EVS Broadcast Equipment: 2011 Ordinary General ...

EVS shareholders approve a total Gross Dividend of EUR 2.64
                             and the appointment of
                         Yves Trouveroy as new Director


Liège - Belgium, May 17, 2011, EVS Broadcast Equipment S.A. (Euronext Bruxelles:
EVS.BR,  Bloomberg: EVS BB, Reuters: EVS.BR), (Pinksheets: EVBEF), the leader in
Professional  Digital Video applications for live and studio TV production, held
today its Annual Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders.

42 shareholders  representing 2,660,506 shares, or  19.5% of the company shares,
attended physically or by proxy the shareholders meeting at EVS Head Office. All
Board propositions have been approved and in particular the following points:

100% of the represented shareholders approved a total gross dividend of EUR 2.64
for  fiscal year 2010 which implies the payment of a final gross dividend of EUR
1.48 (EUR 1.11  after payment of withholding  tax of 25%, ex-date May 26, 2011,
and payment date June 1, 2011).

The  shareholders also  approved all  proposed Board  mandates renewals or first
election:  Francis Bodson, renewal  for 3 years (approved  by 98% of the votes),
Jean-Pierre  Pironnet, 3 years  (85%), Jean  Dumbruch, 3 years  (98%), Christian
Raskin,  independent Director,  3 years (100%),  appointment of  Yves Trouveroy,
independent Director, 1 year (100%).

Thereby, Yves Trouveroy joins the Board:
  * Yves Trouveroy (49) is Partner at E-Capital Equity Management, the
    management company of the private equity funds E-Capital I (1999) and E-
    Capital II (2007) that invest in Belgian small and medium-sized companies.
    Before 1999, he practiced as Lawyer at De Bandt, van Hecke & Lagae and then
    served as executive in the International Trade & Project Finance and
    Corporate Investment Banking departments of Generale Bank (Fortis). He holds
    a law degree from the Université Catholique de Louvain and a Masters of Laws
    from New York University


Laurent  Minguet, who  successfully co-founded  the company  with Pierre L'Hoest
(CEO)  and Michel Counson (CTO)  back in 1994, has not  asked for the renewal of
his  mandate. He left the  operational management of EVS  back in 2004, to start
and  develop XDC (subsidiary of EVS, active  in digital cinema) until the end of
2007. Since  then, he  is involved  in many  other projects.  The Board wants to
express  its deep gratitude  for the continued  and essential support of Laurent
Minguet and his longstanding commitment to the development of the company.

An  Extraordinary General Meeting will be called  in the second half of 2011, in
order  to  adapt  the  bylaws  of  the  company  to  the  new  rules relating to
shareholders' rights, which will enter in force on January 1, 2012.

The  documents relating to the shareholders'  meeting, including the minutes and
the  results of the  votes, are available  on www.evs-global.com in the Investor
Relations section, "General Meetings" page.


Corporate Calendar:
Tuesday May 17, 2011                        Ordinary General Meeting
Thursday May 26, 2011                       Final Dividend Ex-date Coupon 12
Wednesday June 1, 2011                    Final Dividend Payment date Coupon 12
Thursday August 25, 2011                  2Q11 earnings
Thursday November 3, 2011               Extraordinary General Meeting
Thursday November 10, 2011              3Q11 earnings
Monday  November 21, 2011               Postponed  Extraordinary General Meeting
(if needed)


For more information, please contact:
Jacques GALLOY, Director & CFO
Geoffroy d'OULTREMONT, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications Manager
EVS  Broadcast Equipment S.A., Liege Science Park, 16 rue du Bois Saint-Jean, B-
4102 Ougrée (Liège), Belgium
Tel: [phone].  E-mail: [e-mail];www.evs-global.com


About EVS Group
EVS  Broadcast  Equipment  designs,  develops  and  markets professional digital
equipment  for Television.  The company  employs over  375 persons (FTE)  in 16
countries and sells its products to professionals of the video and audio sectors
in more than 100 countries. EVS is a public company traded on Euronext Brussels:
EVS,  ISIN:  BE0003820371.  For  more  information,  refer towww.evs-global.com,
www.evs.tv
EVS  Broadcast is the world leader for Live TV Production Digital Disk Recorders
and  Related  Software  Applications,  especially  in  the  field of sports. The
company's  dedicated  hardware  and  software  suite offer a complete production
platform:  live slow  motion (LSM),  high speed  slow motion, replay only, clips
generation,  quick  clips  editing,  real-time  SD/HD video files transfer, time
delay,  multi-camera recording, metadata association, graphics storage and play-
out,  digital transmission,  multi-format ingest  and play-back,  audio record &
edit, webcasting, mobile phone clipping. Main software applications like the "IP
Director®" are running on the dedicated robust and flexible hardware the "XT[2]®
Platform". The world's leading broadcasters, such as NBC, BSkyB, FOX, RTBF, RTL,
NHK,  CANAL+, ABC, ESPN, TF1,  CCTV, PBS, CBS, BBC,  ZDF, Channel One, Channel7,
RAI,  TVE, NEP,  MEDIAPRO, EUROMEDIA,  BEXEL, ALFACAM  and many  others use EVS'
solutions.
XDC,  of  which  EVS  owns  41.3%, is  the  European  leader  for Digital Cinema
technology and services in Europe with more than 3,800 committed digital screens
in  11 European  countries  (Germany,  Switzerland,  Spain,  Austria,  Portugal,
Belgium,  The Netherlands, Hungary, Czech Republic,  Slovakia and Poland) out of
which 2,000 have already been deployed.www.xdcinema.com




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