BROADCAST INNOVATIONS PLISCH is a leading manufacturer of digital Radio and TV transmitter systems in today’s market. PLISCH delivers the know-how in implementing all the latest broadcasting standards.

1. Corporate Presentation
DVB-T/T2, DAB/DMB, ISDB-T/TB, ATSC 3.0 & Analog TV
Presented by:
November 2018

2. Leader in Innovative Broadcasting
Plisch is …
... a specialist in terrestrial transmitters for world
wide standards:
DVB-T/T2, DAB/DMB, ISDB-T/TB, ATSC & Analog TV.
Analog TV.
... renowned for reliable products and has a
reputation for excellent service and support.

3. History of Plisch
1955 Hans H. Plisch founded the company. Plisch produces measurement
equipment for analog TV
1964 The German Federal Postal Service expands the UHF transmission
network and commissioned PLISCH with the development of the first
transposer technology
1970 After successful years PLISCH introduces the linearity pre corrector and
thus enables an immense expansion of the transmission range
1978 Introduction of Jolly B, the first Transposer with a modular structure.
Sales figures rise to over 1,000 pieces
1990 The number of employees rises to over 250, sales reached 25 million
Deutsch Mark
2000 Restructuring of PLISCH Nachrichtentechnik and foundation of
Hans Plisch GmbH & Co. KG with strong focus on international
business
2004 Internationalization through the establishment of Plisch Asia as a sales
representative
2008 The most efficient transmitter Series 3000 was introduced
2012 Doherty Technology was introduced with the Series 4000
2018 Series 5000 revolutionized the transmitter market with a brand new
design
Today PLISCH positions itself as a technology leader in the production of
digital transmitters

4. Key Figures
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2016 2017 2018
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2019 (Plan)
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Sales / EBITDA
Sales [kEUR] EBITDA [kEUR]
Sales [kEUR] Operating
EBITDA
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Headcount
2016
11,517 1.713 62
2017
11,697 1.575 63
2018
(Forecast)
17, 000 1.900 67
2019
(Plan)
17.500 2.013 69

5. Shareholder Structure
Innovacom (French) Telsat (Italian) Geoffrey Bray (UK)
Geoffrey Bray (UK)
TELSAT (IT)
Innovacom (F)

6. Shareholders
With 300 million Euros under management INNOVACOM is a leading investment firm in Europe
providing equity financing to high-growth companies from early stage to expansion.
Since its creation in 1988 in France where it pioneered venture capital industry INNOVACOM has
helped 300+ innovative companies in technology, media and telecommunications launch and
grow their business internationally.
Focused on hardware, software, contents and services bringing high value to people and
organizations its 100+ portfolio exits through trade sale or IPO include success stories like
Business Objects, Soitec, Gemplus, Kelkoo, Aufeminin, Inventel, Netcentrex, Mobile Complete,
Steek, Streamezzo, Owlient or Digitick.
Working with some of the brightest minds in the Information Technology business, Innovacom is
also an active investor uniquely positioned to provide its portfolio companies with business
development support towards the best partners.
Innovacom

7. Shareholders
Mr. Geoffrey Bray is a successful businessman and longstanding shareholder of Plisch, now approaching 14 years. His other
business interest is Segnet Ltd, a British company he founded 26 years ago.
His career began with Rediffusion Ltd., in 1969 as a student engineer involved with HF and RF Cable Television and Radio
distribution networks.
In 1988 Mr. Bray founded Segnet Ltd, which has played a major role in shaping UK cable systems and digital roll-out
programmes.
In 1993 Segnet partnered with the co-founders of Harmonic (Lightwaves) Inc. and quickly secured large-scale HFC (Hybrid Fibre
Coax) projects with major MSO’s in the UK. This association produced revenues of over USD $20m for Segnet within 3 years,
during which time Harmonic (Lightwaves) Inc. successfully launched an IPO raising USD $250m. Mr. Bray still holds shares in
this company.
In 1998 Segnet won the SCTE award for technical innovation for its patented DOCSIS segmentation management system. In
2001 Segnet was awarded the coveted ‘Queen’s Award for Innovation’ in recognition of this.
Segnet continues to design and develop critical broadcast transmission and measuring equipment for use in HFC networks and
has R&D facilities in Germany. Major customers include Virgin Media (Liberty Global) and KDG (Vodafone).
Mr. Bray is a Fellow of both the Institute of Directors (IoD) and Society of Communication Engineers (SCTE) www.thescte.eu
Geoffrey Bray

