Do you know what a chyron is?There’s a famous clip from the Paramount+ TV show, The Good Fight. Adrian Boseman (Delroy Lindo) appears on a cable show segment that goes viral. During the fictional show within the show, a little strip of text is at the bottom of the screen: “Roundtable: Is Racism a One-Way Street?” (You may have seen this clip on TikTok, where it frequently makes the rounds.)But what about that text? That little overlay is called a chyron. Its main job is to quickly display key information, like names, titles, quotes, headlines, or breaking news, to help viewers.In the age of X (formerly Twitter) and Snapchat, when our attention spans have shrunk to the size of a peanut, chyrons serve as the little CliffNotes of broadcast journalism. You might want to use them to lend your film some journalistic authenticity, so you should know what they are and what they’re used for. Let’s dive in! What Is a Chyron?Originally a small high-tech firm based in New York, Chyron Corporation pioneered broadcast graphics creation, playout, and real-time data visualization for live television production in the ‘80s. Chyron Corporation revolutionized the television industry with its pioneering Chyron system, which became the industry standard for creating and displaying lower thirds.Chyron soon became synonymous with its primary product, and that’s how we came to call that graphical news-ticker on the lower third the chyron, regardless of which technology or company created it.Chyron: DefinitionA chyron is a digital, text-based graphic that appears...
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