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Ascent Media Group Announces Executive Appointments

Posted on: Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 06:00 CDT

SANTA MONICA, Calif. May 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ascent Media Group ("AMG"), a leading provider of fully integrated, end-to-end services for the global digital media supply chain, today announced the appointments of Emily Keeton, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development; Adam Poulter, Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Account Management; and Staci Miller, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives. All are based at the company's Santa Monica, Calif., headquarters.

"The media landscape is rapidly changing and Ascent is at the epicenter of this transformation. We are moving aggressively to deliver the most value to our clients and to seize the major new opportunities we see ahead in the digital media space," said Jose Royo, CEO of Ascent Media Group. "These new appointments are central to our efforts, as well as to forging new worldwide growth opportunities for AMG."

Emily Keeton, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development

Emily will lead AMG's corporate M&A initiatives, partnerships and strategy development and will collaborate with business units across regional and functional areas. She comes to AMG from Credit Suisse, where she served as a Managing Director in its Investment Banking division, working on various financing and strategic transactions for media and entertainment companies. Emily sits on the Board of Directors of Row New York. She received her B.A. from Columbia University and holds an M.B.A from Harvard Business School.

Adam Poulter, Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Account Management

Adam will manage AMG's worldwide sales organization. He will work closely with Corporate Development on creating and executing growth initiatives in new geographies and market segments. Adam comes to AMG from Red Bee Media, where he served as Executive Commercial Director. Prior to Red Bee, Adam held various senior international management positions at search marketing company Miva (Europe) LTD, the cinema division of Carlton Communications in London, and the start up of Screenvision in New York.

Staci Miller, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives

Staci is developing strategies for delivering multi-platform strategic solutions to advertisers. Prior to joining AMG, Staci served as Vice President of Strategy and Operations for Warner Bros. Online. Staci also spent five years at McKinsey & Company, where she primarily focused on media and entertainment clients, particularly with digital media interests. Staci received a B.S. from the Wharton School of Business and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School.

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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