RNS Number:7739P
Entertainment Rights PLC
18 January 2007



                            Entertainment Rights Plc

                  Board Promotions and Grant of Share Options


Following completion of the acquisition of Classic Media Holdings, Inc. on 11
January 2007, Entertainment Rights plc (the "Company") announces that the Board
of Directors of the Company has promoted Elizabeth Gaines, Finance Director and
Jane Smith, Commercial Director.


Elizabeth Gaines, currently Finance Director of the Company, has been promoted
to 'Chief Financial and Operations Director'. In her new role Elizabeth Gaines
has taken on additional responsibilities for the financial and operations
divisions located in the US. Elizabeth Gaines remains a member of the Company's
Board of Directors.


Jane Smith, who has been a senior member of the Entertainment Rights team since
the inception of the business in 1999, has been promoted to the newly created
position of 'Chief Commercial and Creative Director'. As a result of the
acquisition of Classic Media, Jane Smith's role has been expanded to take on
responsibilities for the commercial and creative divisions located in the US.
Jane Smith also remains a member of the Company's Board of Directors.


On 17 January 2007, the Company granted the following options under the
Company's Unapproved Share Option Scheme representing 0.75% per cent. of the
ordinary shares currently in issue, to the following Directors:-

Director                     Number of Ordinary       Total number of Ordinary
                             Shares over which        Shares over which options
                             options granted          held following this
                                                      notification

Mike Heap                    2,100,000                11,982,857
Jane Smith                   1,800,000                9,190,000
Elizabeth Gaines             1,600,000                6,600,000

The exercise price of the new options detailed above is 30.6p per share being
the average closing price of an ordinary shares in the Company over the five
dealing days preceding the date of grant. The options are exercisable from 17
January 2010 to 16 January 2017, subject to the achievement of the following
performance criteria:-

1/3 of the ordinary shares under option, if the average annual percentage
increase in the Company's earnings per share over the 3 financial years
commencing with (and including) the date of grant to 31 December 2009 is at
least equal to the average annual percentage growth in the Retail Price Index
plus 5 per cent; and

1/3 of the ordinary shares under option if the average annual percentage
increase in the Company's earnings per share over the 3 financial years
commencing with (and including) the date of grant to 31 December 2009 is at
least equal to the average annual percentage growth in the Retail Price Index
plus 7.5 per cent.

1/3 of the ordinary shares under option if the average annual percentage
increase in the Company's earnings per share over the 3 financial years
commencing with (and including) the date of grant to 31 December 2009 is at
least equal to the average annual percentage growth in the Retail Price Index
plus 10 per cent.

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For further details, please contact:-


Entertainment Rights plc

Julian Paul, Chairman of the Remuneration Committee     020 8762 6200

Paul Ashworth, Group Financial Controller               020 8762 6200


Bell Pottinger Corporate & Financial                    020 7861 3232

David Rydell/Sarah Hilyer




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