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53-687: KPM Music is a company that creates and provides library music that was originally known as KPM Musichouse. It was formed by the merger of KPM (the initials of Keith-Prowse-Maurice, which was then a division of EMI ) and Music House (a company that EMI acquired in 1997). The firm's origins date back to the Keith, Prowse & Co. partnership established in 1830. KPM's music library has been utilised in many films and television programmes worldwide. The KPM 1000 Series, many of them produced by Adrian Kerridge , have become more generally available commercially in recent years. The music written by KPM's composers

106-476: A Crimewatch Update aired at around 11pm) until mid-1996. The programme moved to TV2 on 1 August 1996 and aired at 8.30pm on a fourth Thursday until it ended later that year. Ian Johnstone presented the New Zealand version throughout its entire run, and was joined by Natalie Brunt (1987–88), Carol Hirschfeld (1989–93), Tiana Tofilau (1994) and Mairanga White (1995–96) as successive co-presenters. Calls to

159-557: A beneficial role, performing "a social function by helping to solve crime, and drawing on the collective responsibilities, experiences and knowledge of the viewing audience in order to do so." First aired on 10 August 1988, Crimewatch File is an hour-long programme devoted to the reconstruction and investigation of a single case including cases that the programme has previously helped to solve. Presented by Nick Ross and Sue Cook concurrently (with Jill Dando taking over from Cook in 1996), more than thirty editions aired until April 2000, when

212-409: A composer to sign a non-exclusive agreement allowing the artist to license the same piece to other libraries and clients with the same non-exclusive agreement. In other words, their intellectual property (their composition) can be licensed to multiple clients simultaneously, provided that they are not contractually bound by an exclusive agreement with another company. The non-exclusive library doesn't own

265-512: A cult following. Trunk wrote the first book on the subject, The Music Library , published in 2005, and in the following years many classic production music records were reissued . In the 2000s, library music also began to interest crate-digging hip hop producers. Some were interested, in part, because of the sample -clearance issues faced with commercial music releases while others, such as Madlib , have used it for its unique musical quality. Library music has been sampled by artists including

318-472: A direct result of Crimewatch appeals. The original theme music was "Rescue Helicopter" (1980) by John Cameron ( Bruton Music ). Crimewatch used to be shown once a month on BBC One . The start time varied slightly but it was generally aired for 45–50 minutes before being extended to an hour in the early 2000s. In the early years it followed the BBC Nine O'Clock News starting at around 9.30pm but in

371-525: A localised version of the programme was aired in the English Midlands region on BBC Two from 1987 until 1991. Presented originally by Peter Purves and BBC Midlands Today ' s Kathy Rochford, who was later replaced by fellow newsreader Sue Beardsmore , Crimewatch Midlands was broadcast live from Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham and ran for five series. The idea for the show came from

424-614: A month in a primetime slot on BBC One , although in the final years before its relaunch in September 2016 it was usually broadcast roughly once every two months. Crimewatch was first broadcast on 7 June 1984, and is based on the German TV show Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst (which translates as File Reference XY … Unsolved ). Nick Ross and Sue Cook presented the show for the first eleven years, until Cook's departure in June 1995. Cook

477-407: A new yearly programme entitled Crimewatch: Solved was transmitted, showing cases previously featured on the programme that resulted in convictions. Aside from 2002, a new edition was broadcast every year until 2010, when the thirteenth and final edition aired on 1 September 2010. The BBC has aired a number of weekday Crimewatch programmes. Originally shown between 2000 and 2001, Crimewatch Daily

530-413: A non-exclusive basis where it can be used in perpetuity without any usage reporting. The music is licensed by the customers according to an accepted license agreement, and they cannot sell it or license it to others. Because of advancing technology, it is becoming easier for independent musicians to set up their own shops through which they can license music. Non-exclusive production music libraries enable

