EVS discloses major shareholdings

Publication on October 31, 2008, 5.45 pm CET
             Regulated information - Disclosure of major shareholding


                  EVS discloses major shareholdings

Liège (Belgium), October 31,  2008 - Pursuant to  the Belgian Law  of
May 2, 2007 relating to  the publication of major shareholdings,  EVS
Broadcast Equipment S.A. (Euronext  Brussels: EVS.BR, Bloomberg:  EVS
BB, Reuters: EVSB.BR) (Pinksheets: EVBEF), the leader in Professional
Digital  Video  applications  for  Live,  Near-Live  and  Studio   TV
Production, has recently  received the  following notifications  from
shareholders:



+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Notification by:        | Country |    Number of    |    % of     |
|                         |         |   shares held   | outstanding |
|                         |         | as at September |   shares    |
|                         |         |     1, 2008     |             |
|-------------------------+---------+-----------------+-------------|
| Founders,   acting   in |         |                 |             |
| concert:                |   BE    |    1,711,795    |    12.3%    |
| DTV   (P.    L'Hoest/L. |   BE    |     879,906     |    6.4%     |
| Minguet) (1)            |         |    2,591,701    |    18.7%    |
| Michel Counson          |         |                 |             |
| Total founders: (3)     |         |                 |             |
|-------------------------+---------+-----------------+-------------|
| Cytindus SA (2)         |   BE    |     310,000     |    2.2%     |
|-------------------------+---------+-----------------+-------------|
| BIP Investment Partners |   LU    |     735,682     |    5.3%     |
| SA  (3)                 |         |                 |             |
|-------------------------+---------+-----------------+-------------|
| Fortis       Investment |  FR/UK  |     578,353     |    4.2%     |
| Management              |         |                 |             |
|-------------------------+---------+-----------------+-------------|
| Lazard Asset Management |   USA   |     416,796     |    3.0%     |
|-------------------------+---------+-----------------+-------------|
|                         |         |                 |             |
|-------------------------+---------+-----------------+-------------|
| Total     number     of |         |   13,875,000    |   100.0%    |
| outstanding shares      |         |                 |             |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+


(1)     Including 13,178 shares held by Pierre L'Hoest
(2)     Chairman of the Board of Directors of EVS Broadcast Equipment
(3)     Member of the Board of Directors of EVS Broadcast Equipment



All other former  shareholder notifications should  be considered  as
outdated. The global current shareholding situation of EVS  Broadcast
Equipment is available on the EVS website.

Future notifications of important shareholdings to be made  according
to the Law  of May 2,  2007 or to  the EVS bylaws  should be sent  to
[e-mail].


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  Group  designs,  develops   and  markets  professional   digital
equipment for Television (EVS Broadcast) and Cinema (XDC). The  Group
employs over 230 persons for broadcast equipment in 12 countries  and
sells its products to professionals of the video and audio sectors in
more than 90 countries.  EVS is a public  company traded on  Euronext
Brussels: EVS,  ISIN: BE0003820371.  For more  information, refer  to
www.evs-global.com

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, RTL, NHK, CANAL+, ABC,  ESPN,
TF1, CCTV,  PBS,  CBS,  BBC,  ZDF,  TVE  and  many  others  use  EVS'
solutions.
EVS 47,20% affiliate XDC is  pioneering Digital Cinema Logistics  and
Play-out and operates between the movies distributors and exhibitors.
XDC has installed more than 280 digital screens throughout the  world
in  China,  Germany,  Sweden,  Brazil,  the  United  States,  France,
Belgium, etc.


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