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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 22, 2009

Registration No. 333-            

 

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Under

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

BELO CORP.

Co-registrants are listed on the following pages

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware   75-0135890
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)   (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

P.O. Box 655237

Dallas, Texas 75265-5237

(214) 977-6606

(Address, including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

 

 

Russell F. Coleman

Christine E. Larkin

Belo Corp.

P.O. Box 655237

Dallas, Texas 75265-5237

(214) 977-6606

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

 

 

Copies to:

Van M. Jolas

Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP

2200 Ross Avenue, Suite 2200

Dallas, Texas 75201

(214) 740-8000

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:   From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box.   ¨

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box.   x

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.   ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.   ¨

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box.   ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box.   ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

¨   Large accelerated filer

x   Accelerated filer

¨   Non-accelerated filer (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

¨   Smaller reporting company

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 

Title of Each Class of

Securities to be Registered

 

Amount to be

Registered

  Proposed Maximum
Offering Price
Per Unit(1)(2)
  Proposed Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price(2)(3)
  Amount of
Registration Fee

Debt Securities(4)

  $600,000,000   100%   $600,000,000   $33,480

Guarantees of Debt Securities(5)

               
 
 
(1) The proposed maximum offering price per unit will be determined from time to time by the Registrant in connection with the issuance by the Registrant of the securities registered hereunder.
(2) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The aggregate public offering price of all securities registered hereby will not exceed $600,000,000. Such amount represents the issue price rather than the principal amount of any debt securities issued at an original issue discount.
(3) Exclusive of accrued interest, if any.
(4) Including such principal amount of debt securities as may, from time to time, be issued at indeterminate prices.
(5) The co-registrants, or any of them, may fully and unconditionally guarantee any series of debt securities of Belo Corp. registered hereunder. Pursuant to Rule 457(n), no registration fee is payable with respect to such guarantees.

The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 


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The following subsidiaries of Belo Corp. may guarantee the debt securities and are co-registrants under this registration statement.

 

Name of Co-Registrant

   Jurisdiction of Incorporation
or Organization
   I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number

Belo Advertising Customer Services, Inc.

   Delaware    41-2044092

Belo Capital Bureau, Inc.

   Delaware    75-2677733

Belo Holdings, Inc.

   Delaware    75-2685039

Belo Kentucky, Inc.

   Kentucky    05-0424395

Belo Management Services, Inc.

   Delaware    75-2636936

Belo San Antonio, Inc.

   Delaware    74-2966987

Belo Technology Assets II, Inc.

   Delaware    51-0345043

Belo TV, Inc.

   Delaware    20-3153345

Belo Ventures, Inc.

   Delaware    75-2513424

Corporate Arena Associates, Inc.

   Texas    75-2737076

KASW-TV, Inc.

   Delaware    86-0971761

KENS-TV, Inc.

   Delaware    75-2725396

KHOU-TV, Inc.

   Delaware    26-0358601

King Broadcasting Company

   Washington    91-0516604

King News Corporation

   Washington    05-0473824

KMOV-TV, Inc.

   Delaware    91-1664808

KMSB-TV, Inc.

   Arizona    06-1196328

KONG-TV, Inc.

   Delaware    91-2007595

KSKN Television, Inc.

   Delaware    91-2159539

KTTU-TV, Inc.

   Delaware    74-2990549

KTVK, Inc.

   Delaware    75-2817451

KVUE Television, Inc.

   Delaware    94-1442625

Northwest Cable News, Inc.

   Delaware    27-0946005

NTV, Inc.

   Delaware    54-0484328

Texas Cable News, Inc.

   Delaware    75-2771112

WCNC-TV, Inc.

   North Carolina    05-0440950

WFAA-TV, Inc.

   Delaware    26-0357472

WVEC Television, Inc.

   Delaware    75-2127624

WWL-TV, Inc.

   Delaware    72-1264772


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The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and it is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

Subject to Completion, Dated September 22, 2009

PROSPECTUS

$600,000,000

LOGO

BELO CORP.

DEBT SECURITIES

Belo Corp. may offer and sell, from time to time, debt securities, in one or more series, consisting of notes, debentures, or other evidences of indebtedness.

The aggregate initial offering price of debt securities that may be sold pursuant to this prospectus will be as stated in one or more supplements to this prospectus. We will provide the specific terms of the debt securities to be sold by us in supplements to this prospectus. You should read this prospectus and the applicable prospectus supplement carefully before you invest.

Our principal executive offices are located at P.O. Box 655237, Dallas, Texas 75265-5237. Our telephone number is (214) 977-6606.

Investing in our securities involves certain risks. Before buying any debt securities, you should read carefully the discussion of material risks involved in investing in our securities under the heading “ Risk Factors ” beginning on page 5.

 

 

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus or any prospectus supplement is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

 

We may offer and sell these securities to or through one or more underwriters, dealers and agents, or directly to purchasers, or through a combination of these methods, on a continuous or delayed basis. We will provide specific terms of the plan of distribution for any debt securities to be offered in supplements to this prospectus. The applicable prospectus supplement also will set forth any applicable commissions or discounts and our net proceeds from the sale of securities.

 

 

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ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

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WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

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INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

   2

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

   3

THE COMPANY

   4

SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS

   4

RISK FACTORS

   5

USE OF PROCEEDS

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RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES

   13

DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES AND GUARANTEE

   14

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

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LEGAL MATTERS

   30

EXPERTS

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ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

This prospectus is part of a registration statement that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) using a “shelf” registration process. Under this shelf registration process, we may, over time, sell any combination of the debt securities described in this prospectus or in any applicable prospectus supplement in one or more offerings up to a total dollar amount of $600,000,000. The exhibits to our registration statement contain the full text of certain contracts and other important documents we have summarized in this prospectus. Since these summaries may not contain all the information that you may find important in deciding whether to purchase the debt securities we offer, you should review the full text of these documents. The registration statement and the exhibits can be obtained from the SEC as indicated under the heading “Where You Can Find More Information.”

This prospectus provides you with a general description of the debt securities we may offer. Each time we sell debt securities, we will provide a prospectus supplement that will contain specific information about the terms of that offering and the offered debt securities. The prospectus supplement may also add, update, or change information contained in this prospectus. If there is any inconsistency between the information in this prospectus and any prospectus supplement, you should rely on the information in the prospectus supplement. You should read both this prospectus and any prospectus supplement together with the additional information described under the heading “Where You Can Find More Information.”

You should assume that the information in this prospectus and any prospectus supplement is accurate as of the date on its cover page and that any information we have incorporated by reference is accurate only as of the date of the document incorporated by reference.

In this prospectus, references to “Belo,” “the Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our” mean Belo Corp., unless we state otherwise or the context indicates otherwise.

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

We file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements, and other information with the SEC. You can inspect and copy these reports, proxy statements, and other information at the public reference facilities of the SEC at the SEC’s Public Reference Room located at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the operation of the Public Reference Room. The SEC also maintains a Web site that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding registrants that file electronically with the SEC (http://www.sec.gov). Our Internet address is www.belo.com. You can inspect reports and other information we file at the office of the New York Stock Exchange, Inc., 20 Broad Street, New York, New York 10005.

We have filed a registration statement and related exhibits with the SEC under the Securities Act of 1933. The registration statement contains additional information about us and the securities we may issue. You may inspect the registration statement and exhibits without charge at the office of the SEC at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549, and you may obtain copies from the SEC at prescribed rates.

 

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INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” information into this prospectus, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring to those documents. We hereby “incorporate by reference” the documents listed below, which means that we are disclosing important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information that we file later with the SEC will automatically update and in some cases supersede this information. Specifically, we incorporate by reference the following documents or information filed with the SEC (other than, in each case, documents or information deemed in accordance with SEC rules to have been furnished and not filed):

 

   

Our Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2008;

 

   

Our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q/A for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2009 and on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2009;

 

   

Our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on March 5, 2009, March 11, 2009, May 7, 2009, May 14, 2009, July 31, 2009 (Item 4.02 only), August 4, 2009, August 13, 2009, September 10, 2009, and September 15, 2009 (two reports);

 

   

Our Proxy Statement filed on March 31, 2009; and

 

   

Future filings we make with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 after the date of this prospectus and before the termination of this offering.

You may request a copy of these filings, at no cost, by writing or telephoning us at the following address:

Christine E. Larkin

Belo Corp.

P.O. Box 655237

Dallas, Texas 75265-5237

(214) 977-6606

Any statement contained in a document incorporated by reference into this prospectus shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for all purposes to the extent that a statement contained in this prospectus or in any other subsequently filed document which is also incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference, modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this prospectus.

You should rely only on the information incorporated by reference or provided in this prospectus and any applicable supplement or any free writing prospectus provided, authorized or used by us. We have not authorized anyone else to provide you with other information. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you shall not rely on it. We are not making an offer to sell these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

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CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This prospectus, any prospectus supplement, and the information we are incorporating by reference into it contain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical facts included in this prospectus, any prospectus supplement, and the information incorporated by reference into this prospectus, that we expect or anticipate will or may occur in the future, including, without limitation, statements included in this prospectus, any prospectus supplement, and the documents we incorporate by reference regarding our business outlook or future economic performance, anticipated profitability, revenues, expenses, dividends, capital expenditures, investments, future financings, and other financial and non-financial items that are not historical facts, are forward-looking statements. These statements are based on assumptions and analyses made by us in light of our experience and our perception of historical trends, current conditions, and expected future developments, as well as other factors we believe are appropriate in the circumstances. However, whether actual results and developments will conform to our expectations and predictions is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, the information discussed under the caption “Risk Factors,” as well as other factors which might be described from time to time in our filings with the SEC.

Consequently, all of the forward-looking statements we make in this prospectus, any prospectus supplement, and the information we are incorporating by reference into this prospectus are qualified by these cautionary statements, and there can be no assurance that the actual results or developments anticipated by us will be realized or, even if substantially realized, that they will have the expected consequences to or effects on us or our businesses or operations. All subsequent forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by any of those factors described above and in the documents containing such forward-looking statements. We do not assume any obligation to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement.

 

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THE COMPANY

Belo began as a Texas newspaper company in 1842 and today is one of the nation’s largest publicly-traded pure-play television companies. The Company owns 20 television stations (nine in the top 25 U.S. markets) and their associated Web sites; those stations include ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, The CW and MyNetwork TV affiliates and reach 14 percent of U.S. television households, in 15 highly-attractive markets across the United States. The Company also manages one television station through a local marketing agreement, owns two local and two regional cable news channels and holds ownership interests in two other cable news channels.

On February 8, 2008, the Company completed the spin-off of its former newspaper businesses and related assets into a separate public company, A. H. Belo Corporation (“A. H. Belo”), which has its own management and board of directors. With certain limited exceptions, the Company has no further ownership interest in A. H. Belo or in any newspaper businesses or related assets, and A. H. Belo has no ownership interest in the Company or any television station businesses or related assets.

Our principal executive offices are located at P.O. Box 655237, Dallas, Texas 75265-5237. Our telephone number is (214) 977-6606.

SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS

Our subsidiary co-registrants, which we refer to as “subsidiary guarantors,” may fully and unconditionally guarantee any series of debt securities offered by this prospectus and related prospectus supplement. The applicable prospectus supplement for that series of debt securities will describe the terms of the guarantee by the subsidiary guarantors. The subsidiary guarantors comprise all of the subsidiaries of Belo and are direct and indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary corporations of Belo.

