The X Package

The X Package is a television news music package composed by American musician Frank Gari and features up to 120 cuts of opens, closes, bumpers, stingers and promo beds in a bold action news format.

The X Package was commissioned in 1999 by Fox-owned and operated station (O&O) KTTV/11 in Los Angeles. It features the 20th Century Fox anthem at the beginning of some of the cuts, including the main news open, and is only marketed to Fox's local stations, except for one ABC affiliate and one My Network TV affiliate. Thirteen stations have used the X Package at some point in time, and 12 of them still do as of January 2006, including KTTV.

Gari's Good Day package was originally part of the X Package; it is currently marketed as a separate package.

In 2005 Gari Communications unveiled a generic version of the X Package which features the same theme from the original, however it does not feature the trademark 20th Century Fox Drumrolls and similar sounds. The package is now available for commission by any station as a result of this exclusion. The only two stations that have taken advantage of this generic version of the X-Package are the Myrtle Beach, South Carolina market known as WPDE-TV, an ABC affiliate, and KFVE, a My Network affiliate in Hawaii.

External links

• "The X Package" at SouthernMedia's NMSA - listing of American stations which have used the X Package