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Snell & Wilcox and Harris Corporation to Demonstrate Interoperable Newsroom Solution at 2008 NAB Show

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HAMPSHIRE, U.K. -- April 4, 2008 -- Snell & Wilcox today announced that it has integrated its Kahuna SD/HD multiformat production switcher with the NewsForce SD/HD newsroom system from Harris® Corporation (NYSE:HRS). As part of this collaboration, engineers from Harris and Snell & Wilcox worked together over a period of several months to integrate Kahuna with a broad range of Harris products including the Harris® Platinum router, NEXIO AMP server, ADC automation system, Inscriber® G7 3D graphics systems, and the CENTRIO multiviewer. 

The two companies will demonstrate a joint Kahuna/NewsForce solution in the Harris booth (N2502) at the upcoming NAB 2008 exhibition, which is being held from April 14-17 in Las Vegas. This presentation will highlight the power of Kahuna for automated newsroom applications by using an AP ENPS rundown to deliver instructions to the Harris® ADC automation system, which will drive the Kahuna -- queuing, playing, and switching media elements from that list and advancing them to air.

"The integration of Kahuna and the Harris® NewsForce system gives our joint customers a powerful solution for delivering high quality, automated news broadcasts," said Joe Zaller, vice president of corporate development at Snell & Wilcox. "It also broadens our commitment of making Kahuna interoperable with as many third-party products as possible. Through our work with Harris we have added significantly to the list of components that can be managed seamlessly by Kahuna."

"ADC control of the Snell & Wilcox Kahuna production switcher adds yet another level of functionality to the NewsForce solution, which provides broadcast operations of all sizes with a comprehensive range of newsroom production and management capabilities," said Tim Thorsteinson, president of Harris Broadcast Communications. "The Harris commitment to interoperability is providing concrete benefits to today's broadcasters. With the interoperable NewsForce solution, customers can gain unprecedented capability to speed their news products to air."

About Kahuna:
Kahuna from Snell & Wilcox is the world's first and only true multi-format SD/HD production switcher. Thanks to a Snell & Wilcox technology called FormatFusion, Kahuna enables simultaneous SD and HD operations in the same mainframe and on the same control panel. This vastly simplifies the HDTV transition for broadcasters by eliminating the need for external HDTV up/down/cross converters in the live production environment, as well as the cost and the signal path delay associated with these products. Kahuna has the smallest size mainframe, lowest weight, and lowest power consumption when compared with other large switchers; and it has been integrated with dozens of third-party products including routers, servers, automation systems, and controllers.

About NewsForce:
Built upon advanced Harris® NEXIO shared storage server architecture, NewsForce is a comprehensive, HD/SD news environment that provides file-based newsroom workflow from field editing to delivery on air. In combination with its family of high-performance, MOS-enabled news editors and Inscriber® graphics systems, NewsForce provides news operations with a powerful, richly featured SD/HD infrastructure that scales cleanly to accommodate all current and future broadcast needs.

More information about the Kahuna SD/HD multiformat production switcher and other products from Snell & Wilcox is available online at www.snellwilcox.com.

Harris Corporation is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Fla., the company has an annual revenue of almost $5 billion and 16,000 employees -- including nearly 7,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications® products, systems, and services. Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at www.harris.com.

Snell & Wilcox designs and builds the world's most advanced systems for video playout, mastering, repurposing, infrastructure, and live production switching. Providing solutions that deliver immediate value while enabling a controlled and cost-effective transition to HD and file-based systems, the company serves a worldwide base of customers in the broadcast, postproduction, cable, satellite, mobile TV, and IPTV markets. In business since 1973, Snell & Wilcox maintains its U.S. headquarters in Burbank, Calif., and European headquarters in Hampshire, U.K. Additional offices are located in New York, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, and Russia. Further information is available at www.snellwilcox.com.

Snell & Wilcox Press Contact: Susan Warren, Wall Street Communications, Phone: +1 (631) 261 1013. E-mail: susan@wallstcom.com.

Harris Press Contact: Dave Glidden, Harris Broadcast Communications, Phone: +1 (513) 459-3639. E-mail: david.glidden@harris.com.

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