Chyron has named André Fischer as its director of sales for Central Europe/Nordics. Fischer joins Chyron with decades of experience across the broadcast industry. In this new role, he will drive business development and growth initiatives, working with the Europe- and U.S.-based teams to increase reach and awareness of Chyron products (broadcast titling and graphic systems, software portfolio for live production professionals), solutions and services. Prior to joining Chyron, Fischer led sales teams for companies including Dimetis, HPE, Grass Valley, and DAVID Systems. He entered the media technology industry after studying economics and computer science, and over the past 30 years, he has helped broadcasters and other organizations to leverage advanced technologies to move their business forward. Fischer is based in Munich and reports directly to Olivier Cohen, SVP of EMEA sales. Chyron is a brand of ChyronHego, headquartered in New York with operations in 11 countries….
From Restoring To Hopefully Preserving Multi-Camera Categories At The Emmys
When Gary Baum, ASC won his fourth career Emmy Award earlier this month, it was especially gratifying in that the honor came in a category--Outstanding Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Half-Hour Series--that had been restored thanks in part to a grass-roots initiative among cinematographers to drum up entries. Last year the category fell by the wayside when not enough multi-camera entries materialized.
In his acceptance speech, Baum appealed to the Television Academy to keep multi-camera categories alive. He later noted to SHOOT that editors also got their multi-camera recognition back in the Emmy competition this year. Baum hopes that after resurrecting multi-camera categories in 2024, such recognition will be preserved for 2025 and beyond.
A major factor in the decline of multi-camera submissions in 2023 was the move of certain children’s and family programming from the primetime Emmy competition to the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ (NATAS) Emmy ceremony. For DPs this meant that multi-camera programs last year were reduced to vying for just one primetime nomination slot in the more general Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (Half-Hour) category. It turned out that this single slot was filled in ‘23 by a Baum-lensed episode of How I Met Your Father (Hulu).
Fast forward to this year’s competition and Baum won for another installment of How I Met Your Father--”Okay Fine, It’s A Hurricane,” which turned out to be the series finale. Two of Baum’s Emmy wins over the years have been for How I Met Your Father, and there’s a certain symmetry to them. His initial win for How I Met Your Father was for the pilot in 2022. So he won Emmys for the very first and last... Read More