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 http://www.sbgi.net.
SOURCE Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Mark Hyman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.,
+1-410-568-1500
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