CTC Media Schedules Second Quarter 2013 Earnings R

MOSCOW, July 17, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CTC Media, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTCM ), Russia's leading independent media company, will announce its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013 on Tuesday, August 6, 2013 before U.S. market hours.

Boris Podolsky, Chief Executive Officer, and Nikolay Surikov, Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call to discuss the second quarter ended June 30, 2013 on Tuesday, August 6, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. UK / 5:00 p.m. Moscow time. To access the conference call, please dial:

A live webcast of the conference call will be available on the Company's corporate website at www.ctcmedia.ru/investors and will be archived on the website for replay purposes.

About CTC Media, Inc.

CTC Media is a leading independent media company in Russia, with operations throughout Russia and elsewhere in the CIS. It operates three free-to-air television networks in Russia – CTC, Domashny and "Peretz" – as well as Channel 31 in Kazakhstan and a TV company in Moldova, with a combined potential audience of over 150 million people. The international pay-TV version of the CTC channel is available in North America, Europe, Central Asia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, the Middle East and Kyrgyzstan. CTC Media also has its own TV content production facilities through its subsidiary Story First Production and a number of digital entertainment media assets: videomore.ru , domashiniy.ru , ctc.ru , peretz.ru . The Company's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "CTCM".

For more information on CTC Media, please visit www.ctcmedia.ru .

For further information, please contact: Ekaterina Ostrova Director, Corporate Communications and Investor Relations + 7 495 783 3650 Irina Klimova Senior Manager, Investor Relations +7 495 981 0740