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Advisory - BMO Nesbitt Burns Media Industry Conference to be Webcast

BMO Nesbitt Burns will webcast its annual Media Industry Conference on Tuesday, March 25th in Toronto. The conference will feature roundtable discussions involving senior executives from some of Canada’s leading media companies.

Tim Casey, Media Analyst, BMO Nesbitt Burns, will moderate the half-day conference.

The entire conference will be webcast live and can be accessed at: http://corporate.bmo.com/conferences

Scheduled presenters and times are*:

8:20am	OPENING REMARKS William Downe, Deputy Chair, BMO Financial Group & CEO, BMO Nesbitt Burns
8:25	INTRODUCTION Tim Casey, Media & Entertainment Analyst, BMO Nesbitt Burns
8:30	ROUNDTABLE 1 - Television Panel Jay Switzer, President & CEO, CHUM Limited Reality TV: The Rebirth of Conventional Television? A Programmer's Perspective on Programming Cycles
8:40	John Cassaday, President & CEO, Corus Entertainment The Outlook for Pay Television
8:50	Michael MacMillan, Chairman & CEO, Alliance Atlantis Narrowcasting: Opportunities in Targeted Demographics
9:00	Jack Tomik, President, CanWest Media Sales, CanWest Global Managing Fragmentation: Driving New Revenue Models and Managing Costs in a Fragmenting Viewership Environment
9:10	Ivan Fecan, President & CEO, Bell Globemedia Scoring with Sports Broadcasting
9:20	Panel Discussion & Q&A
9:50	Coffee Break
10:05	ROUNDTABLE 2 - Radio Panel Rael Merson, President, Rogers Broadcasting Consolidation and Regulation: Review and Outlook
10:15	Jay Switzer, President & CEO, CHUM Limited Portfolio Management in Radio
10:25	John Hayes, President, Corus Radio Opportunities in AM Radio
10:35	Panel Discussion & Q&A
11:00	ROUNDTABLE 3 - Publishing Panel Phillip Crawley, Publisher & CEO, The Globe & Mail The National Story: Opportunities and Challenges in Managing a National Franchise in a Local Medium
11:10	Rick Camilleri, COO, CanWest Global The Broadsheet Story: Maximizing the Broadsheet Franchise
11:20	Pierre Francoeur, President & CEO, Sun Media The Tabloid Story: Maximizing the Tabloid Franchise
11:30	André Préfontaine, President, Transcontinental Media Community Publishing: Maximizing Value with Community Papers
11:40	Robert Prichard, President & CEO, Torstar Corporation The Super Regional: Driving Synergies Between Dailies and Weeklies
11:50	Panel Discussion & Q&A
12:30 pm	Wrap-Up

BMO Nesbitt Burns, a member of BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO), is a full-service North American investment bank offering corporate, institutional and government clients access to a broad range of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisition advisory services, merchant banking, research, sales and trading. Through offices in more than 20 locations in North America and around the world, BMO Nesbitt Burns works with clients, matching innovation and expertise with a diverse and integrated product base to provide the right financial solution.

*Agenda subject to change

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