Mobile Entertainment Symposium Sponsored by Bank of America and Interep

Mobile Entertainment Symposium Sponsored by Bank of America and Interep

Omnicom Vice Chairman Tim Love to Deliver Keynote Speech

Symposium to Address Consumers' Growing Control of Digital Entertainment

NEW YORK, April 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eleven Seven Partners, a media and entertainment marketing and producing company, today announced an impressive roster of leadership participants for its first Mobile Entertainment Symposium. The unprecedented event, "Blowing Up Sound: Emerging Technology, Consumers and Choice - Crafting the New Marketing Model," to be held Tuesday, May 9th, 2006, at the Grand Hyatt in New York, is attracting panelists and speakers from the leading companies in audio technologies, digital media, marketing and mobile entertainment.

Omnicom Vice Chairman, Tim Love, leads the cast of diverse panelists and speakers and will speak about the most evolutionary time in mobile entertainment. Companies with representatives confirmed to participate to date include: Arbitron, AccuRadio, Audible.com, General Mills, iBiquity, Interep, Napster, Net Radio Sales, Norstar Media Entertainment, Podbridge, Vibes.com, XM Satellite Radio, and Zenith Media. The afternoon speaker is Andy Cohen, Founder of Exposed Brick, a marketing consultancy firm specializing in interactive brand advertising strategies.

The symposium will explore the world of emerging audio technologies and will highlight growing consumer control of audio entertainment and its impact on traditional marketing models. The day-long event will feature panels of leading experts in audio technology, marketing executives, consumer research visionaries and financial analysts and will be relevant to any professional working in the fields of marketing, advertising, radio, audio technologies, as well as investors in the media, telecom and entertainment sectors.

Interep, a sales and marketing company specializing in Radio, the Internet, Hispanic Television and complementary services, and Bank of America's Media, Telecommunications & Technology Equity Research Team, are the co-sponsors for the event. Bank of America's top-ranked "All American Institutional Investors Research Analysts" teams slated to moderate the day's event:

-- Keith Bachman (Enterprise Hardware)
-- Jonathan A. Jacoby (Radio & TV Broadcasting)
-- Tim Long (Data Networking & Wireline Equipment, Wireless Equipment)
-- Douglas Shapiro (Cable & Satellite TV, Entertainment)

On-line registration and an agenda for the event are available at http://www.audiosymposium.com/. For more information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Victor Lirio at 212-309-9031 or victor@elevensevenpartners.com.

ABOUT ELEVEN SEVEN PARTNERS

Eleven Seven Partners, LLC, ("Eleven Seven") is a media and entertainment marketing and producing company that presents multi-media conferences and theatrical events. Founded by Victor Lirio, it has conceived, produced and directed several media conferences such as Interep's annual Radio Symposium with keynotes and panelists from leading broadcasting, research, investment banking and advertising companies including Arbitron, Bank of America, Bear Stearns, CBS Radio, Clear Channel, Cumulus, Deutsche Bank, Emmis Broadcasting, iBiquity, ICBC Broadcast Holdings, Omnicom, Radio One, Spanish Broadcasting System and Westwood One. In addition, it has produced Interep's Power of Urban Radio, Power of Hispanic Radio and the "National Radio & Repping" conferences. Eleven Seven also presented the critically acclaimed debut of Tony Award(R) winner Lea Salonga at Carnegie Hall. For more information, please visit http://www.elevensevenpartners.com/.

ABOUT BANK OF AMERICA

Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) is one of the world's leading financial services companies. The company's Global Corporate & Investment Banking group (GCIB) provides investment banking, equity and debt capital raising, research, trading, risk management, treasury management and financial advisory services. Through offices in more than 30 countries, GCIB serves domestic and international corporations, institutional investors, financial institutions and government entities. Many of the bank's services to corporate and institutional clients are provided through its U.S. and UK subsidiaries, Banc of America Securities LLC and Banc of America Securities Limited. For additional information, visit http://www.bankofamerica.com/.

ABOUT INTEREP

Interep (IREP.PK) is the nation's largest independent advertising sales and marketing company specializing in radio, the Internet, television and complementary media, with offices in 17 cities. Interep is the parent company to the following radio representation firms: ABC Radio Sales, D&R Radio, CBS Radio Sales, McGavren Guild Radio, SBS/Interep and Susquehanna Radio Sales. Interep is also parent to Azteca America Spot Television Sales and Interep Interactive, including Winstar Interactive, the place for Internet brands. Interep divisions benefiting our clients and customers include our "unwired" Network Division; Interep Innovations, our business development division, including the Interep Marketing Group (IMG) and Promotion Marketing; The Event Shop; and Morrison and Abraham, a sales consulting firm. For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.interep.com/.

Eleven Seven Partners
Victor Lirio
(p) 212-309-9031
(e) victor@elevensevenpartners.com

Banc of America Securities
Jennifer Robinson
(p) 646-366-4597
(e) jennifer.robinson@bofasecurities.com

Interep
Michele Skettino
(p) 212-916-0536
(e) michele_skettino@interep.com

Source: Interep

CONTACT: Victor Lirio of Eleven Seven Partners, +1-212-309-9031,
victor@elevensevenpartners.com; or Jennifer Robinson of Banc of America
Securities, +1-646-366-4597, jennifer.robinson@bofasecurities.com; or Michele
Skettino of Interep, +1-212-916-0536, michele_skettino@interep.com

Web site: http://www.interep.com/
http://www.audiosymposium.com/
http://www.elevensevenpartners.com/

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