Temple University Enters New Era In Ticketing

LIACOURAS CENTER TO IMPLEMENT NEW, STATE-OF-THE-ART TICKETING SYSTEM

GLOBAL SPECTRUM BRINGS NEW ERA TICKETS TO PHILADELPHIA

(PHILADELPHIA, PA --- November 7, 2005) The Liacouras Center, the 10,200-seat multipurpose entertainment and sports arena on the campus of Temple University, will begin selling tickets via a new, more efficient ticketing system, as Global Spectrum, operators of the Liacouras Center, today introduced New Era Tickets, as the new ticketing company for all events, including Temple men's and women's basketball at the Liacouras Center, beginning on Monday, November 7, 2005.

Both New Era Tickets and Global Spectrum are subsidiaries of Philadelphia-based sports and entertainment firm, Comcast-Spectacor. New Era Tickets will offer its customers in the Greater Philadelphia Region a more personalized service, user-friendly network, print at home tickets and additional conveniences for its customers.

New Era Tickets will allow our Liacouras Center guests the convenience of purchasing tickets with many new and exciting opportunities to enhance their purchasing experience,â⿬? said New Era Tickets President Fred Maglione.

New Era Tickets specializes in providing innovative technological solutions for box office management, event management and customer communications, as well as offer a full-service ticketing and marketing product for public assembly facilities, show promoters, sports teams, theatres and entertainment organizations.

Our goal is to provide the ultimate experience for our fans each and every time they visit the Liacouras Center,â⿬? said Global Spectrum Regional Vice President Neil Sulkes. â⿬ſThat experience begins with the ticket sale. Our new ticketing company provides many new conveniences and options for our customers to enhance their experience. New Era also provides an opportunity for us to better interact with our customers which is paramount to our success.

"As we completed a lengthy search to find the best ticketing solution for Temple University and the Liacouras Center, it became clear that New Era Tickets best suited our season ticket plans," said Rich Rumer Associate Vice President for Business Service for Temple University. "As the technology continues to evolve, New Era Tickets provides us with new and exciting options to market our events and tickets for our students, our guests and our fans."

All Liacouras Center tickets will now be available on line at www.liacourascenter.com or via a new phone number, 1-888-OWLS-TIX (888-695-7849). Tickets will also be available in person at the Liacouras Center box office.

Global Spectrum, the fastest growing firm in the public assembly facility management field with more than 45 facilities throughout the United States and Canada, manages the Liacouras Center. The Philadelphia-based company is part of one of the world's largest sports and entertainment firm Comcast-Spectacor, which 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.