KIT digital Brings Next-Gen HD Broadcasting to the Philippines

Major Broadcast Network TV5 Selects KIT digital to Implement the Region's First Integrated Digital and HD-Enabled Broadcasting and OTT-Capable Facility.

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC--(Marketwire - Jul 19, 2011) - KIT digital, Inc. (NASDAQ: KITD), a premium cloud-based software solutions and technology services provider for multi-screen video delivery, was selected by one of the Philippines' major broadcast networks, TV5, to help it become the first fully automated, IP-based digital and HD-enabled facility in the region.

The upgrade to TV5's Technical Operations Center (TOC) includes significant enhancements to their production and post-production capabilities to support the network's effort to produce more premium content for their customers -- including the recently launched all-news channel AksyonTV 41 and the primetime sports block AKTV on IBC Channel 13.

"We are very pleased to have been selected as TV5's partner in advancing broadcast technology in the Philippines and setting the groundwork to transition into multi-platform distribution over digital terrestrial, satellite, and IP-networks, with single-point ingestion and asset management," said KIT digital's senior vice president, Asia-Pacific, Ashish Mukherjee. "This client win reflects KIT digital's unique ability to provide advanced integration services coupled with cloud-based platform solutions that enable traditional broadcasters to revamp their existing legacy delivery models and bridge the gap between traditional broadcast and next generation software-based broadband video head-ends."

August 14, 2011

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