Starz! Launches Chicago Sweeps

Starz! is backing the premium-network premiere of Chicago with a consumer sweepstakes that will send a pair of grand-prize winners to the Great White Way and the West End to see Chicago The Musical.

The sweepstakes -- which also gives the winners travel and hotel accommodations, Chicago gift packs, spending money and a chance to meet the cast of the musicals backstage in New York and London -- runs from Jan. 15-Feb. 29.

Consumers can enter to win the "Starz! Red Hot Chicago Sweepstakes" online (www.starzsuperpak.com). Those signing up for Starz! with cable or satellite affiliates during the sweepstakes period are automatically entered.

The network will bow Chicago -- last year's Academy Award-winner for best picture -- Feb. 28 at 9 p.m.