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Marquee Cinemas, a movie theater chain in the United States; Marquee Club, commonly called the Marquee, a rock club in London; Marquee element, an HTML tag that makes text scroll across the page as if on a marquee; Marquee Sports Network, a Chicago-based regional sports cable channel; Marquee Theatre, a concert venue in Tempe, Arizona, US
A marquee outside The Anthem advertises a sold-out Bon Iver concert. The current usage of the modern English word marquee, that in US English refers specifically to a canopy projecting over the main entrance of a theater, which displays details of the entertainment or performers, was documented in the academic journal American Speech in 1926: "Marquee, the front door or main entrance of the ...
The marquee tag is a non-standard HTML element which causes text to scroll up, down, left or right automatically. The tag was first introduced in early versions of Microsoft 's Internet Explorer , and was compared to Netscape 's blink element , as a proprietary non-standard extension to the HTML standard with usability problems.
Marquee Sports Network is a regional sports network operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group and the Chicago Cubs, launched on February 22, 2020. It is devoted exclusively to Cubs baseball, replacing a trio of channels (cable channel NBC Sports Chicago and broadcast partners WLS-TV and WGN-TV ) as the exclusive broadcaster of Cubs games not shown ...
The Marquee Club was a music venue in London, England, which opened in 1958 with a range of jazz and skiffle acts. It was a small and relatively cheap club, in the heart of London's West End . It was the location of the first live performance by the Rolling Stones on 12 July 1962.
A letter board or letter sign, also known as marquee, is a customizable form of signage that employs individually movable letters of the alphabet.They are used by, e.g., movie theaters to list the current roster of films, churches to display the titles of sermons, and other buildings, people, and institutions whose signs are required to change on a regular basis.
The basic design has changed little in thousands of years. A pole marquee consists of a roof canopy supported by tall central poles ("king poles") tensioned using side lines connected to ground pins (or stakes) and smaller supporting poles ("side poles"). The king poles support the bulk of the weight, while the side poles give the fabric shape.
A marquee is a large tent used as a temporary building. They have long been used for circus or other performances, fairs, banquets, large weddings, religious tent revival events or, more recently corporate entertainment events. Traditionally made of canvas, modern "party tents" are more likely to use PE (polythene) or, for higher quality, PVC.