Pilat Media opens office in Australia

Press Release: 2 September 2003

London, 2 September 2003 - Pilat Media Global plc, the supplier of business management software to broadcasters around the world, announces the opening of an office in Australia to cater for its growing presence and success in Australasia. Pilat Media is the market leader in the provision of broadcast software in New Zealand and Australia, with eight clients, including Network Ten, Southern Cross Broadcasting, SBS and most recently, FOXTEL and TV3 in New Zealand.

Tom McEvoy joins as Head of Operations for Pilat Media in Australasia, bringing over 20 years' managerial experience in business solutions, from broadcasting to banking. Tom was formerly Senior Vice President of Encoda Systems where he was responsible for global product development and delivery services.

Commenting on the appointment of Tom McEvoy, Avi Engel, Chief Executive Officer of Pilat Media, said: "Tom's broad experience in the business solutions arena will be a great asset to the company. We are market leaders in New Zealand and Australia and the opening of an office in Sydney further reinforces our presence and commitment to the broadcasters in the region. We welcome Tom and look forward to further growth."

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Notes to editors:

Pilat Media is a UK company, currently 150 strong, operating from headquarters in London and offices in the USA, Australia and Israel.

Pilat Media's IBMS (Integrated Broadcast Management System) is a new generation software system for managing the business of broadcasting. It is the world's most comprehensive solution, designed to maximize revenues and reduce costs by integrating airtime sales, content programming and media trafficking across an unlimited number of different channels or stations, regions or even countries, all under a single centralized, scalable and digital ready system. Al these have been historically serviced by several, typically dispersed systems. IBMS' functional breadth, depth and flexibility to suit all types of broadcasters are unrivalled, making it the first truly global system of its kind.

IBMS' first version was originally developed by Pilat for BSkyB, to support their fast growing multi-channel programming needs. Pilat Media was established in 1999 to further develop and market the system as a generic product. IBMS's scope was subsequently more than doubled by adding the advertising sales functionality in partnership with Network Ten of Australia. Since then Pilat Media has rapidly established itself as a rising force in the market for business management software for broadcasters. Today, Pilat Media's software solutions have been selected by 35 broadcasters in Europe, North America and Australasia, representing a wide spectrum of business models, organizational size and transmission technologies - digital and analogue, on terrestrial, cable and satellite platforms. Additional clients include CTV (Canada), Discovery (International), five (UK), TV New Zealand, Playboy (US), Sky Italia and TV4 (Sweden).