Starz Entertainment Group Promotes Peter Roberts and Rebecca Lim for Starz! Ticket in Advanced Services Group

Starz Entertainment Group Promotes Peter Roberts and Rebecca Lim for Starz! Ticket in Advanced Services Group

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG) SVP, advanced services, Bob Greene announced the promotions of Peter Roberts to the newly created position of general manager, advanced services and Rebecca Lim to senior director, advanced services. Roberts, previously senior director, advanced services, and Lim, previously director of interactive television technology, will be prominent contributors to the growth of the company's nascent, broadband-delivered subscription movies download service, STARZ! Ticket on Real Movies.

Roberts will be responsible for the day-to-day operations and management of STARZ! Ticket and will play a key managerial support role in evaluating growth opportunities for the service. Lim will play a lead role designing and implementing technology infrastructural upgrades and crafting new user interface designs and improvements. Lim will report to Roberts, while Roberts will report directly to Greene.

"I am looking to Peter and Rebecca to play critical developmental roles as we take STARZ! Ticket and Advanced Services to new heights," said Greene. "Both will assist me in building upon our early successes and making the consumer experience that much more compelling."

Prior to joining SEG in 2002, Roberts was a senior manager with Accenture's strategy practice where he focused on revenue growth plans for telco and cable companies. Roberts also worked previously at Tribal Voice, an instant messaging software company owned by CMGI and at AT&T Broadband where he was responsible for AT&T@Home's customer and revenue goals. Roberts started his career at SEG in 1993 serving in analyst, consumer marketing and affiliate sales roles.

Lim joined Starz Entertainment Group from the Chosun Group, a consulting firm that she co-founded, in September 2002. A 25-year media technology veteran, Lim plays a key role in SEG's iTV initiatives on the OpenCable platform and has been a major contributor for the Cable & Telecommunications Association of Marketing's (CTAM's) On Demand Consortium work on developing standards for on-demand user interface design and product enhancements. Lim also held positions previously at AT&T Broadband, TCI Technology Ventures, and TCI International.

Roberts is a native of Birmingham, Mich. and received his MBA from the University of Colorado and his BA from Miami University. He and his wife, Shannon, have two children, Madeline and Sybil.

Lim is a native of Kansas City, Mo. and graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri, School of Journalism. She and her husband, Nick, have three children, Marie, Xander, and Olivia.

STARZ! Ticket on Real Movies gives subscribers access to a rotating library of over 150 premium, major motion pictures for only $12.95 per month. Unlike pay-per-view services, STARZ! Ticket on Real Movies does not charge a separate fee each time a movie is downloaded, so subscribers can watch as much as they want for no additional charge. Approximately 25% of the STARZ! Ticket on Real Movies library is rotated weekly, equating to over 250 unique titles made available each month. Offered in RealVideo(R) 10.5 and through RealPlayer(R), movies will take as little as a few minutes to download depending on the speed of the subscriber's broadband service. Additionally, subscribers have access to a streamed version of the STARZ! linear service.

STARZ! Ticket on Real Movies offers a steady supply of blockbuster titles including, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," "The Butterfly Effect," "Elf," "Dawn of the Dead," "Hellboy," "Hidalgo," "Kill Bill: Vol. 2," "The Ladykillers," and "Van Helsing." Hollywood studios supplying films to STARZ! Ticket include Disney, Universal, Sony, MGM, New Line, Revolution Studios, and Miramax.

Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG) is the largest provider of premium movie services in the United States with approximately 167 million pay units. SEG offerings include the Starz Super Pak(R), with up to 13 digital movie channels and more than 750 movies per month, STARZ! HD, Starz On Demand(R), and STARZ! Ticket, the first and only on-demand premium TV subscription service available on the broadband platform. Starz Entertainment Group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation (NYSE:L)(NYSE:LMCb), www.starz.com.

For further information please contact: Eric Becker of Starz Entertainment Group, +1-720-852-4065, eric.becker@starz.com

Source: Starz Entertainment Group LLC

CONTACT: Eric Becker of Starz Entertainment Group, +1-720-852-4065, eric.becker@starz.com

Web site: http://www.starz.com/

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