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Tdlr: The differences between Vizrt and Chyron GrayONE graphics! Here’s an interesting tidbit — WOIO - 19 News is the only ex-Raycom Gray station that is running their graphics on Chyron (with the exception of their news and weather ticker on Vizrt). Please correct me if I am incorrect! They kept Chryon when making the transition to their custom graphics package in 2019. If anyone has any insight on why they use two graphics systems for the L3 and the news ticker, while other Gray stations just use one, I would love to hear why! WOIO in 2023 with both Chryon (L3) and Vizrt (News Ticker) elements. Whenever ex-Raycom stations were transiting to Gray graphics starting in 2019, their systems switched over from Chyron to Vizrt as those were the systems that ran the Gray graphics packages. Fast forward to now, with the world of the acquisitions of Meredith and other media groups (which run on Chyron), the GrayONE graphics can be ran on both Chryron and Vizrt systems. Check out this excerpt from The Other Site - Working across different graphics platforms “Given its large footprint, Gray Television uses a variety of graphics systems across its stations, with GrayONE designed to work with Chyron Prime and Vizrt Viz Trio. Quinn noted the package is designed to be both user-friendly for smaller markets and competitive for larger ones. “If you A/B some of our stations that are running Chyron or Viz, to an average viewer or somebody in our design world, it’s going to be hard to tell the difference,” said Quinn, who also noted the creativity of the process required to bring the package’s unique animations natively to the different platforms.” Like mentioned from the The Other Site article about GrayONE in 2023, you really can’t tell a difference between which station is running Chryon or Vizrt, but there are a few noticeable differences to look out for: -The news and weather ticker: (1) Chryon’s uses the Barlow font and has a “seamless” never ending ticker. Additionally, the weather icons are still and do not move. Vizrt’s uses the Gotham font and has a “fade in” effect for each new headline. Additionally, the weather icons are the new Gray ones that can be seen online in addition to GRAYOne weather graphics. They also are animated with Vizrt. They both share a similar text effect that expands the text out — “HEADLINES, WEATHER, LOTTERY, etc.” this comes from the 2020 Meredith graphics. (One note - when GrayONE was being rolled out initially to Vizrt systems, the ticker used the Barlow font and had still GrayONE weather icons) (1) WANF - runs off of Chryon WBTV - runs off of Vizrt -The L3’s: (2) Chryron’s lower thirds feature a larger top headline box while Vizrt’s headline box is smaller. This apply to both their normal and breaking news L3. Additionally, they share a similar text effect that expands the letters when they use the “Breaking News” L3 — this also comes from the 2020 Meredith graphics. (2) WECT - runs off of Vizrt WOIO - runs off of Chyron (L3) and Vizrt (News Ticker) I just thought this was an interesting analysis to bring to this forum. Happy to hear everyone’s opinions on this. At the end of the day, GrayONE is awesome and it’s nice that the Design Group made it for both graphics systems. Yes there are a few differences that are not noticeable to the regular eye but to news geeks like us, we notice and can tell what station is using either Chryon or Vizrt I encourage you to watch some Gray produced newscasts and try to guess which graphics system they are running! Source: https://www.The Other Site.com/2023/06/05/gray-television-motion-graphics-grayone/

It looks really good! I love this cut of Inergy! They were previously using this cut for their 6PM news open when they dropped the NBC peacock from their logo.

From the looks of wect.com/weather and their 24-HR weather stream, they are starting to update the graphics online in preparation for tomorrow’s (Wed 5/29) launch!

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/mbtLVA43w6iBNjhj/?mibextid=WC7FNe WECT is getting GrayONE in about two weeks (Wednesday after Memorial Day) per this Facebook post. Loving the implementation of the weather graphics. They are going with a blue/yellow color scheme. Wonder if they will be replacing their theme music

Looks like we got a sneak peak of the WECT GrayONE First Alert Weather graphics during First at Four

Looks like WECT might be on the way to GrayOne. They recently switched to non-NBC cuts of Inergy and in addition their “Vote 2024” graphic is using a white background associated with the new graphics.

It seems that WECT is transitioning to newer cuts of their current music package, Inergy. During the beginning of the 5 o’clock news yesterday, they used the WJXT theme cut in (didn’t capture that recording since it was at 4:59 PM). See below for YouTube reference. Upon watching the 6 o’clock news, it seems that they are using a new closing theme that also sounds like Inergy (would someone confirm please)? Never heard them used this cut before. My speculation is that WECT is keeping Inergy but will only use the non-NBC cuts of the package. I hope this is true hopefully they also get GrayONE soon as well in time for their 70th anniversary WJXT reference: RPReplay_Final1703290321.mov