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Cox Ohio Publishing Launches Escenic

Cox Ohio Publishing, part of Cox Newspapers/Cox Media Group, a broadcasting, publishing and digital media subsidiary of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises, has gone live with web and mobile sites for 8 of their titles. Using Escenic's Content Management System and mobile solution including integrated technology from Mobiletech, the Cox Ohio newspapers have built the sites using their own resources and competences.

The 8 newspaper websites that have gone live are:
www.daytondailynews.com
www.springfieldnewssun.com
www.middletownjournal.com
www.journal-news.com
www.western-star.com
www.fairfield-echo.com
www.oxfordpress.com
www.pulsejournal.com

The mobile versions are: mobile.daytondailynews.com, mobile.springfieldnewssun.com, mobile.middletownjournal.com, mobile.journal-news.com, mobile.western-star.com, mobile.fairfield-echo.com, mobile.oxfordpress.com, mobile.pulsejournal.com

Commenting on the launch, Oyvind Orbak, CEO of Escenic Inc. said "We are very excited to have one of America's leading newspaper publishing organizations select our proven digital and mobile solutions to create and publish their news content both online and to their mobile services”.

Escenic Content Studio and Escenic Content Engine are used by 600 news media websites worldwide, including some of the most advanced and most visited news sites in the world. Escenic is the core internet publishing tool for news publishers like: Canadian Globe and Mail, Florida's St.Petersburg Times, UK-based News International (The TimesOnline, The Sun, News of the World), The Daily Telegraph and The Independent; German Axel Springer Group; Scandinavian Schibsted, Bonnier and A-pressen; Dutch De Telegraaf, PCM, NDC, and Wegener and South African Avusa.

About Cox Media Group:

Cox Media Group, Inc. is a broadcasting, publishing and digital media subsidiary of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises. It includes the broadcast stations of Cox Television; publishing titles of Cox Newspapers; majority-owned, publicly-traded Cox Radio [NYSE: CXR]; and the national advertising rep firms of Telerep, HRP, MMT Sales and Cox Cross Media.

About Escenic: www.escenic.com

Escenic is strategic content management software for digital media publishing. Escenic technologies drive over 600 of the most dynamic and exciting news media websites in the world. Escenic has been closely tied to the media industry since 1997. Today we are proud to be considered industry leaders in our sector.

With Escenic, competitive commercial enterprises gain access to the same robust technologies that professional publishers have preferred for years. In July 2008, Escenic was acquired by Vizrt.

About Mobiletech: www.mobiletech.no

Mobiletech is a software company that provides scalable and flexible products and services to enable the mobile channel. Mobiletech was founded in 2005 and has grown to become a leading provider of advanced mobile services for major media companies, operators and other corporations. The Mobiletech product suite – the dextella mobile family - covers all the tools and elements needed to enable a permanent presence on the mobile web and removes the technical complexity of delivering content to multiple customers across multiple devices and networks.

About Vizrt:

Vizrt creates leading-edge content production tools for the digital media industry - from award-winning 3D graphics & maps through integrated video workflow solutions to online publishing tools.

We propose a new vision for content creation, management and delivery with an end-to-end solution from conception to multi-format and multi-platform distribution. Through constant innovation and a good measure of fun, we create software and services that push creative boundaries, develop new ways of telling stories while always taking into account our customer’s bottom line.

Vizrt’s product suite is used by the world’s leading broadcasters and publishing houses, including: CNN, CBS, Fox, BBC, Sky, ITN, ZDF, Star TV, Network 18, Time Now, CCTV, NHK, The Globe and Mail, The Telegraph, and Welt Online. Furthermore, many world-class production houses and corporate institutions, including both the New York and London Stock Exchanges, utilize Vizrt solutions for the real time visualisation of information.

Vizrt is a public company traded on the Frankfurt Prime Standard and on the Oslo Main List: VIZ, ISIN: IL0010838154. For further information please refer to www.vizrt.com

For more information:
Oyvind Orbak, Escenic Inc., (617) 291 9930, oyvind.orbak@escenic.com