Harris Corporation Inks Watershed Deal with British Sky Broadcasting
September 08 2006 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris
Corporation (NYSE:HRS) today announced that British Sky
Broadcasting (BSkyB) has signed a contract with Harris Systems
Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Harris Corporation, to
implement the Harris(R) H-Class(TM) Airtime Sales system.
H-Class(TM) Airtime Sales, an advanced, scalable solution for
controlling, monitoring and executing complex advertising
campaigns, is part of the H-Class(TM) suite of applications, which
interoperate through the Harris(R) H-Class(TM) Content Delivery
Platform. Under the contract, Harris will provide a multichannel
H-Class Airtime Sales system designed to enhance BSkyB's existing
sales mechanism with the flexibility and scalability it needs to
support its current and future business requirements. The Harris
contract includes software licensing, support, facilities
management, and the development and implementation of each stage of
the project. "The selection of Harris concludes an extensive and
vigorous evaluation process," said Nick Milligan, managing director
of Sky Media, BSkyB's advertising sales division. "We chose Harris
based on their current systems capabilities, their understanding of
our business and on their capability to work jointly with us in the
long term." "This is truly a significant victory for Harris, and we
are delighted to have been chosen by such a prestigious broadcaster
to meet their comprehensive airtime sales needs," said Dave
Dougall, vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa sales for
the Harris Broadcast Communications Division. "This contract
demonstrates how our ongoing collaboration and mutual understanding
continue to benefit both our companies." The market-leading,
ratings-based H-Class Airtime Sales system from Harris includes
spot-based sales, and improves scalability and performance to
support even the largest media businesses. The H-Class Airtime
Sales system enables total control of the customer's available
inventory and maximizes the resulting revenue. About Harris
Corporation Harris is an international communications and
information technology company serving government and commercial
markets in more than 150 countries. With headquarters in Melbourne,
Florida, the company has annual sales of $3.5 billion and nearly
14,000 employees -- including more than 6,000 engineers and
scientists -- dedicated to the development of best-in-class assured
communications(TM) products, systems, software and services. The
company's operating divisions serve markets for government
communications, RF communications, broadcast communications, and
microwave communications. Additional information about Harris
Corporation is available at http://www.harris.com/. See Harris
Broadcast Communications Division IBC Stand 7:621 & M225
DATASOURCE: Harris Corporation CONTACT: Laura Whitaker, Vice
President, Marketing Communications, Harris Broadcast
Communications Division, , +1-408-782-1201; Meriam Khan, MKM
Marketing Communications, , +44 (0) 20 8141 4703 Web site:
http://www.harris.com/ http://www.ibc.org/
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