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Photo Gallery
![]() An artist at Hornet Inc. works on the Orbit Gum campaign for the Wrigley's sign in Times Square. |
![]() Hornet Inc. used traditional animation techniques to create characters for its recent Orbit Gum campaign, currently playing on the Wrigley's sign in Times Square. |
![]() One Times Square hosted the world's first electric sign: a news "zipper" installed in 1928. Today the Panasonic Astrovision sign, installed in 1996, serves as the focal point for the building, showing news, PSAs, and advertising. Photo by Stacy Tiderington. |
![]() Two prominent signs on Broadway. The ABC News sign is composed of nine LED strips above and below the windows of ABC Studios. The Wrigley's sign, owned by Clear Channel, shows a loop of promotional video played out via QuickTime files from a nearby NT box. Photo by Stacy Tiderington. |








