2008 BIAfn Investment Resource Guides

Investing In Radio® Market Report

BIAfn's Radio Market Report is the most comprehensive investment guide available on the radio industry. Every Arbitron-rated market is profiled with historic and projected market demographic and financial statistics.

• Station competitive and performance information including 12+ total day Arbitron ratings for the past 8 ratings periods,
• BIAfn's estimated advertising revenues,
• technical data,
• ownership,
• acquisition information, and
• much more is also included for every market.

This 750+ page book is updated and published quarterly after each of the Arbitron ratings periods. Each edition can be purchased on a one-time basis or as a Quarterly Set.

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Radio Yearbook®

BIAfn's Radio Yearbook is the most all-inclusive directory available of:

• Radio stations,
• Station owners,
• Station personnel, and
• Service providers.

An overview of each market and its major players is also included, along with convenient cross-reference tables.

800+ pages.

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Investing In Radio® Ownership Report

BIAfn's Ownership File profiles the Arbitron-rated commercial radio stations by owner. The book highlights 6,700 + commercial radio stations that serve an Arbitron-rated market, as well as group owners with stations in rated markets.

BIAfn's Ownership File is a comprehensive profile by radio station owners of:

• Owner contact information
• Stations owned,
• Place of operation,
• Performance information,
• Station technical data,
• Recent station transactions and date of acquisition,
• Estimated station revenues and
• Group owner totals and Arbitron 12+ total day shares for the last four periods.

Over 500 pages.

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Investing In Television® Market Report

BIAfn's Television Market Report provides a thorough historical perspective of local Television markets. Every market is profiled with historic and projected market demographic and financial statistics.

The Report also includes revenues for every commercial television station and offers the reader a five-year perspective of performance by providing the market revenue share for the most recent year plus the revenue shares for each commercial station for the prior four years.

Also included and updated quarterly:

• Station transactions,
• Station competitive and performance information,
• Total revenue shares for group owners in each market,
• Contact information for group owners and station personnel
• BIAfn's estimated advertising revenues,
• Technical data, and
• Ownership and acquisition information.

Market revenue totals - historical and projected - are provided in a graphical form to provide a rich understanding of the health of each local television market.

The report also provides the market revenue share for the most recent year and the revenue shares for each commercial station in that market for the prior four years, allowing readers to see how well stations have performed from a five year perspective.

750+ pages. Updated and published quarterly.

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Investing In Television® Yearbook

BIAfn's Television Yearbook is the most comprehensive directory available of TV stations, detailing:

• Television Stations by Market
• Group Owners
• Station Personnel
• Service Providers
• Cross Reference

It also provides all television transactions and BIAfn's recent estimates of the gross advertising revenues for each television market.

Graphical bar charts illustrate ethnic breakdowns for each market.

An overview of each market and its major players is also included, along with convenient cross-reference tables:

• Television Stations by Market
• Television Markets by Rank
• Call Letters to Television Market
• City of License to Television Market
• Group Owners' Headquarters by State and City

425+ pages.

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Investing In Television® Ownership Report

BIAfn's Television Ownership Report scrutinizes the activity and performance of all the major television station owners.

BIAfn's Ownership File is a comprehensive profile of commercial television station owners of:

• where they operate,
• performance,
• contact information,
• stations owned,
• station technical data,
• recent station sales price and date of acquisition,
• estimated station revenues and
• group owner revenues and historic revenue trends over the last five years.

300+ pages.

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Investing In Newspaper® Market Report

BIAfn's Newspaper Market Report is a market-by-market financial reference guide for the Newspaper industry.

The report profiles mores than 6,100 U.S. community weeklies, 1,450 daily newspapers, and 3,400 unique owners and profiles competitive performance, historic and projected market demographics, growth statistics, circulation (daily, Sunday, weekly) and financial revenue estimates for every DMA.

This market report is the only source that offers both publication and market estimated advertising and circulation revenues.

Details on newspaper properties include:

• Estimated newspaper daily,
• Sunday and weekly advertising and circulation revenues,
• Circulation statistics,
• Competitive market share,
• Market penetration,
• Ownership, and
• More.

300+ pages.

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Investing In Newspaper® Ownership Report

BIAfn's Newspaper Ownership Report provides a compelling view to the performance of the 3,000+ Owners of daily and weekly newspapers throughout the United States, as well as each of their holdings.

This comprehensive reference guide reports where they operate, performance and contact information, which includes alphabetical owner contact list, papers owned, technical and circulation data, and recent newspaper sales price and date of acquisition

This reference guide also reports estimated advertising and circulation revenues for each daily and weekly newspaper, as well as summary revenues for each Owner.

300+ pages.

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