ENROLL NOW in the all new Chyron University

Today more than ever, you need credentials to validate your professional expertise and stand out in a competitive landscape. Chyron now offers a certification program as part of the all-new Chyron University, under the direction of J. Marty Dormany, Director of Training & Freelance Relations. Certification classes will be held at Chyron facilities and will be conducted by one of Chyron’s professional workflow specialists.

To receive certifications, students are required to pass two exams, both written and practical. One passed, students will receive such perks as:

• Chyron certified logo for social media, websites, business cards, etc.
• Lyric PRO offline software & dongle
• Membership in Beta Test Program
• “Featured Freelancer” on Chyron.com
• and much more

For more information or to enroll in a certification class today, please contact Training Logistics Coordinator, Jeanine D’Angelo at jdangelo@chyron.com.

Get with the Beat with Chyron

Are you attending the Promax|BDA’s Station Summit next week in Las Vegas? Be sure to stop by the Chyron Suite for a chance to win a set of Beats headphones and other great prizes!

Introducing Chyron MacroBank

The macro feature in Lyric is basically a collection of objects which have properties (attributes) and methods. The objects are proxies, or interfaces, to corresponding objects internal to Lyric. Through the VBScript computing language, you can access these objects, set or retrieve their properties, and call their methods to execute operations within Lyric.

Are you in need of a particular macro? You are in luck! The new Chyron MacroBank, formerly known as BrightBug.net, is now on our User Forum. This bank includes over 100 macros including Target Countdown Times, Populate a Lyric Crawl from a Text or .rtf File, Bar Scale Based on the number value entered in the template and many more. Please note MacroBank is currently available to registered users. To register for our Forum, please click here.

Albania’s News 24 Streamlines Graphics Capabilities With Chyron Channel Box² and LEX³•¹

New Deployment at Leading 24-Hour News Channel Marks Chyron’s First Installation in Albania

 

LONDON — Chyron today announced that News 24, Albania’s premier 24-hour news channel, has upgraded its on-air graphics capabilities with the company’s Channel Box² channel branding and LEX³•¹ graphics systems. The Chyron solutions will be a key new component in News 24’s migration to HD broadcasting slated for later this year.

“We have achieved fantastic results with Channel Box² and LEX³•¹. With a single computer, we can now perform the job that three separate systems and three different software licenses were doing before — and with absolute top-quality results,” said Arianit Filopati, director of production, News 24. “The Chyron systems have accelerated uploading and delivery of news to air, and since our journalists are spending much less time on graphics presentations, they can focus on their real work of gathering and delivering the news. With Chyron, our news broadcasts now have the most professional look of any in Albania.”

News 24 is Albania’s first 24-hour news channel and currently commands the largest market share for news broadcasting. Chyron’s Channel Box² and LEX³•¹ replace previous graphics systems that had been in place since 2002. These systems required three separate PCs for generating crawls, news subtitles in Albanian and English, and main titles for the live broadcast. Many graphics creation and data input tasks had been manual and time-consuming, requiring up to five journalists to cut and paste each set of data into the user interface.

By upgrading its equipment to the Chyron systems, News 24 was able to streamline many graphics and data input tasks. Deployed to facilitate the station’s channel branding, Channel Box²’s automated data handling capabilities and data gateways enable seamless import of news and graphical data — accelerating workflows for delivering news broadcasts to air. From one single Channel Box², the News 24 team is able to generate and playout 13 different graphical components that are broadcast day and night, including text, crawls, video DVE, animated logos, hour and date, and various clips in support of the current news topic.

The LEX³•¹ graphics playout system enables News 24 journalists to enhance each on-air news broadcast with a rich set of graphics and last-minute changes. In fast-paced live coverage, the LEX³•¹ system’s template-based text and graphics enable instant updates from data feeds and databases.

“The Albanian television industry is rapidly advancing and becoming extremely competitive. News 24 is committed to maintaining its market leadership by adopting leading-edge technologies — and one component is the ability to deliver a highly sophisticated on-air presentation that easily outclasses the competition,” said Viktor Tatai, regional sales manager at Chyron. “By adopting Chyron’s Channel Box² and LEX³•¹, News 24 has taken a significant step forward with systems that simplify workflows and accelerate delivery of highly complex and professional graphics components that complement news content.”

Social TV + Chyron = SHOUT

Get your audience in the conversation with SHOUT™.

For a limited time, you can try SHOUT, Chyron’s Social Media Editor, FREE for 30-days.

SHOUT lets you easily monitor Twitter conversations and then quickly select and route incoming Tweets, displaying the Tweets on-air using any Chyron Lyric™-based graphics system – including Channel Box!

With SHOUT, it’s easy to engage your viewers and make their voices an essential part of your programming.

Don’t wait! This is a limited time offer.

Download your free copy of SHOUT today and go from the Twitterverse to on-air in minutes.