Acrodyne Announces High Power Diacrode Equipped Transmitter Sales in Excess of $1.5 Million.BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 1998--Acrodyne Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ACRO acro Acronym ACRO Australian Creative Resources Online ACRO Association of Clinical Research Organizations ACRO American College of Radiation Oncology ACRO Aircraft Crashes Record Office (Geneva, Switzerland) acro acrolein ), a leading manufacturer and installer of television transmitters is pleased to announce agreements with Media Properties, Inc. and Sainte Partners II LP for the delivery and installation of high power Diacrode(R) equipped transmitters in Wisconsin and California. These agreements, valued in excess of $1.5 million, add to the steadily increasing list of Acrodyne high power UHF (Ultra High Frequency) The range of electromagnetic frequencies from 300 MHz to 3 GHz. In the U.S., analog television has used UHF channels 52 to 69 in the 700 MHz band. transmitter users. The agreement with Media Properties, Inc. calls for installation of a three tube 180KW high power Diacrode(R) transmitter at channel 57, which will serve Madison and Southern Wisconsin. Channel 57 is scheduled to commence broadcasting in mid-October 1998. Bill Le Monds, WHPN General Manager, said, "Our 5 million watt ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. coverage plan required 180kW of transmitter power output In radio transmission, transmitter power output (TPO) is the actual amount of power (in watts) of radio frequency (RF) energy that a transmitter produces at its output. broadcasting from our 1,114 foot tower. The Acrodyne Au180D is the only transmitter to deliver 180kW visual with 10% aural using only three tubes, economizing on electrical power needs. The purchase of the Acrodyne high power Diacrode(R) transmitter was a sound and long-term economic decision." Acrodyne is installing an Au30D Diacrode(R) equipped 30kW UHF transmitter in northern California for Sainte Partners II LP. The transmitter is for a new channel 34 to serve the Sacramento market. Acrodyne's exclusive exciter ex·cit·er n. 1. One that excites: an exciter of animosity. 2. An auxiliary generator used to provide field current for a larger generator or alternator. 3. system, including GPS receiver, will maintain precise frequency stability. Installation will be completed in the fall of 1998. Chester Smith, group owner of Sainte Partners II LP, said of his Super Power LPTV LPTV Low Power Television LPTV Linear Periodically Time Varying LPTV Large Payload Test Vehicle station, "This is the first of its kind. We're feeding 15 kilowatts into each plane of a CP antenna." Channel 34 will be competing in a full service market. Sainte Partner II also owns KNSO-Fresno, KBVU-Eureka, and KCVU-Paradise, CA. A. Robert Mancuso, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Acrodyne, stated, "These recent orders for high power UHF transmitters further validate Acrodyne's position on Diacrode(R) technology. Our exclusive correction circuitry, clean drive power and linear tube combine to give us a superior transmitter line for NTSC (National TV Standards Committee) The committee that developed the television standards for the U.S, which are also used in Canada, Japan, South Korea and several Central and South American countries. Both the committee and the standard are called "NTSC. and DTV (Digital TeleVision) Transmitting TV using digital signals. The major DTV standards are ATSC (North America), DVB (Europe) and ISDB (Japan). All three use MPEG-2 video compression and Dolby Digital audio compression. DVB and ISDB also include MPEG audio compression. ." Acrodyne Industries, Inc., the operating subsidiary of Acrodyne Communications, Inc., is an established and respected manufacturer of television broadcast equipment. In business over 25 years, the Company has developed the leading position as a technologically advanced, high quality low cost producer of transmitters and translators used by television stations to broadcast and retransmit over-the-air signals. This release contains certain forward-looking statements which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties or other factors not under the Company's control, which may cause actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from the results, performance or other expectations implied by these forward-looking statements These factors include, but are not limited to, those detailed in the Company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
CONTACT: ACRODYNE COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Blue Bell
Tom Newman, National Sales Manager,
Tel: 215/542-7000 ext. 115
Fax: 215/542-7631
http://www.acrodyne.com
or
WOLFE AXELROD ASSOCIATES, New York
Stephen D. Axelrod, CFA
Susan T. Bolen (Media)
Tel: 212/370-4500
Fax: 212/370-4505
e-mail: Steve@wolfeaxelrod.com
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