Data is everywhere today. We’re nearly drowning in it. It literally surrounds us both at our workplaces and in our personal lives. There is no escape.

Here in the United States, election season is squarely upon us. News outlets from the largest networks to the smallest independent stations are buzzing with activity, each planning their coverage to one-up the competition.

To be a true pioneer, you must have first blazed the trail.

It might seem to some observers that the move to live 4K productions is moving at a snail’s pace. The early adopters, those consumers who made the jump from HD to UHD television sets almost three years ago, have relied on Blu-Ray discs and, until very recently, 4K streaming content from the likes of Netflix and Amazon.

By Jason Toliopoulos

Creative Services Manager, ChyronHego

As content creators, you have a wide arsenal of tools at your disposal. Whether you’re a news director, promotions producer, or broadcast designer, you have a lot of options these days when it comes to channel branding. So how do you effectively get your message across? How do you attract your audience, and engage them?

Since the first uses of the telestrator in the late 1950s, the technology has been used to enhance the viewing experience with visual cues to highlight on-air descriptions.

WBTV, the Raycom CBS affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina, recently became the news ratings leader in its market with a timeslot sweep for all newscasts. Dennis Milligan, WBTV's Director of News and Content has been working towards this goal for the past 15 years.

ChyronHego recently published a white paper to help prepare the way and to consolidate industry mindshare around the concepts of the CAMIO Universe. The CAMIO Universe is our vision of a next-generation, software-driven broadcast operation that creates a comprehensive and integrated software ecosystem for producer-driven news production workflows.

As you might have gathered by now, ChyronHego is going through a major transformation. Over the past year, we’ve been laying the groundwork to evolve beyond our status as the world’s leader in broadcast graphics software and hardware to something even bigger.

Peter Ijkhout - Senior Product Manager, ChyronHego

Video over IP has become one of the hottest topics in our industry. It represents a sea change approach for transporting content from site to site, within a studio and over the air.

The transition to IP-based production and distribution, from the proven and well-understood world of SDI, will be challenging. Here are a few thoughts on how those challenges may impact future protocol standards, workflows, and UHD live production.