[Henry]

The BBC World countdown from 2006 played into 4pm.

Still the same BBC World countdown from 2005 just before the News at Six.

[ViridianFan]

The original 1999 still sounds amazing after 25 years. My absolute favourite version of it has got to be 2007/8 (red data streams)music countdown. It really built up to the top the hour. I also loved the 2007 theme. They should defo bring that era of music instead of all the orchestra version.

[Gary McEwan]

It's been good to hear the World News Countdown with it's extra stabs and synths.

I've always preferred it to the NC Countdown.

[harshy]

I don’t suppose any of it has been captured today?

[Steve in Pudsey]

I'm surprised that the special countdown with the footage of the orchestra and the stripped back acoustic mix of the theme that Chris treated is to a few Christmases ago hasn't made an appearance today.

I know it's on YouTube but it would have been a nice touch

[Spencer]

The original 1999 still sounds amazing after 25 years. My absolute favourite version of it has got to be 2007/8 (red data streams)music countdown. It really built up to the top the hour. I also loved the 2007 theme. They should defo bring that era of music instead of all the orchestra version.

I always loved the original countdown theme, which perfectly complemented the accompanying graphical sequence. But hearing it today, in comparison to the current music, I find it sounds a little bit clinical and robotic.

I might be on my own here, but I love the current orchestral arrangement, which I feel adds a level of lovely warmth and depth to the music.

[Rolling News]

I don’t suppose any of it has been captured today?

Here’s the one with the BBC World 2005 countdown theme:

x.com 

The only other ones I saw were the 1999 and 2008 News 24/channel themes, which should be on the last couple of pages of this thread.

[Lec_Ver16]

Here’s the one with the BBC World 2005 countdown theme:

x.com 

The only other ones I saw were the 1999 and 2008 News 24/channel themes, which should be on the last couple of pages of this thread.

The 2005 BBC World theme was always an outlier between all the countdowns that i liked with a very "dance" theme.

Nevertheless, i think that the 2013 theme remains the best and one of the few instances where the orchestra was appropiate and well used. I can`t say the same about the footage: the 2005-2010 countdowns were faster paced and better in my opinion with a good combintation of clips of the journalist stars, the crew, and places from the world. Now we have some journalists appearing on the countdowns for five seconds or more, which makes it really slow.


Strangely, the world feed today carried the regular theme on the countdowns. I am surprised that the World and UK feeds still carry two different countdowns running at the same time.

[Worzel]

I'm surprised that the special countdown with the footage of the orchestra and the stripped back acoustic mix of the theme that Chris treated is to a few Christmases ago hasn't made an appearance today.

I know it's on YouTube but it would have been a nice touch

You mean this one? It aired once on Christmas Day 2015 and has never been shown again.

It used the World mix of the music.

It's also racked up over 2.1m views.

youtu.be 

[Brekkie]

Strangely, the world feed today carried the regular theme on the countdowns. I am surprised that the World and UK feeds still carry two different countdowns running at the same time.

Well it's another year or so before World got the music (and the news channel itself of course). Logical really World gets its own countdown as programming and promos leading into it will be different and probably easier to "merge" at the top of the hour than at varying points during the countdown, especially as it'll vary which channel has the longer countdown.