function startTickerNews() {
  // Define run time values
  newsCurrentStory     = -1;
  newsCurrentLength    = 0;

  // Locate base objects
  if (document.getElementById) {	
    newsAnchorObject = document.getElementById("tickerNews");
    runnewsTicker();   	
  } else {
    document.write("No Ticker.");
    return true;
  }
}


// Ticker main run loop
function runnewsTicker() {
  var myTimeout;  

  // Go for news next story data block
  if(newsCurrentLength == 0) {
    newsCurrentStory++;
    newsCurrentStory      = newsCurrentStory % newsItemCount;
    newsStorySummary      = newsSummaries[newsCurrentStory].replace(/"/g,'"');		
    newsTargetLink        = newsSiteLinks[newsCurrentStory];
    newsAnchorObject.href = newsTargetLink;
    newsPrefix 	     = "<span class=\"linkRed\">" + newsLeadString + "</span>";
  }

  // Stuff news current ticker text into news anchor
  newsAnchorObject.innerHTML = newsPrefix + 
    newsStorySummary.substring(0,newsCurrentLength) + whatNewsWidget();
  
  // Modify news length for news substring and define news timer
  if(newsCurrentLength != newsStorySummary.length) {
    newsCurrentLength++;
    myTimeout = newsCharacterTimeout;
  } else {
    newsCurrentLength = 0;
    myTimeout = newsStoryTimeout;
  }

  // Call up news next cycle of news ticker
  setTimeout("runnewsTicker()", myTimeout);
}

// Widget generator
function whatNewsWidget() {
  if(newsCurrentLength == newsStorySummary.length) {
    return newsWidgetNone;
  }

  if((newsCurrentLength % 2) == 1) {
    return newsWidgetOne;
  } else {
    return newsWidgetTwo;
  }
}

var newsCharacterTimeout = 3;
var newsStoryTimeout     = 4000;
var newsWidgetOne        = "_";
var newsWidgetTwo        = "-";
var newsWidgetNone       = "";
var newsLeadString       = "";

var newsSummaries = new Array();
var newsSiteLinks = new Array();

var newsItemCount = 3;
newsSummaries[0] = "Hip Hop on Stage in Eferding am 13.4.2012";
newsSiteLinks[0] = "news/HipHop on Stage.html";

newsSummaries[1] = "Bilder der Dance Show online";
newsSiteLinks[1] = "fotogalerie/Danceshow2011/index.html";

newsSummaries[2] = "Das Kreaktiv hat sich um einen Raum erweitert!";
newsSiteLinks[2] = "news/Raummiete.html";



startTickerNews();