EVS Broadcast Equipment SA — Major Shareholding Notification 2011

Nov 3, 2011

EVS BROADCAST EQUIPMENT: UPDATE OF THE BELINVEST OWNERSHIP STATEMENT

LIEGE, Belgium, November 3, 2011 - Pursuant to the Belgian Law of May 2, 2007 relating to the publication of major shareholdings, EVS Broadcast Equipment announces that it has recently received the following notification from Belinvest SA (controlled by Pierre L'Hoest, former CEO of the company).

The notification indicates that the Belinvest holding has fallen below the 3% minimum threshold on October 28, 2011. Belinvest now owns 408,000 shares of EVS Broadcast Equipment, or 2.99%.

For the most recent shareholding overview, www.evs-global.com.

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 Searing (Liège), Belgium Tel: +32 4 361 70 14 – Fax: + 32 4 361 70 89 - E-mail: corpcom@evs.tv; www.evs-global.com

About EVS Group

EVS Broadcast Equipment designs, develops and markets professional digital equipment for Television. The company employs over 388 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 to www.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 4,900 committed digital screens in Europe, out of which 2,000 have already been deployed. www.xdcinema.com