EVS shareholders approve a total gross dividend...

Liège - Belgium, May 18, 2010, 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.

48 shareholders  representing 3.177.622 shares, or  23.3% 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 2.48
for  fiscal year 2009 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 27, 2010,
and payment date June 1, 2010).

The  shareholders also  approved all  proposed Board  mandates renewals or first
elections: Pierre L'Hoest, Founder, Managing Director, CEO, 6 years (approved by
96.2% of  the votes), Michel  Counson, Founder, Managing  Director, CTO, 6 years
(81.0%),  Christian  Raskin,  independent,  1 year  (100%),  Acces  Direct S.A.,
independent,  4 years,  repr.  by  Pierre  Rion  (97.8%), Francis Bodson, 1 year
(91.3%),  Laurent Minguet, Founder, 1 year (82.5%), Jean-Pierre Pironnet, 1 year
(79.9%).

Thereby, two new Directors are joining the Board:
·  Christian Raskin (1947) has been a member of the Board of Management of Draka
Holding,  a major European cable company  with leading positions in Belgium, the
Netherlands  and France. He holds a Master in Economics from the UCL in Belgium.
In  1984, he  cofounded  Zetes  Electronics  (today  Zetes Industries, listed on
Euronext  Brussels).  He  joined  Draka  in  1991 and  was successively Managing
Director  of Plasma Optical  Fiber BV in  Eindhoven (Netherlands), Draka France,
Draka  Nederland  BV,  before  joining  the  corporate  office  and the Board of
Management  of Draka in 2001. He will serve as independent Director on the Board
of EVS.
· Jean-Pierre Pironnet (1951) is Director of different non listed companies, and
is  managing  private  assets.  He  was  an  active  shareholder of EVS from the
foundation  of the company until its listing  in 1998, during which he played an
important role. He is a Doctor in Medicine from the University of Liège.

Cytindus  SA, represented  by Michel  Delloye, saw  its mandate expire after 13
years  in the Board of EVS, of which he served 3 years as Chairman. According to
the  Corporate Governance rules,  his independence qualification  does expire at
the  end of 3 successive  mandates. Cytindus's involvement  as a shareholder and
director  started prior to  the IPO back  in 1997 and Michel  Delloye has, since
then, been key in the professionalization of EVS Board and Committees. He helped
institutionalizing  the company and his wise advices have always been helpful in
the different development stages of EVS Group.

The  Extraordinary General Meeting  did not meet  the minimum required 50% legal
attendance quorum. As a consequence, a new meeting is invited for June 7, 2010,
with the same agenda:
1. Renewal Authorized capital
2. Issuance of 250,000 new warrants
3. Cancellation of article 32 of the statutes


The  documents relating to these  different shareholders' meetings are available
on www.evs-global.com <

http://www.evs-global.com/>.


Corporate Calendar:
Thursday May 27, 2010                       Ex-date strip #10
Tuesday June 1, 2010                         Payment date strip #10
Monday   June  7, 2010                         Postponed  Extraordinary  General
Meeting
Thursday August 26, 2010                  2Q10 revenue and results

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:    +32    4 361 70 14.  E-mail:   [e-mail]   <mailto:[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 275 persons in 14 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
<

http://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,
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.
EVS 41,3% affiliate XDC is the European leader for Digital Cinema technology and
services in Europe with more than 1,350 committed digital screens in 11 European
countries   (Germany,   Switzerland,  Spain,  Austria,  Portugal,  Belgium,  The
Netherlands, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland) out of which 50% have
already been deployed


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