DHX MEDIA ANNOUNCES SHARE REPURCHASE

Share Repurchase

Halifax, NS – 13 May 2009 – DHX Media Ltd (AIM & TSX ticker: “DHX”), a leading independent international producer and distributor of television programming and interactive content, announces that further to its automatic share purchase plan with GMP Securities L.P. (“GMP”) as announced on April 1, 2009 regarding repurchases of DHX Media’s common shares under its normal course issuer bid, as previously announced on March 19, 2009, GMP has on May 12, 2009 purchased 12,156 common shares of DHX Media at a price of C$0.75 per common share. Such purchased common shares will be cancelled.

Following this transaction and excluding such purchased common shares, the total voting rights in DHX Media, representing the total outstanding share capital of DHX Media is 42,858,743.

For more information, please contact:

DHX Media Ltd. +1 902-423-0260
David A. Regan – EVP Corporate Development & IR

AIM Nominated Advisors:
Grant Thornton UK LLP +44 (0) 20 7383 5100
Gerry Beaney
Troy MacDonald

About DHX Media Ltd.
DHX Media Ltd. is a leading international producer and distributor of television programming and interactive content with an emphasis on children, family and youth markets. DHX Media Ltd. is listed on AIM and on the Toronto Stock Exchange. DHX Media’s production companies, Decode Entertainment and Halifax Film, are the producers or co-producers of 11 original television series or theatrical releases currently commissioned for production and maintain a growing library of over 1,700 half-hours of mostly children and youth-oriented television productions. www.dhxmedia.com

Disclaimer
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