Sky News uses ‘150 box’ for election coverage

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You may remember an Atlanta station’s 14 box. And who can forget that same station’s epic 25 box the very next day? Well, Sky News says “I’ll see your 25 box and raise you.”
During its coverage of the general election, the British satellite news channel Sky News used a (insert whatever adjective comes after “epic” here) 150 box.
In fairness, not 150 boxes actually fit on the screen at one time — that would be silly, after all — but rather scrolled behind anchors on a giant video wall in the studio behind the anchors.
That 150 box even outdid the design we created to “help out” WSB-TV:
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Sky News, WSB-TV
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Cable News, Elections, Featured, Graphics