Aircast Custom Music, Megatrax‘s custom scoring division, understands the challenges broadcasters face when reporting on serious events sensitively. The video below features an original track from Aircast, “When One of Us Stands,” which was used effectively by WSMV-TV to underscore a retrospective of news coverage of the one-year anniversary of Nashville’s historic floods. The song had actually been composed in response to the floods a year earlier. In 2010, WSMV-TV, the Meredith Broadcasting-owned NBC affiliate, commissioned Aircast to produce “a longform image song about the resilience of the middle Tennessee community in the midst and aftermath of this event.” Creative Director Randy Hart asked hall of fame songwriter Gary Burr to compose the [...]
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