CME has said that it has increased its economic interest in Slovakia’s operations from 70% to 80%. Its voting interest will also increase to 90% from 49% in the operating company STS and to 80% from 34% in Markiza. The total price was set at USD 23.8m. The consolidation will allow CME to exercise greater control of the operations and to benefit from synergies in programming production and ads sales. CME will likely start consolidating Slovakia in 1Q2006. We expect Markiza to achieve USD 75m in sales in 2006, which is 12% of total projected consolidated sales.