Brian McHale Named VP of Information Technology for Starz Entertainment Group

Brian McHale Named VP of Information Technology for Starz Entertainment Group

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG) announced today that Brian McHale has joined the company as vice president of information technology (IT). McHale will be responsible for all aspects of IT including software development, database administration, service delivery and operations. McHale reports to Bill Myers, executive vice president of finance and chief financial officer and will work out of the Englewood, Colo. office.

Prior to joining SEG, McHale spent more than three years at Discovery Communications as vice president of global operations in Maryland and while in London he served as vice president of IT international for Discovery in charge of all the IT operations for the company outside of the United States.

McHale also worked for MCI for 11 years, where he began his career as manager of software development and left as director of enterprise data and management services. As director, he was responsible for global network engineering, network implementation and messaging development. While there, McHale was a recipient of MCI's Summit Club award, given only to the top one percent of employees.

"We are very excited to have Brian join our team," said Myers. "He brings with him years of experience in all facets of IT and will be of great value to Starz Entertainment Group."

"As Starz explores new opportunities in the linear, on demand and internet worlds, I look forward to the challenges facing IT and meeting those challenges head on," McHale said.

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 14.6 million and 26.4 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 that is attributed to Liberty Capital Group, www.starz.com.

Contact: Rhiannon Hendrickson
Starz Entertainment Group
(720) 852-5802
rhiannon.hendrickson@starz.com

Source: Starz Entertainment Group LLC

CONTACT: Rhiannon Hendrickson of Starz Entertainment Group,
+1-720-852-5802, rhiannon.hendrickson@starz.com

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

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