Chicago Graphics Showcase Announced

Chyron and Roscor Corporation are pleased to announce that a one day graphics showcase open house will be conducted at the TheWit Doubletree Hotel in downtown Chicago on Tuesday, January 26th. Come see why over 5000 customers a day are using “Chyron in the Cloud.”

Chyron is synonymous for creating the best graphics solutions for “live” TV broadcast with major broadcasters worldwide. With new graphics technologies emerging in the traditional broadcast marketplace, Chyron will show your organization how it can create graphics locally or with a web connection, manage all those assets locally or in the Cloud, and finally broadcast them to a variety of media outlets including the web, print, and mobile phones.

Chyron’s Illinois based dealer, Roscor Corporation, will be sponsoring beverages throughout the day. Phil Carmichael, Chyron’s Director of Product Marketing, will be conducting the presentation sessions. Phil has an experienced history in live television graphics for sporting events including the Olympics, auto racing, golf, baseball, and football. He will be showing the latest workflow trends that major broadcasters are using for their high-end real-time 3D graphics for television sports and news applications.

We will also showcase, Chyron’s NEW Creative Services which offers numerous off-the-shelf HD news graphics packages. These packages have been carefully crafted to work with Chyron’s Lyric and Lyric PRO software. Purchase these as complete packages or let Chyron Creative Services implement them into your existing Chyron graphics system.

So come join us for some incredible looking graphics solutions from Chyron, the Company the Whole World Watches.

Please RSVP to Randy Dickerson, Chyron Regional Sales Manager.

The schedule for the event is

9:00am or 1pm – Chyron for News, the workflow from Creation to Playout.
Come see the tools Chyron has in place for streamlining your newsday workflow, from creating graphics and fulfilling templates. Our order management system completes the missing link when graphics are not yet available. We will demonstrate how creating, ordering, fulfilling and distributing graphics in a single location or across multiple locations simplifies your news day.

10:30am or 2:30pm – Chyron for Sports, workflow from Creation to Playout.
Come and experience why major broadcasters are choosing Chyron for televising the Olympics, Baseball, Football, Hockey, Basketball and Golf. Chyron Graphics systems provide the tools for quickly building and playing back compelling sports graphics.

11:30am or 3:30pm – Chyron for Master Control.
Find out why Channel Box is really “The Next Generation” of channel branding. Chyron’s Channel Box instantly maximizes all revenue opportunities by implementing graphics from its award winning Lyric PRO software for great looking promos, tickers, elections, breaking weather and school closings in both automated and manual operation environments for single and multi-channel operations.

Don’t Miss Chyron at IBC 2009

Chyron is fast becoming the graphics solutions provider of choice for top broadcasters throughout the world. Don’t forget to visit us at IBC, stand 7.D11 to see why and experience firsthand how you can ‘create’ the best looking graphics, ‘manage’ the process by streamlining your business and ‘broadcast’ to a variety of media outlets.

Centralization – With Chyron, centralization now becomes virtual. Anyone, anywhere, can create compelling content instantly and broadcast in minutes, while maintaining a local style for each media outlet. Content is distributed automatically and can be shared across the entire user base. Custom graphics can be ordered and deadlines can be tracked, assigned and managed directly.

Channel Branding & Promotions – Channel Box is all about providing the tools to do everything you need, and more, LIVE. Build a station promo just once and let Channel Box insert new voice-over tags, text and graphics during the live broadcast. Single elements are created, managed and maintained by promotions and automation and content can be used on multiple playout platforms without any re-rendering.

Newsroom production – Increase the production of accurate graphics in less time, with reduced effort, using Chyron’s MOS news graphics production solution. Utilizing Chyron’s solution will provide impressive reductions in cycle time. Seamless integration with Chyron’s graphics platforms and clip servers provides a tightly integrated solution for the most demanding graphics workflow needs.

Graphics Production – Driven by Chyron’s visionary interFuse™ Technology, Lyric PRO 7.1 unleashes your creative power and enables sophisticated, one-of-a-kind graphics and workflow. At the core, a new, powerful continuous graphics rendering engine provides unrivaled, real-time, high-end 3D animations. Lyric PRO 7.1 is the most powerful solution available today with commanding new feature sets which continue to transform graphics creation, playout and workflow. Push your pixels to the limit with the Power Charts option and enable visualization of line charts, pie charts and bar charts with real-time, data-bound and data-driven primitives essential for live news, sports and elections.

Join Chyron at IBC for a complete run down of the world’s most cost effective broadcast graphics solutions today.

New Podcasts Available

Now available on our YouTube Channel and website are now available for CAMIO and the new revolutionary, browser-based, tool for the creation, modification and deletion of running orders, iRB.  Also, don’t forget to check out the new OMS tutorial on How To Create an Order!!

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.