Article: Germany's Kirch Attracts New Money.(Kirch Pay TV KGaA)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Article: Lessons from Kirch; Pay-television.(Is pay ...
The Economist (US);  April 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... owns Premiere, Germany's only national pay-TV operation, had not by mid-week been ... tumble comes at a time when other European pay-TV operators are in trouble too. ITV Digital, a British pay-TV business, was put into administration ...

Article: Lehman Bros buys Kirch pay TV stake.(Brief ...
Screen Digest;  October 1, 2000 ;     682 words ... ... acquired 2.4 per cent stake in Kirch Pay TV for DM 400m ($175m), valuing German pay TV venture at DM 16.3bn ($7.1bn ... per cent stake in Premiere World, Kirch Pay TV also controls 40 per cent of Swiss ...

Article: Kirch pay-TV 'is losing EUR1.5m a day'
The Independent - London;  February 22, 2002 ;     230 words ...THE PAY-TV arm of the German Kirch media empire might have only enough cash left to last seven months, according to research from WestLB ...

Article: Kirch Pay TV Division Goes Bankrupt
AP Online;  May 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... KirchPayTV lost some 989 million euros ($870 million) last year alone. Many analysts say the German market has been difficult for pay TV. Germans already pay 16 euros ($14.65) a month in taxes to support public television, already receive 30 free channels ...

Article: Kirch pay-TV unit in talks with investors ...
AP Worldstream;  April 9, 2002 ;     601 words ... ... biggest private broadcaster filed for bankruptcy court protection from its creditors. KirchPayTV owns and runs Premiere, the pay TV service that has done much to bring down the media empire of Bavarian entrepreneur Leo Kirch. KirchPayTV lost some 898 million ...

Article: Bundesliga threatens to pull matches off Kirch ...
AP Worldstream;  April 25, 2002 ;     471 words ... ... to pull its matches off Kirch's ailing Pay-TV unit Premiere as a warning that the soccer ... the DFL, it will pull the plug on the Pay- TV station during Saturday's matches with ... replace if it breaks the contract. If the Pay-TV station collapses, the Bundesliga is expected ...

Article: Germany's Bertelsmann in talks about possible involvement with ...
AP Worldstream;  April 18, 2002 ;     374 words ... ... possibility of additional activities involving pay TV in Germany, without saying what they might ... KirchPayTV, the parent of the ailing Premiere pay-TV station, was one of the main sources of ... main focus was on free television, not pay TV. RTL Group's clear and simply stated ...