chyron

chyron [kahy-ron] Word Origin noun

1. a text-based graphic overlay displayed at the bottom of a television screen or film frame, as closed captioning or the crawl of a newscast.

Origin of chyron after Chyron Corporation, the manufacturer of a broadcast graphics generator Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019