Harris Corporation Announces Multi-Deal Agreement as Exclusive HD Radio(TM) Supplier to Cumulus Broadcasting

Harris Corporation Announces Multi-Deal Agreement as Exclusive HD Radio(TM) Supplier to Cumulus Broadcasting

Second-largest Radio Broadcaster in Station Volume to Convert 80 Percent of Its Inventory to HD Radio(TM) Within Seven Years Exclusively With Harris Transmission Platforms

LAS VEGAS, NAB 2006, April 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation's (NYSE:HRS) Broadcast Communications Division today announced that Cumulus Broadcasting, the nation's second-largest radio broadcaster, with more than 320 FM and AM stations, has signed a multi-year agreement with Harris for the exclusive provision of HD Radio(TM) equipment. Harris will provide HD Radio transmitters and its FLEXSTAR(TM) family of HD Radio products to approximately 80 percent of the Cumulus station fleet through 2012. Harris will also exclusively provide analog transmitters to Cumulus stations, and offer access to Harris Intraplex(R) STL and resale items as part of the agreement.

"We are pleased to announce this joint collaboration with Harris to assist us in the HD conversion of our platform," said Lew Dickey, chief executive officer of Cumulus Broadcasting. "After a rigorous evaluation process, our team has selected Harris because of its superior quality, value and cutting- edge technology. We are very committed to HD Radio and are confident that it will usher in a new era for our medium that will make us even more relevant to our listeners and our advertisers in the digital age."

Harris will assist Cumulus by testing all equipment at each transmission site prior to a station's HD Radio launch. Each site will feature an HD Radio- ready Harris transmitter equipped with the company's new DSP-based FLEXSTAR HDX-FM exciter. Cumulus also will install FLEXSTAR HDI-100 Importers and HDE- 100 Exporters at all FM studios to implement supplementary audio for multicasting. The integration of all three FLEXSTAR(TM) units will allow Cumulus Broadcasting to take full advantage of iBiquity's Generation 3 Exgine architecture for HD Radio, which allows stations to integrate the IT-oriented Importer and Exporter at the studio instead of the transmission site.

Cumulus Broadcasting began its HD Radio conversions with Harris in 2005 at the following FM stations: WBLX and WYOK in Mobile, AL; WNNK and WWKL in Harrisburg, PA; KIOL in Houston, TX; WJLQ in Pensacola, FL; WPDH in Poughkeepsie, NY; WEBE in Bridgeport, CT; WFAS in White Plains, NY; and WDBY in Danbury, CT. Conversions are currently underway at six FM stations in Toledo, Ohio. More conversions in multiple east coast and Midwest markets will soon follow. It is also expected that the total number of conversions will increase as Cumulus finalizes its purchase of Susquehanna Radio's station inventory later this spring.

"Harris is privileged to announce that Cumulus Broadcasting has put its trust in Harris as its exclusive supplier of HD Radio transmission technology products," said Debra Huttenburg, vice president and general manager of the Radio Broadcast Systems business unit of Harris Broadcast Communications Division. "Harris was the first provider to place an Exgine HD Radio multicasting system on the air and continues to expand its product portfolio to improve its vision of the end-to-end HD Radio platform. This multi-year commitment proves without a doubt that Cumulus, one of the radio broadcasting industry's clear heavyweights in terms of station inventory and on-air innovation, has faith in Harris to not only follow through but exceed the expectations of its ongoing HD Radio conversion."

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.

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Source: Harris Corporation

CONTACT: Mary Beth Harnett, Harris Corporation, +1-513-459-3620, or
mharnett@harris.com; or Robin Hoffman, Pipeline Communications,
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Ellabeck Communications Ltd, +011-44-1622-684592, or becky@ella-beck.co.uk,
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