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CNN Abandons the Crawl for the Flipper (nytimes.com)
7 points by dcurtis on Dec 22, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Finally! The Crawl always annoyed me and distracted me the main programming. Interestingly, I think the Crawl is really a US trend (there is pretty tough cable news competition) as CNN International and BBC World, when I've seen them, employed a Flipper.

Hopefully ESPN will do something similar so I'm not distracted by off-season MLB moves while I'm trying to watch basketball.


Interesting. I've done some consulting work for one of the companies that makes TV graphics visualization software (that does the flips, the crawls, the statshots, etc...), here in Tirol:

http://vizrt.com/




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