Question of the Day #921

The BBC News channel was covering the Irish actor’s success in Aftersun and carried a chyron referring to him as one of two British actors up for an Academy award.

From the 2nd paragraph of this article at Deadline.

  上記の文で、chyronの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "chyron" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

〈米〉テロップ、字幕◆テレビや映画の画面下部に表示される字幕、および文字や画像が流れるスペースを指す

   

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

a caption superimposed over usually the lower part of a video image (as during a news broadcast)

 

語源

英辞郎によると、

表示装置を開発したChyron社の商標から

 

Etymology

According to Merriam-Webster,

after the Chyron Corporation, American manufacturer in the 1970's of a character-generating device that created such captions

   

Examples

• The station also listed the incorrect name on its chyron. — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 25 May 2022
• Fox News claimed to consider this costuming a liberal attack on the president and in outrage suffered an inflamed chyron.
SHAKESPEARE STILL MATTERS. A NEW BOOK REMINDS US WHY.|MICHAEL SIMS|SEPTEMBER 9, 2021|WASHINGTON POST
• It is the pin of an elder statesman, of a pundit worthy of her Fox News chyron.
FOX'S NEW LEADING LADY|REBECCA DANA|JANUARY 12, 2010|DAILY BEAST
• The chyron on the first CNN newscast with Anderson Cooper references Scott Lang’s (Paul Rudd) memoir. — Richard Newby, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2022
• The chyron noted that by that night, 921 people had died of Covid in the whole United States. — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2022

   

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