: a caption superimposed over usually the lower part of a video image (as during a news broadcast)
I sometimes fantasize about spending the rest of my life studying them. CNN and Fox News would then have me on whenever there was a major hummingbird story. The chyron would identify me as "Christopher Buckley—Hummingbird Authority."—
Christopher Buckley
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While Fox News is typically highly critical of the Biden administration, the chyron was considered shocking and was widely criticized on social media.
—Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
The month’s ordinary soundtrack — whispers gathering, phones pinging, the machine that produces vivid chyrons for breathless television broadcasts whirring to life — might have been muted, but that does not mean there has been nothing to hear.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
Over the next week, a relentless cable news-like chyron of must-dos and questions scrolled in my mind: Send out that book proposal.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
The chyron read: Twentieth Anniversary of Wén Rui Incident Commemorated in San Diego.
—Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
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Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
The month’s ordinary soundtrack — whispers gathering, phones pinging, the machine that produces vivid chyrons for breathless television broadcasts whirring to life — might have been muted, but that does not mean there has been nothing to hear.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
Over the next week, a relentless cable news-like chyron of must-dos and questions scrolled in my mind: Send out that book proposal.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
The chyron read: Twentieth Anniversary of Wén Rui Incident Commemorated in San Diego.
—Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
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“Chyron.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chyron. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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