 

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RISK FACTORS

This section describes material risks of purchasing our debt securities. You should carefully consider these risks, in addition to the risk factors and other information contained in this prospectus, any prospectus supplement, or incorporated in this prospectus by reference, before purchasing any of the debt securities offered by this prospectus. In connection with the forward-looking statements that appear in this prospectus, you should carefully review the factors discussed below and the cautionary statements referred to in “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.” If any of the risks and uncertainties described below, contained in any prospectus supplement, or incorporated by reference in this prospectus, actually occur, our business, financial condition, or results of operations could be materially adversely affected.

Risks Related to our Business

Decreases in advertising spending resulting from economic downturns, natural disasters, war, terrorism, or other factors specific to the communities we serve can adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. In addition, our revenues are subject to seasonal, cyclical, and other fluctuations that could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

A substantial majority of our revenues are generated from the sale of local, regional, and national advertising. Advertisers generally reduce their advertising spending during economic downturns, so a continuing recession or further economic downturn could have an adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. The worldwide economy is currently undergoing unprecedented turmoil amid stock market volatility, tightening credit markets, inflation and deflation concerns, decreased consumer confidence, reduced corporate profits and capital spending, adverse business conditions, and increased liquidity concerns and business insolvencies. This turmoil and uncertainty about future economic conditions has negatively affected, and could continue to negatively affect, our advertisers and cause them to postpone their advertising decision-making or decrease their advertising spending, among other things, which could adversely affect our business. We cannot predict the timing, magnitude, or duration of the current (or any future) severe global economic downturn or subsequent recovery.

Our ability to generate advertising revenues is and will continue to be affected by financial market conditions, consumer confidence, advertiser challenges, and changes in the national and sometimes international economy, as well as by regional economic conditions in each of the markets in which our stations operate. We have a significant concentration of assets in Texas, the Northwest, and Arizona, which makes the economic condition of these regions of particular consequence to our financial condition and results of operations. Advertisers’ budgets, the amounts of which are affected by broad economic trends, affect the broadcast industry in general and the revenues of individual broadcast television stations in particular. Advertisers have purchased less advertising time from our stations in recent months due to the current decline in the national economy, as well as in regional and local economies.

Our advertising revenues depend upon a variety of other factors specific to the communities that we serve. Changes in those factors could negatively affect advertising revenues. These factors include, among others, the size and demographic characteristics of the local population, the concentration of retail stores and other businesses, and local economic conditions in general. In addition, for the year ended December 31, 2008, 19.5 percent of our television advertising revenues were from the automotive industry. The economic challenges of the automotive industry will continue to affect its advertising spending, which could have an adverse effect on our revenues and results of operations.

Our revenues and results of operations are subject to seasonal, cyclical, and other fluctuations that we expect to continue. In particular, we typically experience fluctuations in our revenues between even and odd numbered years. During elections for various state and national offices, which are primarily in even numbered years, advertising revenues tend to increase based on the demand for political advertising in our markets. Advertising revenues in odd numbered years tend to be less than in even numbered years due to the lack of demand for political advertising in our markets. Also, because NBC has exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympics through

 

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2012, our NBC affiliate stations typically experience increased viewership and revenues during Olympic broadcasts, which also occur in even numbered years. Other seasonal and cyclical factors that affect our revenues and results of operations may be beyond our control, including changes in the pricing policies of our competitors, the hiring and retention of key personnel, wage and cost pressures, and general economic factors.

Our television businesses operate in highly competitive markets, and our ability to maintain market share and generate revenues depends on how effectively we compete with existing and new competition.

Our television businesses operate in highly competitive markets. Our television stations compete for audiences and advertising revenue with newspapers and other broadcast and cable television stations, as well as with other media such as magazines, telephone and/or wireless companies, satellite television, and the Internet. Some of our current and potential competitors may have greater financial, marketing, programming, and broadcasting resources than we do and the ability to distribute more targeted advertising. Cable companies and others have developed national advertising networks in recent years that increase the competition for national advertising.

Our television stations compete for audiences and advertising revenues primarily on the basis of programming content and advertising rates. Advertising rates are set based upon a variety of factors, including a program’s popularity among the advertiser’s target audience, the number of advertisers competing for the available time, the size and demographic make-up of the market served, and the availability of alternative advertising in the market. Our ability to maintain market share and competitive advertising rates depends in part on audience acceptance of our network, syndicated, and local programming. Changes in market demographics, the entry of competitive stations into our markets, the transition to Local People Meters and other methods for measuring audiences, the introduction of competitive local news or other programming by cable, satellite, Internet, telephone or wireless providers, or the adoption of competitive offerings by existing and new providers could result in lower ratings and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

If we are unable to respond to changes in technology and evolving industry trends, our television businesses may not be able to compete effectively.

New technologies are affecting our television stations adversely. Information delivery and programming alternatives such as cable, direct satellite-to-home services, pay-per-view, the Internet, telephone company services, mobile devices, digital video recorders, and home video and entertainment systems have fractionalized television viewing audiences and expanded the numbers and types of distribution channels for advertisers to access. Over the past decade, cable television programming services, other emerging video distribution platforms, and the Internet have captured an increasing market share, while the aggregate viewership of the major television networks has declined. In addition, the expansion of cable and satellite television, the Internet, and other technological changes have increased, and may continue to increase, the competitive demand for programming. Such increased demand, together with rising production costs, may increase our programming costs or impair our ability to acquire or develop desired programming.

In addition, video compression techniques, now in use with direct broadcast satellites and potentially soon for cable and wireless cable, are expected to permit greater numbers of channels to be carried within existing bandwidth. These compression techniques as well as other technological developments are applicable to all video delivery systems, including over-the-air broadcasting, and have the potential to provide vastly expanded programming to targeted audiences. Reduction in the cost of creating additional channel capacity could lower entry barriers for new channels and encourage the development of increasingly specialized niche programming, resulting in more audience fractionalization. This ability to reach very narrowly defined audiences may alter the competitive dynamics for advertising expenditures. We are unable to predict the effect that these and other technological changes will have on the television industry or on the future results of our television businesses.

 

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The costs of television programming may increase, which could adversely affect our results of operations.

Programming is a significant operating cost in our television businesses. We cannot be certain that we will not be exposed to future increases in programming costs. Should such an increase occur, it could adversely affect our results of operations. Television networks are eliminating network compensation traditionally paid to broadcast affiliates and have been seeking arrangements with their local affiliates to share the networks’ programming costs. We cannot predict the nature or scope of any such potential compensation arrangements or the effect, if any, on our operations. Acquisitions of program rights for syndicated programming are usually made two or three years in advance and may require multi-year commitments, making it difficult to predict accurately how a program will perform. In addition, any significant shortfall, now or in the future, in advertising revenue and/or the expected popularity of the programming for which the Company has acquired rights could lead to less than expected revenue, which could result in programming write-offs. Additionally, in some instances, programs must be replaced before their costs have been fully amortized, resulting in write-offs. These write-offs increase station operating costs and decrease station results of operations.

The loss or modification of network affiliation agreements and changes by the national networks in their respective business models and practices could adversely affect our results of operations.

The non-renewal, termination or material modification of our network affiliation agreements could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations. We have four stations affiliated with ABC, five stations affiliated with CBS, four stations affiliated with NBC, three stations affiliated with CW, two stations affiliated with My Network TV, and one station affiliated with FOX. Each of ABC, CBS, and NBC generally provide our affiliated stations with 22 hours of prime time programming per week. Each of our affiliation agreements has a stated expiration date. Some of the networks with which our stations are affiliated require, or have stated their intention to require, as a condition to the renewal of affiliation agreements, elimination of network affiliate compensation and, in some cases, cash payments to the network, and the acceptance of other material modifications of existing affiliation agreements. Consequently, our affiliation agreements may not all remain in place under existing terms and each network may not continue to provide programming or compensation to affiliates on the same basis as it currently provides programming or compensation. If this occurs, we would need to find alternative sources of programming, which may be less attractive and more expensive.

In recent years, the networks have streamed their programming on the Internet and other distribution platforms in close proximity to network programming broadcast on local television stations, including those owned by the Company. These and other practices by the networks dilute the exclusivity and value of network programming originally broadcast by local stations and could adversely affect our stations’ results of operations.

If we are unable to secure or maintain carriage of our television stations’ signals over cable and/or direct broadcast satellite systems, our television stations may not be able to compete effectively.

Pursuant to the Federal Communication Commission (“FCC”) rules, local television stations must elect every three years to either (1) require cable and/or direct broadcast satellite operators to carry the stations’ primary signals or (2) enter into retransmission consent negotiations for carriage. At present, Belo has retransmission consent agreements with major cable operators in its markets and both satellite providers. If our retransmission consent agreements are terminated or not renewed, or if our broadcast signals are distributed on less favorable terms than our competitors, our ability to compete effectively may be adversely affected.

The loss of or material reduction in retransmission consent revenues could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

Belo’s retransmission consent agreements with cable operators, direct broadcast satellite operators, and others permit the operators to carry our stations’ signals in exchange for the payment of compensation to us from the system operators as consideration. The television networks have recently asserted to their local television

 

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station affiliates the networks’ position that they, as the owners or licensees of programming we broadcast and provide for retransmission, are entitled to a portion of the compensation paid to the local affiliates by the system operators as compensation under the retransmission consent agreements. Networks have proposed to include these provisions in their network affiliation agreements. Inclusion of these or similar provisions in our network affiliation agreements could materially reduce this revenue source to Belo and could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

Regulatory changes may affect our strategy and increase competition and operating costs in our media businesses.

Our television businesses are subject to extensive and changing federal regulation. Changes in current regulations or the adoption of new laws and policies could affect our strategy, increase competition and our operating costs, and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. Among other things, the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and FCC rules and policies govern the term, renewal, and transfer of our television broadcasting licenses and limit certain concentrations of broadcasting control and ownership of multiple television stations. Relaxation of ownership restrictions may provide a competitive advantage to those with greater financial and other resources than we possess. Federal law also regulates political advertising rates, indecency on broadcast television, and children’s programming.

The Satellite Home Viewer and Reauthorization Act of 2004 (“SHVERA”) establishes a statutory copyright license to enable direct broadcast satellite (“DBS”) companies to provide programming to local viewers. SHVERA expires at the end of 2009 and must be renewed or otherwise addressed to avoid significant disruption in the DBS business. If Congress passes legislation materially changing the existing regulatory scheme or adopts new legislation in place of existing law, the Company and other local broadcasters and viewers could be adversely affected. Further, since SHVERA must be addressed in 2009, it is likely that other legislation, possibly unrelated to SHVERA, could be added to the required legislation, which may or may not affect the Company materially.

Adverse results from pending or new litigation or governmental proceedings or investigations could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

From time to time we and our subsidiaries are subject to litigation and governmental proceedings and investigations. Adverse determinations in any of these pending or future matters could require us to make monetary payments or result in other sanctions or findings that could adversely affect our businesses, including renewal of our FCC licenses, and our financial condition and results of operations.

If we cannot renew our FCC broadcast licenses, our broadcast operations will be impaired.

