Business segment information (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 25, 2012

(in thousands of dollars)


	Thirteen weeks ended
	Mar. 25, 2012			Mar. 27, 2011			% Inc (Dec)
Net Operating Revenues:
Publishing	$	874,062		$	929,785			(6.0	)
Digital		168,352			157,594			6.8
Broadcasting		176,173			163,882			7.5

*Total*	$	1,218,587		$	1,251,261			(2.6	)

Operating Income (net of depreciation, amortization and facility consolidation charges):
Publishing	$	62,040		$	117,597			(47.2	)
Digital		16,263			16,085			1.1
Broadcasting		72,615			63,459			14.4
Corporate		(15,260	)		(18,525	)		(17.6	)

*Total*	$	135,658		$	178,616			(24.1	)

Depreciation, amortization and facility consolidation charges:
Publishing	$	33,214		$	38,920			(14.7	)
Digital		7,905			7,424			6.5
Broadcasting		7,110			7,459			(4.7	)
Corporate		4,141			3,780			9.6

*Total*	$	52,370		$	57,583			(9.1	)

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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