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[Second Issue of the Day]
#12
From: Kimberly Kriger <kimberly-kriger@KEKST.COM>
Subject: statement from NTV Plus
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002
This statement from NTV Plus was issued yesterday in Moscow.
"NTV Plus, the satellite pay TV network, which has been the provider of sports news to TV-6, has agreed to provide sports programming over the TV-6 channel for a 45-day period pending the auction of the TV-6 broadcast license. As a result, viewers will be able to watch "free TV" broadcasts of the Winter Olympics and other major international sporting events from 8:00 a.m. to midnight daily over this channel for the next six weeks. NTV Plus emphasized that it will not be a bidder for the TV-6 license. Boris Jordan, chief executive officer of Gazprom Media, who has expressed his interest in forming an international consortium to bid for the Gazprom Media assets, also confirmed that he would not participate in the auction for the TV-6 license. Mr. Jordan further stated that he believes it would be in the best interests of building a vibrant, independent media industry in Russia if the journalists and management of TV-6, who have expressed an intention to bid for the TV-6 license, were to succeed in this effort."
Kimberly Kriger
Kekst and Company
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New York, NY 10022
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