Our television businesses depend upon maintaining our broadcast licenses, which are issued by the FCC. Our broadcast licenses expired or will expire between 2006 and 2015 (although those that have already expired have been extended by the filing of license renewal applications, with the FCC) and are renewable. Interested parties may challenge a renewal application. The FCC has the authority to revoke licenses, not renew them, or renew them only with significant qualifications, including renewals for less than a full term. Although we expect to renew all our FCC licenses, we cannot assure investors that our future renewal applications will be approved, or that the renewals will not include conditions or qualifications that could adversely affect our operations. Failing to renew any of our stations’ main licenses would prevent us from operating the affected stations. If we renew our licenses with substantial conditions or modifications (including renewing one or more of our licenses for a term of fewer than eight years), it could have a material adverse effect on the affected station’s or stations’ revenue generation potential.

 

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Belo may incur increased expenses or liabilities if some of the agreements with A. H. Belo are terminated or if A. H. Belo fails to perform.

In connection with the spin-off, Belo entered into a services agreement with A. H. Belo. If the agreement is terminated, Belo may be required to obtain needed services from third parties. This could affect the efficiency of Belo’s operations in the near-term or be more expensive than the fees that Belo is currently required to pay under the A. H. Belo agreement.

Also in connection with the spin-off, Belo and A. H. Belo agreed to share certain liabilities and expenses and to indemnify each other for certain expenses and liabilities attributable to one company or the other. For example, Belo agreed to retain complete sponsorship of The G. B. Dealey Retirement Pension Plan, which is underfunded, rather than divide the plan into two separate plans and in return, A. H. Belo agreed to reimburse Belo for 60 percent of all cash contributions made by Belo to the plan. This percentage approximates the pension obligations relating to plan participants associated with A. H. Belo. Absent legislative relief or capital markets recovery, Belo will be required to make significant future contributions to the plan. If A. H. Belo does not reimburse Belo promptly for its share of future plan contributions, Belo will be required to fund all of the contributions and seek reimbursement from A. H. Belo.

In addition, A. H. Belo assumed Belo’s liabilities relating to certain ongoing agreements and other matters. If A. H. Belo does not satisfy these contingent liabilities when due, it is possible that Belo may be required to satisfy them. Although Belo is not expecting to be called on to meet any of these contingent obligations, if it were to happen, it could adversely affect Belo’s financial condition and results of operations.

Certain members of management, directors, and shareholders may face potential or actual conflicts of interest.

The Company and A. H. Belo have several common directors. Most of the management and directors of Belo and A. H. Belo own both Belo common stock and A. H. Belo common stock. This ownership overlap and these common directors could create, or appear to create, potential or actual conflicts of interest when Belo’s and A. H. Belo’s management and directors face decisions that could have different implications for each company. For example, conflicts of interest could arise in connection with the resolution of any dispute between Belo and A. H. Belo regarding the terms of the agreements governing the spin-off and the relationship between Belo and A. H. Belo thereafter. Conflicts of interest could also arise out of any commercial arrangements that Belo and A. H. Belo may enter into in the future.

In addition, media properties owned by A. H. Belo are attributable to the Company for purposes of FCC rules and regulations limiting ownership of media properties.

We depend on key personnel, and we may not be able to operate and grow our businesses effectively if we lose the services of any of our senior executive officers or are unable to attract and retain qualified personnel in the future.

We depend on the efforts of our senior executive officers. The success of our business depends heavily on our ability to retain our current management and to attract and retain qualified personnel in the future. Competition for senior management personnel is intense and we may not be able to retain our key personnel. We have not entered into employment agreements with our key management personnel and we do not have “key person” insurance for any of our senior executive officers or other key personnel.

We have a large amount of debt. Access to our 2009 Credit Agreement requires that we meet several covenants, which could be more challenging in a difficult operating environment.

We currently use a portion of our operating cash flow for debt service. We may continue to borrow funds to finance capital expenditures and, subject to limitations under the 2009 Credit Agreement (as defined herein), bond repurchases or acquisitions, or to refinance debt, as well as for other purposes.

 

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Our level of debt could, for example:

 

   

Require us to use a substantial portion of our cash flow from operations to pay debt and reduce the availability of our cash flow to fund other corporate activities, including capital expenditures;

 

   

Cause our bank lenders to reduce their lending commitments to us in future financings;

 

   

Limit our ability to obtain additional financing in the future;

 

   

Expose us to greater interest rate risk; and

 

   

Impair our ability to successfully withstand a significant downturn in our business or the economy in general.

In addition, our 2009 Credit Agreement requires us to maintain certain specified leverage and interest coverage ratios. The leverage ratio is generally defined as the ratio of debt to cash flow. The interest coverage ratio is generally defined as the ratio of interest expense to cash flow. Our leverage and interest coverage ratio requirements are as follows:

Leverage Ratio Covenant Requirement

 

Period

   Maximum Allowed
Leverage Ratio

February 26, 2009 – June 30, 2010

   6.25

July 1, 2010 – September 29, 2010

   6.00

September 30, 2010 – December 30, 2010

   5.75

December 31, 2010 – June 7, 2011

   5.00

Interest Coverage Ratio

 

Period

   Minimum Required
Coverage Ratio

February 26, 2009 – March 31, 2010

   2.25

April 1, 2010 – June 7, 2011

   2.50

Our 2009 Credit Agreement also contains additional covenants that are usual and customary for credit facilities of this type, including limits on dividends, bond repurchases, acquisitions, and investments. Our 2009 Credit Agreement does not permit share repurchases.

At June 30, 2009, the Company’s leverage ratio was 5.3 and our interest coverage ratio was 3.0, both of which comply with the debt covenants in our 2009 Credit Agreement. If revenue comparisons to the prior year continue near current levels, the Company’s leverage ratio can be expected to increase and could potentially exceed the maximum ratio allowed in 2009. Management has held preliminary discussions with the Company’s lead banks and believes that the Company could obtain covenant relief prior to any such event.

Changes in accounting standards can significantly impact reported earnings and operating results.

Generally accepted accounting principles and accompanying pronouncements and implementation guidelines for many aspects of our business, including those related to intangible assets, pensions, income taxes, share-based compensation, and broadcast rights, are complex and involve significant judgments. Changes in these rules or their interpretation could significantly change our reported earnings and operating results.

We have a significant amount of intangible assets, and if we are required to write down intangible assets in future periods then our future financial results will be diminished.

Approximately 75.2 percent of our total assets as of December 31, 2008, consisted of intangible assets, principally broadcast licenses and goodwill. Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 142, “Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets,” requires, among other things, an annual impairment testing of broadcast licenses and

 

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goodwill. Additionally, the Company continually evaluates whether current factors or indicators, such as the prevailing conditions in the economy and capital markets, require an interim impairment assessment of those assets, as well as of investments and long-lived assets. Recent trends in advertising revenues have negatively affected investors’ outlooks on the Company’s market value. If revenue trends worsen, this may be considered an indicator of impairment and could require the Company to perform an impairment analysis in advance of its annual impairment testing. In addition, any significant shortfall, now or in the future, in advertising revenue could lead to a downward revision in the fair value of certain reporting units. A downward revision in the fair value of a reporting unit, indefinite-lived intangible assets, investments, or long-lived assets could result in an impairment, and a non-cash charge would be required. Any such charge could be material to the Company’s reported results of operations.

Failure of the spin-off to qualify as a tax-free transaction could result in substantial liability.

In connection with the spin-off, Belo received a private letter ruling from the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) to the effect that, among other things, the spin-off (including certain related transactions) qualifies as tax-free to Belo and Belo shareholders for United States federal income tax purposes. Although a private letter ruling generally is binding on the IRS, if the factual assumptions or representations made by Belo in the private letter ruling request are untrue or incomplete in any material respect, then Belo may not be able to rely on the ruling.

If the spin-off fails to qualify for tax-free treatment, a substantial corporate tax would be payable by Belo. However, A. H. Belo has agreed to indemnify Belo for certain tax liabilities under certain circumstances. Further, if the spin-off is not tax-free, each Belo shareholder generally would be taxed as if he or she had received a cash distribution equal to the fair market value of the shares of A. H. Belo common stock on the date of the spin-off.

Risks Related to Debt Securities

Any additional debt we incur could adversely affect our financial condition or results of operations and prevent us from fulfilling our obligations under any debt securities issued under this prospectus or any prospectus supplement.

In addition to any debt we may incur pursuant to any offerings related to this prospectus or any prospectus supplement, we may be able to borrow substantial additional debt in the future. If any new debt is incurred, the related risks that we now face could increase. Any additional debt we may incur in the future could have important consequences for the holders of any of our debt securities, including: (1) limiting our ability to satisfy our obligations with respect to such debt securities; (2) increasing our vulnerability to general adverse economic and industry conditions; (3) requiring a substantial portion of our cash flow from operations for the payment of principal of, and interest on, our debt and reducing our ability to use our cash flow to fund other corporate activities, including capital expenditures; (4) limiting our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business and the broadcast industry; and (5) putting us at a disadvantage compared to competitors with less debt.

If an active trading market does not develop for a series of debt securities sold pursuant to this prospectus or any prospectus supplement, you may be unable to sell any such debt securities.

Unless otherwise specified in an accompanying prospectus supplement, any debt securities sold pursuant to this prospectus and the accompanying prospectus supplement will be new securities for which there currently is no established trading market. We may elect not to list any debt securities on a national securities exchange. While the underwriters of a particular offering of debt securities may advise us that they intend to make a market in those debt securities, the underwriters will not be obligated to do so and may stop their market making at any time. No assurance can be given: (1) that a market for any series of debt securities will develop or continue; (2) as to the liquidity of any market that does develop; or (3) as to your ability to sell any debt securities you may own or the price at which you may be able to sell your debt securities. If an active trading market does not develop or is not maintained, then you may not be able to sell your debt securities when desired, or perhaps at all,

 

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or be able to sell the debt securities at a price equal to or above the price you paid for them. The debt securities may not be appropriate as a short-term investment, and you should consider the potentially illiquid and long-term nature of your investment in the debt securities before making an investment decision.

Our credit ratings may not reflect all the risks of an investment in the debt securities.

Our credit ratings are an independent assessment of our ability to pay debt obligations. Consequently, real or anticipated changes in our credit ratings may affect the market value of debt securities sold pursuant to this prospectus or any prospectus supplement. Our credit ratings, however, may not reflect the potential effect of risks related to structural, market or other factors discussed in this prospectus or in any prospectus supplement on the value of your debt securities.

An adverse rating of our debt securities may cause their trading price to fall.

If a rating agency rates our debt securities, it may assign them a low rating. Rating agencies also may lower ratings on our debt securities in the future. If rating agencies assign a lower-than-expected rating or reduce, or indicate that they may reduce, their ratings in the future, the trading price of our debt securities could significantly decline.

Our ability to redeem debt securities may adversely affect your return on the debt securities.

If debt securities sold pursuant to this prospectus or any prospectus supplement are redeemable at our option or subject to mandatory redemption, we may, in the case of optional redemption, or must, in the case of mandatory redemption, choose to redeem the debt securities at times when prevailing interest rates may be relatively low. Accordingly, you might not be able to reinvest the redemption proceeds in a comparable security at an interest rate as high as that of the debt securities.

Our ability to generate the cash needed to service our debt obligations, if any, depends on certain factors beyond our control.

The future success of our operations is the largest factor in our ability to make scheduled payments on, and satisfy our obligations under, our debt, including our debt securities. Our future operating performance will be affected by general economic, competitive, market, business, and other conditions, many of which are beyond our control. To the extent we are not able to meet our debt obligations, we might be required to restructure or refinance them, seek additional equity financing or sell assets. We may not be able to restructure or refinance our debt, obtain additional financing, or sell assets on satisfactory terms or at all.

