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2005 was probably really the best it got - though it had come after four years of probably the worst look the channel ever had, with the infamous tabloid-looking “slug” on the lower thirds (originally bigger than they ended up) and the original Newswall, with that massive Breaking News graphic so well illustrated above. They also ended up having to change the theme music after a year or so, having originally used a rearrangement of their 2001 election theme, then having found they didn’t have the rights to it, hastily changed it to the prototypical version of the melody they still use today, though that first version wasn’t much - not till we got that brilliant orchestral version in 2005 which redeemed it greatly.