Reed MIDEM Lines Up Keynote Speakers for MIPCOM

PARIS, July 16: Seven industry leaders are slated to deliver
keynote speeches at MIPCOM this October, including Leslie Moonves, CBS
Corporation’s president and CEO, and Emilio
Azcárraga, the chairman and CEO of Grupo Televisa.

Moonves, this year’s MIPCOM Personality of the Year, will
deliver the opening keynote on October 8. Also on that day, MIPCOM will feature
speeches by Subhash Chandra, the founder and chairman of the Zee Network and
Essel Group of Companies, and Ronnie Screwvala, the founder and CEO of the UTV
Group. Both are part of MIPCOM’s spotlight on the burgeoning Indian media
market.

On October 9, Azcárraga will explain why Televisa is the
most dominant Spanish-language media company and will articulate its expansion
strategies. Also slated to keynote on the second day of MIPCOM are Ben
Silverman, the recently appointed co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and NBC
Universal Television Studio; and Paula Wagner, United Artists’ CEO and Tom
Cruise’s production partner.

October 10 will see the focus shift to emerging technologies
with an appearance by the newly appointed CEO of Joost, Mike Volpi, who will
unveil his vision for the company's future and look at some of the findings
from Joost's beta phase.