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Masstech Drives Interoperability with MassStore Media
Lifecycle Management System for Broadcasters

LAS VEGAS, NV, April 18, 2005 — Masstech Group Inc. continues to expand the interoperability of its MassStore systems, adding support for market leading automation systems from Omnibus and Sundance. Broad interoperability has led to rapid adoption of the MassStore system fueling incredible growth worldwide.
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Masstech Introduces Low-Cost, Comprehensive All- Digital Logging System at NAB 2005
LAS VEGAS, NV —April 18, 2005 — Masstech Group Inc. today introduced Logger-mini, a complete all-digital logging system for broadcasters. Logger-mini helps broadcasters respond to increasing demand for compliance recording of their on-air content by replacing VCR logging with a low-cost, fully automatable network-ready digital system for meeting as-run, government, confidence and archival logging and recording requirements.
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Masstech Group Manages Content and Streamlines Workflow
with New Broadcast Product Offerings at NAB 2005

LAS VEGAS, NV —April 18, 2005 — Masstech Group Inc. today introduced MassMedia Box- Mini (MMB-mini), a complete automated commercial content management solution for broadcasters. The MMB-mini system integrates with a station’s commercial servers and oversees the storing and dissemination of the growing volume of rapidly-changing, file-based commercial content.
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Masstech’s MassMedia Box Provides Missing Digital Link Between Satellite-Based Delivery Systems and Broadcast
LAS VEGAS, NV, April 18, 2005 — Masstech Group Inc. is helping broadcasters cross the technology divide by making available the delivery of satellite-based delivered content with MMB. MMB now supports automation systems from both Harris and Sundance, with an automated workflow from such content providers as Pathfire and DVX into the broadcasters’ playout server. MMB is now a seamlessly integrated solution providing a single all-seeing system that manages digital assets at all points in the production and playout cycle.
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PBS Selects Masstech Group as its Standard for Archive and Digital Video Content Storage Management
LAS VEGAS, NV – April 18, 2005 — Masstech Group Inc. today announced that it has been selected by PBS to join its innovative ACE consortium of leading technology suppliers. ACE is a vendor consortium created by PBS to develop a model of efficiency in broadcast operations. The ACE consortium will allow member PBS stations to take advantage of a set of standard building blocks, which will greatly streamline operations and drastically reduce location station costs.
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Masstech Joins StorageTek’s TekAlliance Partner Program
TORONTO, CANADA and LOUISVILLE, COLO. – April 18, 2005 –Masstech Group Inc. and StorageTek® (Storage Technology Corp., NYSE:STK), the leading provider of enterprise information lifecycle management, have jointly announced certification¹ of Masstech’s flagship product, MassStore Suite, as interoperable with StorageTek’s library portfolio. This tested interoperability qualifies Masstech as a new member of the TekAlliance Partner Program at StorageTek. This program offers mutual customers a wide portfolio of jointly sold and supported storage solutions to better meet their specific ILM and storage needs.
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Masstech MassMedia Box Enhances Workflow Productivity with New Support for Broadcast Commercial Delivery and Media Preparation Operations
LAS VEGAS, NV, April 18, 2005 — Masstech Group Inc. today announced that it has expanded MassMedia Box, the leading workflow productivity enhancement solution for broadcast environments, to support commercial delivery and media preparation operations. Partnerships with FastChannel, Pathfire and MediaDVX ensure seamless blending of program, commercial and promotional content to simplify delivery of content to the broadcast edge.
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WIN Television Picks Masstech MassLogger for Digital Program Logging
Wollongong, AUSTRALIA, April 8th, 2005 – WIN Television, Australia’s number one rating regional broadcaster has taken delivery of a 36 channel MassLogger version 2.2 from the Masstech Group Inc. for its digital compliance logging requirements. Masstech, headquartered in Toronto Canada, are an innovator in systems for broadcast workflow solutions and are the leading provider of Logging systems in the Asia Pacific market.
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Masstech Teams with IBM to deliver Streamlined Multi- Channel Management Solution for WNED
LAS VEGAS, NV —April 18, 2005 — Masstech Group Inc. today announced that WNED, the public broadcaster for Western New York, has selected Masstech MassStore with IBM storage to help streamline its multi-channel broadcast operations with shared storage. Masstech Group, a member of IBM’s PartnerWorld Industry Networks program, provides customers with tailor-fit solutions for complex management and digital media storage challenges.
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Masstech Announces Full Certification and Interoperability
between MassStore and StorageTek Libraries

Toronto, Canada – Feb. 14, 2005 –Masstech Group Inc. announced today that the company’s flagship product, MassStore Suite™, has received certification on the library portfolio from StorageTek® (Storage Technology Corporation, NYSE:STK), the leading provider of enterprise information lifecycle management.
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Masstech Group and Sundance Digital To Offer Integrated
Automation / Archive Solutions

IBC 2004, AMSTERDAM – Sept 10, 2004 – Masstech Group Inc. - a leading provider of software and embedded hardware broadcast workflow solutions, and Sundance Digital Inc. - a leading supplier of high-performance broadcast automation systems, have undertaken an initiative to provide an integrated end-to-end automation / archive package.
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Masstech Announces Interoperability Between MassStore™ and Sony’s PetaSite S-Series Libraries
AMSTERDAM – Sept. 10th, 2004 – Masstech Group Inc. is announcing full interoperability between the MassStore™ Suite of products Sony’s PetaSite™ S-Series of enterprise tape libraries.

