London (UK), Liège (Belgium), October 20, 2009, EVS Broadcast Equipment
S.A. (Euronext Brussels: EVS.BR, Bloomberg: EVS BB, Reuters: EVSB.BR)
(Pinksheets: EVBEF), the leader in Professional Digital Video
applications for live and studio TV production, today announced that it
is to provide a server solution to UK based 24 hour news channel Sky
News, a service of the British Sky Broadcasting Group (London Stock
Exchange: BSY, NYSE: BSY), ahead of the organisation's launch of an HD
news channel in Spring 2010.
Sky
News and EVS will now work together to introduce the new technology at
Sky News' West London headquarters, with HD upgrades at its Central
London studio, the regions and internationally.
Replacing
current equipment and introducing a single tapeless solution through
EVS, with Apple's Final Cut Studio as the craft edit solution will lead
to significant enhancements across Sky News, including improving its
day-to-day newsgathering operation and output abilities on TV, as well
as online and radio.
The benefits of a new
tapeless solution operating across ingest, edit and playout include
being able to get Sky's news output onto multiple platforms quicker and
improved integration between Sky News' bureaux and field teams and its
headquarters at Osterley, West London. The use of EVS Instant Tapeless
Technology, including the XS and XT[2] production servers, XStore[2]
SAN server, IPDirector, as well as XEDIO, with Final Cut studio across
the board means teams back at HQ will be capable of last minute tweaks
to any news package sent in, whether it has come from London, Liverpool
or Lahore - something not currently possible under the existing
arrangements.
Bevan Gibson, Deputy Head of
Technology for Sky News, said: "The EVS product is always in record,
and this feature combined with ultra fast turnaround, will bring a new
dimension to the way we can handle breaking news. An architecture that
is flexible for News, allowing us to adapt quickly to changes in news
contribution and distribution practices.
"EVS
have a progressive and pioneering outlook which matches our ethos. They
are a partner who will work with us in shaping products to suit our
needs and we are delighted to announce that we will be working with
them at this exciting time for the channel."
Sky
News will now work to introduce the EVS solutions across its operation
by Spring next year and will embark upon a thorough training system
with all affected staff to ensure a smooth changeover next year.
Henry
Alexander, General Manager EMEA at EVS: "EVS is extremely proud to be
working in partnership with Sky News on this challenging studio
project. The combination of our expertise in the design and
manufacturing of fast and reliable broadcast technology with the
quality of Sky's leading programmes provides an exciting opportunity to
deliver and launch a technically advanced HD News Channel in 2010."
For
further enquiries about EVS, please contact: Jacques GALLOY, Director
& CFO Geoffroy d'OULTREMONT, Investor Relations & Corporate
Communications Manager EVS Broadcast Equipment S.A., Liege Science
Park, 16 rue du Bois Saint-Jean, B-4102 Ougrée (Liège), Belgium Tel: 32
4 361 70 14. E-mail: corpcom@evs.tv; www.evs-global.com
For further enquiries about Sky News, please contact: Charlotte Dixon Publicity Manager, Sky News Tel: 44 7824 824834
Forward
Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking
statements with respect to the business, financial condition, and
results of operations of EVS and its affiliates. These statements are
based on the current expectations or beliefs of EVS's management and
are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results or performance of the Company to differ materially from
those contemplated in such forward-looking statements. These risks and
uncertainties relate to changes in technology and market requirements,
the company's concentration on one industry, decline in demand for the
company's products and those of its affiliates, inability to timely
develop and introduce new technologies, products and applications, and
loss of market share and pressure on pricing resulting from competition
which could cause the actual results or performance of the company to
differ materially from those contemplated in such forward-looking
statements. EVS undertakes no obligation to publicly release any
revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or
circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of
unanticipated events.
Notes to Editors: About
EVS Group EVS Broadcast Equipment designs, develops and markets
professional digital equipment for Television. The company employs over
240 persons in 13 countries and sells its products to professionals of
the video and audio sectors in more than 90 countries. EVS is a public
company traded on Euronext Brussels: EVS, ISIN: BE0003820371. For more
information, refer to www.evs-global.com EVS Broadcast is the world
leader for Live TV Production Digital Disk Recorders and Related
Software Applications, especially in the field of sports. The company's
dedicated hardware and software suite offer a complete production
platform: live slow motion (LSM), high speed slow motion, replay only,
clips generation, quick clips editing, real-time SD/HD video files
transfer, time delay, multi-camera recording, metadata association,
graphics storage and play-out, digital transmission, multi-format
ingest and play-back, audio record & edit, webcasting, mobile phone
clipping. Main software applications like the "IP Director®" are
running on the dedicated robust and flexible hardware the "XT[2]®
Platform". The world's leading broadcasters, 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 and Play-out and operates between the movies
distributors and exhibitors. XDC has installed more than 500 digital
screens throughout Europe in Germany, 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.
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