8. Shareholders
TELSAT is a company present on the market since 1998 and has its headquarters in Paderno Dugnano - Milan.
TELSAT distributes both nationally as well as internationally a wide range of products of world leader companies
in the production of material for terrestrial and satellite broadcasting and for mobile telephony.
ANDREW, ASC SIGNAL, KATHREIN, SPINNER, PLISCH, NAUTEL and COMM-CONNECT are the trademarks
represented by TELSAT.
An equipped warehouse and a highly specialized technical and engineering staff make TELSAT your ideal
partner in the supply and the design of professional systems for telecommunication and broadcasting in the FM,
VHF, UHF ranges, for DAB and DVB-T.

9. Company Structure

10. Customers Worldwide
More than
20.000
Installations
in more than 60
countries

11. Selection of Customers Worldwide
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12. Product Portfolio
DVB-T/T2, DAB/DMB, ISDB-T/TB, ATSC 3.0 & Analog TV

13. Series 4000
Low Power Medium Power High Power

14. Series 5000
High Power

15. Precision GPS Clock PGC 3000
KEY FEATURES
• Most compact redundant dual
GPS clock available in the market
• Two fully redundant high performance
reference signal modules (GPS
receiver and OCXO) with separate
antennas
• Two fully redundant power supplies
and supply lines
• Hot pluggable modules (power supply
& GPS module) accessible from the
front panel
• Cost efficient
‣ transmitter monitoring
‣ RF measurements and synchronization monitoring
‣ content verification and monitoring
‣ listen to dab over Ip
‣ relay (ball) reception, e.g. for FM
‣ off-air EDI reconstruction for dab retransmission
‣ Field measurements and verification
‣ short-term logging and analysis

16. DAB+ Monitoring – MON 5300
KEY FEATURES
• Field proven dab demodulator
• parallel full ensemble decoding
• Full ensemble EDI output to LAN
• simultaneous decoding of all audio
and data
• services
• extensive RF measurements
• browser-based html5 user interface
with remote
• audio and data streaming
‣ Remote management via HTTP/SNMP in Plisch GUI
Look&Feel or relay contacts
‣ Time server facility with NTP and TOD (time of day)
interface
‣ GPS antennas and cable set included
‣ 8 x 1 PPS TTL outputs & 8 x 10 MHz outputs in one HU
‣ Auxiliary 1PPS reference input

17. Customer Service
Repair
Service
Technical
Support
Training Spare
Parts
Installation &
Com-
missioning

18. Project Examples
DVB-T/T2, DAB/DMB, ISDB-T/TB, ATSC 3.0 & Analog TV

19. Czech Republic
Project Overview
• Customer: ceske radiokomunikace
• End-Customer: Czech TV
• 40 Station DVB-T2 transmitter liquid
cooled in 2017
• Six DAB+ Transmitter in 2017
• Plan for 2018 20 DAB transmitter
medium power

20. Switzerland
Project Overview
• Customer: Swisscom
• Installations: 740 Transmitters for DAB+
and DVB-T2 since 2000
• Frame Contract until 2020
• Until 2022 FM will be replaced by DAB+

21. Germany Bavaria
Project Overview
• Customer: Bavarian Broadcast
• Frame Agreement of Container Solutions
with DAB+ Transmitter
• Until 2020 totally 20 DAB+ Stations in
Container

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Business Contact in the USA
Rolf D. Seichter
Email: Rolf.Seichter@HTConsultingServices.com
URL: www.HTConsultingServices.com
Phone: 1-978-852-5803