ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion and IBM to Set Up Tapeless Archive for Media Content in Four Million Euro AgreementUNTERFOHRING, GERMANY--(Marketwire - August 25, 2008) - ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion, theProSiebenSat.1 Group's technical service provider, and IBM ( NYSE : IBM ) aresetting up the media group's central tapeless archive in terms of anagreement worth four million euro. The new agreement extends the ten year,200 million euro IT services agreement signed with IBM in April 2008.
The new contract is for IBM to design and implement the new tapelessarchive, the ProSiebenSat.1"materialpool," to store all of ProSiebenSat.1 Group's moving imagematerial as digital files.