 

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USE OF PROCEEDS

Unless otherwise specified in a prospectus supplement accompanying this prospectus, the net proceeds from the sale of the debt securities to which this prospectus relates will be used for the repayment of outstanding debt under our credit facility maturing in June 2011 and bearing interest at a variable interest rate based on either LIBOR or a base rate, in either case plus an applicable margin that varies depending upon the Company’s leverage ratio. Net proceeds may be temporarily invested before use.

RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES

 

     Three Months
Ended June 30,
   Three Months
Ended March 31,
   Years Ended December 31,
       2009        2008         2009          2008         2008(2)        2007        2006        2005        2004  

Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges(1)

   2.05    2.97    1.95    1.51    —      2.20    2.44    2.14    2.56

We did not have any preferred stock outstanding and we did not pay or accrue any preferred stock dividends during the periods presented above.

 

(1) To the extent that the proceeds from any offering of debt securities registered on the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part will be used to pay any of our outstanding debt and will change the ratio of earnings to fixed charges by ten percent or greater, the applicable prospectus supplement will include a pro forma ratio for the most recent fiscal year and the latest interim period, if applicable, showing the application of the proceeds.
(2) For purposes of calculating the ratio of earnings to fixed charges, adjusted earnings includes a non-cash charge for intangible asset and goodwill impairment of $662,151, which causes the ratio to be deficient. Excluding the non-cash charge, the adjusted earnings would be $226,750 and the ratio of earnings to fixed charges would be 2.64. Including the non-cash charge, the amount of the deficiency, as defined, is $521,265.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES AND GUARANTEE

General

The debt securities will be issued under an Indenture dated as of June 1, 1997, as supplemented from time to time in accordance with its terms (the “Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successor trustee (the “Trustee”). The following summary of the Indenture and the debt securities is subject to the detailed provisions of the Indenture, a copy of which is an exhibit to the Registration Statement. Wherever references are made to particular provisions of the Indenture, such provisions are incorporated by reference as a part of the statements made herein and such statements are qualified in their entirety by such reference. Certain defined terms in the Indenture are capitalized herein. Italicized references appearing in parentheses are to section numbers of the Indenture. As used in this “Description of Debt Securities,” the “Company” refers to Belo Corp. and does not include its subsidiaries.

The Indenture does not limit the amount of debt securities that may be issued thereunder. It provides that debt securities may be issued from time to time in series.

The applicable prospectus supplement will describe the specific terms of the debt securities we will offer, including, where applicable, the following:

 

   

the title of such debt securities;

 

   

the limit, if any, upon the aggregate principal amount of such debt securities;

 

   

the dates on which or periods during which such debt securities may be issued and the date or dates on which the principal of (and premium, if any, on) such debt securities will be payable;

 

   

the rate or rates, if any, or the method of determination thereof, at which such debt securities will bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which such interest will accrue, the dates on which such interest will be payable and the regular record dates for the interest payable on such interest payment dates;

 

   

the place or places, if any, in addition to the City of New York, where the principal (and premium, if any) and interest on such debt securities are to be payable, any such debt securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of such debt securities and the Indenture may be served;

 

   

the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem, repay or purchase such debt securities pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder and the periods within which or the dates on which, the prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which such debt securities will be redeemed, repaid or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;

 

   

the periods within which or the dates on which, the prices, if any, at which and the terms and conditions upon which such debt securities may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company;

 

   

if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which such debt securities will be issuable;

 

   

whether such debt securities are to be issued at less than the principal amount thereof and the amount of discount with which such debt securities will be issued;

 

   

if other than the principal amount, the portion of the principal amount of such debt securities that is payable upon the occurrence of an Event of Default or the method by which such portion will be determined;

 

   

provisions, if any, for the defeasance of such debt securities;

 

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if other than United States dollars, the currency or composite currency in which such debt securities are to be denominated, or in which payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on such debt securities will be made and the circumstances, if any, when such currency of payment may be changed;

 

   

if the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on such debt securities are to be payable, at the election of the Company or a holder, in a currency or composite currency other than that in which such debt securities are denominated or stated to be payable, the periods within which, and the terms and conditions upon which, such election may be made and the time and the manner of determining the exchange rate between the currency or composite currency in which such debt securities are denominated or stated to be payable and the currency in which such debt securities are to be paid pursuant to such election;

 

   

if the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on the debt securities may be determined with reference to an index including, but not limited to an index based on a currency or currencies other than that in which such debt securities are stated to be payable, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;

 

   

if such debt securities are denominated or payable in a Foreign Currency, any other terms concerning the payment of principal of (premium, if any) or interest on such debt securities (including the Currency or Currencies of payment thereof);

 

   

whether such debt securities will be issued in the form of one or more Global Securities and, if so, the identity of the depository for such Global Securities;

 

   

any additions to or changes in the Events of Default or covenants relating solely to such debt securities or any Events of Default or covenants generally applicable to debt securities that do not apply to the particular series of debt securities in respect of which the prospectus supplement is being delivered;

 

   

if the Company will pay additional amounts on any of the debt securities of any series to any Holder who is a United States Alien, in respect of any tax or assessment withheld, under what circumstances and with what procedures the Company will pay such amounts;

 

   

any terms applicable to original issue discount, if any, including the rate or rates at which such original issue discount, if any, shall accrue; and

 

   

any other terms of such debt securities not inconsistent with the provisions of the Indenture. (Section 3.1)

Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, the Indenture does not afford the holder of any series of debt securities the right to tender such debt securities to the Company for repurchase, or provide for any increase in the rate or rates of interest per annum at which such debt securities will bear interest, if the Company should become involved in a highly leveraged transaction.

The debt securities may be issued under the Indenture bearing no interest or interest at a rate below the prevailing market rate at the time of issuance, to be offered and sold at a discount below their stated principal amount. Federal income tax consequences and other special considerations applicable to any such discounted debt securities or to other debt securities offered and sold at par which are treated as having been issued at a discount for federal income tax purposes will be described in the prospectus supplement relating thereto.

The Company’s Amended and Restated $550 million Five-Year Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Banc of America Securities LLC, Bank of America, N.A. and other lenders (the “2009 Credit Agreement”) is guaranteed by the material subsidiaries of the Company, as determined under the provisions of the 2009 Credit Agreement.

 

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Each prospectus supplement will describe, as to the debt securities to which it relates, any guarantees by the subsidiary guarantors, including the terms of subordination, if any, of any such guarantee.

A substantial portion of the assets of the Company is held by subsidiaries. The Company’s right and the rights of its creditors, including the holders of debt securities, to participate in the assets of any subsidiary upon its liquidation or recapitalization would be subject to the prior claims of such subsidiary’s creditors, except to the extent that the Company may itself be a creditor with recognized claims against such subsidiary and including in respect of any guarantee of such series of debt securities made by such subsidiary. There is no restriction in the Indenture against subsidiaries of the Company incurring unsecured debt.

Unless otherwise described in the applicable prospectus supplement, the debt securities will be issued only in fully registered form without coupons, in denominations of $1,000 and multiples of $1,000, and will be payable only in United States dollars. (Section 3.2) The applicable prospectus supplement will indicate the denominations to be issued, the procedures for payment of interest and principal thereon, and other matters. No service charge will be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the debt securities, but the Company may, in certain instances, require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. (Section 3.5)

The Company shall deliver debt securities of any series, duly executed by the Company, to the Trustee for authentication, together with an order for the authentication and delivery of such debt securities. The Trustee, in accordance with such order, shall authenticate and deliver such debt securities. No debt securities of any series shall be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for in the Indenture and manually executed by the Trustee or an authenticating agent duly appointed by the Trustee. Such certificate shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such debt securities have been duly authenticated and delivered under, and are entitled to the benefits of, the Indenture. (Section 3.3)

Form of Debt Securities

We will issue each debt security in global— i.e., book-entry—form only, unless we specify otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement. Debt securities in book-entry form will be represented by a global security, without coupons, registered in the name of a depositary, which will be the holder of all the debt securities represented by the global security. Those who own beneficial interests in a global debt security will do so through participants in the depositary’s securities clearance system, and the rights of these indirect owners will be governed solely by the applicable procedures of the depositary and its participants. References to “holders” in this section mean those who own debt securities registered in their own names, on the books that we or the Trustee maintain for this purpose, and not those who own beneficial interests in debt securities registered in street name or in debt securities issued in book-entry form through one or more depositaries.

Unless otherwise indicated in the prospectus supplement, the following is a summary of the depositary arrangements applicable to debt securities issued in global form and for which The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) acts as depositary.

Each global debt security will be deposited with, or on behalf of, DTC, as depositary, or its nominee, and registered in the name of a nominee of DTC. Except under the limited circumstances described below, global debt securities are not exchangeable for definitive certificated debt securities.

Ownership of beneficial interests in a global debt security is limited to institutions that have accounts with DTC or its nominee, or persons that may hold interests through those participants. In addition, ownership of beneficial interests by participants in a global debt security will be evidenced only by, and the transfer of that ownership interest will be effected only through, records maintained by DTC or its nominee for a global debt security. Ownership of beneficial interests in a global debt security by persons that hold those interests through

 

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participants will be evidenced only by, and the transfer of that ownership interest within that participant will be effected only through, records maintained by that participant. DTC has no knowledge of the actual beneficial owners of the debt securities. Beneficial owners will not receive written confirmation from DTC of their purchase, but beneficial owners are expected to receive written confirmations providing details of the transaction, as well as periodic statements of their holdings, from the participants through which the beneficial owners entered the transaction. The laws of some jurisdictions require that certain purchasers of securities take physical delivery of securities they purchase in definitive form. These laws may impair a holder’s ability to transfer beneficial interests in a global debt security.

We will make payment of principal of, and interest on, debt securities represented by a global debt security registered in the name of or held by DTC or its nominee to DTC or its nominee, as the case may be, as the registered owner and holder of the global debt security representing those debt securities. DTC has advised us that upon receipt of any payment of principal of, or interest on, a global debt security, DTC immediately will credit accounts of participants on its book-entry registration and transfer system with payments in amounts proportionate to their respective interests in the principal amount of that global debt security, as shown in the records of DTC. Payments by participants to owners of beneficial interests in a global debt security held through those participants will be governed by standing instructions and customary practices, as is now the case with securities held for the accounts of customers in bearer form or registered in “street name,” and will be the sole responsibility of those participants, subject to any statutory or regulatory requirements that may be in effect from time to time.

Neither we, any trustee nor any of our respective agents will be responsible for any aspect of the records of DTC, any nominee or any participant relating to, or payments made on account of, beneficial interests in a permanent global debt security or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any of the records of DTC, any nominee or any participant relating to such beneficial interests.

A global debt security is exchangeable for definitive debt securities registered in the name of, and a transfer of a global debt security may be registered to, any person other than DTC or its nominee, only if:

 

   

DTC notifies us that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for that global security or has ceased to be a registered clearing agency and we do not appoint another institution to act as depositary within 90 days; or

 

   

we notify the Trustee that we wish to terminate that global security.

