DENVER — April 20, 2006 — OmniBus Systems, the award-winning provider of comprehensive automation and content management solutions to the broadcast industry, today announced that NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) has purchased a full-featured iTX transmission system for support of a new 24-hour local IPTV and Internet news service. The revolutionary software-based automation system will enable NRK to launch a service consisting of local news content, captions, and graphics run in a news-wheel format with little or no user intervention.

“NRK was a very early adopter of OmniBus, so it is particularly fitting that it should be one of the first users of our latest technology in the form of iTX,” said OmniBus Systems CTO Ian Fletcher. “The project in which NRK is implementing iTX is a classic example of how we think the system will be used by existing broadcasters: enabling new services to be provided with high production values but with minimal capital investment and very low cost of ownership. The ability of iTX to integrate with NRK’s existing news production systems and to accept MXF files from its broadcast servers will make for very efficient workflows.”

NRK headquarters are based in Oslo, where the central facilities are located. There are also 12 smaller regional systems situated across the country to provide more localized programming. The entire broadcast network relies on OmniBus Systems’ multidomain technology to share media between all the regions.

The product of 15 years of innovation in high-end automation, the new OmniBus iTX intelligent transmission software replicates all functions of master control to a very high level of sophistication, allowing small- and mid-sized broadcasters to make a measured migration from the traditional hardware-based world toward a next-generation, software-based transmission facility, or to launch new services cost-effectively, as NRK has done.

Available with PCs optimized with the latest AMD chipsets, as well as modifications that maximize bandwidth use and real-time video processing, iTX serves as an unusually easy-to-maintain and cost-effective playout solution for NRK’s launching of IPTV services. iTX features a flexible and intuitive drag-and-drop interface with built-in captions, logos, vision effects, and even audio effects, as well as a preview function that allows the user to validate complete sequences before they air.

More information about OmniBus Systems’ groundbreaking iTX software-based automation solution is available online at www.omnibus.tv.

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About NRK
The NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) is Norway’s major broadcasting institution with nine radio channels and two TV channels with approximately 100 percent coverage. The NRK headquarters are situated in the capital, Oslo, and Trondheim. NRK also comprises 15 regional offices whose journalists produce radio and TV program for their regional broadcasts and for the national networks, as well as the Internet. NRK regional offices, cooperating in seven groups, produce regional TV news. There are NRK offices in 50 different places in Norway in addition to 10 correspondents abroad. More information is available online at www.nrk.no.

About OmniBus Systems
OmniBus Systems provides broadcasting, cable, and satellite organizations with comprehensive automation and media content management solutions that address every area of television-related operations. Its newsroom, content, and workflow automation solutions include acquisition and recording of rich media material, low-resolution editing, media asset management, and playout. OmniBus is a global company with headquarters in the United Kingdom and offices in the United States, Germany, and Singapore. More information is available at www.omnibus.tv.

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