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Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
announced the corporate promotions of Delbert R. Parks, III and
Harvey Arnold. The announcement was made by David Amy, Executive Vice
President and Chief Operating Officer of Sinclair.
Mr. Parks was promoted to Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of
Sinclair from Senior Vice President/Operations and Engineering. Mr. Parks
will be responsible for the oversight and coordination of all Sinclair
technology efforts and operational deployments, provide future direction and
goals for technology and operating system implementations, be responsible for
all current technology, and coordinate with senior executives to ensure new
business plans are supported with staff and resources. The Company's
Engineering, Information Technology, Sinclair Advertising Support Operations,
On-Air Operations, and Master Control will continue to report into him.
Mr. Arnold was promoted to Vice President, Engineering. Mr. Arnold will be
responsible for the oversight of the regional field engineers and other senior
engineering staff at each station, identify and prioritize engineering and
building projects to ensure they are resourced, supervised and completed, and
manage the capital budget to ensure that the Company's efforts are properly
balanced and engineering plants are maintained and operational.
In making the announcement, David Amy commented, "We are pleased to announce
the promotions of Del and Harvey, who have contributed much success to their
departments in their combined 57 years with Sinclair. As the Company has had
tremendous growth in the last few years, there is an increased need for more
oversight and strong leadership over the Engineering, Technology and
Television Operations departments. This is especially important as we take on
new stations, broaden our content offerings and distribution platforms, expand
and improve our infrastructure, make advances in new technology, and develop
new ways of monetizing our spectrum.
Mr. Amy continued, "Del has been a leader in this organization where he has
spent the last 40 years of his professional career. He has handled the
oversight and transition of the acquisition stations into our portfolio, as
well as the planning, organization and implementation of operational and
engineering policies and strategies as they relate to television operations,
Internet activity, information management systems, and infrastructure.
"We are confident in Harvey's abilities to lead the Engineering department
given his strong work ethic, knowledge of the industry and the respect he has
earned of the regional engineers at the stations and others within the
industry. For the past 17 years, he has been responsible for the engineering
activities of the Company by supporting over 160 television stations and the
transition of the acquisition stations into our portfolio."
Delbert R. Parks, III has served as Senior Vice President/Operations and
Engineering since December 2013. Prior to that, he served as Vice
President/Engineering and Operations of Sinclair Television Group, Inc. since
1996. From 1985 to 1996, he was Director of Operations and Engineering for
WBFF-TV in Baltimore, Maryland and for Sinclair. He has held various
operations and engineering positions with us for the last 40 years. Mr. Parks
is a member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and the
Society of Broadcast Engineers. He is on the Board of Directors of the
Baltimore Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Parks is also a
retired Army Lieutenant Colonel who has held various commands during his
26-year reserve career.
Harvey Arnold has been the Corporate Director of Engineering for Sinclair
since 1998. Before his time at Sinclair, he spent 17 years with North
Carolina Public Television, managing and expanding the engineering and
transmission activities of one of the largest state-wide Public Television
networks in the country. Mr. Arnold has served as an engineering consultant
for PBS and its member stations. He was an active member of the FCC Advisory
Committee for Advanced Television Service (ACATS) to develop the ATSC standard
and to implement over-the-air digital television in the United States. Mr.
Arnold was the recipient of the 2013 Broadcasting & Cable Technology
Leadership Award. He is a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and
Television Engineers (SMPTE) and serves on the SMPTE Board of Editors. Mr.
Arnold holds a BS in Communications from the University of Wisconsin and is
active in many broadcast-related technical organizations such as ATSC, Society
of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) and the Association of Federal Communications
Consulting Engineers (AFCCE).
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland,
north of Baltimore, Maryland, and has other executive offices in Tampa,
Florida, and Seattle, Washington. Sinclair is one of the largest and most
diversified television broadcasting companies, having affiliations with all of
the major networks, with approximately 8,000 employees, across the country.
For more information, please visit Sinclair's website at www.sbgi.net.
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