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On Your Mark... Get Set... Let's Go, On A Sing Along Adventure As Koch Records And Hit Entertainment Announce The Introduction Of The All-New Barney™ "Let's Go" CD Series

The Debut of the Barney Let's Go CD Series Follows on the Heels of the Best-Selling Home Entertainment Collection

02/13/2006

New York, NY

This spring, preschoolers can go on a sing-along adventure with Barney, BJ™ and Baby Bop™ with two all-new CD releases from KOCH Records - Barney Let's Go To The Beach and Barney Let's Go To The Farm. These audio titles follow on the heels of the release of companion Barney Let's Go To The Beach DVD/VHS (February 7), and the all-new live show, Barney LIVE! The Let's Go Tour (launched in January).

The Barney Let's Go To The Beach CD will be available on April 4th, and the Barney Let's Go To The Farm CD will release on May 2nd. Both will be available for the suggested retail price of $7.98 and will feature new songs and classic Barney favorites such as: "Mister Sun," "My Kite," "Icy Creamy Cream Cake," "Down on Grandpa's Farm," "I Love You" and many more! Barney Let's Go To The Beach on DVD/VHS is the third installment in Barney's Let's Go home entertainment series.

Let's Go with Barney - on DVD, CD and tour - invites preschoolers to go and grow as they explore exciting places, like the beach, the farm, the zoo or a tee-rific toy factory.

About Barney™

As a helping hand for growing children, Barney (along with special pals Baby Bop™, BJ™ and Riff™ ) helps parents give their children the range of skills they need to grow - and he always does it with lots of fun, music and laughs. Barney & Friends™ episodes are always filled with Sharing, Caring, Imagining, Dancing and Learning and can be seen on PBS KIDS® and PBS KIDS Sprout℠. For more information about Barney and all his friends, please visit www.barney.com.

About HIT Entertainment

HIT Entertainment, owned by private equity investment group Apax Partners since June 2005, is one of the world’s leading independent children’s entertainment producers and rights-owners. HIT’s portfolio includes internationally renowned children’s properties, such as Bob the Builder™, Barney™, Thomas & Friends™, Pingu™, Rubbadubbers™ and Angelina Ballerina™. HIT acts as a representative for The Wiggles® in the UK, US and Canada and as worldwide representative for The Jim Henson Company’s library of classic family brands, including Fraggle Rock™. HIT also owns the Guinness World Records™ publishing and television property and Fireman Sam™, a joint venture with S4C. Launched in 1989, HIT’s lines of business span television and video production (including studios in the US and the UK), publishing, consumer products licensing and live events. With a catalog of more than 1,000 hours of young children’s programming, HIT sells its shows to more than 240 countries worldwide, in more than 40 different languages and has operations in the UK, US, Canada, Hong Kong and Japan. In 2005, the Company joined Comcast Corporation, PBS and Sesame Workshop to launch PBS KIDS Sprout℠, a 24-hour digital cable channel and VOD service for preschoolers. For more information, visit www.hitentertainment.com.

About KOCH Records
KOCH Records is a division of KOCH Entertainment, the fastest-growing music company and the market leader among independents in North America. The KOCH Entertainment corporate umbrella encompasses the KOCH Records label, KOCH Vision home video, KOCH Music Publishing and KOCH Entertainment Distribution with operations in both the U.S. and Canada. KOCH Records proudly claims the largest number of Billboard charting albums among independents for each of the last five years (2001-2005). For additional info on the KOCH Records label and its roster of artists, please visit www.kochrecords.com.