Before revision: News ticker on a building in Sydney, Australia A news ticker (sometimes called a crawler, crawl, slide, zipper, or ticker tape ) 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 on a television station or network (usually during news programming) or as a long, thin scoreboard-style display seen around the facades of some offices or public buildings dedicated to presenting headlines or minor pieces of news.
After revision: 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 on a television station or network (usually during news programming) or as a long, thin scoreboard-style display seen around the facades of some offices or public buildings dedicated to presenting headlines or minor pieces of news.