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ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2014
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
Central European Media Enterprises Ltd., a Bermuda company limited by shares, is a media and entertainment company operating in Central and Eastern Europe. Our assets are held through a series of Dutch and Curaçao holding companies. We manage our business on a geographical basis, with six operating segments, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia, which are also our reportable segments and our main operating countries.
We have market leading broadcast operations in six countries in Central and Eastern Europe broadcasting a total of 33 television channels. Each country also develops and produces content for their television channels and we license content to third parties. We generate advertising revenues in our country operations primarily through entering into agreements with advertisers, advertising agencies and sponsors to place advertising on the television channels that we operate. We generate additional revenues by collecting fees from cable and direct-to-home (“DTH”) operators for carriage of our channels. Our main general entertainment television channels in each country are distributed on a free-to-air basis terrestrially and are also distributed via cable and satellite. Our other channels are generally distributed via cable and satellite. Unless otherwise indicated, we own 100% of our broadcast operating and license companies in each country.
Bulgaria
We operate one general entertainment channel, BTV, and five other channels, BTV CINEMA, BTV COMEDY, RING.BG, BTV ACTION and BTV LADY. We currently own 94.0% of CME Bulgaria B.V. ("CME Bulgaria"), the subsidiary that owns our Bulgaria operations.
Croatia
We operate one general entertainment channel, NOVA TV (Croatia), and three other channels, DOMA (Croatia), NOVA WORLD and MINI TV.
Czech Republic
We operate one general entertainment channel, TV NOVA (Czech Republic), and five other channels, NOVA CINEMA, NOVA SPORT, FANDA, SMICHOV and TELKA.
Romania
We operate one general entertainment channel, PRO TV, and eight other channels, ACASA, ACASA GOLD, PRO CINEMA, SPORT.RO, MTV ROMANIA, PRO TV INTERNATIONAL, PRO TV CHISINAU, a general entertainment channel broadcasting in Moldova, and ACASA IN MOLDOVA.
Slovak Republic
We operate one general entertainment channel, TV MARKIZA, and two other channels, DOMA (Slovak Republic) and DAJTO.
Slovenia
We operate two general entertainment channels, POP TV and KANAL A, and three other channels, KINO, BRIO, and OTO.