Chicago station’s ticker ‘freezes’ and experiences ‘shrinkage’

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Is it so cold in Chicago that one of its TV station’s tickers “froze” and experienced, in the wise words of George Constanza, “shrinkage”?

Of course, this is a bit of play on words, but during a live interview with Chicago mayoral hopeful John Kozlar, the WFLD’s ticker completed running a series of closings during the Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019 broadcast.

Detail of the text that was so condensed it was illegible.

After the last closing “crawled off the screen,” a super condensed block of illegal text popped on screen at around 8:35 a.m. local time.

The ticker appeared this way through the remainder of the interview and a tease for the 9 a.m. hour of “Good Day Chicago” but was fixed when the show returned from break.

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