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Cheeky
Cheeky asked in Education & ReferenceWords & Wordplay · 6 years ago

whts the word for : text or words which appears in screen during TV programs?

whats the exact word for it

Update:

i did'nt mean : subtities and captions

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  • Dave
    Lv 4
    6 years ago

    Subtitles

  • Joe
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    There's an "insider" term that nobody's mentioned yet: Chyron (pronounce: Ki-ron, long i, short o).

    Chyron is the company that popularized live captioning on TV screens; the term has become generic.

    Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chyron
  • Love
    6 years ago

    subtitles or Closed captioning

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