Any global debt security that is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence will be exchangeable in whole for definitive debt securities in registered form, of like tenor and of an equal aggregate principal amount as the global debt security, in denominations specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, if other than $1,000 and multiples of $1,000. The definitive debt securities will be registered by the registrar in the name or names instructed by DTC. We expect that these instructions may be based upon directions received by DTC from its participants with respect to ownership of beneficial interests in the global debt security.

Except as provided above, owners of the beneficial interests in a global debt security will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of debt securities in definitive form and will not be considered the holders of debt securities for any purpose under the Indenture. No global debt security shall be exchangeable except for another global debt security of like denomination and tenor to be registered in the name of DTC or its nominee. Accordingly, each person owning a beneficial interest in a global debt security must rely on the procedures of DTC and, if that person is not a participant, on the procedures of the participant through which that person owns its interest, to exercise any rights of a holder under the global debt security or the Indenture.

We understand that, under existing industry practices, in the event that we request any action of holders, or an owner of a beneficial interest in a global debt security desires to give or take any action that a holder is entitled to give or take under the debt securities or the Indenture, DTC would authorize the participants holding

 

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the relevant beneficial interests to give or take that action. Additionally, those participants would authorize beneficial owners owning through those participants to give or take that action or would otherwise act upon the instructions of beneficial owners owning through them.

DTC has advised us as follows:

 

   

DTC is:

 

   

a limited-purpose trust company organized under the New York Banking Law,

 

   

a “banking organization” within the meaning of the New York Banking Law,

 

   

a member of the Federal Reserve System,

 

   

a “clearing corporation” within the meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial Code, and

 

   

a “clearing agency” registered under Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 

   

DTC was created to hold securities of its participants and to facilitate the clearance and settlement of securities transactions among its participants in those securities through electronic book-entry changes in accounts of the participants, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of securities certificates.

 

   

DTC’s participants include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations.

 

   

DTC is owned by a number of its participants and by the New York Stock Exchange, Inc., the NYSE Amex LLC and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.

 

   

Access to DTC’s book-entry system is also available to others, such as banks, brokers, dealers and trust companies, that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a participant, either directly or indirectly.

The rules applicable to DTC and its participants are on file with the SEC.

Investors may hold interests in the debt securities outside the United States through the Euroclear System (“Euroclear”) or Clearstream Banking (“Clearstream”) if they are participants in those systems, or indirectly through organizations which are participants in those systems. Euroclear and Clearstream will hold interests on behalf of their participants through customers’ securities accounts in Euroclear’s and Clearstream’s names on the books of their respective depositaries which in turn will hold such positions in customers’ securities accounts in the names of the nominees of the depositaries on the books of DTC. At the present time JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association will act as U.S. depositary for Euroclear, and Citibank, N.A. will act as U.S. depositary for Clearstream. All securities in Euroclear or Clearstream are held on a fungible basis without attribution of specific certificates to specific securities clearance accounts.

The following is based on information furnished by Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be.

Euroclear has advised us that:

 

   

It was created in 1968 to hold securities for participants of Euroclear and to clear and settle transactions between Euroclear participants through simultaneous electronic book-entry delivery against payment, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of certificates and any risk from lack of simultaneous transfers of securities and cash;

 

   

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Euroclear is operated by Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V., as operator of the Euroclear System (the “Euroclear Operator”), under contract with Euroclear Clearance Systems S.C., a Belgian cooperative corporation (the “Cooperative”);

 

   

The Euroclear Operator conducts all operations, and all Euroclear securities clearance accounts and Euroclear cash accounts are accounts with the Euroclear Operator, not the Cooperative. The Cooperative establishes policy for Euroclear on behalf of Euroclear participants. Euroclear participants include banks (including central banks), securities brokers and dealers and other professional financial intermediaries and may include underwriters of debt securities offered by this prospectus;

 

   

Indirect access to Euroclear is also available to other firms that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a Euroclear participant, either directly or indirectly;

 

   

Securities clearance accounts and cash accounts with the Euroclear Operator are governed by the Terms and Conditions Governing Use of Euroclear and the related Operating Procedures of the Euroclear System, and applicable Belgian law (collectively, the “Terms and Conditions”);

 

   

The Terms and Conditions govern transfers of securities and cash within Euroclear, withdrawals of securities and cash from Euroclear, and receipts of payments with respect to securities in Euroclear. The Euroclear Operator acts under the Terms and Conditions only on behalf of Euroclear participants, and has no record of or relationship with persons holding through Euroclear participants; and

 

   

Distributions with respect to debt securities held beneficially through Euroclear will be credited to the cash accounts of Euroclear participants in accordance with the Terms and Conditions, to the extent received by the U.S. depositary for Euroclear.

Clearstream has advised us that:

 

   

It is incorporated under the laws of Luxembourg as a professional depositary and holds securities for its participating organizations and facilitates the clearance and settlement of securities transactions between Clearstream participants through electronic book-entry changes in accounts of Clearstream participants, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of certificates;

 

   

Clearstream provides to Clearstream participants, among other things, services for safekeeping, administration, clearance and settlement of internationally traded securities and securities lending and borrowing. Clearstream interfaces with domestic markets in several countries;

 

   

As a professional depositary, Clearstream is subject to regulation by the Luxembourg Monetary Institute;

 

   

Clearstream participants are recognized financial institutions around the world, including underwriters, securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations and may include underwriters of debt securities offered by this prospectus;

 

   

Indirect access to Clearstream is also available to others, such as banks, brokers, dealers and trust companies that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a Clearstream participant either directly or indirectly; and

 

   

Distributions with respect to the debt securities held beneficially through Clearstream will be credited to cash accounts of Clearstream participants in accordance with its rules and procedures, to the extent received by the U.S. depositary for Clearstream.

We have provided the descriptions herein of the operations and procedures of Euroclear and Clearstream solely as a matter of convenience. These operations and procedures are solely within the control of Euroclear and Clearstream and are subject to change by them from time to time. Neither we, any underwriters nor the Trustee takes any responsibility for these operations or procedures, and you are urged to contact Euroclear or Clearstream or their respective participants directly to discuss these matters.

 

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Secondary market trading between Euroclear participants and Clearstream participants will occur in the ordinary way in accordance with the applicable rules and operating procedures of Euroclear and Clearstream and will be settled using the procedures applicable to conventional eurobonds in immediately available funds.

Cross-market transfers between persons holding directly or indirectly through DTC, on the one hand, and directly or indirectly through Euroclear or Clearstream participants, on the other, will be effected within DTC in accordance with DTC’s rules on behalf of the relevant European international clearing system by its U.S. depositary; however, such cross-market transactions will require delivery of instructions to the relevant European international clearing system by the counterparty in such system in accordance with its rules and procedures and within its established deadlines (European time). The relevant European international clearing system will, if the transaction meets its settlement requirements, deliver instructions to its U.S. depositary to take action to effect final settlement on its behalf by delivering or receiving debt securities in DTC, and making or receiving payment in accordance with normal procedures. Euroclear participants and Clearstream participants may not deliver instructions directly to their respective U.S. depositaries.

Because of time-zone differences, credits of securities received in Euroclear or Clearstream as a result of a transaction with a DTC participant will be made during subsequent securities settlement processing and dated the business day following the DTC settlement date. Such credits, or any transactions in the securities settled during such processing, will be reported to the relevant Euroclear participants or Clearstream participants on that business day. Cash received in Euroclear or Clearstream as a result of sales of securities by or through a Euroclear participant or a Clearstream participant to a DTC participant will be received with value on the business day of settlement in DTC but will be available in the relevant Euroclear or Clearstream cash account only as of the business day following settlement in DTC.

Although DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream have agreed to the foregoing procedures in order to facilitate transfers of debt securities among participants of DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream, they are under no obligation to perform or continue to perform such procedures and they may discontinue the procedures at any time.

Certain Covenants of the Company

Limitation on Indebtedness Secured by a Mortgage . The Indenture provides that neither the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary will create, assume, guarantee or suffer to exist any Indebtedness secured by any mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest, conditional sale or other title retention agreement or other similar encumbrance (“Mortgage”) on any assets of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary unless the Company secures or causes such Restricted Subsidiary to secure the debt securities equally and ratably with, or prior to, such secured Indebtedness. This restriction will not apply to Indebtedness secured by:

 

   

Mortgages on the property of any corporation which Mortgages existed at the time such corporation became a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

   

Mortgages in favor of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

   

Mortgages on property of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary in favor of the United States of America or any state or political subdivision thereof, or in favor of any other country or any political subdivision thereof, to secure payment pursuant to any contract or statute or to secure any indebtedness incurred for the purpose of financing all or part of the purchase price or the cost of construction or improvement of the property subject to such Mortgages;

 

   

Mortgages on any property subsequently acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, contemporaneously with such acquisition or within 120 days thereafter, to secure or provide for the payment of any part of the purchase price, construction or improvement of such property, or Mortgages assumed by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary upon any property subsequently acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary which were existing at the time of such acquisition, provided

 

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that the amount of any Indebtedness secured by any such Mortgage created or assumed does not exceed the cost to the Company or Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, of the property covered by such Mortgage;

 

   

Mortgages existing at the date of issuance of the first series of debt securities under the Indenture;

 

   

Mortgages representing the extension, renewal or refunding of any Mortgage referred to in the foregoing bullet points, inclusive; and

 

   

any other Mortgage, other than Mortgages referred to in the foregoing bullet points, so long as the aggregate of all Indebtedness secured by Mortgages pursuant to this clause and the aggregate Value of the Sale and Lease-Back Transactions in existence at that time (not including those in connection with which the Company has voluntarily retired funded Indebtedness as provided in the Indenture) does not exceed 15 percent of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets. (Section 10.7)

Limitation on Sale and Lease-Back Transactions . The Indenture provides that neither the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary will enter into any Sale and Lease-Back Transaction with respect to any Principal Property unless either (1) the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary would be entitled, pursuant to the foregoing covenant relating to “Limitation on Indebtedness Secured by a Mortgage,” to create, assume, guarantee or suffer Indebtedness in a principal amount equal to or exceeding the Value of such Sale and Lease-Back Transaction secured by a Mortgage on the property to be leased without equally and ratably securing the debt securities or (2) the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, within four months after the effective date of such transaction, applies an amount equal to the greater of (a) the net proceeds of the sale of the property subject to the Sale and Lease-Back Transaction and (b) the Value of such Sale and Lease-Back Transaction, to the voluntary retirement of the debt securities or other unsubordinated funded Indebtedness of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary. (Section 10.8)

Certain Definitions . “Consolidated Net Tangible Assets” is defined in the Indenture to mean total consolidated assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, less (1) current liabilities of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, and (2) the net book amount of all intangible assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries. (Section 10.7)

“Consolidated Subsidiary” is defined in the Indenture to mean a Subsidiary the accounts of which are consolidated with those of the Company for public financial reporting purposes. (Section 1.1)

“Indebtedness” is defined in the Indenture to mean (1) long-term liabilities representing borrowed money or purchase money obligations as shown on the liability side of a balance sheet (other than liabilities evidenced by obligations under leases and contracts payable for broadcast rights), (2) debt secured by any Mortgage existing on property owned subject to such Mortgage, whether or not such secured debt has been assumed and (3) contingent obligations in respect of, or to purchase or otherwise acquire, any such debt of others described in the foregoing clauses (1) or (2), including guarantees and endorsements (other than for purposes of collection in the ordinary course of business of any such debt). (Section 10.7)

