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Operator
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen,
and welcome to the World Wrestling Entertainment
fourth-quarter 2002 earnings release conference
call. At this time, all participants have been
placed on a listen-only mode and the floor will be
open for your questions and comments following the
presentation.
It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to
your host, Mr. Tom Gibbons. Sir, the floor is
yours.
Tom Gibbons - VP of Investor Relations
Thank you, operator, and welcome, everyone, to
WWE's fourth-quarter conference call and webcast.
This is Tom Gibbons, vice president of investor
relations. Joining me on the call this morning
are Linda McMahon, chief executive officer, and
Auguste Liguori, chief financial officer.
As you know, we issued fourth-quarter - our
fourth-quarter press release this morning and if
you have not received a copy, you can download one
from our corporate website, www.WWEcorpBIS.com.
Please note that we are also what, if anything,
our conference call on this website.
We'll follow the same format as in prior quarters.
Linda will begin the call with a general overview
of the quarter and then update you on some of the
initiatives that we are currently undertaking.
Auguste will then discuss the fourth-quarter
financial results in detail and then talk briefly
about our guidance for the current fiscal year.
At the conclusion of the prepared remarks, we will
open it up to questions.
I'd like to first begin today by saying that our
discussion may include forward-looking statements
that are subject to various risks, factors, and
uncertainties, particularly those described in
WWE's filings with the SEC. Actual results could
differ materially from those currently
anticipated.
with that being said, I will now turn the call
over to Linda McMahon.
Linda McMahon - CEO
Thanks, Tom. Good morning, everyone, and thank
you for joining us today.
As you know, we issued our fourth-quarter earnings
release this morning. We had a very good quarter,
especially in an environment that was challenging
for most media and entertainment companies but as
I've always stated, one of the hallmarks of our
company is our ability to respond to change.
During the past few months, we have made some
significant strides in this regard, with the
implementation of our new strategic initiatives.
Specifically, our brand extension and
international expansion efforts. This will be a
gradual process as there will definitely be some
adjustments along the way, as we determine the
optimal creative formula.
As in all forms of entertainment, determining the
optimal creative formula is not an exact science
and there are a lot of variables in play. We
often introduce new story lines and talent. Some
work and some don't. There are times when this
process takes longer than we anticipate, but in
the end, we have a proven track record of success.
As many of you know, this past May, we changed our
name to World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. Our
new name puts the emphasis on E for entertainment,
which is what our company does best. With the
name change, we now have a global identity that is
distinctive, unencumbered and supports our U.S.
and international growth plans and our brand
extension initiatives.
Relative to our brand extension, to further expand
our creative efforts, we created two separate
brands under the WWE umbrella. Raw and Smackdown.
We now deliver two unique story lines with two
distinct groups of talents to our fans around the
world. This effectively doubles the content we're
delivering to our fans. Our new program lineup
consists of Sunday night heat, velocity and
confidential, as well our new syndicated promises,
bottom line and after-burn, which allows us to
further develop separate and distinct identities,
talent for our Raw and Smackdown brands. The
introduce of new talent into our story lines has
infused new blood into our creative mix. We now
have an increased talent pool that translates to
additional revenue streams. In other words, more
pay purview events, more live events, more
international tours, more branded merchandise and
more television programming with newly developing
stars. It is also a major impetus behind our
international expansion plans.
Turning to our international business for a
minute, we continue to make excellent progress
here. Given our strong television penetration
around the world, live event touring was the next
logical step. Our initial Asian and European
tours were a huge success for the company as we
performed to sellout audiences. Building upon
this, our aggressive global expansion tour
includes an event scheduled for this summer in
Australia. More than 50,000 fans hold tickets for
this event, which is a sellout for Melbourne's
colonial stadium. We recently announced new
consumer product licensing, DVD and live
sponsorship arrangements. In Japan, we have
retained sports marketing Japan as our agent to
develop consumer product licensing N Europe, the
copyright promotions licensing group will be our
agent handling licenses for consumer products in
the United Kingdom, Ireland and the channel
islands. We enclosed three agreements for
Australia. Both in Australia and in New Zealand.
