RCN Signs Long-Term Deal With Starz Entertainment Group for Premium Movie Services

RCN Signs Long-Term Deal With Starz Entertainment Group for Premium Movie Services

RCN Offers 13 Starz and Encore Channels, Starz On Demand and Starz HDTV

HERNDON, Va. and ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- RCN Corporation (NASDAQ:RCNI) today announced a long-term affiliation agreement with Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG) for the SEG premium movie channels and services. Under the agreement, RCN will be able to carry all 13 Starz Entertainment Group movie channels through 2009. The programming includes the flagship Starz and Encore brands, Starz On Demand and Starz HDTV.

RCN will provide Starz On Demand, showcasing more than 100 movies-on-demand per month and Starz HDTV at no additional charge to RCN customers who subscribe to Starz. "Consumers prefer a choice of uncut, commercial-free movies, so we are particularly pleased to be able to offer our subscribers an impressive lineup of Hollywood movies including Starz On Demand and all of the Starz and Encore networks," said RCN Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Timothy Dunne. "This agreement once again demonstrates our commitment to expand our library and shows how customers connect to something more when they sign up with RCN."

SEG Executive Vice President, Affiliate Sales and Marketing, Edward Huguez added, "With blockbuster movies such as 'The Incredibles,' 'The Aviator' and 'National Treasure' coming exclusively to Starz this year, RCN will be equipped to provide terrific programming to movie lovers in their markets."

Starz On Demand provides free impulse viewing of Starz movies with full DVD-like functionality as part of the monthly Starz subscription. Starz On Demand offers a steady supply of hit movies including "The Notebook," "The Bourne Supremacy" and "The Village," and later in 2005 "The Incredibles," "National Treasure" and "The Aviator." Hollywood studios supplying films to Starz include Disney, Universal, Sony, MGM, Paramount, New Line, Revolution Studios and Miramax.

About RCN

RCN Corporation, http://www.rcn.com/, is one of the largest facilities-based competitive providers of bundled cable, high-speed internet and phone services delivered over its own fiber-optic local network to residential customers in the most densely populated markets in the U.S. RCN Business Solutions is a growing business that also provides bulk video, high-capacity and voice services to business customers. RCN provides service in the Boston, New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles metropolitan markets. RCN also owns 49% of Megacable, one of the largest cable companies in Mexico. (RCNI-G).

About Starz Entertainment Group

Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG) is the largest provider of premium movie services in the United States with approximately 179 million pay units. SEG offerings include the Starz Encore Movie Pack with 13 digital movie channels and more than 750 movies per month, Starz HDTV, Starz On Demand, and Starz Ticket, an on-demand premium Internet movie subscription service available on the broadband platform. Starz Entertainment Group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, www.starz.com.

Contacts: Richard Ramlall Allyson Taylor
RCN Corporation Starz Entertainment Group
(703) 434-8430 (720) 852-1122
ir@rcn.comallyson.taylor@starz.com

Source: Starz Entertainment Group LLC

CONTACT: Richard Ramlall of RCN Corporation, +1-703-434-8430,
ir@rcn.com; or Allyson Taylor of Starz Entertainment Group, +1-720-852-1122,
allyson.taylor@starz.com

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

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