Scripps Networks Selects Xytech Software to Streamline Its Production Operations

BURBANK, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Xytech Systems Corporation, a leading provider of software
solutions that improve, automate, and streamline business workflows,
resource scheduling, media library management, and digital workflow
automation, announced today that Scripps Networks has selected
Xytech's software for its production operations in Knoxville (TN),
Nashville (TN) and New York City.

Scripps is the dominant media and marketing company in the home,
food and lifestyle categories, developing content for television and
the Internet, in which on-air programming is complemented with an
array of broadband video, social media areas and e-commerce
components. Its lifestyle brands include HGTV, Food Network, DIY
Network, Fine Living Network and country music network Great American
Country (GAC). Companion Web sites collectively attract over 18
million unique visitors monthly. Knoxville, Tenn.-based Scripps
Networks has launched HGTV and Food Network in high definition and is
aggressively developing its emerging media platforms for broadband and
video on demand. Scripps Networks also acquired popular
recipe Web site Recipezaar.com and Incando Corp. in order to deepen
its user-generated content capabilities. Scripps Networks programming
is seen in more than 175 countries on all seven continents around the
world.

Scripps Networks operates multiple studios, field,
post-production, and control room operations across three
geographically diverse locations with the need to improve business
workflows, optimize resource management, and increase user
productivity. The company wanted an easy-to-use application that can
be easily integrated with other applications while automating as many
manual functions as possible. In addition, Scripps Networks needed a
flexible platform to satisfy future business needs. The solution
needed to schedule personnel, equipment, rooms, and resources easily
and efficiently, and be able to aggregate and amortize costs
associated with individual programming and creative services
productions.

After careful evaluation of all possible vendor solutions, Scripps
Networks selected the Xytech Enterprise software. The Xytech software
best meets Scripps Networks' requirements, both from a functionality
perspective and application breadth. In addition, it meets other
current and future requirements including separation between
operational divisions, Great Plains accounting integration, and
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Furthermore, the Xytech software can be
easily configured and customized to Scripps Networks' specific
workflow operations.

David Metz, senior vice president, production operations, Scripps
Networks, comments, "I anticipate a smooth cut-over, and I am looking
forward to the ability to extract data from the system. This will
assist our managers in keeping operations as efficient as possible.
The Xytech sales and support teams we've dealt with have been
exceedingly professional, attentive, patient and responsive. Customer
support, indeed customer-vendor partnership, is very important to us
and our success."

Ron Peeters, Executive Vice President of Xytech Systems
Corporation, comments, "We are honored to be selected by Scripps
Network as their business workflow and resource scheduling solution of
choice, especially since Scripps is such a leading lifestyle media and
broadcasting organization. It also reiterates the Xytech software as
the leading media business solution for the media, entertainment, and
broadcasting industry".

About Xytech Systems Corporation:

Xytech Systems Corporation is a leading provider of software
solutions that improve, streamline, and automate the mission critical
business operations of media & entertainment companies including
business workflow, resource scheduling, media library management, and
digital workflow automation.

Over 350 companies worldwide including rely many international
broadcasters, major film studios, postproduction facilities, cable/TV
networks/satellite operations, media content aggregators and
distributors, and the corporate media departments of Fortune-1000
corporations, rely on the Xytech software to manage their media
business operations.

Xytech Systems is headquartered in Burbank, California, and has
regional offices in New York and London, UK. For more information
about Xytech Systems, please visit www.xytechsystems.com or call
+1-818-303-7800 USA / +44 (0)20-7903-5170 UK

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