0000783005-16-000119.txt : 20161104 0000783005-16-000119.hdr.sgml : 20161104 20161104163038 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000783005-16-000119 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20161101 ITEM INFORMATION: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets FILED AS OF DATE: 20161104 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20161104 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: EMMIS COMMUNICATIONS CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000783005 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RADIO BROADCASTING STATIONS [4832] IRS NUMBER: 351542018 STATE OF INCORPORATION: IN FISCAL YEAR END: 0228 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-23264 FILM NUMBER: 161975542 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE EMMIS PLAZA STREET 2: 40 MONUMENT CIRCLE SUITE 700 CITY: INDIANAPOLIS STATE: IN ZIP: 46204 BUSINESS PHONE: 3172660100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE EMMIS PLAZA STREET 2: 40 MONUMENT CIRCLE #700 CITY: INDIANAPOLIS STATE: IN ZIP: 46204 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: EMMIS BROADCASTING CORPORATION DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 8-K 1 emms8k11042016.htm 8-K Document


UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT
TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (date of earliest event reported): November 1, 2016

EMMIS COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its
charter)

INDIANA
(State of incorporation or organization)

0-23264
(Commission file number)

35‑1542018
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

ONE EMMIS PLAZA
40 MONUMENT CIRCLE
SUITE 700
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 46204
(Address of principal executive offices)

(317) 266-0100
(Registrant’s Telephone Number,
Including Area Code)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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ITEM 2.01
Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
On November 1, 2016, subsidiaries of Emmis Communications Corporation (“Emmis”) completed the sale of substantially all of the assets of Texas Monthly Magazine to GP TM Acquisition, LLC, an affiliate of Genesis Park, L.P., pursuant to an Asset Purchase Agreement dated October 13, 2016. At closing, Emmis received gross proceeds of $24.3 million, consisting of the stated purchase price of $25.0 million, net of estimated purchase price adjustments totaling $0.7 million. Substantially all of the proceeds are being used to repay term and revolving loan indebtedness under Emmis’ senior credit facility.


Note to this Form 8-K: Certain statements included in this report which are not statements of historical fact, including but not limited to those identified with the words “expect,” “will” or “look” are intended to be, and are, by this Note, identified as “forward-looking statements,” as defined in the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future result, performance or achievement expressed or implied by such forward-looking statement. Such factors include, among others:

•general economic and business conditions;
•fluctuations in the demand for advertising and demand for different types of advertising media;
•our ability to service our outstanding debt;
•competition from new or different media and technologies;
•loss of key personnel;
•increased competition in our markets and the broadcasting industry, including our competitors changing the format of a station they operate
to more directly compete with a station we operate in the same market;
•our ability to attract and secure programming, on-air talent, writers and photographers;
•inability to obtain (or to obtain timely) necessary approvals for purchase or sale transactions or to complete the transactions for other reasons
generally beyond our control;
•increases in the costs of programming, including on-air talent;
•fluctuations in the market price of publicly traded or other securities;
•new or changing regulations of the Federal Communications Commission or other governmental agencies;
•enforcement of rules and regulations of governmental and other entities to which the Company is subject;
•changes in radio audience measurement methodologies;
•war, terrorist acts or political instability; and
•other factors mentioned in documents filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements because of new information, future events or otherwise.




Signatures

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
EMMIS COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
Date: November 4, 2016
 
 
 
 
 
By:
/s/ J. Scott Enright
 
 
 
  J. Scott Enright, Executive Vice President,
 
 
 
  General Counsel and Secretary