NETIA Supplies Streamlined Playout Solution to Minnesota Public Radio

Leading U.S. Public Broadcaster Integrates NETIA's Radio-Assist 7.5 Digital Audio Software to Simplify Program Playout

CLARET, France - March 29, 2007 - NETIA today announced that Minnesota Public Radio® ( MPR), one of the United States' premier public radio stations, has installed NETIA Radio-AssistTM7.5 digital audio software to support "Performance Today®" a radio program showcasing live concerts by world-renowned classical musicians. The new NETIA workstations and production tools, installed in the first phase of MPR's updating of its playout systems, provide intuitive operation for production staff and a flexible new model for the broadcaster's other radio programs.

" Radio-Assist provides straightforward desktop editing capability, reliability, and ease of use with state-of-the-art technology, all of which combine to simplify our production operations," said Brian Smestad, project owner and Rajesh Kapur, project manager at MPR. " Now we can use just one streamlined solution, rather than six, to do one job. This gain in efficiency will free up time in our edit suites and production studios, allowing us to do more with the resources we have already."

The Radio-Assist TM range of digital audio software programs covers the entire operation of a radio station, allowing MPR production staff to record, edit, or prepare playlists while working within a single application. Integration with other third-party systems in use at MPR is simplified due to the openness of Radio-Assist TM.

The software's production tools are available for MPR staff use at dedicated workstations, and a Radio-Assist TM Air-DDO broadcast module installed in the studio displays the broadcast channel along with tools for cueing, on-air monitoring, playlist modification, recording, and production.
Classic Music Service (CMS), The Current, and a news and information service make up the three primary MPR regional broadcast services. MPR also produces and distributes several national programs such as "Marketplace", "Weekend America", "Speaking of Faith" and "The Splendid Table". The updating of MPR playout systems for all programming broadcast from its St. Paul, Minn., facilities is scheduled for completion by the end of 2008. Future plans for the Radio-AssistTM system at MPR include integration with the broadcaster's Music Master scheduling software, online audio archive, Visual Traffic and Axia Audio systems.

" MPR is a leader in the world of public broadcasting, and we look forward to further work with the station as it transitions to more sophisticated and streamlined playout systems," said Xavier De Vynck, NETIA vice president of business development. " With the highly integrated functionality of our Radio-Assist 7.5 product range, MPR can bring its high-quality radio programming to listeners with much greater ease and flexibility."

Information about NETIA and its products is available at www.netia.com.

About Minnesota Public Radio

Minnesota Public Radio® is one of the nation's premier public radio stations producing programming for radio, Internet, and face-to-face audiences. Founded as a college station in 1967 at Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minn., it operates a 37-station radio network covering Minnesota and parts of Wisconsin, the Dakotas, Michigan, Iowa, Idaho, and even Canada. Minnesota Public Radio is also an increasingly sophisticated online service. It has won more than 875 journalism awards, including the Peabody Award, several Edward R. Murrow Awards and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Gold Baton Award in 2001.
Minnesota Public Radio serves a regional population of 5 million people and has nearly 90,000 members. With more than 780,000 listeners each week, it has the largest audience of any regional public radio network. More information is available online at www.mpr.org.

About NETIA

NETIA is a leading provider of software solutions for managing and broadcasting television and radio content. The company's three product ranges Radio-AssistTM (audio), ManreoTM (video) and Media LoggingTM (audio and video) allow content holders to manage all of their processes--from capture to multichannel broadcasting--over terrestrial channels, the Internet, mobile devices, and other channels. Netia's products are used worldwide in over 40 countries by over 200 prestigious customers, including RFI, Radio France, BBC, British Sky Broadcasting, ABC, TF1, Canal+, France Télévisions Interactive, e-TF1, LCI / Orange, RAI, Radio Vaticana, HRT, SRTC, RTM, VOV, MOI South Africa, Mediacorp, RTBF, Lifetime TV, SBS, RTL, FR3, and many others. NETIA has its headquarters in the south of France, with offices in New York City, Paris, and Rome.