press guide
Company Background
Starz Entertainment, LLC, is a premium movie and original programming entertainment service provider operating in the United States. The company offers 16 premium channels
including the flagship Starz and Encore brands with approximately 17.4 million and 32 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs in total more than 1,000 movies
and original series every month across its pay TV channels. Starz Entertainment is recognized as a pay TV leader in providing HD, On Demand, HD On Demand and online advanced
services for its Starz, Encore and MoviePlex brands. Starz Entertainment (www.starz.com) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, which is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media
Corporation and is attributed to the Liberty Starz tracking stock group (NASDAQ: LSTZA).
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PROGRAMMING
Starz Entertainment offers 13 uncut, commercial-free premium movie channels comprising the Starz Encore Movie Pack, spearheaded by the two flagship channels, Starz and
Encore . Three additional channels, MoviePlex , RetroPlex and IndiePlex are available through select affiliates.
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Starz Entertainment is the exclusive subscription television and broadband provider of Starz Originals (including “Crash” and “Party Down,” and coming in 2010, “Spartacus:
Blood and Sand” and “Gravity”) and feature films. First-run movies are from leading Hollywood studios including Walt Disney Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Overture
Films, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Pixar, Marvel Entertainment, TriStar, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Classics, and Warren Miller Films. Starz licenses hundreds of
feature films from a wide array of independent distributors including IFC, Yari Film Group, and Summit Entertainment and a vast collection of classic and favorite titles from most
Hollywood studios.
Broadband
Starz Play – Starz Play is the affiliate-based Starz Entertainment broadband subscription movie service, delivering movies and other video content over the Internet. Starz Play
affiliates offering movie downloads have the flexibility of delivering the service on any broadband or wireless-enabled device that supports Microsoft’s Windows Media platform,
including select Microsoft Windows portable devices. Movies can be played on PCs, laptops, select portable media devices, and TV (either through direction connection or Media
Extenders, such as the Xbox 360 game platform).
On Demand Offerings
Provide impulse viewing of Starz Entertainment movies with full “DVD-like” functionality and no fee per view.
Starz On Demand – More than 100 movies on demand every month with 18 new titles added weekly selected from titles shown across the Starz channels. Starz On Demand
features early premieres, where the biggest hit movies premiere before they do on Starz; original and acquired content exclusive to On Demand; unique monthly movie
packages; “quickies” category that offers entertaining short form content; and more.
Encore On Demand – Up to 150 movies on demand to select from at any given time. Titles are drawn from a vast library including top titles and blockbuster hits you want to see and
want to see again.
Starz Entertainment Summary Operating Results
2009 (YE)
Revenue $1,111
Cash Flow $384
(Thru Q3 2010)
Flagship Channels (millions of homes)
$929M
Encore32
$305M
Starz
17.4
services
Hollywood movies and original programs.
A great selection of movies you want
to see and see again.
Today’s biggest, most popular movies.
A great selection of action movies..
A great selection of romantic movies.
Movies and entertainment for the black audience.
All westerns all the time.
Movies for all types of humor.
A great selection of mystery movies.
Movies with thought-provoking subjects.
A great selection of dramatic movies.
Movies that appeal to the young and young at heart.
Teen movies and entertainment.
Starz movies and entertainment
available when you want.
A visual movie experience
beyond your expectations.
Experience a different movie genre every day
Encore movies available when you want.
Iconic movies that defined an era.
Unconventional movies that
broke the mold.
Starz Play is the first subscription-based broadband download service
for major Hollywood films and other video content, offering playback on
Windows-based PCs, laptops, select portable devices, and TV.
executive team
CHRIS ALBRECHT
President and CEO, Starz, LLC
Albrecht is responsible for all business, strategic, organizational, legal and financial matters and for generating
growth and new business opportunities for Starz Entertainment, Starz Media and Overture Films. He joined
Starz at the beginning of 2010, coming from Foresee Entertainment, which he founded in 2008. Before joining
Starz he spent more than 20 years at HBO where he served as Chairman and CEO from 2002 to 2007. Before
becoming Chairman, he spent seven years as President of HBO Original Programming, directing all day-to-day
operations of West and East Coast original programming for HBO, Cinemax and HBO Independent Productions.
BILL MYERS
President and COO, Starz Entertainment
Myers is responsible for all day-to-day operations of the company, including sales, marketing, programming,
engineering, IT, advanced services and human resources and administration and facilities. Prior to becoming
president and COO, Myers served as executive vice president and CFO for Starz Entertainment Group, and
executive vice president, CFO and treasurer of On Command Corporation.
GLENN CURTIS
Executive Vice President and CFO
Curtis is responsible for finance and strategic planning, accounting,
budgeting and compliance. Prior to joining Starz Entertainment, he served
as vice president of Liberty Media Corp., chief financial officer for Starz
Encore Group and as a partner in the accounting firm of KPMG.
Steve Beabout
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Beabout is responsible for all day-to-day legal matters, including strategy,
planning and compliance. Prior to joining Starz Entertainment he served as
general counsel for Riverwood International Corporation.
EDWARD L. HUGUEZ
Executive Vice President, Affiliate Sales and Marketing
Huguez is responsible for all aspects of sales and affiliate relations and
affiliate marketing for Starz Entertainment. Prior to joining Starz Entertainment,
Huguez was president, chief executive officer and chairman for Midstream
Technologies, Inc. He worked for DIRECTV as vice president and general
manager, new media and interactive programming and platforms group.
NANCY MCGEE
Executive Vice President, Marketing
McGee is responsible for all marketing communications, branding, research,
online/new media, and product development for the company. Prior to joining
Starz Entertainment, she held national chief marketing officer positions
successively with AT&T Broadband and at Adelphia Communications.
Scott Macdonald
Executive Vice President, Finance and Accounting
Macdonald is responsible for overseeing all financial activities for Starz
Entertainment and Starz Media. Prior to joining Starz Entertainment,
Macdonald served as senior vice president and chief accounting officer
for Adelphia Communications Corporation, and senior vice president and
corporate controller for AT&T Broadband.
STEPHAN SHELANSKI
Executive Vice President, Programming
Shelanski manages all of the Starz Entertainment programming activities,
including acquisitions, original programming, on-air production and promotion,
and planning and scheduling. Prior to joining Starz Entertainment, Shelanski
was with Home Box Office (HBO) working as director of Cinemax scheduling.
Sheryl Anderson
Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Administration
Anderson is responsible for the human resources functions for approximately 550
Starz Entertainment employees. Prior to joining Starz Entertainment, Anderson had
served in various positions in tax and compliance at Tele-Communications Inc.,
United Cable and United Artists Communications.
JONATHAN SHAIR
Senior Vice President, Network Operations
Shair is responsible for overseeing all aspects of scheduling, inventory planning,
creation of programming events and packaging for all Starz Entertainment’s
linear channels, HD services, On Demand platforms, and broadband services.
Prior to joining Starz Entertainment, Shair was director of scheduling and
operation at Bravo/Independent Film Channel (IFC).
RAY MILIUS
Senior Vice President, Programming and IT Operations
Milius is responsible for managing teams in broadcast operations, postproduction, engineering, transmission, media encoding, information technologies
and on-demand, as well as planning and implementing technological growth
and change. Prior to joining Starz Entertainment, he spent 33 years in the
television industry including time with NBC, CBS and ABC affiliates where he
worked in all technical areas.
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