As reported May 30, Poverkhnost TV SE announced suspension of MUTV and Chelsea TV channels broadcasting due to changes in contract between this company and the rights owner. In its turn, VOLIA was notified of that by Poverkhnost TV SE at the end of last week.

As a result of, the list of programs in the SPORT premium package has been changed since June 1, 2008. In other words, VOLIA was forced to suspend the re-broadcasting of MUTV and Chelsea TV in Volia Premium TV service packages.

Out of the sense of responsibility, effective in June, VOLIA is giving an opportunity to customers subscribed to the SPORT package to preview the list of programs offered as a substitution for the extracted ones.

In the nearest time we are going to introduce new sports programs for the SPORT package subscribers. Sport 3 (sports broadcasting of general nature) and Sport 4 (dedicated to boxing only) programs testing will be launched on June 9, 2008. Until September, every subscriber will have an opportunity to preview the list of new TV-channels and express their opinion as to whether they like them and want them to be included into the package.

Please be advised that these two programs will be available in test mode to SPORT package subscribers only. They will appear instead of Test 1 and Test 2 (at 290 MHz frequency).

Possibilities of cooperation with other sports channels are also considered, in particular a Memorandum of understanding was signed with a company planning to launch a new Football TV-channel in fall.

The test period will end September 1.

VOLIA is aiming to improve packages further and offer more popular programs to its subscribers. That is why after studying subscriber preferences, the SPORT package will be extended to include new sports programs.

We are sorry for the inconvenience and hope that the renewed SPORT package will become even more interesting for VOLIA subscribers.