Harris Corporation Named HD Radio(TM) Transmission Preferred Vendor for Buckley Broadcasting Corp.
December 08 2005 - 10:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Harris to Supply HD Radio Transmitters, FLEXSTAR(TM) Products and
Additional Transmission Products to All 19 Buckley Stations Over
Four-Year Period CINCINNATI, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Harris Corporation's (NYSE:HRS) Broadcast Communications Division
today announced that Buckley Broadcasting Corp., a privately owned
broadcasting company that owns and operates 19 radio stations in
seven markets plus the syndicated WOR Radio Network, has selected
Harris as its HD Radio(TM) transmission Preferred Vendor. Harris
and Buckley Broadcasting have agreed on a four-year commitment for
the provision of HD Radio transmitters, FLEXSTAR(TM) HD Radio
products, and DEXSTAR(R) exciters to Buckley Broadcasting's ten FM
and nine AM stations in New York, Connecticut and California. The
first installation is currently underway at WDRC-FM in Hartford,
and installations will continue early next year at WSEN-FM in
Syracuse, New York, and KWAV-FM in Monterey, California. Subsequent
installations will be staggered over the remainder of the four-year
period. "Considering the introduction of the FLEXSTAR(TM) range and
the technical and business advantages of Harris' Split-Level(TM)
combining method, we quickly looked to Harris for our group-wide HD
Radio transition," said Tom Ray, vice president and corporate
director of engineering, Buckley Broadcasting Corp. "The
FLEXSTAR(TM) system allows us to do all of our processing at the
studio instead of the transmitter site. This is especially
important for our engineers in California who can't access certain
transmitter sites four to five months out of the year due to snow.
And the level of service we get from Harris, which is always
excellent, is built into the overall price." Buckley Broadcasting's
FM stations will install Harris Z-Series(TM) and Mini-HD(TM)
separate amplification FM transmitters (depending on power
requirements) with FLEXSTAR(TM) HDX-FM exciters, while its AM
stations will install a mix of 3DX(TM)-50, DX(R) and DAX(TM) AM
transmitters with DEXSTAR(R) exciters. The FM stations also will
install Harris FLEXSTAR(TM) HDI-100 importers and HDE-100 exporters
at the studio to combine audio and data into a single
bandwidth-efficient stream en route to the transmitter. The entire
transmission platform will allow Buckley Broadcasting to launch
multi-channel broadcasting, or multicasting, at each of its FM
stations. Buckley Broadcasting's WOR-AM made HD Radio history in
2002 as the country's first high-power AM station to launch a
daytime HD Radio broadcast. (WOR currently uses a Harris DX50(R) AM
transmitter with a DEXSTAR(R) exciter and is now installing Harris
3DX(TM)-50 AM transmitters at its new site as part of a previous
deal.) Ray believes HD Radio is important to the medium's long-term
future. "With all the competition terrestrial radio is facing
today, HD Radio provides a solution for both programming and
technical issues," he said. "WOR is a talk station, and listeners
who have heard our AM HD Radio broadcast have reported that the
improvement is astonishing. HD Radio technology also will help us
to eliminate multipath issues for our FM stations in Syracuse,
Hartford and mountainous areas of California. Buckley Radio is very
technically oriented, and we are very big on HD Radio." Most of the
FM stations also will employ Harris' exclusive Split-Level(TM)
combining method to lower RF-related power costs and vastly reduce
the amount of wasted heat common in other combining methods. Ray
added that Split- Level(TM) combining also allows Buckley
Broadcasting stations to retain their current transmission assets
by combining older analog transmitters with the new HD Radio
transmitters for maximum efficiency. This also provides additional
redundancy in the event of maintenance or operational issues with
either transmitter. "We are pleased to be selected as Buckley
Broadcasting's HD Radio transmission Preferred Vendor," said Debra
Huttenburg, vice president and general manager of Harris Broadcast
Division's Radio Broadcast Systems business unit. "Buckley
Broadcasting has been instrumental in making commercial
broadcasters take notice of HD Radio and the many benefits it
provides. We believe that Buckley Broadcasting's continued support
of Harris proves our ability to deliver custom HD Radio solutions
that are technically innovative, cost-efficient and comprehensive
in their ability to create multicasting opportunities." About
Harris Broadcast Communications Division Harris is an international
communications and information technology company serving
government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries. With
headquarters in Melbourne, Florida, the company has annual sales of
over $3 billion and has more than 13,000 employees -- including
5,500 engineers and scientists -- dedicated to the development of
best-in-class assured communications(TM) products, systems, and
services. The company's operating divisions serve markets for
government communications, RF communications, broadcast
communications, and microwave communications. Additional
information about Harris Corporation is available at
http://www.harris.com/ . HD Radio(TM) is a trademark of iBiquity
Digital Corporation. DATASOURCE: Harris Corporation CONTACT: Mary
Beth Harnett, Broadcast Communications Division, Harris
Corporation, +1-513-459-3620, or ; or Robin Hoffman, Pipeline
Communications, +1-973-746-6970, or , for Harris Corporation Web
site: http://www.harris.com/
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