Scripps Networks 1Q11

This part (below) was interesting to me.  The "noncontrolling owner" is Tribune, which, as we know, has had some problems of its own.  At $52.8 million for 6%, my math is that Food & Cooking are being valued at $880 million, a pretty modest price for a fully distributed, well-branded network (plus Cooking).  I guess Tribune found the money after they did the math.

from the 10-Q...
Food Network Partnership noncontrolling interest - During 2010, we completed the rebranding of the Fine Living Network (“FLN”) to the Cooking Channel and subsequently contributed the membership interest of the Cooking Channel to the Food Network Partnership (the “Partnership”) in August of 2010. In accordance with the terms of the Partnership agreement, the noncontrolling interest owner was required to make a pro-rata capital contribution to maintain its proportionate interest in the Partnership. At the close of our 2010 fiscal year, the noncontrolling owner had not made the required $52.8 million contribution, and its ownership interest in the Partnership was diluted from 31 percent to 25 percent. Accordingly, for the four months following the Cooking Channel contribution, profits were allocated to the noncontrolling owner at its reduced ownership percentage, reducing net income attributed to noncontrolling interest by $8.0 million in 2010.


In February 2011, the noncontrolling owner made the $52.8 million pro-rata contribution to the Partnership and its ownership interest was returned to the pre-dilution percentage as if this pro-rata contribution had been made as of the date of the Cooking Channel contribution. The retroactive impact of restoring the noncontrolling owner’s interest in the Partnership increased net income attributable to noncontrolling interest $8.0 million in the first quarter of 2011. Net income attributable to SNI was decreased $4.7 million.

Scripps Networks 10-Q