CNN News Ticker

According to Digital Spy today :

'CNN International has today unveiled a new set of on-screen graphics, with a new colour scheme and making a permanent feature out of the scrolling news ticker at the bottom of the screen.'

Full article:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/displayarticle.php?id=4820

Well, that's me finished with CNN then.  That news ticker is bloody irritating, and is no less irritating than what Sky News tried during the General Election.  

I suppose I could make it disappear with a strip of black sellotape, maybe ?

You must have a short attention span because I watch CNN a lot and if I don't want to read was on the ticker, I look at the other part of the screen and forget all about it. I think that the ticker is great for news channels and that it should be on them all.

But remember CNN has had the ticker since Sept. 11th so their hasn't been muches changes at all unless you don't watch the channel.

There's been a big fight here about the tickers - they showed up on 9/11, and haven't left since. CNN US, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, ESPN, ESPN2 and Court TV are all carrying it in varying degrees. Court TV only has it during court coverage during the day. Fox News' ticker (probably the most annoying one, mind you) has been running 24/7, but on Saturday & Sunday afternoons, it changes to a score ticker to give the current football/basketball/hockey scores.

ESPN & ESPN2 don't have it as a crawl, but as a strip that just changes from game to game showing scores and the occasional sports headline. Both of those nets dump the ticker (outside of the ongoing :28/:58 updates) during live programming.

Of course ESPNEWS carries their own modified ticker similar to Sky Sports News, as does Fox Sports (but only during the soon-to-be-cancelled National Sports Report, their Regional Sports Reports, and 'The Best Damn Sports Show Period')
My only hope now is that the local stations don't bandwagon on this trend.

M