Subject: Earnings and Loss Announcements

• A Kick in the ACS

  August 7, 2006

• At Least the Trees Will be Happy

  July 28, 2006

• Foreclosure? I Barely Even Knew Her.

  May 24, 2006

• Richie Rich Round-Up

  May 4, 2006

• Movin' On Up

  April 21, 2006

• How Belo Can You Go

  April 20, 2006

• Can't Spell "Below Expectations" Without Belo

  April 19, 2006

• Belo: The Good, The Bad and the Fugly

  April 26, 2007

• Someone Needs an Income Tax Extension

  April 26, 2007

• Belo Earnings: Could Be Better, Could Be Worse

  July 27, 2007

• Back on Its Heelys

  November 12, 2007

• On the Brinker

  January 8, 2008

• Guitar Hero Will Save the Economy

  March 18, 2008

• Blockbuster Wins Some, Loses a Lot

  August 7, 2008

• Craziness Continued ...

  September 15, 2008

• The Fall Blockbuster

  November 6, 2008

• Why is Blockbuster Suffering? Simple, Says CEO Jim Keyes. Because the Movies Suck.

  Jim Keyes has a point. Because would you really wanna go to Blockbuster to rent Punisher: War Zone? Did not think so.Shortly after Dallas-based Blockbuster reported a quarterly loss of $359.7 million yesterday, CEO Jim Keyes hopped on a conference call with analysts to reassure them that, look, all's not lost. And while there are myriad reasons for the current state of hurt ar 1201 Elm Street that has led to shares worth 80 cents today -- competition from Netflix, which is currently trading well

  March 20, 2009

• Southwest Airlines, a Symbol of Freedom

  Southwest Airlines announced this morning that it's living up to that old motto, offering nearly every single employee what CEO Gary Kelly calls an "early out" in the wake of a first-quarter net loss, the Dallas-based carrier's third straight decline. Southwest today announced a first-quarter '09 net loss of $91 million, compared to net income of $34 million last year, prompting the buyout offers, a hiring freeze and wage freezes for the airline's officers and senior management, which were also

  April 16, 2009

• Food For Thought 5.4.09

  "[Sales] may have been negatively impacted by media surrounding swine flu." (Chuck E. Cheese executive Michael Magusiak on the effect of the "pandemic" on the family friendly pizza chain's fortunes, The restaurants suffered a 20 percent drop in same-store sales during the first three days last week...although first-quarter earnings were strong overall, leading to an 11.9 increase in stock values on Wall Street. The company responded by increasing sanitation of games, rides and such. Anyway, it's

  May 4, 2009

• Belo Will "Continue to Focus on Expense Reductions and Operational Realignment"

  Weeks after completing its latest round of penny-saving layoffs, which were preceded by pay cuts and benefits trims, A.H. Belo this morning reported its first-quarter '09 results -- and they are significant. The publisher of The Dallas Morning News reports a first quarter net loss of $103.1 million, some of which is related to the cost of the layoffs and most of which attributed to a write-down in Rhode Island, but a big hunk of the figure -- some $18 million -- is due to a decrease in ad reve

  May 4, 2009

• Food For Thought 5.6.09

  "Speculation that Starbucks is losing retail market share to competitors has been grossly exaggerated. Our customers are not trading down." (Howard Schultz, chairman of Starbucks, announcing lower pricing on certain items in some markets to combat slower sales. The Seattle-based chain reported a 77 percent drop in earnings for the first quarter, as same-store sales tumbled eight percent. They registered declines in number of customer transactions and value per transaction, as well. Reported by N

  May 6, 2009

• Blockbuster Reports Drop in Total Revenue and, Worse, Same-Store Sales

  All week, Wall Street has been anxiously anticipating Blockbuster's first-quarter results, which were released moments ago. Analysts didn't expect good news from the Dallas-based company, whose efforts to reinvent itself we've documented at great length in recent months. And the news is indeed mixed, at best: From Elm Street HQ comes word that total revenue for the first quarter of '09 was $1.12 billion, compared to $1.39 billion for the same period one year ago. Says CEO Jim Keyes, "Our new fin

  May 14, 2009

• GameStop Banking On "Used Product"

  Grapevine-based GameStop this morning reported its first-quarter '09 financials, which look pretty nice on the surface: Total sales were up 9.2% to $1.98 billion, and net earnings jumped 13.4% to $70.4 million. Among the reasons cited for the increased income: the release of the Nintendo DSi and such titles as Resident Evil 5 and Street Fighter IV -- though neither proved as popular as last year's Grand Theft Auto IV or Super Smash Bros. Brawl.But don't look to the new game sales' stats. Fact i

  May 21, 2009