RIX CONTRACTS SWEDENS BEST MORNINGSHOW During december RIX hired Radio Citys morningstars Jens "Jesse" Wallin and Martin Loogna from Citys station in Stockholm. The two will start hosting RIX national morningshow in april. - We see a big potential in making a national morningshow. After working ten years at Radio City and running a very successfull morningshow in Stockholm we feel ready to move on to next step says Jens and Martin. At the same time Niklas Levy starts hosting the afternoons in RIX wich will strengthen these hours. - It is very satisfying that Swedens, in my and many listneners opinion, best morninghosts choose to work at RIX. This gives us further potential in strengthening RIX ratings in all markets says Anders Nilsson, MD at MTG Radio the owner of RIX. For further information, please visit www.mtg.se, or email info@mtg.se or contact: Hans-Holger Albrecht, President & CEO tel: +46 8 562 000 50 Matthew Hooper, Investor & Press Relations tel: +44 20 7321 5010 Modern Times Group MTG AB has seven business areas: Viasat Broadcasting (free-to-air and pay TV channels in nine countries), Radio (seven networks in five countries), New Media (the Everyday interactive TV portal, Internet portal, Mobile portal, and teletext services), Publishing (financial news and information services), Modern Interactive (home shopping, e-commerce, and logistics), SDI Media (subtitling and dubbing services), and Modern Studios (content production and library). Modern Times Group MTG AB's class A and B shares are listed on the Stockholmsbörsen O-list (symbols: MTGA and MTGB) and on the Nasdaq National Market in New York (symbol: MTGNY). MODERN TIMES GROUP MTG AB Skeppsbron 18, Box 2094, SE-103 13 Stockholm, Sweden Tel. +46 8 562 000 50 Fax. +46 8 20 50 74 (Publ) Registration No. 556309- 9158 www.mtg.se ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2004/01/05/20040105BIT00150/wkr0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2004/01/05/20040105BIT00150/wkr0002.pdf