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Ascent Media Announces New Executive Appointments

Posted on: Thursday, 5 March 2009, 08:00 CST

SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascent Media Group, a leading provider of creative, technical and distribution services to the media and entertainment industries, today announced the appointment of Robert Blatt, Senior Vice President, Product Development, Brendan Corrigan, Senior Vice President, Content Distribution and Transport, Mick Bass, Vice President, Alliance Management, and Mark Laudenslager, Vice President, Digital Media Operations and Content Management.

"These new executive appointments underscore our commitment to building and deploying industry leading file-based technologies and services to support our digital media growth initiatives," said Jose Royo, CEO of Ascent Media Group.

Robert Blatt, Senior Vice President, Product Development

Robert brings over 23 years of experience in product development and corporate strategy to his role spearheading Ascent Media's digital services initiatives. Robert will play a critical role in leading company-wide efforts to build Ascent Media's next generation digital vault, repurposing and publishing solutions, and new business systems. He is based at the company's headquarters in Santa Monica, California. Prior to joining the company, Robert was vice president and general manager at AOL Software where he was responsible for all major functions - strategy, product management, product marketing, engineering, quality assurance and operations - for AOL's Personal Media business which served over 12 million unique visitors a month. Previously, Robert has held executive positions at Accruent Software, Outcome Software, and Aspect Telecommunications.

Brendan Corrigan, Senior Vice President, Content Distribution and Transport

Brendan is responsible for Ascent Media's Network Origination and Playout Businesses across the U.S. As a 25+ year veteran of the Telecommunications Industry, Brendan will play a key role in expanding and scaling the company's global distribution platform as well as fully integrating its playout and origination business into Ascent Media's digital media supply chain. He is based in Stamford, Connecticut. Prior to joining Ascent Media, Brendan was an original Director of COLT Telecom Group, PLC where he was part of the executive team that developed COLT from start-up through a successful IPO. Previously, Brendan held various senior management positions at Teleport Communications Group, where he played an integral role in facilitating the CableTV industry's investment in and eventual purchase of TCG.

Mick Bass, Vice President, Alliance Management

Mick is focused on establishing partnership relationships with information and communications technology providers, digital media ecosystem providers, and solutions integrators. Mick brings deep experience in technology management and change leadership to Ascent Media, at a time when the course is being charted for the industry transformation of digital media services. Prior to joining Ascent Media, Mick was Services Principal Manager at Hewlett-Packard's Digital Entertainment Services Business. There he co-founded and developed HP's Digital Media Platform, and led HP's engagements with major studios. During his 20-year tenure with HP, he has held diverse roles ranging from Business Development, Strategy, Consulting Management, Management Systems Design, large-scale Technology Program Management, and Microprocessor Hardware and Software Systems Design.

Mark Laudenslager, Vice President, Digital Media Operations and Content Management.

Mark oversees operations for Ascent Media's digital services initiatives. Mark's extensive experience in the digital media ecosystem will help to further enhance the operational efficiency of Ascent Media's fully scaleable file-based solutions and better position the company to lead the industry standard for providing a superior customer experience. He is based at the company's 105,000 square foot Digital Media Data Center in Burbank, California, which is dedicated entirely to content management activities. Mark joins Ascent Media from Strategy Cafe, where he facilitated strategy development in digital media supply chain management and distribution, infrastructure, and B-to-C content delivery. Prior to Strategy Cafe, Mark served as senior vice president and chief information officer at Playboy Enterprises, where he developed and led effective asset management, content, and distribution strategies across online, broadcast, mobile, and publishing and enabled the launch of the subscription-based VOD business. Mark has also held senior leadership positions during his career with Walt Disney Internet Group, Servervault Inc. and Capital One Financial Corporation.

About Ascent Media Group:

Santa Monica, California-based Ascent Media Group, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ascent Media Corporation (Nasdaq: ASCMA), which provides creative and technical services to the media and entertainment industries. Through more than 40 facilities in regions of Southern California, New York, Atlanta, London and Singapore, Ascent Media provides effective solutions for the creation, management and distribution of content to major motion picture studios, independent producers, broadcast networks, cable channels, advertising agencies and other companies that produce, own and/or distribute entertainment, news, sports, corporate, educational, industrial and advertising content.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Ascent Media Corporation and its subsidiaries or industry results, to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among others: the risks and factors described in the statements and reports of Ascent Media Corporation filed or furnished with the Securities and Exchange Commission (and publicly available at the Securities and Exchange Commission's website, www.sec.gov); general economic and business conditions and industry trends; spending on television advertising, first-run content libraries and existing content libraries; the regulatory and competitive environment of the industries in which Ascent Media Corporation operates; rapid technological changes; future financial performance, including availability, terms and deployment of capital; changes in, or failure to comply with, government regulations, including, without limitation, regulations of the Federal Communications Commission, and adverse outcomes from regulatory proceedings; and competitor responses to Ascent Media Corporation's products and services, and the overall market acceptance of such products and services, including acceptance of the pricing of such products and services. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this Release. Ascent Media Corporation expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement contained herein to reflect any change in Ascent Media Corporation's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.

SOURCE Ascent Media Group

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