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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 ...
Simulated ticker displays, named after the original machines, still exist as part of the display of television news channels and on some websites—see news ticker. One of the most famous outdoor displays is the simulated ticker scrolling marquee called "The Zipper" located at One Times Square in New York City.
In 1926, Reilly proposed the idea of installing a news ticker bulletin on the Times Tower to the owner of the New York Times Adolph Ochs and deputy Arthur Hays Sulzberger. They all signed a contract July 26, 1928. [2] It took 8 weeks to install the display with work being done 24 hours a day in order to meet the contracted deadline.
The layouts used differ between television stations and countries, and information displayed may include things such as main news topics and headlines within the lower third, channel logos, a news ticker, a time clock, and in some cases weather and information in the economic and financial fields.
Ticker can mean: Ticker tape, the paper strip output by a stock ticker machine; Ticker symbol, codes used to uniquely identify publicly traded companies on a stock market; News ticker, a small screen space on television news dedicated to headlines or minor pieces of news; Ticker, an action film directed by Albert Pyun
Ticker News (stylised as ticker NEWS), also known simply as Ticker, is a streaming news channel based in Melbourne, Australia. The channel was founded by former Sky News Australia reporter Ahron Young. According to Young, the channel has 3.2 million monthly viewers as of August 2023. [1]
In 1995, ESPN2 debuted a sports news ticker, dubbed by Production Assistant Onnie Bose as the "BottomLine Update." It is a persistent ticker which stayed at the bottom of the screen at all times during most programming, unlike ESPN, who only showed their own at the :18 (formerly :28) and :58 of each hour (accompanied by an audio cue, which has since been adapted as the alert tone for ESPN's ...
The Financial News Network (FNN) was an American financial and business news television network launched on November 30, 1981. The network aimed to broadcast programming nationwide, five days a week, for seven hours a day on 13 stations in an effort to expand the availability of business news for public dissemination.