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DPL Renews Support of the Dayton Dragons.


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DAYTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2002

DPL (Digital PowerLine) An earlier technology for transmitting a 1 Mbps data signal over electric power lines from Nortel Networks. It was developed in the late 1990s, but later abandoned due to implementation difficulties. See broadband over power lines.  Inc. (NYSE NYSE

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:DPL) has renewed its support of Dayton's professional baseball team, the Dayton Dragons The Dayton Dragons are a Class A minor league baseball team affiliated with the Cincinnati Reds. They play in the Midwest League.

The Midwest League came to Dayton in 2000. They were previously a franchise based in Rockford, Illinois (1988-99).
. As one of the Dragons' seven original founding partners, this will be DPL's fourth year of support.

"DPL has a long history of supporting this community and they've been with us since the beginning," said Robert Murphy There are several notable personalities named Robert Murphy or Bob Murphy:
  • Robert Daniel Murphy, U.S. diplomat
  • Robert Murphy (Australian rules footballer), Western Bulldogs footballer.
, President of the Dayton Dragons. "We're thrilled to have them continue as a partner."

The Dayton Dragons play an important role in a healthy downtown Dayton economy. Since their inaugural season in 2000, a minor league record 217 consecutive games have been sold out, bringing thousands of families to the downtown area.

DPL Inc. is a diversified regional energy company. DPL's principal subsidiaries include The Dayton Power & Light Company (DP&L) and DPL Energy. DP&L provides electric services to over 500,000 retail customers in West Central Ohio. DPL Energy operates over 4,600 megawatts of generation capacity and markets wholesale energy throughout the eastern United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . DPL Inc., through its subsidiaries, ranks among the top energy companies in generation efficiency and productivity. Further information on DPL Inc. can be found at www.dplinc.com.
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