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Pilat Media Global PLC
07 January 2004


Press Release                                                 7 January 2004

                             Pilat Media Global PLC

                        ("Pilat Media" or the "Company")

    Agreement to end royalty payments to British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC

Pilat Media Global plc (AIM: PGB) the London-based supplier of business
management software to broadcasters around the world, today announces the
signing of the agreement with British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC ("BSkyB")
bringing to an end five years of royalty payment to BSkyB on the sales of Pilat
Media's product, IBMS (Integrated Broadcast Management System).



This new agreement is in line with the original 1998 agreement between BSkyB and
Pilat Media, which granted to Pilat Media the right to exploit commercially the
system it had originally developed for BSkyB, in return for royalties. These
royalties were 11% of the Company's revenues in the business areas covered by
the 1998 version of IBMS (content programming, media and channel management),
excluding revenues from the newer advertising sales and traffic modules that
were funded by Pilat Media. In 2001, 2002 and in the first half of 2003 these
royalties represented 9.1%, 6.8% and 10.9% of the Company's overall revenues,
respectively. Following this new agreement, no further payments will be incurred
with effect from 4 September 2003.



Commenting on the agreement with BSkyB, Avi Engel, Chief Executive of Pilat
Media Global plc, said:

"We are pleased that we have reached a quick and amicable conclusion with BSkyB
to cease the royalties, this was enabled by the fact that IBMS has progressed so
much since we first developed it for BSkyB, reducing the similarity with the
original code below the agreed threshold that would have warranted continued
royalties.  The elimination of the royalty payments from our overheads will
benefit the net returns of the business.



"We remain grateful to BSkyB as by feeding their progressive ideas and rich
functional requirements into the system's original design, we had the
opportunity to create a leading edge product."



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For further information:


Pilat Media Global plc
Avi Engel, Chief Executive Officer,                 Tel: +44 (0) 20 8782 0700
Martin Blair, Chief Financial Officer               mblair@pilatmedia.com


Shore Capital
Alex Borrelli / Jonathan Nelson                     Tel: +44 (0) 20 7408 4090
                                                    alex.borrelli@shorecap.co.uk

Media enquiries:

Bankside
Henry Harrison-Topham / Heather Salmond             Tel: +44 (0) 20 7444 4140
                                                    henry.ht@bankside.com



Notes to Editors:



Pilat Media's IBMS is a comprehensive software system for managing the business
of broadcasting.  IBMS integrates and streamlines broadcasters' programme
content, ad sales and traffic management operations to increase business
efficiency. IBMS enables broadcasters to lower operational costs, speed time to
market for new revenue streams, and centralise management of key processes. It
strengthens cross-departmental collaboration, improves client responsiveness and
enables more informed business decisions in real time, creating strategic
advantage and delivering a rapid return on investment.



Pilat Media is a five-year old, a hundred strong UK software company, now an
independent public company following its successful demerger from Pilat
Technologies International and flotation on the Alternative Investment Market of
the London Stock Exchange early last year.



The IBMS system was originally developed and successfully implemented by Pilat
for BSkyB, to support their fast growing multi-channel programming needs. Pilat
Media was established in 1999 to further develop and market the system as a
generic product. IBMS's scope was subsequently more than doubled by adding the
adverting sales functionality in partnership with Network Ten. Since then Pilat
Media has rapidly established itself as a rising force in the market for
business management software for broadcasters. Today, Pilat Media's software
solutions have been selected by over 25 broadcasters around the world, most of
which are outside its UK base. They represent a wide spectrum of operational/
business models, organisational size and transmission technologies - digital and
analogue, on terrestrial, cable and satellite platforms.  Clients, in addition
to those mentioned above, include BSkyB (UK), five (UK), Fox Kids (Europe),
digital media centre (Europe), TVNZ (New Zealand), Network Ten (Australia), Sky
TechCo Partners (Latin America), Discovery Communications Inc. (International),
National Geographic Channels International (USA), and Playboy Enterprises, Inc
(USA).



Only a month ago the Company announced a large strategic contract, with CTV,
Canada's largest privately owned network and station group, worth $17 million in
license and upfront implementation fees; another important contract, with Measat
of Malaysia (known there under the brand "Astro"), was announced earlier this
week, being the Company's first major Asian client.




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