Chyron Corporation (NASDAQ: CHYR) is a Melville, New York–based company that develops and manufactures on-screen graphics for the broadcast industry. The company was founded in 1966 by the late Joseph Scheuer and Eugene Leonard. The company's original name was Digitronics. They produced the first electronic scoreboard for the former Roosevelt Raceway harness track in Garden City, New York.
In the early 1970s, the name was changed to Systems Resou...
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Chyron Corporation (NASDAQ: CHYR) is a Melville, New York–based company that develops and manufactures on-screen graphics for the broadcast industry. The company was founded in 1966 by the late Joseph Scheuer and Eugene Leonard. The company's original name was Digitronics. They produced the first electronic scoreboard for the former Roosevelt Raceway harness track in Garden City, New York.
In the early 1970s, the name was changed to Systems Resources Corporation and was located in Plainview, NY only a few miles from the company's present location in Melville. They began manufacturing dot-matrix (5x7) character generators (CG) for airport arrival and departure time displays. They also began manufacturing a clean looking fixed-font (rom based) CG sold as the Chiron I. It featured the ability to record and retrieve lower thirds and full page text displays for news departments of TV stations as an alternative to art cards, slides or scrolling black felt.
As the newly developed IBM and...
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