“Principal Property” is defined in the Indenture to mean any manufacturing or printing plant, distribution center, warehouse, office building, television station or transmission facility owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or any other property or right owned by or granted to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and used or held for use in the newspaper or television business conducted by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, except for any such property or right which, in the opinion of the Board of Directors of the Company as set forth in a Board Resolution adopted in good faith, is not material to the total business conducted by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries considered as one enterprise. (Section 1.1)

 

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“Restricted Subsidiary” is defined in the Indenture to mean each Subsidiary of the Company as of the date of the Indenture and each Subsidiary thereafter created or acquired, unless expressly excluded by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company before, or within 120 days following, such creation or acquisition. (Section 10.7)

“Sale and Lease-Back Transaction” is defined in the Indenture as the leasing to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary for a period of more than three years of any Principal Property which has been sold or is to be sold or transferred by the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary to any party (other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary). (Section 10.8)

“Subsidiary” is defined in the Indenture to mean a corporation more than 50 percent of the outstanding voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries or by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries. For the purposes of this definition, “voting stock” means stock which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency. (Section 1.1)

“Value” is defined in the Indenture to mean, with respect to any particular Sale and Lease-Back Transaction, as of any particular time, the amount equal to the greater of (1) the net proceeds of the sale or transfer of the property leased pursuant to such Sale and Lease-Back Transaction or (2) the fair value in the opinion of the Board of Directors of the Company of such property at the time of the Company’s entering into such Sale and Lease-Back Transaction, subject to adjustment at any particular time for the length of the remaining initial lease term. (Section 10.8)

Consolidation, Merger and Sale of Assets

The Indenture provides that the Company may not consolidate with or merge into any other corporation, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any other party, unless, among other things, (1) the corporation formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the party which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety, is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and expressly assumes the Company’s obligations on the debt securities and under the Indenture by means of an indenture supplemental to the Indenture; and (2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing. (Section 8.1)

Events of Default, Waiver and Notice

With respect to the debt securities of any series, an Event of Default is defined in the Indenture as being:

 

   

default for 30 days in payment of any interest upon the debt securities of such series;

 

   

default in payment of the principal of or premium, if any, on the debt securities of such series when due either at maturity or upon acceleration, redemption or otherwise;

 

   

default by the Company in the performance of any other of the covenants or warranties in the Indenture for the benefit of such series applicable to the Company, which default shall not have been remedied for a period of 60 days after Notice of Default;

 

   

the failure to pay when due any debt for money borrowed (including debt under debt securities other than that series) with a principal amount then outstanding in excess of $20,000,000 under any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which any such debt is issued or secured (including the Indenture), or any other default, which failure results in the acceleration of maturity of such debt, unless such debt or acceleration shall have been discharged or annulled within 10 days after due notice by the Trustee or by Holders of at least 10 percent in principal amount of the Outstanding debt securities of that series; and

 

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certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary. (Section 5.1)

Within 90 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default under the Indenture with respect to debt securities of any series, the Trustee is required to notify the Holders of debt securities of any default unless, in the case of any default other than a default in the payment of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any debt securities, a trust committee of the Board of Directors or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith considers it in the interest of the Holders of debt securities not to do so. (Section 6.2)

The Indenture provides that if an Event of Default, other than an Event of Default as described in the fifth bullet point in the above paragraph, with respect to debt securities of any series, shall have occurred and be continuing, either the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25 percent in aggregate principal amount of the debt securities of that series then Outstanding may declare the entire principal and accrued interest of all debt securities of such series (or, if any of the debt securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such debt securities as may be specified by the terms thereof) to be due and payable immediately. If an Event of Default described in fifth bullet point in the above paragraph with respect to any series of debt securities Outstanding under the Indenture occurs, the principal amount (or, if any of the debt securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such debt securities as may be specified by the terms thereof) shall automatically, and without any declaration or other action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, become immediately due and payable. Any time after acceleration with respect to the debt securities of any series has been made, but before a judgment or decree for the payment of money based on such acceleration has been obtained by the Trustee, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding debt securities of that series, may, under certain circumstances, rescind and annul such acceleration. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding debt securities of any series may waive any past defaults under the Indenture with respect to the debt securities of such series, except defaults in payment of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the debt securities or provisions of such series that may not be modified or amended without the consent of the Holders of all Outstanding debt securities of such series. (Sections 5.2 and 5.13)

“Significant Subsidiary” is defined in the Indenture to mean any Subsidiary (1) which, as of the close of the fiscal year of the Company immediately preceding the date of determination, contributed more than 10 percent of the consolidated net operating revenues of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries for such year or (2) the total net tangible assets of which as of the close of such immediately preceding fiscal year exceeded 10 percent of the Consolidated Net Tangible Assets of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries. (Section 5.1)

The Company will be required to furnish to the Trustee annually a statement as to the performance by the Company of its covenants and agreements under the Indenture. (Section 10.9)

Subject to certain conditions set forth in the Indenture, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then Outstanding debt securities of any series with respect to which an Event of Default has occurred shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee under the Indenture in respect of such series. No Holder of any debt securities shall have any right to cause the Trustee to institute any proceedings, judicial or otherwise, with respect to the Indenture or any remedy thereunder unless, among other things, the Holder or Holders of debt securities shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity against costs, expenses and liabilities relating to such proceedings. (Sections 5.12 and 5.7)

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amount of such debt security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount as established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more supplemental indentures, prior to the issuance of such debt securities, (3) the principal amount of a debt security denominated in one or more foreign currencies or currency units which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined as of such date in the manner as described in clause (2) above, of the principal amount of such debt security (or, in the case of a debt security described in clause (1) or (2) above, of the amount determined as provided in such clause), and (4) debt securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the debt securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, only debt securities which the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Debt securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such debt securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the debt securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor. (Section 1.1)

“Affiliate” is defined in the Indenture to mean, with respect to any person or entity, any other person or entity directly or indirectly controlling, or controlled by, or under direct or indirect common control with, that person or entity. For the purposes of this definition, “control”, and the correlative terms “controlling” and “controlled,” means the power to direct the management and policies of an entity, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise.

Modification of the Indenture

The Indenture provides that the Company and the Trustee may, without the consent of the Holders, modify or amend the Indenture in order to:

 

   

evidence the succession of another corporation to the Company and the assumption by any such successor corporation of the covenants of the Company in the Indenture and in the debt securities;

 

   

add to the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of debt securities;

 

   

add any additional Events of Default to the Indenture;

 

   

add to or change any of the provisions of the Indenture necessary to permit the issuance of debt securities in bearer form, registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons;

 

   

add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of the Indenture, in respect of one or more series of debt securities, provided that any such addition, change or elimination may not apply to any debt security of any series created prior to such addition, change or elimination;

 

   

establish the form or terms of debt securities of any series as permitted under the Indenture;

 

   

evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment under the Indenture of a successor Trustee with respect to the debt securities of one or more series; or

 

   

cure any ambiguity, or correct or supplement any provision of the Indenture which may be inconsistent with any other provision of the Indenture, provided such action does not adversely affect the interest of the Holders of debt securities of any series.

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the debt securities of such series, except that no such modification or amendment may, without the consent of the Holders of all then Outstanding debt securities of such series:

 

   

change the due date of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or interest on, any debt securities of such series;

 

   

reduce the principal amount of, or any installment of principal or interest or rate of interest on, or any premium payable on redemption of, any debt securities of such series;

 

   

reduce the principal amount of any debt securities of such series payable upon acceleration of the maturity thereof;

 

   

change the place or the currency of payment of principal of, or any premium or interest on, any debt securities of such series;

 

   

impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to any debt securities of such series on or after the due date thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the redemption date thereof);

 

   

reduce the percentage in principal amount of debt securities of such series then Outstanding, the consent of whose Holders is required for modification or amendment of the Indenture or for waiver of compliance with certain provisions of the Indenture or for waiver of certain defaults; or

 

   

modify certain provisions of the Indenture regarding the amendment or modification of, or waiver with respect to, any provision of the Indenture or the debt securities. (Section 9.2)

Discharge of the Indenture

The Indenture, with respect to the debt securities of any series (if all series issued under the Indenture are not to be affected), shall upon the written request or order of the Company cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of debt securities therein expressly provided for), when:

 

   

either (A) all debt securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (1) debt securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid and (2) debt securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation or (B) all such debt securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation (1) have become due and payable, (2) will become due and payable at their stated maturity within one year or (3) if the debt securities of such series are denominated and payable only in United States dollars and such debt securities are to be called for redemption within one year, and the Company in the case of (1), (2) or (3) above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee an amount in United States dollars sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such debt securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal (and premium, if any) and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of debt securities which have become due and payable) or to the stated maturity or any redemption date, as the case may be;

 

   

the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable under the Indenture by the Company; and

 

   

the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for in the Indenture relating to the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture have been complied with. (Section 4.1)

 

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Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, the following provisions relating to defeasance and discharge of indebtedness, or relating to defeasance of certain covenants in the Indenture, will apply to the debt securities of any series, or to any specified part of a series. (Section 13.1)

Defeasance and Discharge . The Indenture provides that the Company will be discharged from all its obligations with respect to such debt securities (except for certain obligations to exchange or register the transfer of debt securities, to replace stolen, lost or mutilated debt securities, to maintain paying agencies and to hold moneys for payment in trust) upon the deposit in trust for the benefit of the Holders of such debt securities of money or U.S. Government Obligations, or both, which, through the payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide money in an amount sufficient to pay any installment of principal of and any premium and interest on and any mandatory sinking fund payments in respect of such debt securities on the respective Stated Maturities in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and such debt securities. Such defeasance or discharge may occur only if, among other things, the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the United States Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or there has been a change in tax law, in either case to the effect that Holders of such debt securities will not recognize gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred. (Sections 13.1 and 13.2)

Defeasance of Certain Covenants . The Indenture provides that the Company may omit to comply with certain restrictive covenants, including those described under the captions “Certain Covenants of the Company—Limitation on Indebtedness Secured by a Mortgage” and “Certain Covenants of the Company—Limitation on Sale and Lease-Back Transactions” above, and any that may be described in the applicable prospectus supplement, and that such omission will be deemed not to be or result in an Event of Default, in each case with respect to such debt securities. In order to do so, the Company will be required to deposit, in trust for the benefit of the Holders of such debt securities, money or U.S. Government Obligations, or both, which through the payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide money in an amount sufficient to pay any installment of the principal of and any premium and interest on and any mandatory sinking fund payments in respect of such debt securities on the respective Stated Maturities in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and such debt securities. The Company will also be required, among other things, to deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that Holders of such debt securities will not recognize gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and defeasance of certain obligations and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and defeasance had not occurred. In the event the Company exercises this option with respect to any debt securities and such debt securities are declared due and payable because of the occurrence of any Event of Default, the amount of money and U.S. Government Obligations so deposited in trust will be sufficient to pay amounts due on such debt securities at the time of their respective Stated Maturities but may not be sufficient to pay amounts due on such debt securities upon any acceleration resulting from such Event of Default. In such case, the Company will remain liable for such payments. (Sections 13.1 and 13.2)

The Trustee

The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. will serve as the Trustee for the debt securities. In the ordinary course of business The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. or its affiliates have provided common stock transfer agent and registrar services to the Company and may in the future provide commercial or other services for the Company and its subsidiaries for which The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. or its affiliates will receive customary compensation.

