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/ 03.17.2010 2:00PM
Broadcast Stocks Are On the Rise
MULTIPLE CITIES: Broadcast stocks are improving across the board.
Television Broadcast presents price
trends from a selection of publicly held broadcast properties, year-to-date. Not
all are pure-play, though no network owners are included. Among the most
aggressive movers are Belo, Nexstar, Sinclair, Saga and E.W. Scripps.
By way of comparison:
Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 3 percent.
S & P 500 is up 5 percent.
NASDAQ is up 6 percent.
Acme
Communications
, (OTC: ACME) has six TV
stations is down 30 percent to 35 cents.
Belo Corp
., (NYSE: BLC) with 20 TV stations, is up 28 percent to
$6.94.
Entravision
, (NYSE: EVC) with 50
TV stations in addition to some 48 radio stations, is down 13 percent to $2.95.
Fisher Communications, (NASDAQ:
FSCI) with 20 TV stations and other media properties, is down 3 percent to
$15.71.
Gannett
, (NYSE: GCI) with 23 TV stations and more than 900 print
properties, is up 12 percent to $16.69.
Gray
Television
, (NYSE: GTN.A), with 36 TV
stations, is up 67 percent to $2.50, even after warning of default recently.
Journal
Communications,
(NYSE: JRN), with 12 TV
stations, 35 radios and several newspapers, is up 4 percent to $4.03.
LIN TV, (NYSE: TVL), with 27 TV
stations, is up 42 percent to $6.32.
Meredith
Corp.,
(NYSE: MDP), with 12 TV stations
as well as book and magazine publishing divisions, is up 8 percent to $33.43.
Media
General
(NYSE: MEG), with 18 TV stations
and 220 print pubs is up 11 percent to
$8.68.
McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP), with four
TV stations and a multitude of specialty print and service products, is up 7
percent to $35.71.
Nexstar Broadcasting Group, (NASDAQ:
NXST), with 32 TV stations and service agreements for 18 more, is up 17 percent
to $4.72.
Sinclair Broadcast Group, (NASDAQ:
SBGI), with 58 TV stations and some real estate holdings, is up 40 percent to
$5.67.
Saga Communications, (AMEX: SGA),
with nine TV stations and 91 radios, is up 95 percent to $24.50.
The E.W. Scripps Co., (NYSE: SSP),
with 10 TV stations, print publications and print syndication, is up 32 percent
to $9.19.
Washington Post Co., (NYSE: WPO),
with six TV stations, the Kaplan educational testing division, cable
investments and print pubs, is up 2 percent to $448.58.
It should also be noted that Young Broadcasting (OTC: YBTVQ) with 10 TV
stations; and Equity Media Holdings (OTC: EMDAQ), with 23 full-power TV
stations and several LPTVs, were among the publicly held broadcasters to go
bankrupt in 2009.
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