ORGANIZATION	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2012
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ORGANIZATION	1. ORGANIZATION The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of CTC Media, Inc. and all consolidated subsidiaries (the "Company"). CTC Media, Inc., a Delaware corporation, operates the CTC, Domashny and Peretz television channels in Russia. The Company's Russian network operations, including programming, sales, marketing and promotion for CTC, Domashny and Peretz on a national level, as well as relations with independent affiliates, are managed by its network subsidiaries: the CTC, Domashny and Peretz television networks (the "Networks"). The Company transmits its signals by satellite to its owned-and-operated affiliate stations and repeater transmitters and to independent affiliate stations. The distribution of the channels' signal, as well as regional marketing and sales functions are managed by CTC, Domashny and Peretz Television Station Groups (the "Television Station Groups") which include the owned-and-operated affiliate stations for each respective Russian channel. In addition, the Company operates the Channel 31 network, a Kazakh television broadcaster, and a broadcaster in Moldova. These two broadcasters comprise an additional business segment—the Commonwealth of Independent States Group (the "CIS Group"). Moreover, the Company has a Production segment (the "Production Group"), responsible for the Company's in-house production operations, specializing in producing sitcoms, series, sketchcoms and entertainment TV shows for Russian networks. The Company generates substantially all of its revenues from the sale of television advertising on both a national and regional basis. At the national level and for substantially all of the stations in the Television Station Groups, this advertising is currently placed through the Company's own advertising sales house, which serves as the exclusive advertising sales agent for all of the Company's Russian networks and Television Station Groups in respect of Moscow-based clients, and as non-exclusive advertising sales agent for other Television Station Group clients. The Company also generates revenues from the sublicensing of programming rights and licensing of internally-produced programming to third parties.

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The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of CTC Media, Inc. and all consolidated subsidiaries (the "Company"). CTC Media, Inc., a Delaware corporation, operates the CTC, Domashny and Peretz television channels in Russia. The Company's Russian network operations, including programming, sales, marketing and promotion for CTC, Domashny and Peretz on a national level, as well as relations with independent affiliates, are managed by its network subsidiaries: the CTC, Domashny and Peretz television networks (the "Networks"). The Company transmits its signals by satellite to its owned-and-operated affiliate stations and repeater transmitters and to independent affiliate stations. The distribution of the channels' signal, as well as regional marketing and sales functions are managed by CTC, Domashny and Peretz Television Station Groups (the "Television Station Groups") which include the owned-and-operated affiliate stations for each respective Russian channel. In addition, the Company operates the Channel 31 network, a Kazakh television broadcaster, and a broadcaster in Moldova. These two broadcasters comprise an additional business segment—the Commonwealth of Independent States Group (the "CIS Group"). Moreover, the Company has a Production segment (the "Production Group"), responsible for the Company's in-house production operations, specializing in producing sitcoms, series, sketchcoms and entertainment TV shows for Russian networks.

The Company generates substantially all of its revenues from the sale of television advertising on both a national and regional basis. At the national level and for substantially all of the stations in the Television Station Groups, this advertising is currently placed through the Company's own advertising sales house, which serves as the exclusive advertising sales agent for all of the Company's Russian networks and Television Station Groups in respect of Moscow-based clients, and as non-exclusive advertising sales agent for other Television Station Group clients. The Company also generates revenues from the sublicensing of programming rights and licensing of internally-produced programming to third parties.