News tickers and screen savers

The best:

  • BBC NewsTicker        Excellent, free, easy to install with direct links to BBC news
  • CNN Newswatch The powerful web site and news organization now offers one of best personalized news services on the web called Newswatch. It's not free, but you can try it out for one week -- and you'll be sold. It offers ways for you to choose your headline topics, stock watches, and tickers. It continuously monitors news from CNN.com, CNN/Money, CNN/Sports Illustrated, major newswires, and over 2,000 regional, national, and global news sources.
  •   WorldFlash Ticker One of the first web sites to offer a news ticker as long as five years ago, this company continues to offer a free and vast array of international news and business that can scroll across your desktop. World sources include New York Times, , BBC, Sydney Herald from Australia, CP and CBC from Canada and other media from France,Spain and Germany.
  • NewsAnchor  "You have news" the announcer says on your desktop and you can read the latest flashes from CNN, ABC, BBC Science, and Reuters.  It's a free download and you can choose the news sources from their extensive, if largely American, list
  • Enewsbar Another of the fast-growing number of news tickers, this free service incorporates headlines from over 7500 sources in topics such as Business, Entertainment, Sports, and Internet.

The rest:

  •  Excite Assistant       Listen to Internet radio stations, receive alerts and summaries for your new mail messages, plus personalized news, photos, and stock performance straight to your desktop.
  • Lycos Personal Notifier
  • NetSanity
  • 7 am     Free ticker and Java news feed
  • EntryPoint         Formerly Pointcast. Articles from New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN and E! Online
  • Yahoo NewsTicker             Free service that runs as a news ticker providing content you can select from Reuters, Business Wire and others. Plus weather for your selected cities, the scores for your favourite teams
  • MSNBC              Microsoft and NBC offer you various (free) personal services -- including a personalized front page, a news alert and an offline reader.
  • Intellinews
  • Desktop News         Free ticker includes content from NBC, CNN, Business Week and lots of Internet magazines
  • AirMedia    Not free -- but promises to deliver content to your desktop with the latest technology and content.
  • IBM NewsTicker    Best for those with a permanent Net connection but the ticker takes up a lot of space. Free
  • AlphaConnect StockVue     Track your investments, check out your stocks  ... all for free.
  • Newshound  L.A.paper offers news clipping service

To Find other news tickers:

For more ways to personalize your news, return to JNet's Choose Your News Page. or select one of these sites: