The News Ticker Just Got a Huge Upgrade

· Breaker Labs

The news ticker is the strip of your board viewers read the most. Until now, all it could do was scroll your text. Now it has three new looks, runs your callouts without covering the board, and reports the break as it happens.

Three new styles

Broadcast

Like a sports channel: a slanted LIVE tag with a pulsing dot, a live clock and condensed type.

The Broadcast ticker: a LIVE tag, a clock, and condensed type with diamond separators

Markets

A stock ticker for your break: a BREAK tag, mono type, and your break's numbers shown like prices, for example HIGH BID $120 LAD.

The Markets ticker: a BREAK tag, the high bid shown as a stat, and mono type

Dot-matrix

LED type on a stadium-style dot grid, in Amber, Gold, Red or Ice.

The Dot-matrix ticker in amber LED type on a dot grid

Callouts that don't cover your board

In the Command Center, open Callouts and set Show on to Ticker. Your callout runs in the ticker band, so viewers still see every team. Two new quick callouts, LAST SPOT and PRICE DROP, are ready to tap.

A LAST SPOT callout running in the ticker band, with the board fully visible underneath

SOLD, with the buyer's name

Turn on Claim flash and every sale shows in the band for about three seconds: SOLD, the team, and its buyer if you use Buyer names.

The team's takeover always plays first, then the ticker, and nothing gets cut off. A callout that's showing when a team sells steps aside for the takeover and comes back afterwards, then the SOLD flash plays.

The ticker band showing SOLD LAD Dodgers and the buyer @cardqueen

The break, as it happens

Turn on Live break stats and the ticker keeps viewers up to date by itself: teams left, the team that just sold and its buyer, the high bid, your top teams and the teams you're holding for last.

Live stats on a second line under the messages: the team held for last, teams left and the team that just sold with its buyer

Change it mid-break, without a reload

The Command Center's Ticker tab now has Live stats and Claim flash switches next to your messages.

When the ticker moved into the Command Center in August, every update refreshed your board, so we said not to update it in the middle of a takeover. That's gone. Your changes now swap into the live ticker, and nothing else on the board moves.

Getting started

The news ticker and everything in this update are Pro features, included in the 7-day free trial. Open a Team Tracker, go to Text & Banners → News Ticker and pick a style. Your existing boards don't change until you turn something on.

Every setting, from label tags to spacing, is in the News Ticker guide.