Today Consumers Can Access STARZ via
Apple® and Google with Virtually Unlimited Download
Capability for Original Series and Movies
STARZ, the best overall value in premium pay television and the
most watched family of pay TV networks in the United States*,
announced the successful launch today of its “STARZ” digital retail
service, providing STARZ streaming subscriptions directly to
consumers and offering the first-ever download
capabilities from a premium pay TV streaming service.
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The new STARZ app, featuring the hit
STARZ Original series, "Outlander," is available today for iPhone,
iPad, iPod touch and Apple TV, as well as Android devices. The
single destination app offers streaming and downloading of STARZ
Originals, big hit movies, and classic TV series. Consumers today
have a new option for purchasing STARZ subscriptions in the App
Store and Google Play Store for $8.99/month, in addition to
accessing STARZ as part of their cable, satellite and telco premium
pay TV subscriptions. (Photo: Business Wire)
For $8.99 per month, fans now have the opportunity to enjoy
instant access to more than 2,400 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. In celebration of the launch of the new
STARZ app, the second installment premiere episode of the STARZ hit
series, “Outlander,” will be made available beginning April 7 for
streaming and download in advance of its official premiere on STARZ
on April 9 at 9PM ET/PT.
The standalone “STARZ” service allows for up to four users to
watch simultaneously and virtually unlimited downloads. STARZ is
available today through the App Store for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch
and Apple TV, with the app supporting universal search through the
Siri Remote. The new STARZ app is also available through the Google
Play Store on a wide range of Android supported devices.
Starz CEO Chris Albrecht said, “Starz has entered the market
today with an enormous value proposition for consumers. Our
programing will now be more widely available to the 20 million
broadband only homes of cord nevers, cord cutters and cord shavers,
including Millennials and other underserved consumers who need
other viable subscription service options.
“With the growing consumer appetite for our highly-rated,
award–winning and diverse original programing and vast library of
movies, our elegant and powerful app is the first in the industry
to allow download capability to watch premium content anytime,
anywhere, without the need for Wi-Fi access. Showcasing the
rebranded STARZ offerings we announced last month, we believe this
innovative app will also help fortify the broadband business of
many of our traditional distributors and be even more appealing for
inclusion in future video bundles.”
STARZ subscribers from cable, satellite and telco partners can
also authenticate and view STARZ in the new, easy-to-use app. Users
can purchase a subscription or authenticate 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.**
As a single app destination for all subscribers who want to
stream or download STARZ premium content, the 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 streaming and downloadable content.
Further information on supported devices is available at
www.starz.com/settings/faq.
STARZ Originals in 2016 include “Black Sails,” “Outlander,” “The
Girlfriend Experience,” “Power,” “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: I, Robot, Fever Pitch, Never Been Kissed, 22 Jump
Street, Dances With Wolves, Gone Baby Gone, Monsters, Inc.,
Spider-Man 3, Superbad, Total Recall, True Grit, “Magnum, P.I.,”
“Diff’rent Strokes,” “The Jeffersons,” and “Gunsmoke.”
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® brand
with 23.6 million subscribers in the United States as of December
31, 2015, with the STARZ ENCORESM network at 32.2 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: Nielsen, full-year 2015 Total Day P2+ Average Audience
Live + Same Day Projections for premium packs.** source: Starz
internal analysis of distinct movie title data for the period
1/1/2015-12/31/2015.
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