<Li> Vltava Labe Media, a subsidiary of Penta Investments, that owns the tabloids ŠÍP and ŠÍP EXTRA, 73 regional dailies Deník and other 26 weeklies and that is major shareholder of publishing houses Astrosat and Melinor and 100% owner of Metropol and also partly controls the distribution of all the prints through PNS, a.s. which was previously part of the German Verlagsgruppe Passau (de) (that controls also the German Neue Presse Verlags, the Polish Polskapresse and the Slovak Petit Press). </Li> <Li> Mafra, a subsidiary of Agrofert (that owns the centre - right dailies Dnes, Lidové noviny, the local edition of the freesheet Metro, the periodical 14dní, several monthly magazines, the TV music channel Óčko, the radio stations Expresradio and Rádio Classic FM, several web portals and partly controls, together with Vltava - Labe - Press, the distribution company PNS, a.s.) was previously owned by the German Rheinisch - Bergische Drückerei - und Verlagsgesellschaft, prior to its acquisition by Agrofert . </Li> <Li> Czech News Center controls 16 Czech daily tabloids and weeklies (such as 24 hodin, Abc, Aha!, Blesk, Blesk TV Magazin, Blesk pro ženy, Blesk Hobby, Blesk Zdravi, Nedělní Blesk, Nedělní Sport, Reflex, Sport, Sport Magazin) as well as 7 web portals, reaching approximately 3.2 million readers . </Li> <P> Czech governments have defended foreign newspaper ownership as a manifestation of the principle of the free movement of capital . </P>

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