supercaption

An on-screen caption identifying the place and people being shown.

Noun

  1. An on-screen caption identifying the place and people being shown.
    • A notable difference here is that whereas the BBC uses supercaptions in 15 percent of all items, ITN uses them in 28 percent. - 2009, Peter Beharrell, Howard Davis, John Eldridge, Bad News, page cxlviii:
    • On only five occasions did correspondents or reporters appear in the studio without supercaptions; Jones on News Extra, Wain on First Report and Colebourne from the Midlands and Delahaye from the North, Luton and...

Origin

From super- + caption.

Forms

supercaptions