History Main / Crawl

** The events of September 11th are the reason why tickers were brought back in the first place. With so many information coming in during the attacks and not enough time to read them on air, Fox News began running a ticker at the bottom to broadcast these additional informations. CNN and MSNBC soon followed, and the rest is history.

-->'''News crawl:''' Please make this girl stop cursing. It feels like I'm playing ''VideoGame/{{Diablo|I}}'' with the censor button.

* Exaggerated for satire in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', where an in-universe nature documentary about octopuses (''Ocean of Gossip'') has two news crawls that bounce all over the footage, all showing batshit insane weird news, mostly to do with horrific civilian militarism.

* At one point in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', Mettaton forces you to watch the live feed from his TV station of the action. The crawl at the bottom displays humorous news stories about enemies you've encountered, and differs depending on whether or not they lived. If you let the scene run long enough, the crawl finally ends with "HISTORIC NEWS TICKER HEADLINE SHORTAGE."

Found on TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks, such as Creator/{{CNN}}, this line of scrolling text provides viewers with the headlines while they are watching a report on, say, tax evasion. Also called a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_ticker news ticker.]] Any spoof of a news report is almost guaranteed to have a silly headlines populating this bar for the entire time for bonus jokes, which often requires one to rewatch the scene twice to catch everything. Said headlines may or may not be about a NoodleIncident.

-->'''News crawl:''' Please make this girl stop cursing. It feels like I'm playing ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' with the censor button.

* ''Film/TheMuppets'' has one as a FunnyBackgroundEvent during a montage (namely, when recruiting [[{{Eagleland}} Sam Eagle]]).

* In ''Videogame/SuperMarioSunshine'', while out in [[HubLevel Delfino Plaza]], a news crawl will be shown that gives updates on happenings all around the Isle Delfino. These updates are based around things you do in game that has effects on the island's status, such as the sunshine slowly returning and appearances of Shadow Mario, just to name a few.

-->'''News crawl:''' Please make this girl stop cursing. It feels like I'm playing ''Videogame/{{Diablo}}'' with the censor button.

* Music/{{Chamillionaire}}'s video for ''Hip Hop Police'' runs the names of rappers wanted by police on a fake news program's crawl.
* The video for A Perfect Circle's [[TheCoverChangestheMeaning creepy cover of "Imagine"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dunKAwRN3P8 has a fake news crawl]].

Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/DungeonCrawl'', the video game ''VideoGame/{{Crawl}}'', the 2019 film ''Film/{{Crawl}}'' or DungeonCrawling. Almost always either a FunnyBackgroundEvent or a MeaningfulBackgroundEvent.

* The headquarters for major news agencies may have purpose-built ones wrapped around the buildings they're located in to serve both as a news delivery mechanism and an implicit advertisement of that agency. The ''New York Times'' was the first major newspaper to install one with moving letters on lights, called the motograph, in 1928.

* In the ''WebComic/OzyAndMillie'' series about Isolde becoming a reporter, the news story she's covering features in its crawl "A public service announcement followed me home the other day" (a reference to Music/{{REM}}'s song "Bad Day" and possibly the music video for the same; see above) and "Help me I'm shrinking."

* In ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'', crawls ALWAYS appear as a FunnyBackgroundEvent when the Daily Bugle's new screen is shown. "Mistress Death opens new cupcake shop" is a hilarious example.

Found on TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks, such as Creator/{{CNN}}, this line of scrolling text provides viewers with the headlines while they are watching a report on, say, tax evasion. Also called a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_ticker news ticker]]. Any spoof of a news report is almost guaranteed to have a silly headlines populating this bar for the entire time for bonus jokes, which often requires one to rewatch the scene twice to catch everything. Said headlines may or may not be about a NoodleIncident.

* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' has featured a fake news crawl with headlines such as "Panda Murder-Suicide Shocks China"; "Wolf Blitzer Injured In Wolf Blitz"; "Mysterious Visitor From Future Wins Lottery Again"; "Anne Heche Leaves Husband For Pony."

* The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Intro To Political Science" has one of these during Troy and Abed's coverage of the class election. Examples: "Professor Slater Still Missing", "Basketball Team Loses Ball", "Professor Duncan Quits Drinking Again" and (pictured) "Tickers: Do we still watch them? Story at 12".

* The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Intro To Political Science" has one of these during Troy and Abed's coverage of the class election. Examples: "Professor Slater Still Missing", "Basketball Team Loses Ball", "Professor Duncan Quits Drinking Again".

* Several series by the Australian comedy team Creator/TheChaser have done this, beginning with NewsParody ''CNNNN'' and continuing in their 2004 and 2007 [[UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics election]] specials, ''[[Series/TheElectionChaser The Chaser Decides]]''. One episode even had a news crawl that summarised the original news crawl, and one had a news crawl for the vision impaired which basically filled the entire screen (in other words, you only saw three or four letters of the crawl at a time). It was also used briefly in the first episode of ''Series/TheChasersWarOnEverything'' only to be abruptly dropped.

* Japanese TV networks use news crawls, known in Japanese as "telops", to announce breaking news without interrupting the program in proccess. It's not just used for breaking news, as it also is used for weather updates and earthquake warnings.

* Several series by the Australian comedy team Creator/TheChaser have done this, beginning with NewsParody ''CNNNN'' and continuing in their 2004 and 2007 [[UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics election]] specials, [[Series/TheElectionChaser The Chaser Decides]]. One episode even had a news crawl that summarised the original news crawl, and one had a news crawl for the vision impaired which basically filled the entire screen (in other words, you only saw three or four letters of the crawl at a time). It was also used briefly in the first episode of ''Series/TheChasersWarOnEverything'' only to be abruptly dropped.

* The Australian comedy series ''[[Series/TheChasersWarOnEverything CNNNN]]'' featured a fake news crawl during every episode. One episode even had a news crawl that summarised the original news crawl, and one had a news crawl for the vision impaired which basically filled the entire screen (in other words, you only saw three or four letters of the crawl at a time). You can view every one of these crawls [[http://www2b.abc.net.au/cnnnn/gbk/newsbar/default0210.shtm here]], y'know, if you're bored.