Pacific Capital Bancorp Announces Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call and Webcast

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pacific Capital Bancorp (Nasdaq:PCBC) will host a conference call to discuss third quarter 2008 financial results and operational highlights at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time/8:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, November 6, 2008.

Members of the public are invited to listen to the Company’s live quarterly conference call via the Internet. To hear the call, log on at the Investor Relations page of the Company’s web site at www.pcbancorp.com. For those who cannot listen to the live broadcast, a replay of the conference call will be available shortly after the call at the same location.

The Company’s financial results for third quarter 2008 will be released over the news wires before the market opens on Thursday, November 6, 2008.

Pacific Capital Bancorp, with $7.4 billion in assets, is the holding company for Pacific Capital Bank, N.A., a nationally chartered bank that does business on the Central Coast of California under the local brand names of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, First National Bank of Central California, South Valley National Bank, San Benito Bank, and First Bank of San Luis Obispo.