Everyone wants to be a Presenter

As mentioned in previous posts, Chyron has a presentation area on the booth.  The presentation explains the message of Distributed Centralization.  During the show the presentations were done by Phil Carmichael, Director of Product Marketing or Kristy Weir, Product Specialist alternating throughout the show.  However, our very own Midwest Regional Sales Manager, Randy Dickerson, decided that he would like to channel his broadcasting anchor days and take a turn at giving the presentation.  Like Phil and Kristy, Randy did a fantastic job at helping explain the message during the presentation!

Press Exposure is at an All-Time High

As a result of the press conference, Chyron has received some great exposure from the press.  While reading the NAB Daily this morning, I found a paragraph about Chyron in a write up from the floor of the South Hall Lower.  Below is the piece of the article written by Bob Kovacs of TV Technology.

“Even paragons of the broadcast equipment industry such as Chyron are embracing the Web.  Chyron just introduced services that let you edit video and creat graphics anywhere you can get online, and the company will host this content on its own Web servers.  Chyron has obviously hit a nerve, as the company’s large booth was jumping every time I looked.”

Other articles that came out of the press conferences include:

Chyron’s AXIS Aims for the Clouds

Chyron Introduces HyperX3 Graphics System

Chyron Upgrades AXIS

Software-as-a-Service is in the Spotlight

Today our very own Jim Martinolich gave a conference paper on Software-as-a-Service being accepted in the Broadcast market.  The paper was given during the Broadcasting Engineering Conference at the show.  Jim did an excellent job of explaining how SaaS services such as Chyron’s AXIS product are of extreme value, as they provide exceptional ROI to stations.

Back on the booth, we were still consistently busy giving demos, presentations and meeting with clients.  More pictures of the booth are below.

Busy Start to NAB

Today was the start of the NAB show in Las Vegas.   This year Chyron is doing things a bit different.  Normally we showcase products at each workstation on our booth.  However, in 2009, Chyron is focusing on solutions for our customers.  We have the following workstations on our stand: Newsroom Production, Graphics Production, Sports, Channel Branding & Promotions, Centralization, Digital Signage as well as our theather presentation of Distributed Centralization.  Also on our booth, will be 5 AXIS Partners.  These partners all bring something different to the AXIS services for our clients.

The booth was pretty busy.  Multiple customers stopped by to view our presentation as well as our demos.  One of the big hits of the show was our 3D graphics station with footage from the NBA All-Star Weekend!  Below are some images from the show.

Update – Click here to see what one of our freelancers thought of the 3D graphics.

Virtual NAB

Not attending NAB? Don’t worry Chyron is bringing NAB directly to you! See what we are introducing and showcasing at the show by watching our podcasts.

Don’t Forget To Visit Chyron At NAB

Don’t forget to visit Chyron at NAB, SL1420, and see Distributed Centralization. Chyron understands your constraints, business models and requirements and will be offering rapid ROI in a truly collaborative environment utilizing centralized graphics distribution & resources.

New for this year is HyperX³. Driven by Chyron’s award-winning Lyric PRO 7.1 advanced 3D creation and playback application, HyperX³ includes an advanced feature set of software for easily creating 3D pie charts, bar charts and financial line charts. HyperX³ has the power to playout some of the most complicated graphics used in production today. Now, two channels of real-time HD graphics can be played out together, including full frame Quicktime and avi files, further improving ROI and greatly enhancing production flexibility.

Also being shown at NAB this year will be AXIS with OMS (Order Management Solution) an effective and organized method to customize, centralize and output the most creative digital content. Offering both self fulfillment of templated graphics and order placement for original content, AXIS with OMS provides real-time reporting at all stages of production.

iRB (Intelligent Rundown Builder) is a revolutionary, browser-based, tool for the creation, modification and deletion of running orders which allows you to have a newsroom-style workflow without the newsroom system (NRCS).

Channel Box V3.0 offers superior ROI with an enhanced feature-set including self-adjusting ‘Content Awareness’ and VDS’s PromoLite, making automated promo generation simple and efficient. In addition, it supports BXF and EAS (Emergency Alert System) with an EAS HD option available.

NAB Festivies Start Off With Chyron’s Press Conference

The Sunday prior to the opening off the NAB show at 8am the place to be is the Chyron press conference.  Before the start of the conference Bob Kovacs from TV Technology stopped by to say hi!  Bob wins the award for the Best Tie of the Day!  His guitar tie definitely stirred up conversation with everyone in the room!!

The press conference went off with a BANG!  The 40 or so journalists that attended the event learned exactly what Distributed Centralization is all about.  CEO, Michael Wellesley-Wesley and COO, Kevin Prince went over the new theme for the year, as well as the new enhancements that we launched at the show.  New for 2009 is the HyperX³, EAS-HD, iRB, Channel Box Version 3 as well as AXIS enhancements that will be available in our summer release.  Also mentioned during our press conference was the mention of our AXIS Partners.  During the show five partners, including Asseto, Txtstation, Forbidden Technologies, Polopoly and MaxT Systems, will be on our booth.

What is Chyron showing at NAB?

Nobody provides true ROI like Chyron, and this NAB will be all about providing you with the tools to get the most out of your existing infrastructure and future equipment purchases.

While giving you the option of utilizing all available playout systems to fulfill your operational objectives, Chyron’s professional offerings will show you real, verifiable ways to inexpensively enhance your graphics production.  We are not just nibbling at the edges with product price reductions, nor providing feature enhancements that do little for your bottom line.  Chyron will demonstrate a collaborative environment that will not only serve you well for years to come, but one which also delivers immediate results.