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The Motograph News Bulletin, also known as the Zipper, was a 380-feet-long electromechanical news ticker display that wrapped around One Times Square. [1] History
One Times Square remained a major focal point of the area due to its annual New Year's Eve "ball drop" festivities and the introduction of a large lighted news ticker near street-level in 1928. The Times sold the building to Douglas Leigh in 1961. Allied Chemical then bought the building in 1963 and renovated it as a showroom. Alex M. Parker ...
An example of a television news ticker, at the very bottom of the screen. News ticker on a building in Sydney, Australia. A news ticker (sometimes called a crawler, crawl, slide, zipper, ticker tape, or chyron) is a horizontal or vertical (depending on a language's writing system) text-based display either in the form of a graphic that typically resides in the lower third of the screen space ...
Times Square New Year's Eve celebration is in its 120th year. The tradition of thousands of people crowding to watch a shimmering ball be lowered in Times Square began in 1907, though the first ...
The rain stopped about a half-hour before the 11,875-pound ball, covered with 2,688 crystal triangles and 32,256 LEDs, dropped from One Times Square — a tradition dating back to 1907.
NEW YORK -- The ball that will drop in Times Square to usher in 2025 has been unveiled days before its final run. Organizers of the iconic New Year's Eve party in New York City screwed the last ...
Times Square is a busy intersection of art and commerce, where scores of advertisements – electric, neon and illuminated signs and "zipper" news crawls – vie for viewers' attention. Notable examples include:
A man who appeared to be homeless was found dead inside a 1 train at the busy Times Square subway station Sunday afternoon after a fellow rider called authorities for help, police and law ...