583-473: A result of a new interest in production music of the 1960s and 1970s, notably the 'beat' and electronica cues recorded for KPM and other labels, which have been widely sampled by DJs and record producers. In recent years, some of these British musicians have given public performances of their classic compositions under the group name KPM Allstars . As noted by library music historian Jonny Trunk , founder of Trunk Records , library music gained wider appeal in

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636-516: A small amount of income from sales of physical CDs or online track downloads). Assuming that the music is broadcast, royalties are paid on the music, though it is the broadcaster who pays them via annual fees to the performing rights societies, not the producer who uses the music in their production. Some companies offer truly royalty-free music which is not registered with any performance rights organisation (also known as "royalty collection agencies"). These companies license music to their customers on

689-418: A third series ran in 1994. First aired in late 1998, Crimewatch Extra was a short-lived spin-off from the main programme, which would give updates and reports received on the cases featured in the previous month's programme. Broadcast on BBC Choice , the series was presented by Emma Howard. Around ten episodes were broadcast, with the final episode airing on 25 August 1999. Beginning on 10 August 1999,

742-482: A well-known piece of popular music could cost anywhere from tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending on the prominence of the performer(s). The first production music library was set up by De Wolfe Music in 1927 with the advent of sound in film. The company originally scored music for use in silent film . Production music libraries typically offer a broad range of musical styles and genres, enabling producers and editors to find diverse types of music within

795-545: A wide range of pre-1960s production music cues, some of which were composed by Emil Cadkin —including many pieces familiar from their use in earlier cartoons—which were chosen for their ironic, suspenseful, patriotic and humorous effect. Production music composers and session performers typically work anonymously and have rarely become known outside their professional circle. In recent years some veteran composer-performers in this field such as Alan Hawkshaw, John Cameron and Keith Mansfield have achieved attention and popularity as

848-416: Is aired between 10.00 and 10:45am on weekday mornings. Crimewatch also aired a number of one-off programmes. First aired on 21 May 1997, Crimewatch: Hot Property was a one-off special presented by Jill Dando . The programme's aim was to help people find their stolen property that were recovered in police raids. In addition to marking the programme's 40th anniversary, a new spin-off documentary series

901-404: Is the largest independent production music library. Other independent libraries include Vanacore Music, ALIBI Music , West One Music Group and TYTO Music . The business model of production music libraries is based on two income streams: This method of licensing combines the creation of original, custom music with a catalog of traditional "library" music under one license agreement. The goal

954-430: Is to suit the needs of a budget conscious production but still provide that production with a unique and original show theme or audio brand. In this scenario, the show producer identifies those scenes they feel are most important to the success of the show, and those scenes are scored to picture by the composer. Those less important scenes will utilize the library also provided by the same publisher/composer. Upon completion,

1007-467: The 1990s when it was made public for the first time. In the 1980s, there were hundreds of library companies producing music with old records becoming redundant, especially with the advent of CDs. By the mid-1990s, these companies, many located in Soho , London, were dumping their old and obsolete vinyl records on local record and charity shops. Many record collectors became interested in the genre, and it gained

1060-463: The American equivalent, America's Most Wanted , Crimewatch itself usually appeals for unsolved cases inviting viewers to be armchair detectives. According to the producers, about a third of its cases are solved, half of those as a direct result of viewers' calls. Its successes have included some of Britain's most notorious crimes, including the kidnap of Stephanie Slater and murder of Julie Dart ,

1113-513: The Avalanches , Jay-Z , Beyoncé , A$ AP Rocky , Flying Lotus , RZA , Swizz Beatz and Ghostface Killah . Some music producers, such as Frank Dukes , have also been inspired by the library music model and distribute some of their compositions as production music for sampling . The production music market is dominated by libraries affiliated with the large record and publishing companies: Universal Music Publishing Group library music has

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1166-644: The BBC do not ' show the credits in reduced size '. Viewers could contact Crimewatch by phoning 0500 600 600, with the phone lines remaining open until midnight the night following the programme. Viewers could also send text messages to 63399. Due to the high demand for cases to be shown on the programme, many other cases are added to the Crimewatch website. These are joined by reconstructions, CCTV footage and wanted faces that have been shown on previous programmes. All reconstructions, CCTV footage, faces and cases remain on

