RADN Radyne Corp (MM)

PHOENIX, May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Radyne Corporation (NASDAQ:RADN) announced today that Broadcast Engineering Magazine had honored its Tiernan HE4000 SD/HDTV encoder with its Pick Hit award for 2006. The Pick Hit award is granted each year to the most innovative new products displayed at the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas. "I want to express my appreciation to Broadcast Engineering for recognizing the HE4000," said Bob Fitting, Radyne's CEO. "It sets the standard for HDTV encoding and compression and has been adopted throughout the world for live broadcasts including many high profile sports events such as the NBA playoffs and the upcoming World Cup." The HE4000 is the only digital broadcast encoder on the market today that simultaneously encodes both standard definition and HDTV signals and features the world's only full-color front panel video display. It is currently in use during the broadcast of the NBA playoffs in the United States as well as for studio and sports broadcasts in Korea and Brazil. About Radyne Corporation Radyne Corporation designs, manufactures, sells, integrates and installs products, systems and software used for the transmission and reception of data and video over satellite, troposcatter, microwave and cable communication networks. The Company, through its Tiernan subsidiary, is a supplier of HDTV and SDTV encoding and transmission equipment. The Xicom Technology subsidiary is a producer of high power amplifiers for communications applications. Radyne is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, has manufacturing facilities in Phoenix, Arizona, San Diego, California, and Santa Clara, California and sales offices in Singapore, Beijing, Jakarta and the United Kingdom. The Company also has sales and/or service centers in Sao Paulo, Bangalore, Shanghai and Moscow. For more information, visit our web site at http://www.radn.com/. Additional information on Xicom is available at http://www.xicomtech.com/. Contact: Malcolm Persen, Chief Financial Officer, 602.437.9620 DATASOURCE: Radyne Corporation CONTACT: Malcolm Persen, Chief Financial Officer of Radyne Corporation, +1-602-437-9620 Web site: http://www.xicomtech.com/ Web site: http://www.radn.com/

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