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NEW YORK, June 16, 2008 – BMO Capital Markets (TSX, NYSE: BMO) will hold its eMerging Media Forum on Thursday, June 19, 2008, at The Paley Center for Media in New York City.
Focusing on evolving “eVideo and eMusic” businesses, the summit will bring together senior management from leading Internet media companies for an in-depth look at the sector's current challenges and future opportunities.
The agenda includes presentations by executives from CBS, DG FastChannel, TiVo, MLB.com, and a luncheon address by Rebecca Paoletti, Director, Video Strategy, Yahoo, Inc.
The event will be hosted by senior research analyst Lee Westerfield, who covers Broadcasting and Internet Media for BMO Capital Markets Equity Research. Mr. Westerfield notes, “The forum will provide a deep-dive immersion into the emerging Internet video market, a market enlivened by IP technologies and consumer embrace. At stake is a prize of $100 billion of video advertising and subscription spending. The emerging video market transforms media; it involves all players along the media chain, from the largest of global media enterprises to the nimblest of start-up innovators.”
For more information about the eMerging Media Forum including an agenda with presentation times, please visit:
www.bmocm.com/conferences/emergingmedia2008
Media interested in attending the conference and/or scheduling an interview should call Holly Holt (212) 885-4153, or toll free at 1-866-298-8385.
Scheduled presenters include*:
- Asterpix: Nat Kausik, CEO
- BitGravity: Perry Wu, Chairman & CEO
- BitTorrent: Doug Walker, CEO
- Broadcast International (BCST): Rodney Tiede, President & CEO
- CBS (CBS): Patrick Keane, EVP & Chief Marketing Officer, CBSi
- Critical Media: Sean Morgan, CEO
- DCIA: Martin Lafferty, CEO
- DG FastChannel (DGIT): Omar Choucair, CFO
and Scott Ginsburg, Chairman & CEO - Digitalsmiths: Ben Weinberger, CEO
- EyeWonder: John Vincent, CEO
- FreeWheel: Doug Knopper, Co-Founder & Co-CEO
- GridNetworks: Anthony Naughtin, President & CEO
- Internet Broadcasting Systems: David Lebow, President & CEO
- MLB.com: Robert Bowman, CEO
- Ooyala: Bismarck Lepe, Co-founder & CEO
- Panther Express: Steve Liddell, CEO
- Real Networks (RNWK): Michael Eggers, CFO
- TiVo (TIVO): Tom Rogers, President & CEO
- Visible Measures: Brian Shin, CEO
- Yahoo! (YHOO): Rebecca Paoletti, Director, Video Strategy
* Agenda subject to change.
About the BMO Capital Markets Media, Communications & Technology Group
For over 25 years, BMO Capital Markets has served media, communications and technology clients with a dedicated team of industry specialists. Today, BMO Capital Markets has one of the largest integrated groups of investment banking professionals focused exclusively on mid-cap and emerging growth companies in the Media sector. Since 2001, our team has completed over $50 billion of M&A transactions, and over $70 billion of senior debt and equity financings in the Media, Communications & Technology industry. BMO Capital Markets offers its clients a full array of financial products and services, including: M&A advisory services, equity underwriting, debt underwriting, syndicated lending, risk management services and treasury services. For more information visit www.bmocm.com/industry/us/media.
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