Mexico’s TV Azteca Upgrades to ChyronHego’s BlueNet™ Graphics Workflow

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ChyronHego today announced a deal with TV Azteca, S.A. de C.V., one of the world’s largest producers of Spanish language television programming. In a major graphics overhaul, TV Azteca has implemented ChyronHego’s end-to-end BlueNet solution at its headquarters in Mexico City to bring to air high-quality news and sports graphics, social media content, and virtual product placement.

“We deployed the BlueNet workflow during Fut Azteca’s coverage of Confederation Cup 2013 and the end result was a remarkable broadcast for our viewers,” said Pedro Carmona, special events engineering director at TV Azteca. “In addition to providing industry-standard functionality essential to live production, ChyronHego’s graphics solutions offer intuitive operation complemented by the company’s dedicated Latin American team that has demonstrated an exceptional level of professionalism, skills and support.”

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“ChyronHego remains committed to the changing needs of the highly competitive Latin American broadcast market,” said Aldo Campisi, vice president of Latin America at ChyronHego. “We are proud that TV Azteca has chosen to upgrade to the BlueNet graphics workflow and their proven on-air success during the 2013 Confederations Cup, Copa Oro and Cabalgata Deportiva broadcasts, demonstrates the interoperability, power, and versatility of our state-of-the-art solutions.”

TV Azteca’s complete BlueNet workflow includes multiple Lyric PRO-based Mosaic XL systems for seamless graphics creation and playout, CAMIO for centralized graphics asset management, Paint for the quick creation of analysis graphics, SHOUT for incorporating social media commentary, and Virtual Placement for the easy addition of tie-to-surface graphics.

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ChyronHego (NASDAQ: CHYR) is a global leader in broadcast graphics creation, playout and real-time data visualization with a comprehensive range of products and services for live television, news and sports production. ChyronHego's end-to-end graphics offerings include hosted services for graphics creation and order management, on-air graphics systems, clip servers, social media and second screen applications, channel branding, graphics asset management, virtual and touch graphics, telestration, and 3D player tracking. Headquartered in Melville, N.Y., the company also has offices in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Mexico, Norway, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Sweden and the United Kingdom.