS-10 Adelaide used the instrumental from the Richard Harris original for this 1972 ID.
SAS 10 Adelaide 1972 HD - YouTube
YouTube: aussiebeachut.
TEN-10’s use of MacArthur Park would extend into the early eighties with their Star Station TEN campaign.
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I can’t offer up any video evidence for TVQ 0’s Macarthur Park days, but you can listen to some audio recordings of some typical idents (with some vision thrown in.). The Doctor Doolittle ident was for the start of colour TV which dates these to 1974-75. V/o for 2 of the idents was the late David Jull.
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Interesting that TVQ went with ‘Color Your World’ instead of ‘First in Color’.
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I think BTQ was using First in Colour - based on doing a colour TV demo at the Brisbane RNA exhibition at some point in the past. 
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ATV first used it during a color outside broadcast back in '67.
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Channel 9 used “I gotta feeling” for its September 2009 promos similar to CBS’ Fall launch for the US 2009/10 television season.
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I mean, it was the biggest song on the planet in 2009 so that’s hardly surprising.
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How’s that ironic.
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Like rain on a wedding day
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And here’s another version of Macarthur Park as heard heard in Los Angeles in 1974:
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