1219-527: The Crimewatch website until the criminals are caught or suspects convicted. Crimewatch could be watched on the BBC iPlayer catch-up service for only 24 hours from broadcast due to legal reasons. Following the main programme, there was a 10–15 minute follow-up after the BBC News at Ten , with updates on calls and results from the earlier broadcast. This was removed when the show relaunched in September 2016. From

1272-550: The De Wolfe catalogue) as background or incidental music. American TV has also utilized production music, most notably with the themes for Monday Night Football (" Heavy Action " by Johnny Pearson ) and The People's Court ("The Big One" by Alan Tew ). Other notable examples are the Nickelodeon animated series The Ren and Stimpy Show and SpongeBob SquarePants , which use well-known classical music excerpts and

1325-597: The M25 rapist, the road-rage killing by Kenneth Noye , and the capture of two boys for the abduction and murder of James Bulger . Over the years, Crimewatch has featured appeals from all 43 police forces in the country. 1 in 3 appeals leads to an arrest and 1 in 5 lead to a conviction. 4 or 5 requests to air appeals are received from police forces every day. At its peak, Crimewatch was seen by 14 million viewers per week. However, by 2017, credited to competition from other programmes, it had fallen to an average of 3 million. At

1378-489: The U.S. the recordings have been used on Sesame Street , as well as sports documentarian Jon Bois ' YouTube series, Dorktown. In the United States, KPM is represented by APM Music . KPM Musichouse was rebranded as EMI Production Music in 2011 and is now part of Sony Music Publishing . In January 2019, KPM's production library was fully digitized and became available for streaming online. EMI Production Music

1431-666: The UK programme Police 5 and the German Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst ( File Reference XY … Unsolved ). Producers viewed the shows and rejected the overt reconstructions with music to build suspense in America's Most Wanted , and were also against the idea of filming the reconstruction from the perspective of the offender as in Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst (particularly for sexual assaults). However, they favoured

1484-415: The composer want to enter the piece into an exclusive agreement with a library or client, they would first need to remove that piece from all non-exclusive agreements. An advantage to using a non-exclusive library is the possible broad exposure through multiple outlets, and the ability of the artist to retain control. Conversely, if an artist sells their piece to an exclusive library they are paid upfront for

1537-428: The composer's permission, as is necessary in licensing music from normal publishers. This is because virtually all music created for music libraries is done on a work-for-hire basis. Production music is a convenient solution for media producers—they are able to license any piece of music in the library at a reasonable rate, whereas a specially commissioned work could be prohibitively expensive. Similarly, licensing

1590-434: The custom music and the library tracks are licensed together under one production blanket, the ownership of the custom music remains with the publisher who produced it, and the publisher can (after a term of exclusivity negotiated between the parties) re-license the custom music as part of its library to recoup production costs. This allows the music composer/producer to quote lower rates because they are retaining ownership of

1643-404: The custom music, and will have the ability to make money with the same recording in a different production later on. It also allows the program or film producer to deliver content of very high quality, ensures that the most important scenes have the perfect music, and those less important scenes are addressed with an affordable solution. With the proliferation of music libraries in recent years and

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1696-529: The final edition, fronted by Ross, was broadcast. Following this, in latter years of the main Crimewatch programme, episodes would regularly feature segments and reports in a very similar vein to Crimewatch File . Crime Limited was the second spin-off from Crimewatch which took cameras behind the scenes of the crimes. The first series aired on BBC One over ten episodes in 1992 and was presented by Nick Ross and Sue Cook . A second series ran in 1993 and

