Focus Media Appointed Ms. Diana Chen as its Chief Operating Officer

Focus Media Appointed Ms. Diana Chen as its Chief Operating Officer

December 19, 2006

    SHANGHAI, China, Nov. 27 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Focus
Media Holding 
Limited (Nasdaq: FMCN), China's largest out-of-home
multi-platform life-
style media company, today announced the appointment of
Diana Congrong Chen, 
former Chief Marketing Officer of Focus Media, as its Chief
Operating 
Officer.  
    Diana Chen has been Chief Marketing Office since she
joined the company 
in May 2005.  During her tenure, Ms. Chen was focusing on
formulating 
marketing strategy and maintaining large client
relationships for Focus 
Media's multi-platform life style media.   "Diana's
promotion is a 
recognition for her proven management talent and
contribution to the 
Company," said Jason Jiang, Chief Executive Officer of
Focus Media, "This 
promotion expands her role in day-to-day operation of the
company and 
strengthens our focus on Tier-II cites expansion in
2007." 
    Before joining Focus Media, Ms. Chen worked for Phoenix
Satellite TV from 
1998 to 2004, serving as general manager, director of
international 
advertising and president of East China region. While at
Phoenix, Mrs. Chen 
successfully built Phoenix's business in the Eastern China
region and 
received Phoenix's Best Sales Team Awards for many years. 
Ms. Chen holds a 
B.A. degree in journalism from Zhejiang University.

    About Focus Media Holding Limited
    Focus Media Holding Limited (Nasdaq: FMCN) is China's
leading out-of-
home multi-platform life-style media company, which
operates the largest out-
of-home advertising network in China using audiovisual
flat-panel displays.  
Based on an audience-centric approach, Focus Media provides
targeted 
advertising channels which cover specific demographics
groups and their daily 
activities, from office buildings to retail chain stores,
residential 
building, shopping malls, golf country clubs, airports, and
airport transit 
buses.  As of September 30, 2006, Focus Media had
approximately 74,000 
display units in our commercial location network, 36,000
display units in our 
in-store network, 95,000 advertising poster frames
installed throughout China 
and 80 outdoor LED displays in Shanghai.   Over 2,500
international and 
domestic advertisers had placed advertisements through our
networks as of 
September 30, 2006.  For more information about Focus
Media, please visit our 
website http://ir.focusmedia.cn .



SOURCE  Focus Media Holding Limited