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stanley cup agic fire at Moscow s Ostankino Television tower that claimed four lives last week and wiped out nearly all broadcasting in the city has proved a windfall for Media Most Group s satellite service NTV Plus.The Media Most Group, which has been beset by financial problems over the past year, reported that its satellite dishes are currently selling at between four and five times above average. Calls inquiring about the service are coming in at 400 times above average. Before the fire the service had about 140,000 subscribers.All other broadcasters, except Moscow cable operator Stolitsa and Media Most s UHF channel THT, have been blacked out by the fire which broke out last Sunday August 27 in Russia s largest television and radio transmitter.Emergency services managed to put the fire out by Monday although four emergency service workers died when an elevator plummeted 300 metres. The 540-metre high Soviet era tower is the second highest structure in the world and transmits most television and radio services in the capitol. Television services in the rest of the country a
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stanley cup crative Moscow market of 18 million viewers will hit broadcasters hard. Advertising losses are expected to run into tens of millions of dollars. The Russian government has announced that it expects services to be restored by September 25.As Media Most reaps the benefits from the blackout a source inside the group hinted that it is near reaching a deal with its ma Eudv Ounpuu, H盲r枚 and Kotwica projects at Baltic co-production market
Woolworths yesterday signeda new three-year contract to supply UK supermarket giant
stanley cup Tesco with CDs, DVDsand computer games in a deal that could be worth up to 拢40m in gross profitover the period to Woolworths.Previous concerns thatTesco, whose former deal with Woolworths wholesale subsidiary Entertainment UKexpired in February, was seeking a cheaper supplier were allayed as Woolworthsconfirmed the new dea
stanley cup l would deliver it lower profit margins. There has been animprovement in terms [for Tesco], confirmed Chris Rodgers, Woolworths financedirector, but hopefully by working closely together we can b
stanley website enefit bothbusinesses. Rogers added the group hopedto boost the volume of entertainment products it supplied to Tesco tocompensate for the supermarket paying less for each item.Tesco, which sells between拢300m and 拢400m of home entertainment products each year, recently revealed itsDVD sales had boomed in recent months, rising by almost 50% over Christmasalone. When the business has grownso fast, Tesco weren t going to settle for the same terms and rations, hesaid, adding that the Woolworths Group would now look at doing business withother supermarket retailers. It presently supplies major UK stores Tesco,Waitrose and Safeway, but not Wm Morrison, J Sainsbury or ASDA.Last year Entertainment UK,along with VCI - Woolworths audio-visual publishing group - made 拢42.2m inoperating profits, accounting for almost half of the group s total. No comments
