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[07/13/16 - 12:45 PM]
Starz Launches on the Roku Platform
The Starz App on the Roku platform is a single destination for all subscribers who want to stream Starz premium content.

[via press release from Starz]

STARZ LAUNCHES ON THE ROKU PLATFORM

"Outlander" and Other Hit STARZ Original Series and First-Run Movies Available to Stream Now

Returning Original STARZ Series "Power" Season Three Premieres July 17

Beverly Hills, Calif. - July 13, 2016 - Continuing to add new platforms since launching the STARZ App in April, Starz announced today the addition of the Roku(R) streaming platform for STARZ subscribers. With the STARZ App now available in the Roku Channel store, STARZ subscribers may watch exclusive STARZ Original series including the upcoming season three premiere of "Power" on Sunday, July 17; "Outlander," "The Girlfriend Experience," as well as hundreds of movies and first-run films on Roku players and Roku TV(TM) models.

The STARZ App on the Roku platform is a single destination for all subscribers who want to stream STARZ premium content. Its intuitive content discovery design and navigation offers ease of use and a compelling user experience, regardless of how the consumer purchased a subscription to STARZ. Subscribers to the STARZ sister networks, STARZ ENCORE and MOVIEPLEX, will also use this single destination app for access to stream.

For $8.99 per month with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers, fans now have the opportunity to enjoy instant access to more than 2,700 selections each month, including STARZ hit series ranging from "Outlander," "Power" and the upcoming "American Gods" and other TV content, to Hollywood hits and popular movies including Avengers: Age of Ultron and, later this year, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Roku customers can sign up for the STARZ service directly through the STARZ App on a Roku device.

STARZ subscribers from participating cable, satellite and telco partners can also authenticate and view STARZ content in the new, easy-to-use app. Users can authenticate to STARZ directly in-app or on their PC/Mac and watch every episode of every season of the best of STARZ's original programming, as well as the biggest, most extensive movie library of all the premium subscription networks in the U.S.*

STARZ Originals in 2016 include "Outlander," "Power," "Black Sails," "The Girlfriend Experience," "Survivor's Remorse," "Blunt Talk," and "Ash vs Evil Dead," and the first STARZ Original movie, The Dresser. Exclusive hit movies on STARZ in 2016 include: Avengers: Age of Ultron, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Inside Out, Pixels, Concussion, The Good Dinosaur, Ricki and the Flash, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, Cinderella, Tomorrowland, The Wedding Ringer and Ant-Man. Popular movie and television programming on the new STARZ ENCORE includes: The Equalizer, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Signs, Never Been Kissed, Dances With Wolves, Gone Baby Gone, There's Something About Mary, Spider-Man 3, Out of Sight, Total Recall, Steel Magnolias, "Magnum, P.I.," "Diff'rent Strokes," "The Jeffersons," and "Gunsmoke."

About Roku, Inc.

Roku is the creator of a popular streaming platform for delivering entertainment to the TV. Roku streaming players and the Roku Streaming Stick are made by Roku and sold through major retailers in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., the Republic of Ireland, France and Mexico. Roku licenses a reference design and operating system to TV manufacturers to create co-branded Roku TV models. Under the Roku Powered(TM) program, Roku licenses its streaming platform to Pay TV providers around the world who want to use the Internet to deliver entertainment services through streaming players. Roku was founded by Anthony Wood, inventor of the DVR. Roku is privately held and headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif., U.S. Roku and Streaming Stick are registered trademarks and Roku TV and Roku Powered are trademarks of Roku, Inc. in the U.S. and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners in the United States and/or other countries.

About Starz

Starz (NASDAQ: STRZA, STRZB) is a leading integrated global media and entertainment company with operating units that provide premium subscription video programming on domestic U.S. pay television networks (Starz Networks) and global content distribution (Starz Distribution), www.starz.com. The Starz Networks operating unit is home to the flagship STARZ(R) brand with 24.0 million subscribers in the United States as of March 31, 2016, with the STARZ ENCORESM network at 32.4 million subscribers. Through STARZ, the company provides high quality, entertaining premium subscription video programming with 17 premium pay TV channels and associated on-demand and online services. STARZ is sold through U.S. multichannel video distributors, including cable operators, satellite television providers, telecommunications companies, and other online and digital platforms. Starz offers subscribers more than 5,000 distinct premium television episodes and feature films every year and up to 1,500 every month, including STARZ Original series, first-run movies and other popular movie and television programming. The Starz Distribution operating unit is home to the Anchor Bay Entertainment, Starz Digital, and Starz Worldwide Distribution divisions. In addition to STARZ Original series, Starz Distribution develops, produces and acquires movies, television and other entertainment content for worldwide home video, digital, and television licensing and sales.

*source: Starz internal analysis of distinct movie title data for the period 1/1/2015-12/31/2015.





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