/R E P E A T -- Invitation - Conference Call - Astral Media - Fourth quarter
and year-end financial results conference call for Fiscal 2009/

MONTREAL , Oct. 7 /CNW Telbec/ - Astral Media Inc. (TSX: ACM.A/ACM.B) invites you to participate in its fourth quarter and year-end financial results conference call for Fiscal 2009.

    
    WHEN:     Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.

    WHO:      André Bureau, Chairman of the Board
              Ian Greenberg, President and Chief Executive Officer
              Claude Gagnon, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial
              Officer
              Robert Fortier, Vice President, Finance
              Alain Bergeron, Vice President, Corporate Communications and
              Chief Marketing Officer

    HOW:      To participate in the conference call, dial 1-800-732-1073 ten
              minutes before the start of the call to ensure that you are
              connected on time. Inform the conference coordinator that you
              wish to be connected to the Astral Media Inc. conference call.
              Please note that journalists will be invited to ask questions
              after those of the analysts at the end of the call.

    Q&A:      At the beginning of the conference call, the coordinator will
              tell you how to participate. Instructions are as follows:

              To ask a question:         Press *1
              To withdraw a question:    Press *2

    WEBCAST:  The conference call will be webcast simultaneously on Astral
              Media's Website at astralmedia.com.

              The fourth quarter and year-end results webcast will be
              available on astralmedia.com until January 2010.
    

For further information: Hugues Mousseau, Senior Advisor, Internal and Corporate Communications, [phone], extension 3240