Harris — HD Handling For Saudi Ministry (SatBroadcasting™)

Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has been awarded several additional contracts by the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Culture and Information (MOCI) for products spanning its HD portfolio. Recent wins include the provision of equipment for eight new HD studios, three new portable HD studios, two new digital satellite news gathering/outside broadcast (DSNG/OB) vans and three new HD OB vans.

These contract wins follow successful Harris HD equipment installations at seven Saudi TV studio control rooms in the cities of Qassim, Riyadh, Dammam, Medinah and Makhah in 2007 and 2008. Harris is working with Riyadh-based dealer and systems integrator First Gulf Company (FGC) to install a wide range of broadcast equipment for a new Saudi TV HD studio in the Riyadh TV center (for the broadcast of a financial channel) and two new HD studios in the prestigious, new Dammam TV center. Harris and FGC also are working to install three new portable HD studios that will be used across the country.

Contracts have also been signed for the provision of equipment for three new HD studios located in the cities of Hail, Jizan and Tabouk, a new HD studio for Makkah Town TV and an additional HD studio in the Riyadh TV center. The equipment provided by Harris for each of the HD studios includes Platinum(tm) routers, Inscriber(r) G-Series(tm) graphics products, Videotek(r) TVM test and measurement devices, NEXIO(r) servers, Predator II(tm) or Predator II-GX(tm) multiviewers, a range of core processing technology including up/down/cross converters and multiplexers/demultiplexers, and Velocity ESX(tm) news, sports and production editing systems.

Harris has installed HD equipment for two new Saudi TV DSNG/OB vans. The equipment installed in the mobile units includes Videotek TVM test and measurement products, Inscriber G-Series graphics, core processing infrastructure solutions and distribution amplifiers. Harris has been contracted to support the build-out of three new Saudi TV HD OB vans in the coming months. The OB vans will feature an end-to-end range of HD technology including routers,servers, handheld test and measurement devices and multiviewers.