News ticker
The term news ticker or English News Ticker (often abbreviated Ticker ) originally stood for the Telegraph , which news reports from between the 1930s and 1990s, news agencies submitted, and was marked by the ticking noise that generated these devices at the receiver. A phrase used by moderators in current news reports was and is z. B. a sentence like "That just came over the ticker".
With the establishment of computer technology in the 1990s, transmission was initially switched from teletype networks to satellite data transmission. Satellite transmission is still widespread today, but telephone lines or the Internet are also often used for transmission. Although the historical teleprinters are no longer used by news agencies and their customers in German-speaking countries, the term news ticker is still very common. The software that displays the latest agency reports in the order in which they are received in newsrooms is very often called “ticker” or “news ticker”, although it does not make a ticking sound.
Due to the popularity of the term, news sites on the Internet or in teletext , in which headlines appear in text form and sorted according to the chronological order of their publication, are sometimes referred to as "news tickers" by the providers. In the USA in particular , the " news ticker " is also used as a name for the treadmill (as a crawling title running horizontally through the screen ), which displays messages at the bottom of the screen for news channels and thus disturbs the main program less than the scrolling title (runs vertically through the entire screen) .
On some news portals on the Internet, so-called "live tickers" are published on currently relevant topics such as current sporting events, natural disasters and important political events, which are expanded in content at short intervals with new information - mostly in the form of short messages .
Even in jingles of radio and television stations, which are used to announce a news program, a sound effect is often incorporated today, which is supposed to suggest the ticking sound of the historical news ticker.
Even today, individual messages are still separated from one another by several plus signs (+++) in the ticker text. They go back to the telegram in which the abbreviated statements were made recognizable by stop messages, represented by the plus signs (e.g. "schicket gelder +++ darbe +++ son"). In order to represent the supposed importance of today's ticker reports, the plus signs were adopted by the mass media as a stylistic device.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Glaser: The too muchization. Friday 1st April 2011
- ↑ Stefan Niggemeiner: Live there if nothing happens. FAZ.net, updated on March 24, 2014