news ticker

See also: newsticker

English

Noun

news ticker (plural news tickers)

1. A device, used primarily in the 20th century, which printed out incoming news stories on paper tape.
   • 1929, Alliston Cragg, Understanding the stock market: a handbook for the investor:

     Supplementing the quotation tickers are the news tickers. These operate on the same principle as the former, but print current news having stock market value on a band of paper about six inches wide.

2. Any device for displaying incoming news stories.

   My new cell phone has a news ticker feature.

3. A line of text that moves across the lower part of a television screen or monitor, showing the latest news.

Synonyms

• (line of text on screen): news crawl

Translations

device, used primarily in the 20th century

• German: Nachrichtenticker m
• Spanish: cintillo noticioso m

any device for displaying incoming news stories

• German: Nachrichtenticker m

See also

• lower third
• stock ticker

Further reading

• “news ticker”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.