NATPE Presents Highlights of its 2007 Conference

LOS ANGELES, November
14: The National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) presented
highlights of the 2007 NATPE Conference & Exhibition that will be held
January 15-18 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.

The 2007 NATPE
Conference & Exhibition theme is Evolve & Prosper and registrations for
the conference are ahead of last year. Today’s announcements were made by Rick
Feldman, NATPE’s president and CEO, and NATPE Co-Chair Stephen J. Davis, the
president of mobile and online media at InfoSpace.

“True to our conference
theme, NATPE is evolving and prospering,” says Davis. “Rick Feldman, the NATPE
Board and the NATPE staff have been working since last February to craft an
event that reflects our rapidly changing business of creating and selling
content for all media platforms. We continue to be the largest conference of
its kind in the world, a place where people who develop and produce content can
be exposed to all delivery systems and realize their potential.”

NATPE has concentrated
on broadening the representation of attendees, buyers and exhibitors. In an
effort to increase the selling time for participating companies, NATPE’s
exhibition floor will have expanded hours on both Wednesday and Thursday,
adding an hour each day.

For the third year in a
row, NATPE will kick off on Monday, January 15 with NATPE Mobile++ presented by
InfoSpace, Inc. The day-long summit will explore consumers' rapid adoption of
mobile and digital entertainment – focusing on strategies for creating,
licensing and monetizing television and original content for mobile
distribution, including games, graphics, multimedia, marketing and promotions,
video, messaging and other cutting-edge wireless and digital content
domestically and globally.

This year the recipients
of the fourth annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards, named in honor of Brandon
Tartikoff, one of the medium's greatest programmers, include Stephen J.
Cannell, Harry Friedman, Bonnie Hammer and Anthony E. Zuiker. The awards will
be presented Monday evening, January 15.

The NATPE 2007 keynote
address will be delivered by Chris Anderson, the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine and author of the best-selling book The
Long Tail. His speech will be
followed by a panel discussion centering on his “Long Tail” theory about
markets that lie outside the reach of the physical retailer. Panelists will
include Robert Broder, the vice chairman of ICM; Bonnie Hammer, the president
of SCI FI Channel and USA Networks, and Peter Levinsohn of Fox Interactive
Media.

Warner Bros. Television
will host a dinner roasting one of the most powerful and innovative
distribution executives in television history, recently retired Dick Robertson,
on Wednesday evening January 17. Proceeds will benefit the NATPE Educational
Foundation and Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Mass Communications
where Mr. Robertson serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board.