Sky News Chooses EVS for all-in-one Ingest/Edit/Playout Solution
(Thomson Reuters ONE) - London (UK), Liège (Belgium), October 20, 2009, EVS BroadcastEquipment S.A. (Euronext Brussels: EVS.BR, Bloomberg: EVS BB,Reuters: EVSB.BR) (Pinksheets: EVBEF), the leader in ProfessionalDigital Video applications for live and studio TV production, todayannounced that it is to provide a server solution to UK based 24 hournews channel Sky News, a service of the British Sky BroadcastingGroup (London Stock Exchange: BSY, NYSE: BSY), ahead of theorganisation's launch of an HD news channel in Spring 2010.Sky News and EVS will now work together to introduce the newtechnology at Sky News' West London headquarters, with HD upgrades atits Central London studio, the regions and internationally.Replacing current equipment and introducing a single tapelesssolution through EVS, with Apple's Final Cut Studio as the craft editsolution will lead to significant enhancements across Sky News,including improving its day-to-day newsgathering operation and outputabilities on TV, as well as online and radio.The benefits of a new tapeless solution operating across ingest, editand playout include being able to get Sky's news output onto multipleplatforms quicker and improved integration between Sky News' bureauxand field teams and its headquarters at Osterley, West London. Theuse of EVS Instant Tapeless Technology, including the XS and XT[2]production servers, XStore[2] SAN server, IPDirector, as well asXEDIO, with Final Cut studio across the board means teams back at HQwill be capable of last minute tweaks to any news package sent in,whether it has come from London, Liverpool or Lahore - something notcurrently possible under the existing arrangements.Bevan Gibson, Deputy Head of Technology for Sky News, said: "The EVSproduct is always in record, and this feature combined with ultrafast turnaround, will bring a new dimension to the way we can handlebreaking news. An architecture that is flexible for News, allowing usto adapt quickly to changes in news contribution and distributionpractices."EVS have a progressive and pioneering outlook which matches ourethos. They are a partner who will work with us in shaping productsto suit our needs and we are delighted to announce that we will beworking with them at this exciting time for the channel."Sky News will now work to introduce the EVS solutions across itsoperation by Spring next year and will embark upon a thoroughtraining system with all affected staff to ensure a smooth changeovernext year.Henry Alexander, General Manager EMEA at EVS: "EVS is extremely proudto be working in partnership with Sky News on this challenging studioproject. The combination of our expertise in the design andmanufacturing of fast and reliable broadcast technology with thequality of Sky's leading programmes provides an exciting opportunityto deliver and launch a technically advanced HD News Channel in2010."For further enquiries about EVS, please contact:Jacques GALLOY, Director & CFOGeoffroy d'OULTREMONT, Investor Relations & Corporate CommunicationsManagerEVS Broadcast Equipment S.A., Liege Science Park, 16 rue du BoisSaint-Jean, B-4102 Ougrée (Liège), BelgiumTel: +32 4 361 70 14. E-mail: corpcom(at)evs.tv; www.evs-global.comFor further enquiries about Sky News, please contact:Charlotte DixonPublicity Manager, Sky NewsTel: +44 7824 824834Forward Looking StatementsThis press release contains forward-looking statements with respectto the business, financial condition, and results of operations ofEVS and its affiliates. These statements are based on the currentexpectations or beliefs of EVS's management and are subject to anumber of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results orperformance of the Company to differ materially from thosecontemplated in such forward-looking statements. These risks anduncertainties relate to changes in technology and marketrequirements, the company's concentration on one industry, decline indemand for the company's products and those of its affiliates,inability to timely develop and introduce new technologies, productsand applications, and loss of market share and pressure on pricingresulting from competition which could cause the actual results orperformance of the company to differ materially from thosecontemplated in such forward-looking statements. EVS undertakes noobligation to publicly release any revisions to these forward-lookingstatements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereofor to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.Notes to Editors:About EVS GroupEVS Broadcast Equipment designs, develops and markets professionaldigital equipment for Television. The company employs over 240persons in 13 countries and sells its products to professionals ofthe video and audio sectors in more than 90 countries. EVS is apublic company traded on Euronext Brussels: EVS, ISIN: BE0003820371.For more information, refer to www.evs-global.comEVS Broadcast is the world leader for Live TV Production Digital DiskRecorders and Related Software Applications, especially in the fieldof sports. The company's dedicated hardware and software suite offera complete production platform: live slow motion (LSM), high speedslow motion, replay only, clips generation, quick clips editing,real-time SD/HD video files transfer, time delay, multi-camerarecording, metadata association, graphics storage and play-out,digital transmission, multi-format ingest and play-back, audio record& edit, webcasting, mobile phone clipping. Main software applicationslike the "IP Director®" are running on the dedicated robust andflexible hardware the "XT[2]® Platform". The world's leadingbroadcasters, such as NBC, BSkyB, FOX, RTBF, RTL, NHK, CANAL+, ABC,ESPN, TF1, CCTV, PBS, CBS, BBC, ZDF, Channel7, RAI, TVE, NEP,MEDIAPRO, EUROMEDIA, BEXEL, ALFACAM and many others use EVS'solutions.EVS 47,2% affiliate XDC is pioneering Digital Cinema Logistics andPlay-out and operates between the movies distributors and exhibitors.XDC has installed more than 500 digital screens throughout Europe inGermany, Sweden, France, Austria, Portugal, UK, Belgium, etc.About Sky News* Sky News images are available from Sky's stills department on 0207 800 4202.* Since its launch in 1989, Sky News has established itself as a formidable and innovative force in the world of news broadcasting. It now provides news to around 145 million people in 36 countries in Europe alone, with distribution across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.* Valued for fairness, balance and journalistic objectivity by both viewers and regulators, the award-winning channel has also earned a reputation for the speed of its 24-hour coverage and flexibility in reporting live news - first.* In addition to its status as one of Europe's leading 24 hour news channels, skynews.com is one of the fastest growing websites on the continent and reaches way beyond its eight average and half million monthly unique users. It serves text and video to Britain's commercial radio websites, to giant animating billboards in all major railway stations in the UK seen by 56 million commuters a fortnight, to passengers on Virgin Atlantic flights, and more than 500,000 iPhone users via the most downloaded news application in the country.* In March 2009 Sky News Radio became the sole provider of national and international news to all commercial stations in the UK - reaching around 31 million listeners in total - when it took over the contract to supply IRN stations, in addition to its existing clients.* Sky News won a Golden Nymph at the 2009 Monte Carlo Television Festival for Best 24 Hour News Programme for its coverage of the Mumbai terror attacks. Sky News was also named Best News Service at the Broadcast Digital Awards 2009 and Skynews.com won the Association of Online Publishers award for website of the year, 2008.http://hugin.info/133958/R/1348756/324700.pdfThis announcement was originally distributed by Hugin. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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