2010 Latin/South American PR Year in Review

2010 started off with changes within our Latin/South American sales team. In February, we announced the appointment of Juan Gonzalez as Regional Sales Manager responsible for Latin and South America. Gonzalez has been a product specialist for Chyron for more than five years and is a key figure in identifying elegant, effective fulfillment of broadcast graphics requirements.

Also in February, Chyron announced that Costa Rican television broadcaster Teletica, the country’s first television company, utilized Chyron’s HyperX graphics systems combined with Lyric PRO for their historical their Presidential and local elections.

Chyron’s HyperX on-air graphics system combines award-winning Lyric® PRO motion graphics features with a powerful video graphics processor able to simultaneously manipulate dozens of 3D layers of text, logos textures and movie objects, all in real-time. With our new Power Charts plug-in, dynamically generated 3D line, pie and bar charts from real-time data was used to display the election results giving the broadcaster a leading edge in reporting results to viewers. Utilizing Lyric PRO, touch screen messages were created for the live broadcast for the elections.

In July the world caught World Cup fever, as they rooted for their country to take home the trophy from the game. Chyron assisted Venevision, one of Venezuela’s largest television networks, to highlight match play of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa. The CodiStrator rounded out Venevision’s existing Chyron broadcast installation, which includes Chyron’s HyperX graphics systems.

The CodiStrator provided Venevision presenters with sophisticated, live telestration to spotlight and analyze game play for the World Cup matches, enriching the viewer experience. When game highlights were replayed in slow motion or freeze-framed for analysis, the presenter sketched and dropped graphics directly to the touch screen, pinpointing action, players and strategies.

MOOV SERVES UP GRAPHICS FOR WIMBLEDON

Chyron today has announced that UK’s broadcast graphics company “MOOV” is using Chyron HyperX graphics infrastructure for this year’s Wimbledon tennis championship on the BBC.

“MOOV” is the first graphics operation in the UK to realize the potential of Chyron’s newest software version, Lyric PRO 8. The biggest benefit of version 8 for “MOOV” was to easily create “Seeds Boards” with corresponding animations before they actually knew the winners. MOOV also wrote a new results control interface to the HyperX’s that uses XML updates from IBM.

MOOV Managing Director Duncan Foot said, “We have used Chyron graphic systems in the past for various sporting events with tremendous success. With the added features of Lyric PRO 8 and the power, flexibility and speed of the HyperX, we knew that it was the best choice for such a high profile event like Wimbledon.

Chyron Vice President of Sales, EAME, Paul Glasgow said, “MOOV is one of Europe’s most innovative graphics services providers.  We are delighted to contribute to MOOVs success at such a prestigious event.”

Major Station Group Standardizes on Chyron AXIS Graphics Platform

Fox Television Stations, Inc has entered into a multi-year agreement to utilize Chyron’s AXIS online content creation services at many of their stations.  Adoption of AXIS services represents the first enterprise-class graphics workflow solution for Fox Television Stations, which are already using numerous Chyron products such as Chyron’s graphic asset management server CAMIO, the multi- channel clip and still store system XClyps and established HyperX graphics systems. Integration with AXIS empowers Fox Television Stations to maintain total control of their On-Air graphics ‘look’ by self fulfilling graphics at the local level within the AXIS hosted environment.

AXIS is a game-changer that redefines the use of graphics, enabling the user to create more graphics at a higher quality and a lower cost by facilitating the rapid creation of daily breaking news graphics.  Because AXIS integrates directly with multiple content providers, cycle time from creation to air is drastically reduced and productivity greatly enhanced. AXIS tools, designed to be intuitive, can be used by everyone from reporters to production assistants to news producers, making graphics production far more efficient, with the added benefit of journalists and news producers retaining direct control of content and the ability to enhance any graphic look.

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