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MOOV and MST SYSTEMS Tee Up Scottish Open Graphics With Chyron HyperX³ On-Air Graphics Systems

Chyron today announced that seven Chyron HyperX³ on-air graphics systems were used for live coverage of the Barclays Scottish Open, July 7-10, at the Castle Stuart Golf Links in Inverness, Scotland. Throughout the golf tournament, MOOV Limited, provider of data-driven graphics for live sports and entertainment broadcasts, used two HyperX³ systems to provide presentation graphics for the BBC’s domestic feed. MST SYSTEMS Ltd, a specialist in graphics and scoring for golf tournaments, used another five HyperX³ systems for live scoring graphics and playout of custom graphics packages for the world feed and Sky Sports’ feed.

 

“Golf coverage is extraordinarily demanding in that the number and variety of graphics is enormous, as is the volume of live data driving those graphics,” said Duncan Foot, managing director at MOOV Limited. “Chyron’s HyperX³ systems provide the power required for visually striking 3D graphics, as well as the flexibility to interface with the software systems providing real-time data from around the course.”

 

MOOV Limited has become the graphics company of choice for leading broadcasters including BBC, ESPN, AI Jazeera, RTE, ITV, Sky Italia, and Channel 4. MST SYSTEMS has provided graphics and scoring facilities at six Ryder Cups, 11 Open Championships, and more than 1,000 other golf tournaments for the European Tour, the Asian Tour, One Asia tour, China Tour, and the LPGA. In delivering data-rich graphics for complex live sports, both MOOV Limited and MST SYSTEMS have come to rely on Chyron’s HyperX³ on-air graphics system.

 

For the Scottish Open, MOOV Limited created the BBC graphics package and MST SYSTEMS turned those graphics into templates that could be populated with data ranging from scores, statistics, and standings and then taken to air with Chyron systems. MOOV Limited also used the Chyron HyperX³ systems to air headline sequences in which live video from a critical drive, putt, or other stroke were shown with a full-screen graphic in real time without requiring rendering.

 

“Real-time 3D graphics have become a significant element of our service offering, and Chyron systems provide a stable, well-supported playout platform for these graphics,” said Stuart Paterson-Browne, software development manager at MST SYSTEMS. “Because Chyron systems are so well known across the industry, the HyperX³ and its Lyric software give us the flexibility to use experienced freelance operators and designers to create graphics, thereby freeing up internal developers to concentrate on expanding the services we offer our clients.”

 

“Our HyperX³ on-air graphics systems give innovative companies such as MOOV and MST SYSTEMS the combination of power and interoperability they need to bring exceptionally rich graphics, populated with dynamic live data, to golf broadcasts,” said Chyron’s Vice President of EMEA Sales, Paul Glasgow. “Telecasts from the Scottish Open this year demonstrated very clearly how MOOV and MST SYSTEMS’s work with leading networks is raising the bar for live event coverage, and it’s exciting that Chyron systems are central to this effort.”

 

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Chyron Names Christina Thomas Senior Account Executive

Chyron today announced the appointment of Christina Thomas as senior account executive for the company’s U.S. West Coast sales team. Under her new role, Thomas will be responsible for building and executing strategic sales plans in California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Hawaii, Montana, Alaska, and Wyoming.

“We are pleased to welcome Christina to our U.S.-based sales team. Her ability to forge customer relationships and break into new markets — combined with her extensive contacts on the West Coast — will be invaluable in her new role here at Chyron,” said Bruce Levine, vice president of North American sales at Chyron. “Christina’s previous experience in the broadcast industry also gives her a first-hand understanding of our customers’ immediate and long-term needs, particularly surrounding production workflow and content delivery.”

Thomas brings the experience and knowledge gained from a career in television news production and journalism before successfully migrating into a broadcast sales role. Before joining Chyron, Thomas served as West Coast area manager for Digital Broadcast. While at Digital Broadcast, she managed and developed master control, news, and archiving sales opportunities with a variety of broadcast and media clients, expanding the company’s business with new account wins and initiating a new stream of government business. Previously, Thomas was a newscast producer at KBAK-TV, where she boosted ratings by crafting compelling nightly newscasts.

Chyron Expands London Office With Three New Appointments

Chyron announces three new appointments for the company’s expanding London office. Industry veterans David Scott and Stephen Kelly join Chyron as EMEA regional sales directors, and Oliver Parker has been appointed as the company’s new EMEA product and demonstration specialist. All three positions will be based at the company’s Chiswick office, headed by Chyron’s Vice President of EMEA Sales, Paul Glasgow.

