CHQR, News/Talk/Sports 770 Selects Burli
March 28, 2001

Leading station in Calgary to install news production software

VANCOUVER, CANADA - CHQR-AM, QR77 News|Talk|Sports, the leading news-talk radio station in Calgary, Canada has chosen Burli as its news production software. The station will install 20 Burli workstations for its journalists. Station reporters, editors and anchors will produce almost 60 news and sports bulletins a day using the system. CHQR's sister stations, Power 107 FM and Country 105 FM, will also install the system for producing their own newscasts and interview recording and editing.

CHQR is the fourth major Canadian radio newsroom to move to Burli in the first three months of this year. Vancouver's two competing 24-hour all-news newsrooms and the leading radio newsroom on the Prairies, CJOB Winnipeg, all installed Burli in February.

Burli is already the news production software in both the English and French all-news radio stations in Montreal, and is currently used in radio and television newsrooms in Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, Victoria and many smaller Canadian cities.

About CHQR / Power 107 / Country 105

CHQR-AM QR77, Power 107 FM and Country 105 FM broadcast in Calgary, Canada. They are owned and operated by CORUS Entertainment, which owns television stations and more than 40 radio properties in every region of Canada. CHQR broadcasts hourly news and sportscasts around the clock.

About Burli

Burli is a news editing system that runs on Windows computers. It allows journalists to capture news wire feeds, write scripts, organize run-downs, digitally record and edit radio news reports, plan news assignments and much more at their desks. Burli also harnesses the latest mobile networking technology to create virtual newsrooms across the world. Reporters anywhere can use Burli to connect to their main newsroom, file stories, and access the industry-leading editing tools they have on their desktops.

Burli Software Inc. is a private software company with headquarters in Vancouver, Canada. Burli's newsroom editing software is used by journalists in about a dozen different languages across Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

For more information, contact:

BURLI

Ian Gunn, Director of Communications

Tel: +1.604.684.3140 (ext 244)

E-mail: communications@burli.com

Web: www.burli.com

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