Sinclair's Mark Hyman and Sean Lucas Win 2008 Telly Award

Sinclair's Mark Hyman and Sean Lucas Win 2008 Telly Award

BALTIMORE, May 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:SBGI) announced that News Commentator Mark Hyman and Senior News Editor Sean Lucas, won a Silver Telly Award for a video in the Social Issues category for 2008. The pair won the highest award for "Wheels for Warriors Tribute."

The video was a tribute to Private First Class Donald Axtell, III, U.S. Army and Corporal John Lake, III, U.S. Marine Corps, a pair of wheelchair-bound veterans severely wounded in Iraq. PFC Axtell lost both his legs when a rocket-propelled grenade exploded near him in August 2007. CPL Lake was also injured by a rocket-propelled grenade explosion in April 2006. While in North Carolina on convalescent leave following surgery, CPL Lake was shot in the head during a street crime, leaving him paralyzed. Both veterans were honored during the Army-Navy football game at M&T Bank Stadium on December 1, 2007, and each was presented with a wheelchair-accessible van by Operation Support Our Troops, a Rhode Island-based charity.

"Having the opportunity to honor these men and their sacrifices by producing a powerful video tribute that was played to 80,000 stadium attendees who watched in hushed silence is one of the highlights of my career," commented Sean Lucas.

Wheels for Warriors is part of the nonprofit, Operation Support Our Troops. Its mission is to provide specially-equipped vans for wounded soldiers. Mr. Hyman served on the Wheels for Warrior Board of Directors from October 2006 to March 2008.

The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions. The Telly Awards is a widely known and highly respected national and international competition and receives over 13,000 entries annually.

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., one of the largest and most diversified television broadcasting companies, owns and operates, programs or provides sales services to 58 television stations in 35 markets. Sinclair's television group is affiliated with all major networks and reaches approximately 22% of all U.S. television households. For more information, please visit Sinclair's website at www.sbgi.net.

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