“It’s a real pleasure to welcome David, Stephen, and Oliver to the London office where they will focus on establishing new customer relationships and delivering our industry-leading broadcast graphics solutions to the EMEA markets,” said Michael Wellesley-Wesley, Chyron president and CEO. “The variety, breadth, and depth of experience they bring to our EMEA team — with more than 55 years of combined experience — will be invaluable in allowing us to identify and implement appropriate strategies for broadcasters across this dynamic market.”

David Scott will be principally responsible for Chyron sales in Russia and the Nordic countries. Scott joins Chyron after serving as senior broadcast enterprise account manager for Avid® Technology, where he was responsible for major successes with broadcasters such as the BBC, Red Bee Media, C4, and ITV. Prior to Avid, Scott was a broadcast regional sales manager for Pinnacle Systems and held senior roles at both Philips/BTS and Sony.

In his new role at Chyron, Stephen Kelly will be responsible for major markets including Southern and Western Europe. Prior to Chyron, Kelly served as enterprise and key accounts sales manager at Avid Technology. While at Avid, his primary responsibilities focused on new business development and expansion of sales across Northern Europe including key accounts like Sky, RTE, NBC, Reuters, and Peel Media. Previously, Kelly served in senior sales roles with Latens Systems, OmniBus, Nagravision/Lysis, and Snell & Wilcox.

As EMEA Product and Demonstration Specialist at Chyron, Parker will provide training and support across the region. Parker joins Chyron from BSkyB, where he worked as a live studio graphics operator. At BSkyB, Parker’s role included live, real-time graphics output in both studio and OB environments for Sky Sports News and other BSkyB programming and live events.

Chyron Offers Fast-Track Graphics Fixes

Chyron’s Creative Services Group, in addition to offering training on their equipment, can help customers facing a fast-approaching deadline to produce a graphics package for news, sports, elections or entertainment shows.The group’s head, Selena Cohen, says, “We are driven by crisis. We come into our own then.”

By Frank Beacham

TVNewsCheck, June 9, 2011 11:49 AM EDT

Chyron’s Creative Services Group has been in existence for only three years, but the group of four design professionals is earning a reputation as the go-to place for television graphics design when deadlines are closing in. “Sometimes we are driven by crisis,” said Selena Cohen, head of the Chyron Group. “We come into our own then.”

Chyron is a veteran creator of broadcast graphics systems and software, as well as a relatively new networked system called AXIS, which is a cloud-based graphics offering. But for some of Chyron’s customers, buying new gear doesn’t mean they have the trained talent on staff to build complex graphic designs.

Some television stations these days might not even have an art department at all. That’s where Creative Services comes in. It helps Chyron customers facing a fast-approaching deadline to produce a graphics package for news, sports, elections or entertainment shows.

“We have about 15 graphics packages that are turnkey,” Cohen said. “Stations can pick what they like. We can then have it ready in a week for them to go on air.  And it’s incredibly cheap.

“What a lot of television stations don’t realize is if they go to a design company and say come up with a new look, that design company gives them photo files,” she continued. “They don’t give them the graphics in a form that can go to air. The station has to hire someone else to create the templates for air. We have that pre-packaged. We are a one-stop shop. Stations can save anywhere from 20% to 60% using us. A lot of people just don’t budget for it.”

Just a couple of weeks ago, Cohen and another designer trained four employees of Raycom Media at Chyron’s headquarters in Melville, N.Y. One of the nation’s largest broadcast groups, Raycom purchased Chyron BlueNet graphics workflow products for all 31 of its news-producing stations. Each station is getting a two dual-channel LEX3.1 graphics system with Lyric Pro 8 software, a CAMIO server and iSQ remote monitoring and playout applications.

However, Raycom’s four employees had no experience with Chyron equipment and needed to produce some graphics quickly for the station group. Rather than traditional training, which is provided by another Chyron department, Raycom hired Creative Services to both train and create the graphics simultaneously.

The Raycom team knew what they wanted. But their designs were on several different formats from legacy graphics gear used at Raycom stations. None of Raycom’s staff were familiar with Chyron gear. In only four days, the Chyron team not only trained the four employees but produced 28 ready-to-air templates for Raycom.

“This number of graphics in only four days is an absolute record for us,” said Cohen. “They were an amazing group and it’s a credit to them.”

David Folsom, Raycom’s chief technology officer, convinced management to standardize all the group’s graphics systems to Chyron from a diverse group of other brands. He said rather than just trying to reuse the earlier graphics with the new systems, the company decided to try to create some new graphics during the training.

One of the attributes of Chyron’s Lyric 8 software, he said, is the ability to import certain elements of templates from other graphics systems. That capability saved a lot of time, he said.

