Cordillera Communications Selects Harris Corporation for Centralization and Automation Projects
June 21 2005 - 11:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Cordillera Communications Selects Harris Corporation for
Centralization and Automation Projects Television Group Cites
Harris' Service and Its Ability to Provide Scalable, Cost-Effective
Systems for Medium- and Smaller-Market Broadcasters CINCINNATI,
June 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS)
today announced that Cordillera Communications, the owner of 11
television stations throughout the United States, has selected
Harris automation solutions for a centralization project in Montana
and for stations in California and Colorado. Among reasons Harris
was selected, Cordillera Communications cited Harris' strong
after-sales support and its ability to provide scalable and
cost-effective systems that can meet the needs of medium- to
smaller-market broadcasters. To increase operational efficiency
among three Montana stations, Cordillera is establishing a central
"hub" at KXLF, a full-power station in Butte. At the hub, content
will be ingested, prepared and distributed to another full-power
station, KBZK in Bozeman, and a low-power station, KXLH in Helena.
Harris will provide ADC playout automation, digital ingest and
satellite ingest solutions. At KOAA in Colorado Springs, Harris
will upgrade an existing ADC system to automate playout of an
independent weather channel that is operated by the station as well
as regular programming. The upgraded ADC system is being configured
so that Cordillera can add new revenue streams in the future. At
KSBY in San Luis Obispo, California, Cordillera has selected Harris
to provide a new ADC-100 system to replace an antiquated manual
system. Harris also will provide on-site installation and training.
"Cordillera works in very small to medium-size markets, and because
budgets are not what they are in larger markets, we are forced to
stretch our dollars and require that new products, such as our
automation system, work with legacy systems," said Andy Suk,
Cordillera's director of broadcast engineering. "With Harris, that
is possible. It is proven technology, and we know going in that the
support we'll need is available. Harris' innovation with digital
ingest is also very important to our operations. We looked at other
suppliers and found Harris was willing to tailor a solution for
smaller markets and make it cost-effective for us. It is an
exceptional system architecture." The relationship between Harris
Corporation and Cordillera Communications dates back several
decades and has included the purchase and installation of
transmitters and other broadcast products. Suk views the strength
of Harris as its willingness to take responsibility for seeing
system issues through to resolution. "I like having a single point
of accountability as there is with Harris," he said. "If there is
an issue, I know Harris will be an active part of the solution."
Harris is the world's leader in playout automation, with its
systems controlling more than 7,000 channels. Among other benefits,
Harris automation gives broadcasters a smooth and cost-effective
path to total content delivery systems -- the key to being able to
deliver multiple channels of programming over any network to any
type of receiver with maximum efficiency in the future. About
Harris Broadcast Communications Division Harris Broadcast
Communications Division is one of four divisions within Harris
Corporation, an international communications equipment company
focused on providing assured communications(TM) products, systems
and services for government and commercial customers in more than
150 countries. One of the world's leading suppliers of broadcast
technology, Harris Broadcast Communications Division offers a full
range of solutions that support the digital delivery, automation
and management of audio, video and data. For more information,
visit http://www.broadcast.harris.com/ . DATASOURCE: Harris
Corporation CONTACT: Martha Rapp, Broadcast Communications
Division, +1-217-221-7577, or ; or K.C. Du Fay, Sterling
Communications, Inc., +1-415-392-2300, or , for Harris Corporation
Web site: http://www.harris.com/
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