DEDICATED CORAL SATELLITE CHANNEL

23 December 2007 - SIS is pleased to announce that it has signed a long term agreement with Coral for the supply of a dedicated satellite channel and associated production facilities from 1 January 2008. This will allow Coral to add third party content to the SIS service for exclusive reception in their own shops. As announced in Sunday's Racing Post the third party content will include horserace meetings from the Turf TV courses.

It has become increasingly apparent that many of our customers did not want to go far into 2008 without pictures from the 31 racecourses that will be part of the Turf TV service. It is equally clear that most of our customers including Coral do not want Turf TV delivered as a separate channel with all the delay, added complication and cost that this would add. This has provided us with the opportunity to provide a dedicated channel to Coral and maintain our role as the method of delivering such content to the Coral estate of betting shops. It is anticipated that many customers will wish to respond to the Coral initiative and would also welcome the opportunity to receive Turf TV through their existing satellite dish rather than having to wait potentially months before a new service could be installed in their shops. We have he capacity to deliver this content either as a stand alone service alongside FACTS (which would require a second decoder) or as part of an integrated service to the industry or to other individual customers. We therefore look forward to 2008 in the knowledge that we are well placed to maintain our position as the key provider of all content to the betting industry in the UK and Ireland.

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For further information please contact:
Nick Wood-Dow of Chelgate on 07713 681322
or Mark Kingston of SIS on 07802 388803

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