GERMANY PREMIERE PERMIRA

** FILE ** Georg Kofler, head of the German Kirch Group's money-loosing "Premiere" pay TV operator, sits in front of the company's logo as he ponders over a journalist's question during a press briefing at the Kirch headquarters in Unterfoehring, southern Germany, in this March 20, 2002 file picture. Premiere announced Thursday Feb. 20, 2003 that private equity fund Permira will take a 65.1 percent stake of the country's only nationwide pay-television operator, ensuring its future. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher)