SUNNYVALE, Calif. — July 17, 2006 — Omneon Video Networks, a leading provider of standard, high, and mixed definition media servers for the broadcast and video industry, today announced that Malayala Manorama, a major publishing house based in Kottayam, India, is launching a 24-hour news channel with the Omneon Spectrum™ server system at the core of its broadcast operations. The 16-channel Spectrum system will provide shared storage that supports the full workflow of ingest, production, and playout, allowing Malayala Manorama to get its first channel to air quickly and reliably.

"The Omneon Spectrum server system is, by its nature, a resilient system that will allow us to get our first channel to air on schedule and enable us to expand our broadcast operations easily and without disruption to ongoing news broadcasts," said Jayant Mammen Mathew, deputy editor and senior general manager. "We appreciate the speed with which the system can be launched and updated, and its interoperability with third-party systems provides the necessary flexibility for further refinement of our news production and playout workflows."

In making this move into the broadcast market, multimagazine publishing house Malayala Manorama is working with systems integrator Shaf Broadcast to create a scalable and reliable news playout solution for the company's new broadcast facility in Aroor.

The Omneon Spectrum media server is a cost-effective and flexible media server, built on an open architecture that allows it to support a broad variety of third-party applications for control and transmission, media management, archiving, and collaborative production. As a result, stored media can be shared among many users and applications.

At Malayala Manorama, the Spectrum will be integrated with Final Cut Pro systems to allow edit-in-place capability on full resolution media. Journalists can also work with low-resolution or "browse" versions of media through their browse editor. Material can be conformed on the Omneon server system and, when complete, played out in the rolling wheel format typical of continuous news stations.

More information about the Omneon Spectrum media server system is available online at www.omneon.com.

About Omneon
Omneon is a leading provider of flexible media server and active storage systems that optimize workflow productivity and on-air reliability for the production, distribution, and management of digital media. Omneon is a pioneer in the use of advanced IT technologies and open systems for broadcast applications, producing a modular and expandable video server architecture in the Omneon Spectrum. The company's MediaGrid active storage system delivers centralized content storage that is scalable in capacity, bandwidth, and media-processing power. The company has an extensive global presence with customers in 45 countries on six continents. Omneon is on the Web at www.Omneon.com.

About Malayala Manorama
For more than a century, Malayala Manorama has had a stimulating effect on the minds of the Malayali. It spurred social progress, defined cultural sensibilities, and even set political agenda. Malayala Manorama has a flagship morning broadsheet newspaper with a circulation of more than 1.4 million copies per day and has publications in five languages, and from print the company has stepped into television and cyberspace. Today, it is a highly successful multimagazine publishing house, bringing out immensely popular periodicals. The company has an impressive bag of about 25 publications, most of them leaders in their respective categories, catering to the information and entertainment requirements of a large audience across various segments in India, as well as ethnic Indian community groups elsewhere in the world.

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