2.2.0.7 false ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS 006010 - Disclosure - ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS true false false false 1 USD false false u000 Standard http://www.xbrl.org/2003/iso4217 USD iso4217 0 u002 Divide http://www.xbrl.org/2003/iso4217 USD iso4217 http://www.xbrl.org/2003/instance shares xbrli 0 u001 Standard http://www.xbrl.org/2003/instance shares xbrli 0 $ 2 Notes to Financial Statements [Abstract] 0 cetv_NotesToFinancialStatementsAbstract cetv false na duration No definition available. false false false false false true false false false false false false 1 false false false false 0 0 false false false xbrli:stringItemType string No definition available. false 3 Organization and Business 1 us-gaap_NatureOfOperations us-gaap true na duration No definition available. false false false false false false false false false false false false 1 false false false false 0 0 <div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">1.  ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (“CME Ltd.”), a Bermuda corporation, was formed in June 1994.  Our assets are held through a series of Dutch and Netherlands Curaçao holding companies.  We are a vertically integrated media and entertainment company operating leading broadcasting, new media and content businesses in Central and Eastern Europe.  At September 30, 2010, we had operations in Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. On April 7, 2010 we disposed of our operations in Ukraine (see Note 3, “Acquisitions and Disposals” and Note 17, “Discontinued Operations”).</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><img alt="Graph" src="raph1.jpg" /><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We have three operating segments, which are also our reportable segments: Broadcast, New Media and Media Pro Entertainment, our content division.</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Broadcast</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Bulgaria</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We operate the BTV, BTV CINEMA and BTV COMEDY channels and several radio channels in Bulgaria (collectively, “bTV group”). In addition, we operate the PRO.BG channel and the cable sports channel RING.BG.</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">On April 22, 2010, we restructured our ownership of Pro.BG Media EOOD (“Pro.BG”), which holds the license for PRO.BG, and Ring TV EAD (“Ring TV”), which holds the license for RING.BG, thereby increasing our ownership in Pro.BG and Ring TV (together, the “Pro.BG business”) to 100.0%. In connection with this restructuring, we reduced our ownership interests in each of BTV Media Group EAD (“BTV Media”) (formerly Balkan News Corporation EAD), which holds the licenses for the BTV and BTV CINEMA channels, and Triada Communications EOOD (“Triada”), which holds the license for the BTV COMEDY television channel, to 94.0% and we intend to combine the Pro.BG business with the bTV group (see Note 3, “Acquisitions and Disposals”).</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></font> </div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Croatia</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We operate one national television channel in Croatia, NOVA TV (Croatia). We own 100.0% of Nova TV (Croatia) which holds the broadcast license for NOVA TV (Croatia).</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Czech Republic</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We operate two national television channels in the Czech Republic: TV NOVA (Czech Republic) and NOVA CINEMA, and two cable/satellite channels, NOVA SPORT and MTV CZECH. We own 100.0% of CET 21 spol. s r.o., (“CET 21”) which holds the broadcast licenses for TV NOVA (Czech Republic), NOVA CINEMA, NOVA SPORT and MTV CZECH.</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline">Romania</font></font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We operate six television channels in Romania: PRO TV, ACASA, PRO CINEMA, SPORT.RO, MTV ROMANIA and PRO TV INTERNATIONAL, a channel distributed by satellite outside the country featuring programs re-broadcast from other Romanian channels. We also operate two radio channels in Romania, PRO FM, a pop music channel, and INFO PRO, a national infotainment channel.</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We own 100.0% of Pro TV S.A. (“Pro TV”), which holds the licenses for all our Romanian channels.</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"> </div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Slovak Republic</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We operate one national television channel in the Slovak Republic, TV MARKIZA and one female-oriented cable channel, DOMA. We own 100.0% of MARKÍZA-SLOVAKIA, spol. s r.o., (“Markiza”), which holds the broadcast licenses for TV MARKIZA and TV DOMA.</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Slovenia</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We operate two national television channels in Slovenia, POP TV and KANAL A, and one regional television channel, POP BRIO (formerly known as TV PIKA). We own 100.0% of Produkcija Plus d.o.o. (“Pro Plus”), the operating company for our Slovenia broadcast operations.  Pro Plus has a 100.0% interest in each of Pop TV, which holds the licenses for the POP TV channel, Kanal A d.o.o., which holds the licenses for the KANAL A channel, and Televideo d.o.o., which holds the licenses for the POP BRIO channel.</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">New Media</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We operate an integrated new media business in each of our markets, cross-promoted and supported by the audience of our broadcast operations. We currently have over 40 internet sites generating over 2.0 million average daily unique visitors. These internet sites are organized into three categories: online television, sites & portals and user generated content.</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Serving as a second marketing platform for our broadcast operations, the New Media segment focuses on improving the user experience and the quality of content on existing internet sites as well as launching targeted services. We continue to move our content online with multiple distribution (video-on-demand, simulcast and catch-up television)  and services to attract all types of media audiences, generating revenues from display and video advertising, paid premium content and subscriptions.</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Media Pro Entertainment</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We created the Media Pro Entertainment segment on January 1, 2010 by combining the existing production operations of our broadcasting stations with the operations of the Media Pro Entertainment business that we acquired on December 9, 2009. Media Pro Entertainment focuses on the development, production and distribution of television and feature film content for our television channels and third parties, both within our region and globally.</font></font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></font> </div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Media Pro Entertainment is organized into three subdivisions:</font></div><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline">Fiction and Reality and Entertainment Production</font>: This subdivision produces a range of fiction, reality and entertainment programming and films, using both purchased formats and developing our original formats.</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline">Production Services</font>: This subdivision provides assets and expertise to both our production operations and to third parties, including studio spaces, set design and construction, camera, lighting, grip equipment, visual effects, costumes and post production services. Its primary operations are currently based at our studios in Romania.</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline">Distribution and Exhibition</font>: This subdivision, also currently based predominantly in Romania, acquires rights to international film and television content across our region and distributes them both to third party clients and to our broadcast operations. Our distribution and exhibition operations are also able to generate third-party revenue by distributing television content (other than for broadcast) directly through their own cinema and home video operations or selling it throughout the region. Media Pro Entertainment owns and operates sixteen cinema screens in Romania, including Romania’s first multiplex operation. In addition, a home video distribution business sells DVD and Blu Ray discs to wholesale and retail clients in Romania and Hungary. Since January 1, 2010, our distribution and exhibition operations have also been responsible for selling finished content and formats developed by our fiction and reality and entertainment production operations.</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Media Pro Entertainment currently generates the majority of its revenues from our broadcast segment. For that reason, the financial results of the segment are largely dependent on the performance of the television advertising market, although the long-term nature of the production process is such that it takes time for significant market changes to be reflected in this segment‘s results.</font></div><div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block"> </div> 1.  ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESSCentral European Media Enterprises Ltd. (“CME Ltd.”), a Bermuda corporation, was formed in June false false false us-types:textBlockItemType textblock Describes the nature of an entity's business, the major products or services it sells or provides and its principal markets, including the locations of those markets. If the entity operates in more than one business, the disclosure also indicates the relative importance of its operations in each business and the basis for the determination (for example, assets, revenues, or earnings). 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