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Trustee may be deemed to have a conflicting interest with respect to the debt securities for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act and, unless the Trustee is able to eliminate any such conflicting interest, the Trustee may be required to resign as Trustee under the Indenture. In that event, the Company would be required to appoint a successor Trustee for the Indenture.

Governing Law

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PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

We may sell any of the debt securities offered hereby in one or more of the following ways from time to time:

 

   

to or through underwriters or dealers,

 

   

through agents,

 

   

through dealers, and

 

   

directly by us.

Sale To or Through Underwriters or Dealers

If underwriters are used in the sale of any of these securities, the underwriters will acquire the debt securities for their own account. The underwriters may resell the debt securities from time to time in one or more transactions, including negotiated transactions, at a fixed public offering price or at varying prices determined at the time of sale. Underwriters may offer securities to the public either through underwriting syndicates represented by one or more managing underwriters or directly by one or more firms acting as underwriters. Unless we inform you otherwise in any prospectus supplement, the obligations of the underwriters to purchase the debt securities will be subject to certain conditions, and the underwriters will be obligated to purchase all the offered securities if they purchase any of them. The underwriters may change from time to time any initial public offering price and any discounts or concessions allowed or reallowed or paid to dealers.

In connection with an offering through underwriters, the underwriters may engage in over-allotment, stabilizing transactions, syndicate covering transactions and penalty bids in accordance with Regulation M under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Over-allotment involves sales in excess of the offering size, which create a short position for the underwriters. Stabilizing transactions involve bids to purchase the debt securities in the open market for the purpose of pegging, fixing or maintaining the price of the debt securities. Syndicate covering transactions involve purchases of the debt securities in the open market after the distribution has been completed in order to cover syndicate short positions. Penalty bids permit the underwriters to reclaim a selling concession from a syndicate member when the debt securities originally sold by that syndicate member are purchased in a syndicate covering transaction to cover syndicate short positions. Stabilizing transactions, syndicate covering transactions and penalty bids may cause the price of the debt securities to be higher than it would otherwise be in the absence of those transactions. If the underwriters engage in stabilizing, syndicate covering transactions or penalty bids they may discontinue them at any time.

Some or all of the debt securities that we offer though this prospectus or any prospectus supplement may be new issues of securities with no established trading market. Any underwriters to whom we sell these securities for public offering and sale may make a market in those securities, but they will not be obligated to and they may discontinue any market making at any time without notice. Accordingly, we cannot assure you of the liquidity of, or continued trading markets for, any securities that we offer.

If dealers are used in the sale of securities, we will sell the debt securities to them as principals. They may then resell those securities to the public at varying prices determined by the dealers at the time of resale. We will include in the prospectus supplement the names of the dealers and the terms of the transaction.

Direct Sales and Sales Through Agents

We may sell the debt securities directly, and not through underwriters, dealers, or agents. We may also sell the debt securities through agents designated from time to time. In the prospectus supplement, we will name any agent involved in the offer or sale of the offered securities, and we will describe any commissions payable to the agent. Unless we inform you otherwise in the prospectus supplement, any agent will agree to use its reasonable best efforts to solicit purchases for the period of its appointment.

 

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We may sell the debt securities directly to institutional investors or others who may be deemed to be underwriters within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, with respect to any sale of those securities. We will describe the terms of any such sales in the prospectus supplement.

Delayed Delivery Contracts

If we so indicate in the prospectus supplement, we may authorize agents, underwriters or dealers to solicit offers from certain types of institutions to purchase debt securities from us at the public offering price under delayed delivery contracts. These contracts would provide for payment and delivery on a specified date in the future. The contracts would be subject only to those conditions described in the prospectus supplement. The prospectus supplement will describe the commission payable for solicitation of those contracts.

General Information

We may have agreements with the agents, dealers and underwriters to indemnify them against certain civil liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, or to contribute with respect to payments that the agents, dealers or underwriters may be required to make. Agents, dealers and underwriters may be customers of, engage in transactions with or perform services for us in the ordinary course of their businesses.

 

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LEGAL MATTERS

Unless otherwise specified in the prospectus supplement accompanying this prospectus, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP will pass upon the validity of any debt securities issued under this prospectus. Any underwriters will be represented by their own legal counsel, which will be named in the prospectus supplement. Members of the law firm of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP, other than attorneys involved in the preparation of this registration statement, own or have an indirect interest in common stock of Belo the fair market value of which exceeds $50,000.

EXPERTS

The consolidated financial statements of Belo Corp. and subsidiaries included in Belo Corp.’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated September 15, 2009, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the effectiveness of Belo Corp.’s internal control over financial reporting included in Belo Corp.’s Amendment No. 1 to its Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2008, have been audited by Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, as set forth in their reports thereon, included therein, and incorporated herein by reference. Such consolidated financial statements are incorporated herein by reference in reliance upon such reports given on the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

 

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INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

Item 14. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution

Set forth below is an estimate (except in the case of the registration fee) of the amount of fees and expenses to be incurred by Belo in connection with the issuance and distribution of an assumed amount of $600,000,000 of securities registered under this registration statement, other than underwriting discounts and commissions, if any, incurred in connection with the sale of the offered securities.

 

SEC registration fee

   $ 33,480

Printing expenses

   $ 20,000

Legal fees and expenses

   $ 50,000

Accounting fees and expenses

   $ 100,000

Trustee fees and expenses

   $ 30,000

Rating agency fees

   $ 654,000

Miscellaneous

   $ 10,000

Total

   $ 897,480

 

Item 15. Indemnification of Directors and Officers

Under Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”), the Company, as a Delaware corporation, has the power, under specified circumstances, to indemnify its directors, officers, employees, and agents in connection with actions, suits, or proceedings brought against them by a third party or in the right of the corporation, by reason that they were or are such directors, officers, employees, or agents, against expenses and liabilities incurred in any such action, suit, or proceeding, so long as they acted in good faith and in a manner that they reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of such corporation, and with respect to any criminal action, that they had no reasonable cause to believe their conduct was unlawful. With respect to suits by or in the right of such corporation, however, indemnification is generally limited to attorneys’ fees and other expenses and is not available if such person is adjudged to be liable to such corporation, unless the court determines that indemnification is appropriate. A Delaware corporation also has the power to purchase and maintain insurance for such persons. Article XI of the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company provides for indemnification of directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL. Reference is made to the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company.

Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL provides that a certificate of incorporation may contain a provision eliminating or limiting the personal liability of a director to the corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, provided that such provisions may not eliminate or limit the liability of a director (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its shareholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 (relating to liability for unauthorized acquisitions or redemptions of, or dividends on, capital stock) of the DGCL, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. Article XV of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation contains such a provision.

 

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Item 16. Exhibits

 

Exhibit

Number

 

Description

  1.1  

Form of Underwriting Agreement(1)

  4.1   Indenture dated as of June 1, 1997 between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successor Trustee to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., formerly known as The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.6(1) to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1997 (File No. 002-74702))
  4.2   Form of Debt Securities(1)
  4.3   Financing agreements:
 

(1)    Amended and Restated Five-Year Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of June 7, 2006 among the Company, as Borrower; JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent; J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Banc of America Securities LLC, as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners; Bank of America, N.A., as Syndication Agent; SunTrust Bank, The Bank of New York, and BNP Paribas, as Documentation Agents; and Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd., as Co-Documentation Agent (Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 7, 2006 (Securities and Exchange Commission File No. 001-08598))

 

(2)    First Amendment dated as of February 4, 2008 to the Amended and Restated Five-Year Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of June 7, 2006 among the Company and the Lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent (Exhibit 99.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 5, 2008 (Securities and Exchange Commission File No. 001-08598))

 

(3)    Second Amendment dated as of February 26, 2009 to the Amended and Restated Five-Year Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of June 7, 2006 among the Company and the Lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as Administrative Agent (Exhibit 10.1(3) to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K dated March 2, 2009 (Securities and Exchange Commission File No. 001-08598))

 

(4)    Guarantee Agreement dated as of February 26, 2009, among Belo Corp., the Subsidiaries of Belo Corp. identified therein and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (Exhibit 10.1(4) to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K dated March 2, 2009 (Securities and Exchange Commission File No. 001-08598))

  5.1  

Opinion of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP

12.1  

Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges

23.1  

Consent of Ernst & Young LLP

23.2  

Consent of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)

24.1  

Power of Attorney (included in the signature pages thereto)

25.1  

Statement of Eligibility of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee

 

(1) To be filed by amendment or pursuant to a report under Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and incorporated by reference herein. The Company will file as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K any related form used in the future and not previously filed by means of an amendment.

 

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Also to be filed by amendment or pursuant to a report under Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and incorporated by reference herein are consolidating condensed financial statements of the subsidiary guarantors. The amendment or report will be filed before the effectiveness of this registration statement and any sales pursuant to the prospectus which forms a part of this registration statement.

 

Item 17. Undertakings

(a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in the volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement; and

(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

provided, however, that paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) above do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of the registration statement.

(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(4) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser:

(i) Each prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and

(ii) Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the

 

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registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date;

(5) That, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, the undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

(i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

(ii) Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;

(iii) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and

(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

(b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

(d) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to file an application for the purpose of determining the eligibility of the trustee to act under subsection (a) of Section 310 of the Trust Indenture Act in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission under Section 305(b)(2) of the Act.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

BELO CORP.
By:   /s/    D UNIA A. S HIVE        
 

Dunia A. Shive

President and Chief Executive Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Dunia A. Shive, Dennis A. Williamson, and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/    R OBERT W. D ECHERD        

Robert W. Decherd

   Chairman of the Board   September 22, 2009

/s/    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

   President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/s/    D ENNIS A. W ILLIAMSON        

Dennis A. Williamson

   Executive Vice President/Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/s/    C AREY P. H ENDRICKSON        

Carey P. Hendrickson

   Senior Vice President/Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)   September 22, 2009

/s/    H ENRY P. B ECTON , J R .        

Henry P. Becton, Jr.

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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/s/    J UDITH L. C RAVEN , M.D., M.P.H.        

Judith L. Craven, M.D., M.P.H.

   Director   September 22, 2009

/s/    D EALEY D. H ERNDON        

Dealey D. Herndon

   Director   September 22, 2009

/s/    J AMES M. M ORONEY III        

James M. Moroney III

   Director   September 22, 2009

/s/    W AYNE R. S ANDERS        

Wayne R. Sanders

   Director   September 22, 2009

/s/    M. A NNE S ZOSTAK        

M. Anne Szostak

   Director   September 22, 2009

/s/    M C H ENRY T. T ICHENOR , J R .        

McHenry T. Tichenor, Jr.

   Director   September 22, 2009

/s/    L LOYD D. W ARD        

Lloyd D. Ward

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September  22, 2009.

 

BELO ADVERTISING CUSTOMER SERVICES, INC.
By:   /s/    D UNIA A. S HIVE        
 

Dunia A. Shive

President

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Dunia A. Shive, Brenda C. Maddox and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

  

Chairman of the Board of Directors

and President (Principal Executive

Officer)

  September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX         

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September  22, 2009.

