When the Action News format debuted in 1970, WPVI (then WFIL-TV) commissioned its first theme from Tom Sellers, a student at Temple University, and his group The Assembled Multitude.
Sellers's "Action News Theme" bore similarities to the later "Move Closer to Your World," being in the same key and centered around a trumpet lead and a timpani-driven climactic finish, but had more of a jazz rock arrangement.
In 1972, Triangle exited the television business and sold WPVI to Capital Cities Communications.
[5] The song had been used at WNAC-TV in Boston, Massachusetts since 1970; when WNAC's Mel Kampmann moved to WPVI in 1972, he brought the theme with him, aided by the fact that WKBW was also a Capital Cities station.
[6] "Move Closer to Your World" would be distributed across Capital Cities' stations along with a slightly modified version of WPVI's Action News format.