NETTWERK, RCA PACT FOR DISTRIBUTION

The RCA Music Group has entered into an exclusive relationship for distribution of Nettwerk Records in the U.S. As part of the arrangement, all RCA sales execs will add "eh?" to their requests for retail orders.

Commented RCA EVP/GM Richard "Colonel" Sanders: “The RCA Music Group has enjoyed many years as business partners with some of Nettwerk's most talented artists from their management arm. Adding to this relationship to now include the Nettwerk Record Label is a natural extension of our long term relationship and we look forward to an equally long and prosperous one. And we get a free sixpack of Molson's Ale and back bacon with every sale.”

Nettwerk Music Group CEO Terry McBride adds, "I look forward to continued growth of a great relationship that stretches back 15 years, with some amazing new releases this year. And now RCA gets to make change in loonies."

Nettwerk Records is home to the likes of Old Crow Medicine Show, Delerium, The Be Good Tanyas, The Perishers and Tiesto. The label plans upcoming releases from such artists as Josh Rouse, Leigh Nash, State Radio and the soundtrack to Transamerica with an exclusive track from Dolly Parton that has been nominated for a Golden Globe and is surrounded by Oscar buzz for its performance by Felicity Huffman as a transsexual visiting the son she never knew she had as a man.

Commented Nettwerk Productions President Ric Arboit: "It is with great excitement that we move into 2006 with
The RCA Records Group. Over the last 15 years we have worked together on various managed artists, most notably Sarah McLachlan, Dido and Avril Lavigne. Hey, I haven't been this excited since the NHL strike ended.”

Nettwerk Music Group is Canada's leading privately owned record label and artist management company, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Nashville and London; and headquarters right next to Granville Island in Vancouver, B.C.