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Tuesday, March 04, 2008

RRSat Chosen by Swedish National Television (SVT) to Transmit TV Channel Over Europe

RRSat Chosen by Swedish National Television (SVT) to Transmit TV Channel Over Europe

OMER, Israel, March 4/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST), a rapidly
growing provider of comprehensive content management and global distribution
services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, announced today
that SVT, Sveriges Television (Swedish Television), Sweden's public
television broadcasting service has chosen RRSat to expand its coverage all
over Europe.

Over the past three years RRSat has been distributing the SVT
channel over its Global Network to Asia through the Thaicom-5 Satellite.
Under the current agreement, RRSat also distributes the SVT channel to
Europe, Northern Africa & the Middle East through the Direct-To-Home
distribution network, over Eurobird-9 satellite.

"After using RRSat's turnaround services since 2005 for SVT Europa's
Direct-To-Home distribution to Asia, Australia and Africa, we are very
pleased to expand our cooperation with RRSat to include Direct-To-Home
services through Eurobird-9 satellite to Europe, Northern Africa and the
Middle East," said Riffa Hanninen, Head of SVT Europa, the international
channel of the Swedish public service broadcaster SVT.

"We are very pleased that SVT, the Swedish national
television, has chosen RRSat to expand its channels coverage to be accessible
throughout Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East over the Eurobird-9
satellite, our rapidly expanding Direct-To-Home and cable platform,"
commented Lior Rival, VP Sales and Marketing of RRSat. "Once again, RRSat,
leveraging its broad global network and leading fiber infrastructure, will
enable the channel to be reached by millions of new households."

About RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd.

RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST)
provides global, comprehensive, content management and distribution services
to the rapidly expanding television and radio broadcasting industries.
Through its proprietary "RRSat Global Network," composed of satellite and
terrestrial fiber optic transmission capacity and the public Internet, RRSat
is able to offer high-quality and flexible global distribution services for
content providers. RRSat's comprehensive content management services include
producing and playing out TV content as well as providing satellite
newsgathering services (SNG). RRSat concurrently provide these services to
more than 400 television and radio channels, covering more than 150
countries. Visit the company's website

http://www.RRSat.com for more information.

About Sveriges Television (SVT)

Sveriges Television (SVT) is the Swedish public service television
company. The official start took place on 4th September 1956 so last year
marked the celebration of the first 50 years! But it was a flying start, the
culmination of several years' trial programme transmissions. In 1969 a second
national channel was added. Today SVT operates six channels - five national,
SVT1, SVT2, SVT24, Barnkanalen (a children's channel) and together with UR,
Kunskapskanalen, and one international, SVT Europa.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains forward looking statements within
the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including
statements regarding (i) the growth of our business and the television and
radio broadcasting industries, (ii) our expectation to expand our client base
and sell additional services to our existing client base, and (iii) our
ability to report future successes. These forward-looking statements involve
known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on current
expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about the companies and
the industry as of the date of this press release. The company undertakes no
obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent
occurring events or circumstances, or to changes in its expectations, except
as may be required by law. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks
and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from
those contemplated by the forward-looking statements, including the risks
indicated in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
For more details, please refer to our SEC filings and the amendments thereto,
including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2006
and our Current Reports on Form 6-K.

Information in this press release concerning Sveriges Television (SVT)
has been provided by Sveriges Television (SVT) and has not been independently
verified by RRSat.


Company Contact Information:
Gil Efron, CFO
Tel: +972-8-861-0000
Email: investors@RRSat.com

External Investor Relations Contacts:
Ehud Helft / Kenny Green
Tel: +1-866-704-6710

Source: RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd

Company Contact Information: Gil Efron, CFO, Tel: +972-8-861-0000, Email: investors@RRSat.com; External Investor Relations Contacts: Ehud Helft / Kenny Green, Tel: +1-866-704-6710


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