Chyron at NAB 2026: 60 Years of Innovation

Celebrating a Legacy, Sharing Significant Product Advances, Driving Future Adaptive Workflows

NEW YORK – April 8, 2026 – Founded in 1966, based on a significant innovation in live video production, the modern character generator, Chyron is celebrating its 60th anniversary and announcing brand new innovations in live video production on display at the NAB Show, April 19 – 22, 2026, booth N2441 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Visitors to the Chyron booth can learn about the latest features in Chyron’s core portfolio for graphics and virtual set creation; specialty tools for sports analysis, monetization, and venue display control; and advances in robust, efficient newsroom workflows. 

With customer-centricity as a core value, meeting customers where they are today is a key focus. Visitors can see real world examples from major sports events, from OTT and regional sports networks, and from both national and regional news outlets to help them visualize how Chyron innovations can improve efficiency, audience engagement and return on investment. 

Customer-centricity extends to the future as well; Chyron believes product investments should grow and evolve with customer needs. Beyond single product innovations, key topics include flexible cloud workflows that lower the cost of cloud, AI-driven efficiencies, HTML graphics, data management across multiple platforms, and unified product access. 

Graphics and Virtual Sets

PRIME Platform

The PRIME Platform is Chyron’s modern graphics platform, the natural evolution of the character generator. Supporting more than text and graphical overlays, the PRIME Platform creates and drives graphics, clips, video walls and downstream branding content and supports other Chyron applications. Numerous new features have been introduced in PRIME since the previous NAB. Some of the most important changes include a major extension in newsroom access to editing templates, tighter synchronization of multiple PRIME engines driving large video displays, and a host of other features that further drive efficiencies and leverage the Chyron portfolio. 

Chyron graphics systems have long been known for robust, fast playout capabilities and customizable control panels.. In 2024, Chyron further advanced playout panels as a powerful, flexible solution for complex major live sports events. Now, these panels are also available in newsroom computer system workstations, via Chyron’s CAMIO LUCI plugin. LUCI Control Panels democratize access to polished, high-quality template modifications. Typically, this level of control is not available in a MOS workflow.. Now, with Chyron PRIME, designers can make a host of editable parameters available to the newsroom while still ensuring that graphics remain on brand. This offers a level of sophistication to the newsroom, and even more efficiency to the enterprise, as fewer templates will need special customization from graphics or control room teams. 

Chyron PRIME has long offered the ability to drive content to video displays of various sizes, aspect ratios or pixel counts. However, some large LED displays call for the versatility offered by multiple PRIME engines.  PRIME’s new MultiSystem Sync allows operators to trigger multiple systems with different content with a single action via MCPs, reducing crew burden and the risk of human error during live events.

There are numerous additional new features. Of note, in the near future, PRIME templates may be imported to AXIS, Chyron’s design order and creation tool, allowing updates from any location, incorporating imagery from stock image providers, for playout with PRIME empowering real time storytelling. The new Prime Audio Clips (.pac files) update delivers a simpler, more consistent workflow, aligning audio handling with the familiar video playout model—import, drag, drop, play—and enables faster production, moving audio from import to on-air in fewer steps with less friction.

TOOLBOX

Toolbox is a unique, powerful software multi-tool, providing everything producers need to capture, customize, and broadcast content directly from a desktop. Any content available on a computer can broadcast via SDI or NDI connectivity, with Toolbox’s Grabber module for region, app, and screen captures – as well as direct clip playlist output via the VLC Player module. Additionally, Toolbox can convert SDI and NDI inputs into webcam signals to deliver professional online meet experiences for remote guests and reporters – making studio cams and program feeds directly available in online meeting platforms. After a hiatus from development, Toolbox was reintroduced at IBC in September, 2025, and was immediately embraced by broadcasters of all sizes. 

Toolbox’s new features at this NAB, include a modernized platform, based on Windows 11 and a new 1 RU chassis for easier IT standardization, more reliable performance and compact, rack-friendly deployments. Toolbox now includes full HD 1080p50/59.94 output over NDI/SDI for sharper content that drops cleanly into live production pipelines. The Grabber tool offers an improved UI, faster setup and smoother operation for more capture with less on-screen clutter. 

PRIME VSAR

Virtual sets are a key component of numerous broadcasts, notably major global sporting events that may rely on an offsite presenter team, specialty newscasts such as for elections, and in any case where lower cost for more sets and more flexibility is a factor. PRIME VSAR drives seamless broadcast adaptation and playout of virtual environments created in Unreal® via either manual playout or within NRCS rundowns.  

At this NAB, the latest innovations in Chyron VSAR (Virtual Sets and Augmented Reality) version 2.3 are on display. This version is compatible with the Unreal Engine v. 5.6, and includes increased consistency and scalability for highly detailed immersive 3D virtual broadcast environments. VSAR is now tightly aligned with the Unreal Engine ecosystem, ensuring synchronization with future developments and third-party tools as well as improved performance and stability. 

