Cricket Media announces forgiveness of debt transaction

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WASHINGTON, DC, March 17, 2015 /CNW/ - Cricket Media Group Ltd. (TSXV:CKT) ("Cricket Media" or the "Company") announces that ZG Ventures, LLC ("ZG") has forgiven an aggregate of US$1,000,000 of indebtedness owing by Cricket Media, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company ("CMI"), to ZG under a loan facility pursuant to which CMI is entitled to borrow up to a maximum of US$2,500,000 on a revolving basis.  As consideration for the forgiveness of debt, CMI has agreed, subject to certain conditions, to indemnify Miles Gilburne and Nina Zolt, the principals of ZG, from all payment obligations that may be incurred by them in connection with a personal guarantee they have provided to The National Capital Bank of Washington ("NCBW"), whereby they have guaranteed the repayment by ePals Foundation, Inc., an entity which CMI controls, of US$1,500,000 of indebtedness incurred by ePals Foundation pursuant to a commercial line of credit with NCBW. 

Pursuant to Multilateral Instrument 61-101 Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101"), the transaction described above constitutes a "related party transaction" for the Company.  For this transaction, the Company relied on the exemption from the formal valuation requirements of MI 61-101 contained in section 5.5(a) of MI 61-101 and relied on the exemption from the minority shareholder approval requirements of MI 61-101 contained in section 5.7(1)(a) of MI 61-101.   

About Cricket Media

Cricket Media (TSXV: CKT) is an education media company that provides award-winning content on a safe and secure learning network for children, families and teachers across the world. Cricket Media's 14 popular media brands for toddlers to teens include Babybug, Ladybug, Cricket® and Cobblestone® with multiple language editions and apps in English, Spanish and Chinese. The Company's innovative web-based K12 tools for school and home include the ePals community and virtual classroom for global collaboration as well as In2Books®, a Common Core eMentoring program that builds reading, writing and critical thinking skills. Cricket Media serves approximately one million classrooms and millions of teachers, students and parents in over 200 countries and territories through its platform and NeuPals, its joint venture with China's leading IT services company Neusoft. Cricket Media also licenses its content and platform to top publishing and educational companies worldwide. For more information, please visit www.Cricketmag.com, www.ePals.com and www.In2Books.com.

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Forward Looking Statements

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SOURCE Cricket Media Inc.

Katya Andresen, Chief Executive Officer, Cricket Media, Phone: [phone], [email protected]; Cory Pala, Investor Relations, E.vestor Communications Inc., Phone: [phone], [email protected]