I also remember SNL mocking the screen space being crowded by Bloomberg and then MSNBC...definitely mid-90's and insider probably got the joke better than the general public.
Also watched Eisen-Cohn and I recall, specifically, they said the ESPN ticker was normalized after 9/11 when it became normal for almost all channels. I have never liked it because it practically invites muting or multi-task viewing after you've worked pretty hard on writing and editing compelling visuals. But SOMEBODY must like it and if it's a decent revenue stream, forget about it ever going away.
You're right in that Eisen recalls the ticker was a post 9/11 add to ESPN, but ESPN2 had featured one (called "The Bottom Line") by the mid-90s. CNN definitely had one on its "Headline News" sibling from early on. Local stations added them when the technology was reasonably cheap to do so.
I also remember SNL mocking the screen space being crowded by Bloomberg and then MSNBC...definitely mid-90's and insider probably got the joke better than the general public.
Also watched Eisen-Cohn and I recall, specifically, they said the ESPN ticker was normalized after 9/11 when it became normal for almost all channels. I have never liked it because it practically invites muting or multi-task viewing after you've worked pretty hard on writing and editing compelling visuals. But SOMEBODY must like it and if it's a decent revenue stream, forget about it ever going away.
You're right in that Eisen recalls the ticker was a post 9/11 add to ESPN, but ESPN2 had featured one (called "The Bottom Line") by the mid-90s. CNN definitely had one on its "Headline News" sibling from early on. Local stations added them when the technology was reasonably cheap to do so.