Published Articles
- December 17, 2009 - Czech Business Weekly, TV behemoth in CEE eyeing recovery With very strong market positions in as many as six CEE countries, TV broadcaster Central European Media Enterprises (CME) belongs among the major media companies in the region.
- December 14, 2009 - DNES A Breakthrough: Soukromé pasti (Private Traps) Wins TV Nova series wins three Elsa Awards: Programme of the Year, Best Director and Eli‘ka Balzerová for Best Actress. Viktor Preiss wins on behalf of Czech Television.
- December 2, 2009 - Follow-the-media Television for those who don’t find anything interesting on television There are really no secrets to building a strong media brand. There need to be a hook, something listeners and viewers can hold on to. Ubiquity helps, too. MTV has it in the bag, quite mixed actually.
- November 23, 2009 - World Screen MTV Launch in the Czech Republic & Slovakia MTV Networks International (MTVNI) and TV Nova have announced the programming lineup of the soon-to-launch MTV channel in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which debuts November 29 with shows such as The City and Nitro Circus.
- September 30, 2009 - www.24ur.com POP TV wins TRUSTED BRAND award According to Slovenians, POP TV is a trademark, which is the most trusted among all TV stations. Confidence in the top Slovenian TV channel POP TV was expressed by as many as 59.7 percent of all interviewees.
- September 22, 2009 - Dow Jones CETV CEO: Regional Distribution To Lower Costs Central European Media Enterprises (CETV) aims to slash production costs by producing content for international, rather than just national broadcasting and aims to export such programming to Western Europe to provide additional revenue, Adrian Sarbu, CETV President and chief executive officer, told Dow Jones Newswires in a recent interview.
- September 11, 2009 - CETV screens high yield re-run with euro market all to itself Central European Media Enterprises (CETV) priced a seven year non-call four senior secured bond on Thursday. The bond was offered with a 11.625% coupon, issued at 98.621%, to yield 12%. Initial price talk on Thursday morning was 12% to 12.25%.
- September 7, 2009 - E15 TV Nova Plans Giant Production Center The largest commercial station TV Nova has started preparations for a massive production center, which will sell television and movie content to other companies. Based on their new innovative business model, the owner of TV Nova, Bermuda based company CME, now provides three sources of income - broadcasting, sales and Internet content.
- August 26, 2009 - Pravda Igor Kolomoyskiy: “1+1” will not work for Timoshenko, Yanukovich or Yushenko
- August 21, 2009 - Kyiv Post Business Sense with Svetlana Kalinina Media hit hard by crisis, but more growth lies ahead
- August 7, 2009 - Lidove Noviny The worst is hopefully behind us Interview with Petr Dvorak, General Director of TV Nova, Czech Republic
- August 5, 2009 - MTV Czech to begin broadcasting 29 November, 2009
- July 14, 2009 - C21 Eastern European Hitmakers – Nova TV, Croatia Flagship Croatian network Nova TV upped its audience figures in 2008, as it has vowed to do, and has made locally produced formats and fiction a priority.
- July 3, 2009 - C21 Slovak content leads at TV Markiza Martina Liskova, head of Slovakia's TV Markiza says that local programming remains a top priotiry in her plans for the year ahead.
- July 2, 2009 - Pro.BG and Warner Bros. International Television Distribution Central European Media Enterprises’ Pro.BG channel and Warner Bros. International Television Distribution sign multiyear output deal for the studio’s TV series and feature films in Bulgaria
- July 1, 2009 - Bloomberg CME Sees Return to Net Profit in 2011 as Advertising Recovers Adrian Sarbu speaks to Bloomberg about the impact of the economic crisis on CME and his expectations for the future
- June 19, 2009 - TV Markiza will launch a new channel, DOMA TV Markiza announces that will launch a women-oriented channel, DOMA, at the beginning of the fall season
- June 17, 2009 - C21 Eastern European Hitmakers C21 Profiles Central European Media Enterprises
- June 15, 2009 - Worldscreen Interview with Adrian Sarbu Adrian Sarbu talks about the Time Warner deal and his vision for CME
- June 12, 2009 - C21 Eastern insights, pt1 How international programming is making waves across Central and Eastern Europe
