Harris Corporation to Provide Digital Transmission Products and Upgrades for Media General's Next Phase of DTV Conversions
March 06 2007 - 10:20AM
PR Newswire (US)
Seven Media General properties to undergo full-power DTV
conversions in 2008-09 CINCINNATI, March 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications
and information technology company, has been awarded a contract to
convert seven Media General Broadcast Group television stations to
full-power digital TV with Harris DTV transmitters beginning in
early 2008. Media General Broadcast Group operates 23 television
stations in the U.S., and has exclusively used Harris TV
transmission solutions for its DTV conversion. The latest project
includes digital upgrades of Harris(R) Sigma(R) UHF and Platinum(R)
VHF analog transmitters at six stations plus the installation of a
new Harris(R) Platinum-i(TM) digital transmitter at WSPA-TV in
Spartanburg, South Carolina. The six stations scheduled to receive
upgrades are WMBB-TV in Panama City, Florida; WJHL-TV in Johnson
City, Tennessee; WBTW-TV in Florence, South Carolina; WNEG-TV in
Taccoa, Georgia; WJTV-TV in Jackson, Mississippi; and WVTM-TV in
Birmingham, Alabama. The project is targeted for completion by the
FCC's February 17, 2009, analog shut-off date. Bob Richardson,
director of engineering for Media General Broadcast Group, said,
"Harris has always done its homework from a research and
development standpoint, which made us feel very comfortable in
continuing our exclusive relationship with them as we moved into
our early phase of DTV conversion. Most of all, we have always felt
that Harris offered excellent customer support, a very important
part of the relationship between broadcaster and manufacturer."
Harris will help relocate several Media General-owned Harris analog
transmitters to new sites, where they will be channel-changed and
upgraded to digital with the addition of Harris Corporation's
market-leading Apex(TM) digital exciter. All transmitters also will
be outfitted with the Harris(R) eCDi(R) transmitter network control
and monitoring system for maintaining transmitter health moving
forward. Additionally, the broadcast group recently installed a
Harris(R) NetVX(TM) networking system at WALB-TV in Alexandria,
Louisiana for HDTV video encoding of CBS and NBC programming over
the same digital channel. About Harris Corporation Harris is an
international communications and information technology company
serving government and commercial markets in more than 150
countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has
annual revenue of about $4 billion and more than 14,000 employees
-- including more than 6,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is
dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications(TM)
products, systems, and services for global markets, including
government communications, RF communications, broadcast
communications, and wireless transmission network solutions.
Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at
http://www.harris.com/ DATASOURCE: Harris Corporation CONTACT:
Laura Whitaker of Harris Broadcast Communications Division,
+1-408-782-1201, or ; or Robin Hoffman of Pipeline Communications,
+1-973-746-6970, or , for Harris Corporation Web site:
http://www.harris.com/
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