List of sports television composers
Notable credits
Leo Arnaud
- "Bugler's Dream" from Arnaud's Charge Suite - the fanfare most closely associated with the Olympic Games (not specifically composed for the Olympics, but used by ABC Sports since 1968 for its Olympic coverage and ABC's Wide World of Sports, also by NBC Sports for its Olympic coverage prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics and again starting in 1992; see Olympic symbols to hear an audio file of this piece)
Herb Alpert
- "1980" - 1980 Summer Olympics, Moscow (not specifically composed for the Games, but used by NBC)
David Barrett
- "One Shining Moment" - Originally written for Super Bowl XXI, but not used at that time. Since 1987, it has been the closing music for CBS Sports' coverage of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.
Bob Christianson
- CBS NCAA Basketball Theme (1993-2003, 2004–present) (CBS)
- NHL on ESPN
- NHL on ABC (1999-2004)
Allyson Bellink
- NBA Playoffs (CBS)
- NCAA Basketball Tournament (CBS)
- Super Bowl Theme (ABC)
- Monday Night Football (ABC)
- Winter Olympics (ABC)
- Indianapolis 500 (ABC)
- NCAA College Football (ABC)
Kurt Bestor
- 1988 Winter Olympics TV Theme (ABC)
- 2002 Winter Olympics closing ceremonies (NBC)
- 1992 Summer Olympics coverage (NBC)
- Monday Night Football (ABC)
John Colby
- NFL on NBC (1992, 1993, 1994)
- ESPN College Football (2000-2003, 2004-2009, 2010-present)
Christopher Brady
- Fox Sports NBA Basketball Theme
- Fox Sports NCAA Basketball Theme
- ESPN College Football
David Dachinger
- NFL Today (CBS)
- PGA Golf (CBS)
- The Masters (CBS)
- NCAA College Basketball (CBS)
- College Football (CBS)
- College Football (ABC)
- U.S. Open Tennis Theme (CBS)
- NFL Football (CBS)
- NCAA Basketball Finals (CBS)
Frankie Vinci
- NFL on CBS: Super Bowl (1992-1993, 1998, 1999-2000, 2001-2002)
E.S. Posthumus
- "Posthumus Zone" – Main theme for The NFL on CBS since 2003
Clark Gault
- 1986 World Series Theme (NBC)
- 1981 Super Bowl Theme (NBC)
- 1983 Super Bowl Theme (NBC)
- 1986 Super Bowl Theme (NBC)
- Baseball Tonight Theme (ESPN)
- “We Are One” theme for the NBC coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympics, Barcelona
- NBA Theme (CBS)
- NFL Theme (NBC)
- Major League Baseball Theme (NBC)
- Wimbledon Tennis Theme (NBC)
- French Open Theme (NBC)
Larry Groupe
- CBS Sports National Logo Theme
- Los Angeles Lakers Radio and TV Promo and Game Music
- Super Bowl XXII Promo Music for Event (ABC)
- NBA "Final Four" Playoffs Promo Music (CBS)
Lloyd Landesman
- Super Bowl XXI (1987) theme, used for CBS college football 1987–present
Robert Israel
- Sports World (NBC)
- NCAA College Football (ABC)
- ABC Wide World of Sports (ABC)
- ABC Sports Theme (ABC)
- ABC's International Championship Boxing (ABC)
- NBA Basketball (ABC)
- Wide World of Sports Promo (ABC)
- NFL (ABC)
Edd Kalehoff
- Sports Emblem (ABC)
- Sports Main Theme (ABC)
- Boxing (ABC)
- Tour De France (ABC)
- Golf (ABC)
- Monday Night Football (ABC)
- Sport South (TNT)
- ABC Baseball Promo
- ABC Pro-Bowlers Tour
- ABC Wide World of Sports
- CBS Sports Spectacular
Dave Loggins
- "Augusta" — Main theme for CBS Sports' coverage of The Masters golf tournament
Chuck Mangione
- "Chase the Clouds Away" — 1976 Summer Olympics (ABC)
- "Give It All You Got" — 1980 Winter Olympics main theme (ABC)
Rich Meitin
- 1998 Winter Olympics Opening Theme and Incidental Music (CBS)
Non-Stop Music
- ‘POWER PUNCH’ - College Football Season Package - Anthony Dilorenzo (ABC)
- ‘BCS – Bowl Championship Series’ – BCS Bowl Package - Anthony Dilorenzo (ABC)
- ABC Figure Skating Theme Package
- ABC Horse Racing Theme Package
- ‘Majestic Fairways’ – ABC Golf Match Play Theme Package
- ‘Emerald Fairways’ – ABC Golf Tournament Theme Package
- Little League World Series Theme Package
- ‘Fast Break’ - NBA Theme Package (ABC)
Trevor Rabin
- NBA on TNT (TNT)
- CBS NCAA Basketball Theme (Remix of Christianson theme in 2011) (CBS/TNT/TBS/TruTV)
Dolores Claman
- Hockey Night in Canada (1968-2008 on CBC, 2009-present on TSN)
Colin Oberst
- Hockey Night in Canada: Canadian Gold (2009–present) (CBC)
Scott L. Reinwand
- The Last Word With Jim Rome (Fox Sports)
- Seattle SuperSonics Theme Song (Arena and Broadcast)
- Casey Jacobsen: Year in Review (ESPN Classic)
- 2002 Little League World Series (ABC)
- 2004 Little League World Series (ABC)
- World Championship Ice Skating (ABC)
- It's Game Time NBA Package (ABC/ESPN)
- New York Mets Theme and Package (SNY)
- New York Jets Theme and Package (SNY)
- GOL! ESPN International Soccer (ESPN International)
Scott Schreer
- NASCAR on FOX
- MLB on FOX
- NFL on FOX
- NHL on FOX/FSN
- Boxing on FOX
- FOX Sports List
- FOX Poker Superstars
- Mansion Poker (FOX)
- Hope & Faith (ABC)
- The Season, City Slam (ESPN)
- DirecTV network logo
- Wrangler Pro Rodeo
- New York Knicks, Liberty, Rangers, Network ID
- The Baseball Network (ABC and NBC)
Cody Westheimer
- "Major League Soccer on NBC"
- "Tour de France on NBC"
- "Countdown to London" (Universal Sports)
John Williams
- "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" - 1984 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles
- "Olympic Spirit" - 1988 Summer Olympics, Seoul
- "Summon the Heroes" - 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta
- "Call of the Champions" - 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City
- "Theme" - 2006–present, NBC Sunday Night Football
See also
References
Sources
- Game Show Composers
- Clark Gault's Credits
- Latter-day Saint Film Composers / LDS Composers
- Larry Groupe - Composer
- Purchase College - Academic Programs - Arts - Music - Faculty - Bellink
- Non Stop Music - Production Music Library
- ddmusic.com
- colbymusic: tv credits
- Theme music for some major sporting events has become part of the spectacles themselves
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