Canadian Newsrooms move to Burli Newsroom System
February 10, 2003

Ontario Corus radio stations join Virtual Newsroom network

PETERBOROUGH, CANADA -- Two central Ontario radio stations have installed Burli's Newsroom System to help produce their busy schedule of local news. CKRU (KRUZ 980) and CKWF (The Wolf 101.5 FM) began using the news production system from Burli Software on-air this morning.

“Burli is a very powerful and user-friendly system,” says Brian Ellis, Program Director for the stations. “Our existing software was getting old and was no longer supported, so we began looking for new newsroom software,” he says. “We quickly decided that Burli was the superior product on the market.”

The stations’ newsroom produces newscasts every hour through the day with a strong focus on local news. Station reporters also produce a major, 20-minute news, sports and weather update at noon.

“We produce a lot of local news and generate our own stories, so we needed a system that does more than give you the wires,” Ellis says.

Ellis also had Burli recommended to him by other engineers in the Corus Radio chain. Corus owns radio stations across Canada, many of which already use Burli.

“This installation is a wonderful opportunity for the growth of news sharing between Corus Radio newsrooms across the country,” says Burli Operations Manager & C.F.O. Aaron Nakama. “It’s been our vision to link Corus stations together using Virtual Newsroom technology. This installation marks another milestone in this initiative.”

Burli’s Virtual Newsroom component lets newsrooms share audio and text items using simple drag-and-drop commands - even if the newsrooms are thousands of kilometres apart.

The Peterborough stations now use the Virtual Newsroom to connect to sister operations in Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg and Montreal. Each newsroom can browse other newsrooms’ stories, listen to their reports and include the items in their own newscasts.

About Corus Radio Peterborough

CKRU (KRUZ 980) and CKWF (The Wolf 101.5 FM) broadcast from studios in Peterborough, Ontario, a city of about 130,000 people, 175 km north-east of Toronto. The city has a lively and competitive radio market with five local stations.

CKRU and CKWF are owned by Corus Entertainment which owns 52 radio stations across Canada and is the country's largest private radio operator in terms of revenue and audience tuning.

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

Corus Radio Peterborough

Brian Ellis

Program Director

Tel: +1.705.748.6101

E-mail: brian@thewolf.ca

Web: www.980kruz.ca and www.thewolf.ca

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