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Tune in to Encore Westerns for a 12-Hour Marathon of 'The Big Valley' on New Year's Day

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Dec. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Encore Westerns brings you back to the Barkley Ranch for a 12-hour marathon of "The Big Valley," starting at 8 a.m. ET/PT on January 1, 2006. The series features Victoria Barkley, played by Barbra Stanwyck, and the Barkley family in their adventures in protecting the ranch from numerous and various bandits. Other notable stars in the series are Lee Majors, Linda Evans, Richard Long and Peter Breck, all of whom play Barkley family members. Starting January 2, 2006, "The Big Valley" will be shown daily on the Encore Westerns channel at 11 a.m. ET/PT and again at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

"'The Big Valley' is an exciting addition to our Encore Western channel line up," said Mike Ruggiero, vice president, scheduling and programming. "The series was groundbreaking in that it was the first western to be based on a female lead character."

Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG) is the largest provider of premium movie services in the United States with approximately 181 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: Alesya Holick Jonathan Taylor
Starz Entertainment Group The Lippin Group
(720) 852-6033 (323) 969-1990
Alesya.holick@starz.comjtaylor@lippingroup.com

Source: Starz Entertainment Group

CONTACT: Alesya Holick of Starz Entertainment Group, +1-720-852-6033,
Alesya.holick@starz.com; or Jonathan Taylor of The Lippin Group,
+1-323-969-1990, jtaylor@lippingroup.com, for Starz Entertainment Group

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

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