“Everybody was thrilled with the results,” Folsom said. “We were hoping they would learn to operate the software in the week they were there. They did a good job of that, though there’s much more to learn.

“But they actually ended up with an end product we are going to be able to use. That was the big surprise — to have an end product that was useful as opposed to an end product that would be used as a learning tool.”

Another project Cohen remembers vividly was for the YES Network, the broadcast arm of the New York Yankees. YES already had Chyron gear, but needed quick help implementing a new graphics package designed by others.

“They had a brilliant design but at the last moment — two weeks before air — their person pulled out,” Cohen said. “They came to us and said we need help. For two weeks, there were two of us pretty much working full time on it.”

On a job that normally would take months, the Creative Services team made the 2010 season broadcast deadline for YES in those two weeks. “The turn-around time was remarkable, and there was absolutely no compromise in quality,” said Ed Delaney, vice president of the YES Network.

Creative Services did election graphics packages in 2008 and 2010 for Waterman Broadcasting in Fort Myers, Fla. (DMA 65), where the group owns WBBH, the NBC affiliate, and operates WZVN, the ABC affiliate. Between the two stations, Waterman produces 11 ½  hours of news programming each day.

Bob Hannon, Waterman’s director of production, had nothing but praise for Chyron’s Creative Services staff, who he said were incredibly efficient and very cost effective.

“It all went very smoothly,” Hannon said. “As usual with Chyron, one phone call got me the right person. The software enhancements between elections were done quickly. The thing about Chyron is they stand behind their product. It’s not like some companies where you pay a fee and are told they will get back to you in 24 hours. When I call I get a human being the first time.”

Creative Services is now a diverse international operation. Its election package was used two weeks ago in South Africa, where it sent a team of workers to assist. In April, it did graphics for NRK, the public broadcaster in Norway. Earlier, it did the graphics display work for the new Cowboys Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys.

Hannon said he became a true believer in Chyron on Christmas Eve 2009. “I had an equipment failure during the 11 p.m. news on Christmas Eve. I called Chyron after midnight,” he recalled. “Even though it was early Christmas morning, I got a call back in 15 minutes.  I had the solution the day after Christmas. You can’t ask for anything more than that.”

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U.K. Graphics Company MOOV to Attend Royal Wedding, Brings Chyron’s HyperX³ to the Party

Chyron  announced that MOOV, the graphics company of choice for leading broadcasters including BBC, ESPN, RTÉ, ITV, Sky Italia, and Channel 4, will be using two Chyron HyperX^³ on-air graphics systems to provide graphics for the BBC’s live coverage of the royal wedding of Prince William of Wales and Catherine “Kate” Middleton. MOOV installed one HyperX^³ system in a studio at the media village outside Buckingham Palace and a second at a temporary studio adjacent to Westminster Abbey, and together the Chyron systems will supply both studio graphics and graphics for the wedding service on April 29.

“We rely on Chyron’s HyperX^³ for many of the U.K.’s highest profile live sports and entertainment events, and the power and flexibility of the single-box system make it a good fit for our work on the royal wedding as well,” said Duncan Foot, co-founder of MOOV. “Incorporating premade graphics from the BBC into the HyperX^³ and Lyric graphics software is quite simple, and the system’s template-based approach to live graphics playout will make it easy to enrich the broadcast with rich visuals and timely details.”

Ideal for live sports channels, news stations, and outside broadcasts, the extremely fast, powerful, and easy-to-use HyperX^³ system features seamless creation-to-playout capability, real-time 2D/3D animation, built-in stereoscopic-ready 3D, and a host of hardware and software features. The turnkey on-air graphics system from Chyron is scalable to two independent channels and incorporates the award-winning Lyric^® PRO 8 graphics creation and playback software. With the product’s “scriptless” conditional intelligent transitions, Lyric PRO 8 improves the on-air look with ease and accuracy.  During the royal wedding, MOOV will use the Chyron systems to enhance live video with specially branded graphics providing details about people and places and to provide ongoing updates through informational tickers and crawls. In addition, MOOV will be showing animated maps to illustrate the route Kate will take on her way to Westminster Abbey and will broadcast messages, photos, and videos from viewer emails, texts, and Twitter posts.

“MOOV’s ability to consistently deliver and innovate using the latest in Chyron graphics and technology is world-class and should be commended,” said Paul Glasgow, vice president of sales, EMEA at Chyron. “We wish MOOV and everyone associated with this monumental event a successful day. I have every confidence that the output will be a credit to all involved.”

More information about the HyperX^³ and other Chyron solutions is available at http://www.chyron.com.

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