Colisee Tickets Can Be Printed At Home

LEWISTON, ME (Friday, September 9, 2005) - The Colisee will begin selling tickets through a new, more efficient ticketing system. Global-Spectrum, operators of the Colisee, today introduced New Era Tickets as the new ticketing company for all events at the arena.

New Era Tickets and Global Spectrum are subsidiaries of Philadelphia-based sports and entertainment firm, Comcast-Spectacor. New Era Tickets will offer customers in the Lewiston-Auburn area more personalized service and features, including print-at-home tickets, ticket forwarding and 24/7 phone and online purchasing.

"This is an exciting change for the customers of the Colisee," said Global Spectrum's Jeff Schumacher, the Colisee's general manager. "It is always our goal to continuously enhance the customer experience on every visit to our facility, and that experience begins with the ticket purchase. New Era Tickets offers numerous options and tremendous convenience and we are looking forward to working together to serve our customers and clients."

All Colisee tickets will be available online at www.thecolisee.com, by calling 877-GO-TIX-GO (877-468-4946), and at the Colisee box office. Tickets for the Nov. 3 Slipknot concert go on sale at noon today.

Global Spectrum is the fastest growing firm in the public assembly facility management field with more than 45 facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Comcast-Spectacor also owns the Wachovia Center and Wachovia Spectrum, the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League, the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association, the Philadelphia Phantoms of the American Hockey League, Flyers Skate Zone, a series of community ice skating rinks, Comcast SportsNet, a regional sports programming network, Ovations Food Services, a food and beverage services provider, New Era Tickets, a full-service ticketing and marketing product for public assembly facilities, and Front Row Marketing Services, a commercial rights sales company.

Comcast-Spectacor owns three minor league baseball teams - the Bowie Baysox, the Delmarva Shorebirds and the Frederick Keys - all affiliates of the Baltimore Orioles.