This week I discovered that Hot 97 in NYC, perhaps the most influential Hip-Hop/R&B radio station in the United States, is illicitly using a 1999 David Lowe BBC News theme as its headline bed for morning news updates.
It's not a typical cut either...it's one of the more obscure somber beds with dramatic strings. I'll try to record it somehow. I tweeted them that it was amusing that they were taking the BBC's music, and they told replied
I'm not quite sure what type of justification that is, but I thought I'd share!gotta give them credit! Plus they are friends of the show. Nothing wrong with that lol"