That looks so amateurish.
How difficult would it be for SC9 to put it lower down (just covering the weather bit), and maybe yellow or red?
4 Likes
I get that these tickers are running as a community service for viewers, but at least display them in a way that doesnât greatly interfere with program/news bulletin On-Screen graphics!
This example of the ticker covering up information in the supers on Nine News Now looks a bit dodgy IMO, the size of the ticker text could probably be lowered a bit as well.
5 Likes
Isnât that the point of the ticker, to make people noticeâŚ
18 Likes
I doubt that SC would be creating different tickers for different programming. So it might be on and interrupting the news at the moment but later on it will be just normal programming and not over the top of anything.
2 Likes
Kind of defeats the purpose of having an emergency alert ticker. Make it even bigger if anything
8 Likes
It didnât look very emergency-like.
2 Likes
I agree that in this case it SHOULD cover the Nine News ticker, as you donât want viewers to be potentially reading information that is much less important.
It wouldnât hurt them to make a design that fits in with the Nineâs Breaking News theme.
2 Likes
I donât think it particularly matters if a bushfire alert message looks amateurish. In fact, it might even be better because it draws attention to the message and conveys a sense of urgency.
Compare that to the American one which fills the entire screenâŚ
5 Likes
That one I posted is the actual warning being issued from the government over the Emergency Alert System. The one youâve posted is a supplemental thing generated by the broadcaster following the initial warning.
2 Likes
Just noticed Nine News Illawarra weather report tonight was a repeat of last nights (Wednesday).
4 Likes
Thatâs my problem with it. Light blue is a calming colour.
An emergency warning is almost always different mixes of red, yellow and black. Thatâs because humans are hardwired from millennia of evolution to distrust/be more alert around those colours (see the most dangerous spiders - theyâre often those colours to scare away potential predators. They want to be left alone.)
3 Likes
Yeah Iâve heard about those. American governments of varying levels can disrupt the feed of local channels in times of emergency. Apparently it has also started happening lately in instances of child abduction too.
1 Like
So you would rather people panicked when they see an orange ticker, rather than remain calm with a blue one?
2 Likes
If the point of a ticker is to draw the attention of viewers toward an emergency, then yes I would say the colour choice is important here.
5 Likes
Is it an emergency or an information ticker? An information ticker can have the calming colours and shouldnât need to distract to the point of the WIN watermark but if itâs a full on emergency evacuation then the bigger and more colourful the better.
2 Likes
Yeah but itâs not a news ticker, itâs to relay a public warning, therefore shouldnât look like a news alert.
1 Like
Why not?
Nine Brisbane popup a normal 9 News super on normal programming with scrolling text whenever there is a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for that area.
2 Likes