1749-503: The idea of audience participation in the show. Originally, Crimewatch UK (as it was then known) was due to run for only three programmes. It was regarded as an experiment when it was first shown due to doubts that the police would take part and scepticism as to whether witnesses and victims would welcome the idea. There was also concern that it could be considered to prejudice a jury. In over 25 years, 57 murderers, 53 rapists and sex offenders, 18 paedophiles, and others were captured as

1802-460: The increase in competition, some smaller libraries have evolved the royalty-free music model. These libraries do not charge their customers for licensing the music. Instead, the customers purchase a CD or access to an electronic collection of music—priced typically between 50 and 300 dollars—whose content is licensed in perpetuity for them to synchronize as often as they wish. These libraries depend mainly on performance royalties for their income (with

1855-400: The lead presenters until 2015. Following a brief period with guest presenter Sophie Raworth in 2016, it was announced that the show would relaunch in September 2016 with a new weekly format. The new presenters were announced as Jeremy Vine and Tina Daheley . The new series began on 5 September 2016, with the final episode broadcast on 20 March 2017. In October 2017, the BBC announced that

1908-464: The main Crimewatch series had been cancelled, citing declining viewership. The daytime spin-off series Crimewatch Roadshow (now Crimewatch Live ) would continue to air, but will also air more episodes per year. Crime NI , a similar live monthly programme in partnership with Crimestoppers UK , was aired from 3 September 2021 to 11 April 2022 on BBC One Northern Ireland and presented by Wendy Austin and journalist Dearbhail McDonald. Previously,

1961-452: The mid to late 1990s was often moved to 10pm, always with a short Crimewatch Update programme airing later that evening (sometimes as late as after midnight due to scheduling). In later years, following the move of the flagship evening news programme, the main show was now aired at 9pm for an hour with Crimewatch Update now airing sometime after the BBC Ten O'Clock News . Since March 2011

2014-528: The music libraries of Chappell Recording Music Library, Bruton, Atmosphere, and others such as Killer Tracks ; Concord Music owns Imagem Production Music, formerly Boosey & Hawkes Production Music, which includes the Cavendish, Abaco and Strip Sounds labels; Sony Music Publishing owns KPM Music and Extreme Music ; BMG Rights Management runs its own production music division; and Warner Chappell Music owns Warner/Chappell Production Music. Sonoton

2067-594: The original theme for the BBC's Grandstand ("News Scoop" by Len Stevens), Crimewatch ("Rescue Helicopter" by John Cameron ) and Grange Hill ("Chicken Man" by Alan Hawkshaw). The Christmas hit single based on the character Mr Blobby uses excerpts from "Mr Jellybun" by Paul Shaw and David Rogers. Arthur Wood 's " Barwick Green ", written in 1924, still serves as the theme for long-running BBC Radio soap The Archers . TV comedy series such as The Benny Hill Show and Monty Python's Flying Circus also made extensive use of production library cues (many sourced from

2120-422: The piece but the artist typically sells the publishing rights, hence losing control of the piece and future licensing fees. Crimewatch Crimewatch (formerly Crimewatch UK ) is a British television programme produced by the BBC , that reconstructs major unsolved crimes in order to gain information from the public which may assist in solving the case. The programme was originally broadcast once

2173-472: The programme also included antiques experts John Bly , Eric Knowles and Paul Hayes to help with 'treasure trove' details of recovered goods believed to have been stolen. Despite initial police concerns about involvement (only three forces out of more than 40 agreed to participate initially), Crimewatch developed a special status with police and was credited with an expertise of its own, notably through Nick Ross' long experience with public appeals. Unlike

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2226-422: The rights outside of the licenses that are made by that library. Typically the library does not pay for the piece, and the artist doesn't get any payment until the piece is licensed at which point the library and the artist split the license fee equally. Libraries typically require the artist to rename the piece in effect creating a unique art work for the library to register with their PRO (BMI, ASCAP, SESAC). Should