Other VSAR improvements include Unreal lens file compatibility, applying distortion data to  improve realism; faster setup, relying on calibration and validation from existing libraries; and internal compositing improvements, delivering enhanced video quality and streamlined operation. 

Sports Analysis

PAINT

Chyron PAINT, an industry leading multisport replay and telestration system, has an array of new advantages introduced in its latest 2026 releases including powerful new upgrades across IP workflows, expanded sweep calibration support for NBA coverage, enhanced American football tracking, and precision telestration tools—designed to simplify operations, speed up production, and offer greater creative control. Data‑linked graphics and accelerated calibration streamline workflows, while laying the groundwork for next‑generation player analytics. NFL Next Gen Stats adds live player tracking to bind graphics to players in motion, align video to data and keep player IDs persistent across clips. 

VIRTUAL PLACEMENT

Virtual Placement™ is Chyron’s solution for inserting virtual graphics into live video for broadcasts and in-venue displays. Using optical tracking and image-processing algorithms, users can insert down and distance lines and red zone markers for American football, offside lines and distance-to-goal markers for soccer, additional markers for these and other sports, and on-field ads and sponsor-branded graphics, enhancing return on investment. 

At this NAB, visitors can see chroma-keyer improvements including the ability to switch chroma-keyer type easily between Adaptive and Gauss (manual) keying during production adaptive chroma-keyer performance improvements to optimize performance during CPU spikes especially in multi-input workflows. 

The newest version of Virtual Placement also introduces a fail-safe workflow that compares PGM and ISO feeds so VP can detect which camera is on-air and ensure the correct calibration is applied to the right frame.

ZXY Tracking

ZXY Tracking is a state-of-the-art system utilizing advanced satellite tracking technology via GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) and real-time radio communications systems to improve data quality, accuracy, and latency in delivering key metrics from live events such as horse races, auto races or other sporting events. 

Improvements previewed at this NAB include PTZ Camera Control so that operators can focus on the broadcast while the camera automatically follows the race. Event-based triggers offer additional efficiency, with cameras programmed to perform specific actions based on real-time milestones, such as zooming in to the finish line. With automated camera control via positional tracking data, operators can ensure that tracked objects, such as horses, are correctly framed during the race.

Venue Production Control

Click Effects

Click Effects gives a single operator a centralized, point-and-click interface to trigger and synchronize video, graphics, audio, and external in-venue devices (e.g., lights/fireworks), including “Moments of Exclusivity” that light up multiple displays in perfect unison with one command, often in response to a significant play or as a sponsor display. 

At this NAB, visitors can see a modernized Click Effects, explore how it integrates with PRIME and other applications in the Chyron portfolio, and how it integrates with modern venues workflows. 

News and Weather Live Production

CAMIO

CAMIO®  leverages PRIME graphics with replaceable fields as reusable templates and integrates with all major newsroom computer systems. Journalists and producers can easily access graphics, fulfill them with text, images or clips and then add them to any story in the news rundown for automated playout. In addition to core graphics, CAMIO® can drive other production elements including virtual sets, video walls and weather segments. CAMIO LUCI, the NRCS plugin, now offers a host of new features including robust control panels, created in PRIME and described above in the PRIME section of this release, and also new tools for cropping, customizing the LUCI UI workspace, AI image tagging and ChyAI Assist. 

With the LUCI Crop Tool, now in its beta version for viewing at NAB, producers and journalists who need to add a headshot to a template can stay in LUCI while AI headshot centering and scaling adjusts the image, so that they user does not have to spend time adjusting and re-uploading images. Users can still make manual changes, but AI headshot cropping in the asset browser means adding a headshot can be reduced to a single click.

The LUCI UI Redesign functionality aims to make the best use of screen space in the already crowded NRCS workstation. Larger preview panes, bigger thumbnails, more visible template rows, and menus that don’t obscure other work improve the user experience. Smarter information is available at a glance: Template details show categories, date last updated, and a “used count” so teams know the downstream impact of changes before making them. Control panel buttons surface immediately when available, and auto-preview is now producer-selectable, all without adding clutter. Every change was developed in consultation with customers and Chyron’s in-house expert users who work in LUCI daily. The result is a left-to-right workflow that matches how producers actually think: browse, fulfill, preview, publish.

Part of the ChyAI initiative, AI Image Tagging, now in beta testing, makes image discovery in LUCI faster and more granular for producers and journalists who need to find an image with specific content. It also reduces duplication of images uploaded due to existing images that are not found. LUCI AI Assistant, also in beta testing, saves time and effort when fulfilling text in templates. The assistant suggests text based on the journalist’s story, and the journalist, producer or template editor may accept, reject or adjust the suggestions.

