Fitch Publishes 'Media & Entertainment Handbook Volume I'

NEW YORK--()--Fitch Ratings has published the first edition of its annual 'Media & Entertainment Handbook' report. This year, Fitch has separated the company-specific analysis from the Credit Encyclo-Media (which has also published today) and published the Media and Entertainment Handbook.

The new Media & Entertainment Handbook includes rating drivers, an event risk analysis covering 11 event risk categories for each rated issuer, excerpts from company transcripts relating to financial policy, portfolio summaries, corporate governance overviews, pension screeners, revenue/EBITDA segment pie charts, revenue by geography pie charts, organizational debt diagrams, covenant analysis, maturity schedules, and financial summaries for Fitch's rated portfolio. In addition to Fitch's rated portfolio, Fitch has included credit analysis on non-rated issuers - Cinemark, Gannett, Nielsen, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Tribune Media, and Warner Music Group.

The Fitch-rated Media & Entertainment portfolio includes:

Diversified Media
--Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA ('BBB+'; Outlook Stable)
--British Sky Broadcasting Group plc ('BBB+'; Rating Watch Negative)
--CBS Corporation ('BBB'; Outlook Stable)
--Cox Enterprises ('BBB+'; Outlook Stable)
--Discovery Communications LLC ('BBB'; Outlook Stable)
--NBCUniversal Media LLC ('A-'; Outlook Stable)
--Liberty Interactive LLC ('BB'; Outlook Stable)
--Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. ('BBB+'; Outlook Stable)
--Time Warner Inc. ('BBB+'; Outlook Stable)
--Viacom, Inc. ('BBB+'; Outlook Stable)
--Vivendi SA ('BBB'; Outlook Stable)
--The Walt Disney Company ('A'; Outlook Stable)

Publishing, Printing, Outdoor, TV and Radio Broadcasting
--iHeartCommunications, Inc. ('CCC'; Outlook Negative)
--Clear Channel Worldwide Holdings Inc. ('B'; Outlook Stable)
--Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishers, Inc. ('B+'; Outlook Stable)
--McGraw-Hill Global Education Holdings, LLC ('B+'; Outlook Stable)
--McGraw-Hill School Education Holdings, LLC ('B'; Outlook Stable)
--Univision Communications ('B'; Outlook Stable)

Movie Exhibitors
--AMC Entertainment ('B'; Outlook Positive)
--Regal Entertainment ('B+'; Outlook Stable)

Professional Publishers, Business Products/Services, Ad Agencies
--The Dun and Bradstreet Corporation ('BBB'; Outlook Stable)
--The Interpublic Group of Companies ('BBB'; Outlook Stable)
--McGraw Hill Financial Inc. ('BBB+'; Rating Watch Negative)
--Pitney Bowes Inc. ('BBB-'; Outlook Stable)
--Reed Elsevier PLC ('A-'; Outlook Stable)
--Thomson Reuters Corporation ('BBB+'; Outlook Stable)
--Verisk Analytics Inc. ('A-'; Outlook Stable)
--WPP plc ('BBB+'; Outlook Stable)

The report, 'Credit Encyclo-Media', is available at 'www.fitchratings.com'.

Additional information is available at 'www.fitchratings.com'

Applicable Criteria and Related Research: Media and Entertainment Handbook (Fitch's Comprehensive Credit Profile Analysis of Issuers within the Media & Entertainment Sector)
http://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=787689

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Contacts

Fitch Ratings
David Peterson, +1-312-368-3177
Senior Director
Fitch Ratings, Inc.
70 W Madison St.
Chicago, IL 60602
or
Media Relations, New York
Brian Bertsch, +1-212-908-0549
brian.bertsch@fitchratings.com

Contacts

Fitch Ratings
David Peterson, +1-312-368-3177
Senior Director
Fitch Ratings, Inc.
70 W Madison St.
Chicago, IL 60602
or
Media Relations, New York
Brian Bertsch, +1-212-908-0549
brian.bertsch@fitchratings.com