won numerous awards, but the station never approached the ratings of longtime leader WNEW-TV (now WNYW). In 2002 and 2003 (respectively), WFTS-TV in Tampa, Florida and KSHB-TV in Kansas City, Missouri (both owned by the E. W. Scripps Company) became the first stations in the country to identify themselves using Action News as full-time station branding (for both local newscasts and entertainment programming) with no station number. Today, Action News innovations have been incorporated into newscasts across the country. In 2000, WestNet Wireless launched the first Action News brand online with its web-broadcast style format for the markets of Calgary, Alberta and Santa Barbara, California WestNet also owns the trademark for Action News in Canada and even owns the domain Although Action News originated at WPVI, it is Cox Enterprises, whose stations in Atlanta and Jacksonville adopted the format, that owns the Action News trademark for broadcasting services. Outside the United States, the Action News title was used by the following television stations: Germany's RTL II (then known as RTL2) in the 1990s CKCO-TV in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, in the 1980s and 1990s NWS-9 in Adelaide, Australia, in the 1980s Netherlands' SBS 6 since its inception in 1995 until 2006 Colombia's Caracol TV (then as a production company for Inravisión) as Noticias de Acción in the 1980s Theme When WFIL originally adopted the Action News format in 1970, the program was introduced with the "Action News Theme". The theme was written by Temple University student Tom Sellers, who had briefly been in Daryl Hall's band Gulliver and later formed The Assembled Multitude, and was arranged as a brass-driven rock song. The entire theme was offered through The Philadelphia Inquirer, as a single sided 45 RPM record for about 25¢. Two years later, the station (under its new call sign WPVI) replaced the "Action News Theme" with Al Ham's "Move Closer to Your World". WPVI continues to use this theme after four decades, even as others have stopped using it, although it has been remastered several times (which have included the removal of a bongo line) in order for the theme to sound less dated. In 1996, the station replaced the original Al Ham theme with a fuller, orchestral version performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Viewer outcry caused the station to drop the new version within five days. Action News offered the first evening newscasts to be solo anchored by