05-03-2023, 02:54 PM
(05-03-2023, 02:38 PM)gottago Wrote: I hope some changes are made to the ticker when the new channel fully launches. I assume the idea is they copy and paste headlines from the website and you go on there if you want to read more, but putting things like "Ukraine war: The Moldovan enclave surrounded by pro-Russian forces" totally out of context at the bottom of the screen is just meaningless and not useful in anyway. I wonder if you even really need a ticker these days.
And the term "Interactive" to describe their URL and a few other online bits feels very BBCi.
The problem with tickers is that they are never, ever used properly - and this is on both the BBC and Sky. When there is breaking news, the ticker nearly always just repeats what the breaking news is - rendering it pointless. Really, a ticker should be there to provide other stories whilst the breaking news is happening on the rest of the screen. It should be a complement to the main product (i.e. the rolling news).