Acrodyne Receives Order Valued in Excess of $5M for Eight Quantum IOT Equipped Television Transmitters.Business Editors BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2000 Sinclair Broadcast Group The Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBG) NASDAQ: SBGI is the operator of the largest number of local television stations in the United States with a total of 59 stations across the country in 38 primarily small and medium markets, many of which are located in the South and Places Order for Digital Buildout Acrodyne Industries, Inc., a leading manufacturer of television transmission systems, announced today the order from Sinclair Broadcast Group, 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 :SBGI SBGI Society of British Gas Industries ) for eight, two-tube Quantum(TM) IOT-equipped transmitters for digital service. These transmitters are compatible with either the 8-VSB or COFDM (Coded Orthogonal FDM) See OFDM. 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. transmission standards. The Sinclair stations to receive the high powered transmitters are KMWB-TV in St. Paul, MN, WXLV-TV and WUPN-TV in Greensboro, NC, KSMO-TV in Kansas City, KS, WKEF-TV and WRGT-TV in Dayton, OH, WTVZ-TV in Norfolk, VA, and KDSM-TV in Des Moines, IA. Deliveries are expected to be completed by the end of this year. Nat Ostroff, Chairman of the Board of Acrodyne, commented, "These latest orders for the Quantum transmitter demonstrate that this new transmitter line is being quickly accepted by knowledgeable engineers. I fully expect that the Quantum line will become the next standard of comparison for our industry. The design emphasis on simple and elegant solutions will prove to deliver the best value at the highest reliability in our business." David Smith, President & 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 Sinclair, stated, "We are particularly comfortable with the release of these orders to Acrodyne because we know that the Quantum-IOT transmitters are compatible for both 8-VSB and COFDM service." Del Parks, Sinclair's Vice President of Operations and Engineering, commented, "The new Quantum-IOT transmitter represents the next generation of high power, digital and analog transmitters, and we are excited about the opportunity to install them at our sites. Along with the initial deployment of the Rohde & Schwarz solid-state transmitters from Acrodyne, this order represents the first of many transmitters needed as part of Sinclair's commitment to the digital television buildout." Acrodyne Industries, Inc., the operating subsidiary of Acrodyne Communications, Inc., and a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. (NASDAQ: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 ) has been an established and respected manufacturer of television broadcast equipment for over three decades. Acrodyne is a leading producer of technically advanced, high quality television transmitters. Sinclair Broadcast Group (NASDAQ:SBGI) is a diversified broadcasting company that currently owns or programs 61 television stations. Sinclair's television group reaches approximately 25% of U.S. television households and includes ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , CBS, FOX, NBC, WB, and UPN affiliates. This press release contains "forward-looking statements" concerning future expectation, plans or strategies that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The Company wishes to caution readers that certain factors may have affected the Company's actual results and could cause results for subsequent periods to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequently occurring events or circumstances. |
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