2279-560: The run of the live daytime series, on the BBC Scotland channel and BBC One Wales at primetime and later in full over three weeks on BBC One in a daytime slot. A New Zealand version of Crimewatch was broadcast on TVNZ from 1987 until 1996 and was replaced by NZI Crimescene which was aired in 1997 and 1998. It was shown once a month on TV One . In its first year, Crimewatch was shown on fourth Mondays at 8pm before moving to fourth Tuesdays at 8pm in 1988 and 8.30pm from 1989 (with

2332-497: The same library. Music libraries vary in size from a few hundred tracks up to many thousands. Production music is frequently used as theme or background music in radio, film and television. Well-known examples of British TV series with theme songs sourced from library catalogs include Ski Sunday ("Pop Looks Bach" by Sam Fonteyn), Dave Allen At Large ("Studio 69", sometimes known as "Blarney's Stoned", by Alan Hawkshaw ), Mastermind ("Approaching Menace" by Neil Richardson ),

2385-469: The show aired less frequently, roughly once every two months. It featured approximately three or four cases per show, with each case featuring reconstructions of the crime. It was one of the largest live factual studio productions. The films shown often feature interviews with senior detectives and/or relatives or friends of victims. Key evidence is usually shown, such as E-FIT profiles of suspects and details of certain lines of enquiry. Other features to

2438-420: The show included a "CCTV section", which showed crimes caught on CCTV with enhanced imagery of suspects. A "Wanted Faces" section was also featured: eight close-up pictures of suspects police are trying to trace are shown on screen. This section also frequently involves information about suspects, including aliases. These eight photos are shown upon the programme's closing credits, one of the few programmes in which

2491-544: The start of the fourth series in October 1987, additional updates were also featured as part of the following morning's edition of Open Air but later moved into magazine programme Daytime Live (a replacement for Pebble Mill at One ) from November 1989 until May 1990. Several police officers have appeared on the programme from the studio, including David Hatcher, Helen Phelps, Jeremy Paine, Jacqui Hames, Jonathan Morrison, Jane Corrigan, and Rav Wilding . For many years

2544-556: The time of the programme's 150th episode in January 1999, it was reported that the average viewing figures were 8 million. A study by the Broadcasting Standards Council found that Crimewatch increased the fear of crime in over half of its respondents, and a third said it made them feel "afraid". However, according to John Sears, senior English lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University , it provides

2597-411: Was commissioned in 2024. Crimewatch Caught reveals the inner workings of how detectives investigated and solved a range of complex crimes. Each half-hour episode features exclusive interviews with leading officers, alongside the crucial CCTV, forensic evidence and witness testimony that allowed them to bring the perpetrators to justice. Selected episodes of the fifteen part series were first aired, during

2650-409: Was intended for use as signature tunes or incidental music in film and television. KPM pieces became the theme tunes for Mastermind , All Creatures Great and Small , The Avengers , Animal Magic , This Is Your Life , Dave Allen at Large , SpongeBob SquarePants , The Ren & Stimpy Show , Camp Lazlo , Superstars , Grandstand , Rugby Special , and ITV News at Ten . In

2703-410: Was rebranded again to KPM Music on 13 September 2021. This article about a music industry company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Production music Unlike popular and classical music publishers, who typically own less than 50 percent of the copyright in a composition, production music libraries own all of the copyrights of their music. Thus, it can be licensed without

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2756-524: Was replaced by Jill Dando . After Dando was murdered in April 1999, Ross hosted Crimewatch alone until January 2000, when Fiona Bruce joined the show. Kirsty Young and Matthew Amroliwala replaced Ross and Bruce following their departures in 2007. The BBC announced on 15 October 2008 that they would move production of shows such as Crimewatch to studios in Cardiff . Young and Amroliwala remained as

2809-412: Was the first daily version of the programme, aired between 10:00 and 11:00am on weekday mornings, that appealed for help with unsolved cases not covered in the main programme. Originally shown between 2009 and 2020, Crimewatch Roadshow was the second daily version of the programme, that was broadcast on weekdays from 9:15 to 10:00am. From 8 March 2021, the show's name was changed to Crimewatch Live and

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