 TVS's debt to Vneshekonombank (the Bank for Foreign Economic Activity) came to about US$100 million.TVS also owed more than $6 million in back pay to employees, who had not been paid for some three months.Mostelekom (the city-owned cable operator that carried TVS in Moscow) began switching TVS' signal off Moscow's cable television networks on June 2, 2003, which rendered more than 90% of Moscow residents unable to view it.