JVC's D-9 IS HOUSE FORMAT AT EABC
            Ethnic-American Broadcasting Co. Selects D-9

FORT LEE, NJ, November 18, 1996 -- Ethnic-American Broadcasting 
Company, the country's largest distributor of foreign-language 
programming, has selected JVC's D-9 videotape format as the 
company's house format for its new 24-hour Russian broadcast 
service.  The commitment to purchase D-9 was made in May, 
1996, after JVC's successful product launch at NAB 1996.  The 
company received delivery of nine D-9 machines, (four BR-D85 
editing recorders with pre-read and five BR-D80 editing recorders) 
in the first week of October, 1996. 

      Ethnic-American Broadcasting Company (EABC) was founded nine 
years ago as a local all-Russian language radio station.  The 
company quickly expanded its product offerings to meet market 
demands and is now a full-production facility that downlinks 
television signals in five foreign languages (Arabic, Italian, 
Filipino, Chinese and Russian) and distributes them across North 
America.  EABC also offers local television and radio programming 
in Russian.   EABC has nine radio studios located in Fort Lee, NJ; 
Boston, MA; Baltimore, MD; Chicago, IL; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; 
Sacramento, CA; San Francisco, CA; and Los Angeles, CA. 

        Director of Engineering and Broadcast Support, Denis J. 
Roche, called the move to D-9 an obvious choice, and 
expressed pleasure with the format's competitive performance and 
price.  "After a rigorous technical evaluation of all the major 
digital formats, we selected D-9 as our house format," said 
Roche.  "D-9 outstanding picture quality that rivals the most 
expensive digital systems, but its price is literally half.  There 
is no question that JVC's D-9 product is the best choice for 
our broadcast needs.  Point of fact, an engineer like myself is 
always concerned about picture  quality.  However, another major 
factor we considered when we chose D-9 was its low tape cost.  
If D-9 was priced like some of its competitors, we wouldn't 
have made the deal.  It would have cost too much to feed the 
machine." 

      "Ethnic-American Broadcasting Company is in good company, 
said Dave Walton, communications marketing manager for JVC 
PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS COMPANY.  "Their studio installation of 
D-9 machines coincided with deliveries to Fox NewsChannel and 
Fox SportsNet.  All three networks are committed to producing the 
highest quality video product." 

      D-9 operates at 50 megabits per second (mbps), and uses 
a robust -inch metal particle tape with 4:2:2 8-bit component 
digital signal processing.  Half-inch tape allows more information 
to be recorded, including two audio cue tracks, a control track, 
and two lines of uncompressed video.  Furthermore, D-9 offers 
video pre-read, a feature previously found only on the highest-
priced digital formats.  Pre-read allows users to do A/B roll-style 
editing with just two editing machines instead of three, and offers 
complex layering effects and keying.  And because it uses a very 
mild compression ratio of 3.3:1, concatenation problems are not 
exacerbated using D-9.  

       Roche agrees, "Mild compression was a very significant 
reason we chose D-9. The ability to get back in several times 
to edit a piece without loss of chroma resolution is a big factor.  
It's a great tape design."  

      Roche continues, "One of the primary reasons we selected 
D-9 above DV, which is also a low-cost digital alternative, 
is that while we currently uplink a single analog signal, 
eventually we will be uplinking in the MCPC mode.  And when we do, 
we will be glad to have 4:2:2 component digital, SMPTE 259 format 
output with 3.3:1 compression.  A format with higher compression 
ratios could begin to show artifacts with further MPEG compression 
and decompression." 

      Scott Watson, vice president of sales and marketing for JVC 
PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS COMPANY remarked, "JVC's decision to stick 
with -inch tape and offer a format with minimal compression and 
4:2:2 component processing has once again been proven correct." 

      JVC PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS COMPANY, based in Wayne, New 
Jersey, distributes a complete line of broadcast and professional 
equipment.  For more information about JVC's D-9 format, 
contact David Walton at 1-800-JVC-5825. 

                                 # # #