Encore Wam and EF Educational Tours Announce Winner of 'Get Outta Town!' Contest

Encore Wam and EF Educational Tours Announce Winner of 'Get Outta Town!' Contest

Teacher and Six Students From Crispus Attucks Middle School in Indianapolis, Ind. Win European Educational Tour

Encore Wam to 'Get Outta Town!' Again - Second Season In-Production

INDIANAPOLIS, May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG) and EF Educational Tours today presented Turner Coleman, media specialist at Crispus Attucks Middle School in Indianapolis, Ind., with a passport to "Get Outta Town!" Coleman, winner of the Encore Wam / EF Educational Tours "Get Outta Town!" contest, will go abroad with six of her students beginning May 20 for a nine-day European educational tour.

A special school assembly was held today featuring state Rep. Greg Porter, "Get Outta Town!" host Joseph Motiki, and representatives from Starz Entertainment Group, EF Educational Tours and Bright House Networks Indianapolis. Nearly 400 seventh and eighth graders joined in the school auditorium to send Coleman and the six selected students off as they prepare for their European tour. "This trip will allow students to leave Crispus Attucks with awesome educational experiences," said Coleman. "Travel abroad makes learning real and is the stuff that puts sparkle into the eyes of middle school kids who never considered this type of learning as an option."

During the event, SEG also announced that the second season of "Get Outta Town!" is now in-production and will premiere on Encore Wam in the summer of 2007. "Get Outta Town!" is a high-energy adventure show that follows its globetrotting host in their travels to different cities around the world. At each destination, the host spends a "day in the life" with a local teen, exploring the sites and learning the cultures of teens around the world. Motiki will return to host the second season of the show, which will follow him from Argentina to Kenya and more.

"Partnering with EF Educational Tours to give away this European tour was the ideal way to bring the adventures of 'Get Outta Town!' to life," stated Stephan Shelanski, senior vice president of programming for SEG. "We were excited to give Turner Coleman and the students at Crispus Attucks this send-off celebration and look forward to hearing about the many adventures they have overseas."

The "Get Outta Town!" series is created and produced by The Nightingale Company in association with Encore. The Nightingale Company is a Canadian film and television company whose film and television projects include: "Lipstick & Dynamite" (premiered at Tribeca, May 2004), "Mob Princess," "Dove Days," "ZIXX: Level One" (in pre-production on "Level Two"), "Chicks with Sticks" and "Bailey's Billions." The "Get Outta Town!" website is produced and maintained by Pangaea Media & Music, an award-winning interactive media production company based in Toronto.

The "Get Outta Town!" website (www.getouttatown.tv) continues the adventure with the hosts online travel blog, an interactive map, photos from the series, behind the scenes exclusives, a virtual passport, and more. Key to the website and the series is the suite of educational resources posted that have been created by educational publisher TEACH Magazine. These curriculum-linked lesson plans and resources have been extremely popular with educators judging by the thousands of downloads by teachers free of charge. In addition, "Get Outta Town!" is also a book series with the first two adventure novels: "Mr. X and the Circle of Death" and "Mr. X and the Cog Train from Heaven" having been published. The books are being written by "Get Outta Town!" co-producer Wili Liberman, publisher of TEACH Magazine. For more information, please see the series website. The Mr. X novels may be purchased from the website.

The Encore Wam/EF Educational Tours "Get Outta Town!" contest was sponsored by EF Educational Tours.

About EF Educational Tours

EF Educational Tours is a pioneer in experiential learning, leading students abroad to encounter new cultures and languages first hand. It is the first and only accredited international tour company, and it is affiliated with key educational organizations such as PBS and the Advanced Placement Program of the College Board. EF Educational Tours is part of EF Education, the world's largest private education organization with more than 40 years of experience. EF's North American headquarters is in Cambridge, MA, though the company spans the globe with hundreds of offices and schools in 51 countries and over 26,000 staff and full- or part-time teachers. For more information about EF Educational Tours, call 1-800-873-2250 or visit www.eftours.com.

About Starz Entertainment Group

Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG) is a premium movie service provider operating in the United States. SEG offers 16 movie channels including the flagship Starz(R) and Encore(R) brands with approximately 14 million and 26 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment Group airs more than 1,000 movies per month across its pay TV channels and offers advanced services including Starz HDTV, Starz On Demand and Vongo(SM). Starz Entertainment Group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, www.starz.com.

Contacts: Michelle Ellis Jonathan Taylor
Starz Entertainment Group The Lippin Group
(720) 852-6269 (323) 969-1990
michelle.ellis@starz.comjtaylor@lippingroup.com

Keri Baugh
EF Educational Tours
617-619-1834
Keri.baugh@ef.com

Source: Starz Entertainment Group LLC

CONTACT: Michelle Ellis of Starz Entertainment Group, +1-720-852-6269,
michelle.ellis@starz.com; or Jonathan Taylor of The Lippin Group,
+1-323-969-1990, jtaylor@lippingroup.com, for Starz Entertainment Group LLC;
or Keri Baugh of EF Educational Tours, +1-617-619-1834, Keri.baugh@ef.com

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

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