Chryon / Character Generation and “Lower Third Supes”

Back in the early 1980s, rather than some graphics being triggered directly from the computer generator scripts, it was a manual process to type the characters and change the “supes” manually upon direction from the director.

Here’s is the position that help make this possible during the early 1980s at WXYZ-TV.

References:

1. Chyron Corporation, Wikipedia
2. chyron, Merriam-Webster
3. Lower third, Wikipedia