AXIS

Chyron’s AXIS™ is a secure, hosted, on-demand graphics order management, design and animation system for the creation of composite images, maps and charts, to bring stories and data to life. Tightly integrated with CAMIO, AXIS offers a streamlined way to order or create visual assets to add to graphics templates for broadcast. 

The recently released modernized AXIS Maps (AXIS Maps 2.0) includes updates that ensure visual consistency across all maps for a specific project, important for distributed teams and hub-and-spoke workflows. The Map Styles Editor enhances brand compliance by enabling administrators to set predefined styles that reflect the identity of each show or channel. By using already approved presets for their maps, users can deliver broadcast-ready visuals faster.

Updates coming soon to AXIS Maps, and shown at this NAB, include immersive animations delivered in up to 4K resolution, based on an intuitive process. Map scenes now encompass a higher degree of flexibility, so that a variety of insights and information can provide context and enhance each phase of the story.

Support for PRIME templates, as mentioned in the PRIME section of this release,will be available soon in AXIS News, enhancing the news graphics workflow with PRIME and CAMIO.

NEWSTICKER

NewsTicker™ offers robust management, control and automation of all branding and ticker content, whether third-party, manual, or viewer-generated. Hosted either remotely or on-prem, NewsTicker can manage all types of data: election results, severe weather, school closings, headlines, sports data, traffic reports, finance, lottery results and social messaging.

The Lottery, Finance, and Headlines modules have recently undergone significant updates including a modernized HTML5 user interface and new user-friendly features for better control.

Users can now copy, filter, search, and lock content, with the ability to modify items individually or in bulk and re-order and organize content. Whether using automated feeds, customers’ own feeds, or manual entry, everything is accessible from a single interface, simplifying content management. Users can also specify content for playout on a per-item basis, with granular control over what goes to air.

A new dashboard unifies all NewsTicker modules with a modernized HTML5 responsive interface and a containerization architecture that future-proofs the platform. Modularity simplifies future upgrades through per-module deployment, opens up deployment architectures like on-prem, hybrid, and cloud, enables future CCU integrations starting with Data Hub data feeds, and introduces new APIs for communicating internally and externally. This refactored platform supports NewsTicker 4, all newer modules, and existing logic files so users can seamlessly upgrade.

NewsTicker now also features user management functionality for control and security, enabling administrators to give the right levels of access to individual users for configuration, creation or viewing. 

CHYRON WEATHER

Chyron Weather is an end-to-end weather visualization suite that delivers visually rich map-based graphics, custom forecast elements, dynamic global analysis, and lifelike low-level flythroughs. Combining data integration with intuitive graphic design and live presentation, Chyron Weather serves a variety of customers, from a single weekly program to 24/7 global coverage across major broadcast networks. 

New features shown at NAB include the Virtual Globe Playlist including immersive, high-quality 3D maps with properties such as zoom, camera position, and aspect ratio locked to preserve the visual illusion. With key properties fixed for correct playout, operators can focus on quickly building their 3D weather graphics. Another time saving new feature is Configurable Shortcuts, empowering users to customize shortcuts with the modes and tools they prefer and reducing manual steps to create broadcast ready assets. Rounding out key new features, Dual-DVI Outputs enable the independent visualization of weather graphics and virtual overlays to create polished compositions, easier integration with third party capture and streaming tools and higher confidence before playout with the main playlist and virtual overlay previewed separately. .

All-In-One Cloud Native Production

CHYRON LIVE

Chyron LIVE® is an end-to-end, cloud-native live video production platform built on AWS Cloud. From anywhere with an internet connection, a solo operator, an onsite team or a remote, distributed team can access the Chyron LIVE platform via a simple web-browser to cut/mix live sources, adjust audio levels across all feeds, playout Chyron PRIME broadcast-grade graphics, add remote guests and add live replay clips cut manually or driven by Chyron LIVE’s built-in AI, with telestration to illustrate and analyze important plays

This year at NAB, LIVE will be demonstrated with workflows enabled by Haivision and by Asport. New features at the show include SCTE-35 for ad insertion as well as a host of workflow upgrades including switcher black source, direct preview or program shortcuts, simplified clearing of replay clips, and a default transition setting.

Additions to the Chyron Booth

This year’s Chyron booth will feature an expanded green screen demo area as well as an area for demonstrating the parallax effect with LED video walls. Visitors can experience a variety of environments and viewer engagement techniques, and even be part of a 1966 news studio, as part of Chyron’s 60th Anniversary celebration. There will be two “mini-museum’ areas as well and Chyron welcomes visitors to a walk down memory lane and photo ops along with exploring the latest innovations.