News: Paper & Online
Type of newspaper that includes USA Today, WSJ, and New York Times.
What is "national newspaper"
In 2011, $616M of these were documented
What is the annual revenue?
Warren Buffet's title for his financial foresight and Nebraskan upbringing
What is the oracle of Omaha?
A graph whose name comes from sports
What is a football field?
The names of the presenters
Aniket, Chris, Noah, Preston, Vrat
Historically known as the highest source of revenue for the industry.
What is ad revenue?
The family that started and ran Media General
Who is the Bryan family?
The company Warren Buffet saved in 2008
What is Goldman Sachs?
Typically, the highest priced valuation method
What is precedent transactions?
The reason a company may want to add a member to the board
What is having a stake going forward in the company's performance?
Historically known as the largest source of cost for the industry.
What are wages (or human capital costs)?
This newspaper was how Media General entered the business in 1850
What is Richmond Dispatch (or Dispatch Co.)?
A Berkshire company whose slogan begins, 15 minutes could save you...
What is GEICO?
The easiest synergies to realize
What are cost synergies?
A non-depreciable asset on the Balance Sheet following an acquisition
What is Goodwill?
According to the case, this was the first technology that disrupted the newspaper industry's historic competitive advantage (hint: happened in the 1920s).
What is the radio?
This form of loan takes up most of the debt funding for Media General
What is syndicate variable loan?
What is a textile mill?
This rate can be decreased through an acquisition
What is the cost of capital?
An acquirer scaring away top talent and not acting decisively
What is a poor integration plan?
As recent as Feb. 2023, this news website was the most monthly visited online website in the United States.
This financial ratio looks at (EBIT) / (Interest Expense)
What is interest coverage ratio?
What is Kraft Heinz?
Differences in size, growth rates, or industries
The name of every person on your team
Depends