Danish Broadcasting Corporation Purchases Harris H-Class(TM) Automation System For Massive New TV and Radio Broadcast Centre

Danish Broadcasting Corporation Purchases Harris H-Class(TM) Automation System For Massive New TV and Radio Broadcast Centre

H-Class(TM) Automation Integral to One of the Largest Projects By a National Broadcaster in 20 Years

BASINGSTOKE, England, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) today announced that it has won an important contract to supply Danish Broadcasting Corporation (known as "DR") with Harris' revolutionary H-Class(TM) Broadcast Presentation Manager (BPM), a next-generation play-out automation application. H-Class(TM) is Harris' new end-to-end Content Delivery Platform.

A world first, the H-Class(TM) BPM will be installed in DR's new television and radio broadcast centre in Orestad, one kilometer south of Copenhagen's city centre and close to the new Oresund Bridge link to Sweden. DR is moving from multiple sites around Copenhagan to a centralised, purpose- built centre. The construction of the new broadcast centre is one of the largest single projects undertaken by a Danish national broadcaster in the last 20 years.

DR Project Manager Bo Stubbergaard Hansen said, "This is an exciting time in DR's history. It is absolutely vital that we have the ability to migrate our existing media asset management system and other databases, as well as take advantage of the automation and playout benefits."

The H-Class(TM) delivery platform enables broadcasters and content providers the means to integrate disparate processes into a single, modular system that handles all content management and delivery enterprise-wide from creation to consumption. Because H-Class(TM) is based on open standards and is network-, content- and service-agnostic, content providers like DR can use the entire platform as an end-to-end platform, or deploy separate solutions and applications in order to upgrade their existing infrastructure. In this case DR decided to purchase the BPM Play-out Automation application and Schedule Manager, a distributed, secure, multi-user configurable tool that enables offline or online editing of play-out schedules.

Harris is working with German systems integrator BFE (BFE Studio und Medien Systems GmbH) for design, installation and integration of a server- based, network integrated platform for play-out to support radio, Internet, broadcast and television.

Harris, Mediagenix, Dalet and Omneon will provide a fully automated, software-controlled production system which is linked to a redundant server and play-out system.

The four-phase construction of the new broadcast centre has already begun and is expected to be completed in 2006, when DR will move into the new facility, which has already been given the name "DR BYEN."

About Harris Broadcast Communications Division

Harris Broadcast Communications Division is one of four divisions within Harris Corporation, an international communications equipment company focused on providing assured communications(TM) products, systems and services for government and commercial customers in more than 150 countries. One of the world's leading suppliers of broadcast technology, Harris Broadcast Communications Division offers a full range of solutions that support the digital delivery, automation and management of audio, video and data. For more information, visit http://www.broadcast.harris.com/ .

About DR

DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) is Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise and is an independent, licence-financed public institution.

DR TV comprises two channels, DR1 and DR2. DR1, founded in 1951, is broadcast via a terrestrial network, while DR2, founded in 1996, is a satellite channel, which can be viewed by approximately 80 percent of the population via satellite dish reception or cable TV. Since 1997 DR has transmitted television on the Internet, including daily transmissions of TV- Avisen (news).

Source: Harris Corporation

CONTACT: Martha Rapp of Harris Corporation, +1-217-221-7577, or
mrapp@harris.com; or Becky Smith of Ellabeck Communications Ltd in England,
+011-44-1622-684592, or becky@ella-beck.co.uk, for Harris

Web site: http://www.harris.com/
http://www.broadcast.harris.com/

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