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 of latest news, that moves across the lower part of a television screen or monitor.

Synonyms

• (line of text on screen): news crawl

See also

• stock ticker