This seamless interoperability will allow customers to realize the reliability and capacity of a Sony PetaSite tape library in their MassStore™ environments. The MassStore™ Suite of products provides a broadcaster the ability to actively manage digital media across the entire broadcast environment, integrating with automation, video servers and nearline storage.
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Playboy chooses MassStore™ for integrated nearline, content and workflow management

Masstech Announces Another Successful European MassStore™ Install

IBC 2004, AMSTERDAM — Setember 10, 2004 — Masstech Group Inc. today announced that Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc. has chosen the company’s MassStore™ as the foundation of a new asset management system at its broadcasting facility in London, UK. The new system will create a tapeless on-air environment and provide immediate access to all ingested content.
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Masstech Group demonstrates Broadcast Workflow Solutions at IBC 2004

IBC, AMSTERDAM — Sept. 10th, 2004 — Masstech Group Inc., today announced that at IBC 2004 the company is demonstrating its powerful workflow solutions based on the management, conversion, distribution, and sharing of digital content across IT storage and networking infrastructures.
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ESPN STAR Sports picks Masstech MassLogger for digital program logging

IBC 2004, AMSTERDAM —September 6, 2004— ESPN STAR Sports, Asia’s number one sports broadcaster has selected a 12 channel MassloggerTM solution from the Masstech Group Inc. for its digital compliance requirements. Masstech Group Inc., headquartered in Toronto Canada, is an innovator in systems for broadcast workflow solutions and have recently installed a number
of MassLoggers in the APAC market.
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Three Angles Broadcast Network(3 ABN) selects Masstech Group as its Standard for Archive and Content Management

IBC 2004, AMSTERDAM — Sept 10, 2004 — Masstech Group Inc. today announced that it has installed its complete suite of products, which includes a solution for ingest, near-line, playout archive and workflow management at Three Angels Broadcast Network (3ABN) broadcast headquarters in Thompsonville, Illinois.
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Masstech Group Expands into the Asia Pacific Marketplace
LAS VEGAS —April 18, 2004 —Masstech Group Inc. today announced the appointment of Brad Redwood, as its new Director of Asia-Pacific Operations based in Sydney, Australia. The Asia-Pacific region has represented a large portion of the overall revenue for Masstech over the last 2 years. With large installations at Foxtel (the largest satellite operator in Australia) and Southern Cross Broadcast (the largest independent broadcaster in Australia), Masstech has now solidified its base of operations within the region. Masstech’s sales & marketing strategy within the region is to use a network of local, in-country distributors and system integrators.
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Masstech Group and Spectra Logic announced Details of Joint Development Partnership
LAS VEGAS —April 19, 2004 — Masstech Group, Inc., a leading provider of content management and workflow solutions for broadcasters, today with Spectra Logic, a leading manufacturer of robotic digital archives are announcing the results of a multi-year development effort.
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Masstech Group Expands With New Positions in Sales and Channels Management
LAS VEGAS — April 19, 2004 — Masstech Group Inc. today announced that it has made two strategic appointments to support growing market demand in the company’s unique combination of IT and broadcast products designed for broadcast workflow solutions. Appointed to the role of sales director for the south eastern United States is Christopher Torkelson; and charged with managing the Company’s reseller channels program is Carolyn Kinzie.
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Masstech Group Complete Broadcast Workflow Solutions
LAS VEGAS — April 19, 2004 — Masstech Group Inc., today announced that at NAB2004 the company is demonstrating its powerful workflow solutions based on the management, conversion, distribution, and sharing of digital content across IT storage and networking infrastructures.
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Masstech Group presence at the National Association of
Broadcasters Conference – NAB2004
LAS VEGAS —April 19, 2004 — Masstech Group Inc. today announced its continued participation at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in Booth SU7058. The NAB spring convention delivers the most comprehensive showcase of electronic media in the world It is the world's largest electronic media show covering the development, delivery and management of professional video and audio content across all media. Masstech will have a sizeable and prominent presence in Booth SU7058 on the upper level of the south hall.
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Masstech Group adopts International Datacasting Corporation’s DVB Technology for Satellite Program Distribution…
LAS VEGAS — April 19, 2004 — Masstech Group announced today that it has entered into an agreement with International Datacasting Corporation (IDC) to launch a new wide-area satellite distribution solution for the television broadcast industry. Under this agreement, Masstech will be integrating IDC’s leading-edge Datacast XD and SuperFlex DVB product lines with its flagship
MassBrowse II™, MMB™ and MassStore™ products to provide a high quality system for thedelivery, storage and management of digitized video content for professional broadcast applications.
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Hearst-Argyle Television Chooses Masstech Group
to Automate Distribution Workflow

LAS VEGAS — April 19 2004 — Masstech Group Inc. today announced that Hearst-Argyle Broadcasting will use Masstech Group’s MassMedia Box ™ (MMB) to automate the workflow of their proprietary syndication distribution program. Hearst has chosen IDC as its vendor for satellite distribution and along with the technology from Masstech, will distribute all of its syndication from a central point, accomplishing massive workflow efficiencies.
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Tribune Broadcast Group Adopts Masstech Group’s MassMedia
Box as its Standard for Broadcast Workflow Management
LAS VEGAS —April 19, 2004 — Masstech Group Inc. today announced that Tribune Broadcasting has adopted the MassMedia Box™ as the core technology for broadcast workflow management. The MassMedia Box™ represents an 18-month co-development effort with Pathfire and Tribune Broadcasting to develop new technology to allow syndication digital content to be automatically distributed within a broadcast facility.
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Pathfire and Masstech Agree to Jointly Develop Automated Digital Content Solution for Television Broadcasters
ATLANTA, GA, and TORONTO, CA — February 2004 — Pathfire, Inc., the leading provider of digital content distribution and management solutions for the broadcast television industry, today announced a technology licensing agreement with Masstech Group Inc., an innovator in systems for endto- end digital content control and management, to jointly develop a digital content repository t hat automatically ingests, connects and moves television programming content and its associated metadata directly to air.
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