Acrodyne Industries, Inc. Finalizes License Agreement With The Sinclair Broadcast Group

Acrodyne Industries, Inc. announced that it has reached a definitive agreement with the Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. for the exclusive rights to manufacture and sell the Sinclair designed QUANTUMô IOT analog and digital transmitter line. Sinclair created this newly developed line of transmitter products at its Baltimore, Maryland headquarters, to meet its own internal digital and analog requirements. The Quantum line was conceived by broadcasters and designed by the same talents that invented IOT transmitters over ten years ago. The digital version of the Quantum line is designed to be capable of both 8-VSB and COFDM service. Bob Mancuso, President of Acrodyne, commented on this new opportunity for Acrodyne. ""This agreement with Sinclair gives Acrodyne and its customers a decided advantage in the new digital and traditional analog marketplace. We can now offer our customers a complete set of technology choices ranging from the Rohde and Schwarz solid state transmitters through the unique solutions for adjacent channel digital assignments offered by our Diacrode ACTTM systems, to now, the new Quantum IOT transmitter line for high power full service applications."" David Smith, CEO of Sinclair, also commented on this agreement, ""We are very excited that we can make this new and innovative technology available to the television broadcast industry. It represents a new generation of transmitters that we designed to meet the needs of our stations. Since we operate 61 TV stations in 40 markets, we believe we have also created a universal product uniquely suited for most broadcaster applications."" Acrodyne Industries, Inc., the operating subsidiary of Acrodyne Communications, Inc., and a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: ACRO) 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 percent of US television households and includes ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, WB, and UPN affiliates.