 

BELO CAPITAL BUREAU, INC.
By:   /s/    D UNIA A. S HIVE        
 

Dunia A. Shive

President

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Dunia A. Shive, Brenda C. Maddox and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

   Chairman of the Board of Directors and President (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX        

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

BELO HOLDINGS, INC.
By:   / S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        
 

Dunia A. Shive

President

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Dunia A. Shive, Brenda C. Maddox, and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

   Chairman of the Board of Directors and President (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/s/    B RENDA C. M ADDOX        

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/s/    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

BELO KENTUCKY, INC.
By:   /s/    M ARK D. P IMENTEL        
 

Mark D. Pimentel

President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Mark D. Pimentel, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    M ARK D. P IMENTEL        

Mark D. Pimentel

   President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX        

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

   Chairman of the Board of Directors   September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

BELO MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC.
By:   / S /    D ENNIS A. W ILLIAMSON        
 

Dennis A. Williamson

President

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Dennis A. Williamson, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    D ENNIS A. W ILLIAMSON        

Dennis A. Williamson

   President (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX        

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

   Chairman of the Board of Directors   September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

BELO SAN ANTONIO, INC.
By:   /s/    R OBERT G. M C G ANN         
 

Robert G. McGann

President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Robert G. McGann, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    R OBERT G. M C G ANN        

Robert G. McGann

   President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX         

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

  

Chairman of the Board of Directors

  September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

BELO TECHNOLOGY ASSETS II, INC.
By:   /s/    D UNIA A. S HIVE        
 

Dunia A. Shive

President

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Dunia A. Shive, Brenda C. Maddox and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

  

Chairman of the Board of Directors

and President (Principal Executive

Officer)

  September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX         

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

BELO TV, INC.
By:   /s/    A LBERT B. B ROWN , J R .         
 

Albert B. Brown, Jr.

President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Albert B. Brown, Jr., Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    A LBERT B. B ROWN , J R .         

Albert B. Brown, Jr.

   President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX         

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

  

Chairman of the Board of Directors

  September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on September 22 , 2009.

 

BELO VENTURES, INC.
By:   /s/    P EGGY L. M ILNER        
 

Peggy L. Milner

President

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Peggy L. Milner, Sandra J. Radcliffe and Julian H. Baumann, Jr. as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    P EGGY L. M ILNER         

Peggy L. Milner

   President (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    S ANDRA J. R ADCLIFFE        

Sandra J. Radcliffe

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer) and Director   September 22, 2009

/ S /    J ULIAN H. B AUMANN , J R .         

Julian H. Baumann, Jr.

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22 , 2009.

 

CORPORATE ARENA ASSOCIATES, INC.
By:   /s/    D UNIA A. S HIVE        
 

Dunia A. Shive

President

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Dunia A. Shive, Brenda C. Maddox and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

   Chairman of the Board of Directors and President (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX        

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

KASW-TV, INC.
By:   / S /    L AWRENCE D. N ICHOLSON         
 

Lawrence D. Nicholson

President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Lawrence D. Nicholson, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

  

Date

/ S /    L AWRENCE D. N ICHOLSON        

Lawrence D. Nicholson

   President/General Manager
(Principal Executive Officer)
   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX        

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial
Officer)
   September 22, 2009

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE          

Dunia A. Shive

   Chairman of the Board of
Directors
   September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR          

Guy H. Kerr

   Director    September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

KENS-TV, INC.
By:   /s/    R OBERT G. M C G ANN         
 

Robert G. McGann

President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Robert G. McGann, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    R OBERT G. M C G ANN        

Robert G. McGann

   President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX         

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

  

Chairman of the Board of Directors

  September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

KHOU-TV, INC.
By:   /s/    S USAN M C E LDOON        
 

Susan McEldoon

President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Susan McEldoon, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    S USAN M C E LDOON        

Susan McEldoon

   President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX         

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

  

Chairman of the Board of Directors

  September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

KING BROADCASTING COMPANY

By:

  /s/    R ACINE B. H EACOX        
 

Racine B. Heacox

Acting President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Racine B. Heacox, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/    R ACINE B. H EACOX        

Racine B. Heacox

   Acting President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/s/    B RENDA C. M ADDOX        

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/s/    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

  

Chairman of the Board of Directors

  September 22, 2009

/s/    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

  

Director

  September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

KING NEWS CORPORATION
By:   /s/    R ACINE B. H EACOX         
 

Racine B. Heacox

President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Racine B. Heacox, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    R ACINE B. H EACOX         

Racine B. Heacox

   President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX         

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

  

Chairman of the Board of Directors

  September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

KMOV-TV, INC.
By:   / S /    A LLAN R. C OHEN        
 

Allan R. Cohen

President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Allan R. Cohen, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    A LLAN R. C OHEN        

Allan R. Cohen

   President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX        

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

   Chairman of the Board of Directors   September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

KMSB-TV, INC.
By:   /s/    L AWRENCE D. N ICHOLSON        
 

Lawrence D. Nicholson

Acting President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Lawrence D. Nicholson, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/    L AWRENCE D. N ICHOLSON        

Lawrence D. Nicholson

   Acting President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/s/    B RENDA C. M ADDOX        

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/s/    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

   Chairman of the Board of Directors   September 22, 2009

/s/    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September  22, 2009.

 

KONG-TV, INC.
By:   /s/    R ACINE B. H EACOX         
 

Racine B. Heacox

President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Racine B. Heacox, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    R ACINE B. H EACOX         

Racine B. Heacox

   President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX         

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

  

Chairman of the Board of Directors

  September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September  22, 2009.

 

KSKN TELEVISION, INC.
By:   /s/    J AMES T. A ITKEN         
 

James T. Aitken

President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of James T. Aitken, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    J AMES T. A ITKEN         

James T. Aitken

   President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX         

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

  

Chairman of the Board of Directors

  September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September  22, 2009.

 

KTTU-TV, INC.
By:   /s/    L AWRENCE D. N ICHOLSON         
 

Lawrence D. Nicholson

Acting President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Lawrence D. Nicholson, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    L AWRENCE D. N ICHOLSON         

Lawrence D. Nicholson

   Acting President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX         

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

  

Chairman of the Board of Directors

  September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

KTVK, INC.
By:   / S /    L AWRENCE D. N ICHOLSON        
 

Lawrence D. Nicholson

President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Lawrence D. Nicholson, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    L AWRENCE D. N ICHOLSON        

Lawrence D. Nicholson

   President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX        

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

   Chairman of the Board of Directors   September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

KVUE TELEVISION, INC.
By:   / S /    P ATRICIA C. S MITH        
 

Patricia C. Smith

President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Patricia C. Smith, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    P ATRICIA C. S MITH        

Patricia C. Smith

   President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX        

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

   Chairman of the Board of Directors   September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September  22, 2009.

 

NORTHWEST CABLE NEWS, INC.
By:   /s/    R ACINE B. H EACOX        
 

Racine B. Heacox

President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Racine B. Heacox, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    R ACINE B. H EACOX        

Racine B. Heacox

   President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX        

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

   Chairman of the Board of Directors   September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22 , 2009.

 

NTV, INC.
By:   /s/    D UNIA A. S HIVE        
 

Dunia A. Shive

President

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Dunia A. Shive, Brenda C. Maddox and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

   Chairman of the Board of Directors and President (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX        

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September  22, 2009.

 

TEXAS CABLE NEWS, INC.
By:   /s/    M ICHAEL T. D EVLIN         
 

Michael T. Devlin

President

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Michael T. Devlin, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    M ICHAEL T. D EVLIN         

Michael T. Devlin

   President (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX         

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

  

Chairman of the Board of Directors

  September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

WCNC-TV, INC.

By:

  /s/    T IMOTHY J. M ORRISSEY         
 

Timothy J. Morrissey

President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Timothy J. Morrissey, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/    T IMOTHY J. M ORRISSEY         

Timothy J. Morrissey

   President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/s/    B RENDA C. M ADDOX        

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/s/    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

  

Chairman of the Board of Directors

  September 22, 2009

/s/    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

  

Director

  September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

WFAA-TV, INC.
By:   /s/    M ICHAEL T. D EVLIN        
 

Michael T. Devlin

President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Michael T. Devlin, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/    M ICHAEL T. D EVLIN        

Michael T. Devlin

   President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/s/    B RENDA C. M ADDOX        

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/s/    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

   Chairman of the Board of Directors   September 22, 2009

/s/    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

WVEC TELEVISION, INC.
By:   /s/    T OD A. S MITH        
 

Tod A. Smith

President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Tod A. Smith, Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/    T OD A. S MITH        

Tod A. Smith

   President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/s/    B RENDA C. M ADDOX        

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/s/    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

   Chairman of the Board of Directors   September 22, 2009

/s/    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on September 22, 2009.

 

WWL-TV, INC.
By:   / S /    A LBERT B. B ROWN , J R .        
 

Albert B. Brown, Jr.

President/General Manager

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Albert B. Brown, Jr., Brenda C. Maddox, Dunia A. Shive and Guy H. Kerr as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all further amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement (and any additional registration statement related hereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto)), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.

 

Name

  

Title

 

Date

/ S /    A LBERT B. B ROWN , J R .        

Albert B. Brown, Jr.

   President/General Manager (Principal Executive Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    B RENDA C. M ADDOX        

Brenda C. Maddox

   Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)   September 22, 2009

/ S /    D UNIA A. S HIVE        

Dunia A. Shive

   Chairman of the Board of Directors   September 22, 2009

/ S /    G UY H. K ERR        

Guy H. Kerr

   Director   September 22, 2009

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit

Number

  

Description

  1.1    Form of Underwriting Agreement(1)
  4.1    Indenture dated as of June 1, 1997 between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successor Trustee to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., formerly known as The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.6(1) to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1997 (File No. 002-74702))
  4.2    Form of Debt Securities(1)
  4.3    Financing agreements:
  

(1)    Amended and Restated Five-Year Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of June 7, 2006 among the Company, as Borrower; JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent; J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Banc of America Securities LLC, as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners; Bank of America, N.A., as Syndication Agent; SunTrust Bank, The Bank of New York, and BNP Paribas, as Documentation Agents; and Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd., as Co-Documentation Agent (Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 7, 2006 (Securities and Exchange Commission File No. 001-08598))

  

(2)    First Amendment dated as of February 4, 2008 to the Amended and Restated Five-Year Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of June 7, 2006 among the Company and the Lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent (Exhibit 99.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 5, 2008 (Securities and Exchange Commission File No. 001-08598))

  

(3)    Second Amendment dated as of February 26, 2009 to the Amended and Restated Five-Year Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of June 7, 2006 among the Company and the Lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as Administrative Agent (Exhibit 10.1(3) to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K dated March 2, 2009 (Securities and Exchange Commission File No. 001-08598))

  

(4)    Guarantee Agreement dated as of February 26, 2009, among Belo Corp., the Subsidiaries of Belo Corp. identified therein and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (Exhibit 10.1(4) to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K dated March 2, 2009 (Securities and Exchange Commission File No. 001-08598))

  5.1    Opinion of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP
12.1    Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges
23.1    Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
23.2    Consent of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1    Power of Attorney (included in the signature pages thereto)
25.1    Statement of Eligibility of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee

 

(1) To be filed by amendment or pursuant to a report under Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and incorporated by reference herein. The Company will file as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K any related form used in the future and not previously filed by means of an amendment.

Also to be filed by amendment or pursuant to a report under Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and incorporated by reference herein are consolidating condensed financial statements of the subsidiary guarantors. The amendment or report will be filed before the effectiveness of this registration statement and any sales pursuant to the prospectus which forms a part of this registration statement.

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