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Tribune Co.: Dutch auction garners 15% of shares ( Dinos got fewer buyers than expected )
MarketWatch ^ | Jun 27, 2006 | Angela Moore

Posted on 07/02/2006 11:52:18 AM PDT by george76

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Tribune owns such newspapers as the Chicago Tribune, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times and the Baltimore Sun. It also owns 26 television stations and the Chicago Cubs baseball team...
1 posted on 07/02/2006 11:52:22 AM PDT by george76
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To: abb; Grampa Dave; Milhous

Quarterly Data ... Net Income... All numbers in thousands of dollars


Period Ending..... 26-Mar-06 ..... 26-Jun-05

Net Income ..... 102,764 ..... 233,390


2 posted on 07/02/2006 11:57:01 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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The Enronning continues.


3 posted on 07/02/2006 12:00:03 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic Lies posing as journalism)
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Maybe the Chandler Trust will do the same to TRB like what Walt Disney's brother did to Disnery and Eisner.


4 posted on 07/02/2006 12:01:27 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic Lies posing as journalism)
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They are worth more broken up into little pieces.


5 posted on 07/02/2006 12:01:27 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To give you an idea how desperate the Tribune Co. is, they are literally selling "authentic" bricks of Wrigley Field.

I just wonder how "authentic" those bricks are and how they can prove it. :^)

6 posted on 07/02/2006 12:07:34 PM PDT by FranklinsTower
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George, old boy, the Tribune Company were buying the shares -- there were fewer sellers than anticipated.

I don't fancy this bunch any more than you do, but let's do get our facts straight. Wouldn't want anyone to compare you to, say, the DUmmies as regards facts, right?

7 posted on 07/02/2006 12:13:30 PM PDT by SAJ (r)
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Are the "Authentic" brinks made in China ?


8 posted on 07/02/2006 12:13:59 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: FranklinsTower
I think the Celtics did that with the parquet floor when the old Boston Garden was demolished.

(Parquet because it was made during WWII with wartime rationing.)

9 posted on 07/02/2006 12:18:44 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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The management is trying to "sell" their story...that dropping net income is somehow ok.

The Chandler Group is not "buying" the managements story.

The management is trying to get other current shareholders to "sell" their existing shares. For whatever reasons, and there are several, many existing stock holders did not "buy" managements efforts.

Some, like the Chandlers, believe that TRB would be worth more with different management an/or broken up. The little pieces may be worth more than the whole.


10 posted on 07/02/2006 12:22:55 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Worst attempt to spin one's way out of an outright error that I've seen in months. The subject of the piece was the auction. Therefore, buying and selling refer to the shares involved, not to 'buying' as 'believing in'.

...many existing stock holders did not "buy" managements efforts.

No. Many existing stock holders did not sell their shares. No quotation marks required. There are any number of reasons why a shareholder might not wish to sell shares, only a small fraction of which have anything at all to do with management.

11 posted on 07/02/2006 12:29:09 PM PDT by SAJ (r)
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I am not trying to spin my way out of an out right error.

This was my title on my thread for a reason.

Like other liberal media management, the liberal Tribune management is trying to convince their readers and their stockholders that their view of the world is correct.

The Chandler Group is not accepting the managements agenda.

We are not accepting the managements agenda either.


12 posted on 07/02/2006 1:00:33 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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SAJ is right. The results indicate more than the expected number of people/institutions wanted to hold onto their shares. They were given the chance to bail and didn't.


13 posted on 07/02/2006 1:10:21 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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Now don't forget, Roy had all of us helping him.


14 posted on 07/02/2006 1:22:27 PM PDT by Liz (The US Constitution is intended to protect the people from the government.)
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SAJ is right. The results indicate more than the expected number of people/institutions wanted to hold onto their shares. They were given the chance to bail and didn't.

Actually, the shareholders can sell anytime they want to. TRB is listed on the NYSE which is open from 9:30am to 4:00pm EDT every business day. Various after-hours electronic markets trade it, too.

But no matter how you slice it, the board voted to borrow money to prop up their stock price. Companies can only do that for so long. Sooner or later TRB will have to figure out how to deliver enough eyeballs to advertisers such that their revenue will grow faster than their expenses. It's not really complicated...

15 posted on 07/02/2006 1:23:01 PM PDT by abb (Because News Reporting is too important to be entrusted to Journalists)
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A majority of shareholders possibly agree with Cramer's take on TRB's buyback as blatant entrenchment but instead of tendering as Cramer advises they want to hold out for a more profitable KRI style buyout.
16 posted on 07/02/2006 1:24:10 PM PDT by Milhous (Twixt truth and madness lies but a sliver of a stream.)
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This was in yesterday's NY Times. Warning! Burkle alert

Yearning to Put Papers Back in Local Hands
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/01/business/media/01paper.html?_r=1&oref=slogin


17 posted on 07/02/2006 1:27:47 PM PDT by abb (Because News Reporting is too important to be entrusted to Journalists)
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And this was in today's Chicago Tribune...

Newspaper family holds little love for the press
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0607020007jul02,1,3737541.story?coll=chi-business-hed


18 posted on 07/02/2006 1:31:42 PM PDT by abb (Because News Reporting is too important to be entrusted to Journalists)
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To: Milhous

Yep. The usual reason for not tendering is that the shareholder believes the share price will be higher in future. Not exactly nuclear physics.


19 posted on 07/02/2006 1:33:54 PM PDT by SAJ (r)
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My intent always was to express that the liberal management in their efforts to add to their shares fell short.

My intent was to express that the Chandler Group was going to continue efforts for sale or breakup of company. And they would not tender any stock in the auction.

I am sorry that my use of buyers is not clear.

Would this replacement phrase be acceptable ? ... Dinos got fewer offers than expected.

In any event, I was not and I am not now trying to spin my way out of an out right error.


20 posted on 07/02/2006 1:37:10 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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