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ChyronHego BlueNet Reinvents
Graphics At ITV
ITV's studios spread across the UK have adopted
a common broadcast graphics network utilising
ChyronHego's BlueNet workﬂow...

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TV is the UK's largest commercial
broadcaster, with a network of
studios ranging from Newcastle in
the north to the Channel Islands in
the south.
When ITV recently launched
a complete upgrade of its
broadcast graphics capabilities,
ChyronHego's BlueNet graphical
workﬂow platform offered the
ideal solution.
"Replacing our entire graphics
system was a very large project
for us and was set with many
challenges - not the least of
which was the very aggressive
deployment
schedule,"
said
Neville Booth, Creative Director,
ITV News. "We needed to get
ten regions onto the new system
within six months and train more
than 500 staff members, all while
maintaining broadcast continuity."

As ChyronHego's end-to-end
graphics workﬂow for news,
sports, and entertainment, BlueNet
tightly integrates the world's
most advanced graphics creation,
collaboration,
management,
and playout systems to help ITV
minimise cycle times from creation
to air, and ensure the highest
production value in the shortest
time - every time.
BlueNet
accelerates
ﬁlebased workﬂows by leveraging
ChyronHego broadcast graphics
tools, including Lyric, Mosaic,
CAMIO, MediaMaker, and iSQ, to
streamline ITV's collaborative
graphics ordering and creation,
graphics asset management, and
real-time playout.

Stunning News Graphics
The BlueNet tools can be
conﬁgured to meet the speciﬁc
Meeting The Challenge
needs of ITV's ﬁle- and MOS-based
Working with the ChyronHego graphics workﬂow, while providing
team and leveraging ChyronHego seamless integration with leading
BlueNet, ITV was able to meet its newsroom computer systems such
aggressive deployment schedule.
as AP ENPS, Avid iNEWS, Dalet,
"One of the concerns we and Octopus. Implemented by
had starting a project of this leading networks and broadcast
magnitude, with so many time station groups, BlueNet creates
and resource restrictions, was our an environment in which graphics
conﬁdence in a team who could move quickly and ﬂuidly from
deliver what we needed as quickly conception to completion to air.
and smoothly as possible," Booth
For groups supporting multiple
said. "From the beginning, we had stations and broadcasts, BlueNet
conﬁdence that the ChyronHego facilitates
the
fast,
simple
team could deliver outstanding application of custom graphics
results - and that has proven to be packages across shared assets
the case."
or a common rundown. As a
result,
ITV
can
maintain a single
rundown for a news
broadcast
and,
with a few clicks,
adapt that rundown
for
an
entirely
new channel- or
network-specific
look and feel.
"One
of
the
important
things
Supporting ten regional sites around the UK,
ChyronHego
has
ChyronHego's Axis World Graphics is at the heart
done for us is to
of ITV News' centralised graphics workﬂow

ChyronHego's
BlueNet Graphics
Workﬂow is fully
integrated with
major newsroom
computer systems

demystify the whole process
of graphics creation," said Liz
Hannam, Head of News at ITV
News Central. "Suddenly any
journalist can make great looking
images
on
screen.
BlueNet
has resulted in tremendous
improvements in our output."
Through
integration
with
ChyronHego's Axis World Graphics,
a hosted, on-demand graphics
production environment, BlueNet
enables ITV personnel to access
templates and create graphics
in minutes. Team members can
collaborate, share, and re-purpose
graphics to air quickly and easily.
"The great thing about the Axis
templates is that we're no longer
restricted to the times when the
graphics artists are available,"
Hannam added. "And sometimes
you can't tell the difference
between a template graphic and a
bespoke image."
Efﬁcient 24/7 Graphics
Throughout
the
graphics
workﬂow, BlueNet gives ITV users
fast, reliable access to the tools
and resources they need. If a
graphic already exists, producers
and journalists working in the
newsroom or in the ﬁeld can
fulﬁl a template request and
move it to air in seconds. With its
Axis World Graphics hosted and
on-demand order management
tools and graphics creation
capability,
BlueNet
fosters
greater collaboration among staff
throughout the ITV ecosystem.
"In the past, our designers were
isolated within our ten regional
sites," said Booth. "By bringing
them together in a single 'room'
using Axis World Graphics, they're
able to talk to each other and
share ideas.

Plus, we're able to identify
common themes and bring those
together as single jobs, which we
can then share around the regions
for greater consistency and less
duplication of effort."
Hannam added, "It is wonderful
for our producers to be able to
access graphics any time of the
day or night or weekends. Our
news operation is 24/7 so our
graphics need to be the same."
No Limit Library
With ChyronHego BlueNet, ITV
has built an extensive library of
graphics that can be accessed
by editorial teams around the
country. "Our graphics library
has no upper limit; in fact, we're
quite prepared to just let it grow
organically as it will," Booth said.
"ChyronHego has put us in a
revolutionary position."
"It is difﬁcult to express in words
what BlueNet has done for us,"
Hannam added. "In addition to
the amazing creativity of the
ChyronHego graphics designers,
BlueNet
offers
portability,
accessibility, and immediacy to the
graphics process and empowers
our producers, journalists, and
other personnel to access the
graphics and tools they need at
any time."
Like the other graphics solutions
in the ChyronHego toolkit, BlueNet
is based on a holistic approach
that creates high-interoperability
workﬂows
between
graphic
software, hardware platforms, and
third-party solutions.
BlueNet reﬂects lessons learned
from
ChyronHego's
collective
40 years of experience, working
side-by-side with broadcasters in
the production and playout of live
graphics.
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