25 June 2016

chyron

[kahy-ron]

(n.)

– television graphics that occupy the lower area of a TV screen, originally coined by the Chyron Corporation which develops and manufactures on-screen graphics; now a commonly-used term for such graphics on TV broadcasts worldwide

– An electronically generated caption superimposed on a television or cinema screen.

Example sentences

One of the other notable things they do is that they flash a chyron on the bottom that reads ‘Source: Social Security Administration’.

Fox then displayed a chyron of the last few winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.

At the end, a chyron appears reading: “HBO Sunday….American Life.”

chyron error

– an error in a Chyron, such as: ‘UK votes to leave the UN’ (when it should have read ‘Britain votes to leave the EU’)

Today’s quote

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

– George Orwell

On this day

25 June 1903 – birth of George Orwell (born Eric Arthur Blair), Democratic Socialist and English author of works such as ‘Nineteen-Eighty Four‘, ‘Animal Farm‘, and ‘Homage to Catalonia‘. Died 21 January 1950.

25 June 1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is first published.

25 June 1978 – the Rainbow Flag, symbol of gay pride, is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.