Chyron Corporation
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| Genre | Broadcasting |
| Founded | 1966 |
| Headquarters | Melville, New York, USA |
| Website | www |
The ChyronHego Corporation, formerly Chyron Corporation, headquartered in Melville, New York, is a company that specializes in broadcast graphics creation, playout, and real-time data visualization for live television, news, weather, and sports production. ChyronHego’s graphics offerings include hosted services for graphics creation and order management, on-air graphics systems, channel branding, weather graphics, graphics asset management, clip servers, social media and second screen applications, touchscreen graphics, telestration, virtual graphics and player tracking.
Chyron corporation played a pioneering role in the 1970s developing broadcast titling and graphics sytems. Use of Chyron's graphics generators, first by the major New York City based US television networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, ushered in a new era of much more lively and informative news and sports coverage on broadcast television and later on cable TV. Chyron as a corporation became very successful by the early 80s capturing a 70 per cent market share in its field. In 1982 Chyron was the most profitable company on Long Island and in 1983 Chyron achieved a market capitalization of 112 million dollars, very high at the time for a small high-tech firm before the age of dot-com and the internet.
The Chyron graphics generator technology was originated by Systems Resources Corporation, founded in 1966 by Dr. Francis Mechner and the engineer Eugene Leonard as equal partners and sole directors and shareholders. Mechner had just sold his educational technology company Basic Systems, Inc. to Xerox Corporation, and Leonard had sold Digitronics Corporation, of which he had been president. Mechner and Leonard had previously worked together during the late 1950s at Schering Corporation, creating a computerized data collection and analysis system for its behavioral psychopharmacology laboratory.
At Systems Resources Corporation Mechner provided all capital for its first five years of operation. Leonard provided his engineering capabilities. During 1966-1972 Systems Resources Corporation developed several innovative digital technology-based products, including a digital graphics generator for displaying letters on the television screen that it named “Chiron,” named after the Centaur of the Greek mythology. The device controlled the edging of the displayed characters in a manner that took background variables into account.
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