Chock records has been appointed the exclusive
home video and DVD licensee. Victoria Major
Events company, a group responsible for bringing
live events to Melbourne will be a sponsor in
Melbourne as well as Xbox. We are off to a great
start. Our success thus far has surpassed our
expectations and validates our assertions that the
potential in the international markets will
provide an attractive boost to our revenues. We
expect to begin to see the benefits of the sale of
our branded merchandise in the next 6 to 9 months
as our new licensees build inventory in the
marketplace.
In addition, we expect to increase, again, our
international tours from 4 this year to 6 to 8 for
next year. I would like to turn your attention to
the key drivers of our business. We have always
stated the key drivers of our business, namely,
live event attendance, pay purview buys and
television ratings, are the barometers that we
look at to gauge the health of our business.
While our drivers have softened over the last
year, we are continuing to generate considerable
revenues from our loyal fan base. Our mission in
the brand extension is to further drive the casual
fan back into our followed and we bring the
addition of our creative efforts will prove to be
successful over and over again.
Our television ratings have decreased reflecting
the increased competition for eyeballs across all
programming. The number of people within our
target demographic are spending less time watching
television and more time on other activities such
as playing video games. Additionally, the
proliferation of reality-based television series
and the increase in the number of new episodes in
some of the established television programs have
also been a factor.
Increased competition from new television
programs, such as the Osbornes, Fear Factor,
Sponge Bob Square Pants and Dog Eat Dog as well as
Survivor have pulled away some of our key demos
and while there's been some softness in television
ratings, our flagship programs, Raw and Smackdown,
continue to hold their leadership position. It is
also important to keep in mind that our
programming (inaudible) for male teen and young
adult demographics. Raw on TNN remains the
highest rated regularly scheduled program on basic
cable television and Smackdown on UPN is
consistently the top rated program on network
television among male teens on Thursday nights.
We continue to fine-tune our creative and in doing
so, we expect to see a concurrent increase in
ratings. We believe that the introduction of new
talent and the creative boost in producing two
separate programs will translate into higher
ratings as we develop compelling story lines and
reinvigorate the demand.
In summary, while we did have a good quarter, we
believe there is more room for improvement and
growth, both in our core business and beyond. As
you can see, we are moving along on a number of
new fronts that will leverage the popularity of
the WWE brand, our talent and our unique and
creative story lines. Since this is a talent
driven business, we believe we can build on the
popularity of our talent and bolster our current
programming. As we work - as we are at work on
the creative side of our business throughout the
year, we will simultaneously be focusing on
improving our overall profitability.
I'd like now, if I may, to turn things over to
Auguste to take you through the precise
financials.
Auguste Liguori - CFO
Thanks, Linda. I'd like to walk you through
the financials and give you some color as to
what's behind the numbers. After I'm finished, we
will open it up to Q and A. Engine total revenues for
the quarter increased 4% to 135.9 million compared
to the fourth quarter last year, as increases in
our live and tell advised business were able to
more than offset a decline in our branded
merchandise businesses.
Live and tell advised revenues, which represented
about 77% of total revenues increased 6% to
105 million.
As far as live events are concerned, revenues were
27.9 million, or 8% above last year. There were
78 events, including three international events
during the quarter. This compares to 59 events
during the same period last year.
Attendance for the quarter was approximately
693,000, which included attendance of about 38,400
from our international live event tour. This
compares to attendance of 695,000 in the prior
year quarter.
As planned, we increased the number of events with
the launch of our brand extension, and we are now
playing smaller markets that we have not played in
several years.
Coupled with some softness in our overall
attendance, 9 average attendance per event was
8,900 for this quarter versus 11,800 last year.
the company enjoyed its highest grossing event
ever, wrestle mania 18, with attendance of 68,237
or approximately $3.9 million.
This event established a new attendance and box
office record at the Toronto sky dome. Although
attendance declined slightly, the average price
per ticket increased 10% to when $37.91 for the
quarter.
Pay purview revenues for the quarter were
40.6 million as compared to 39.3 million in the
prior year quarter.
the number of domestic buys was at about
2.4 million versus 2.3 million last year, or a 4%
increase.
Prior period buys were 400,000, versus 300,000
last year, and we did about a hundred thousand
buys from our fanatic series in both quarters.
Our estimates for wrestle mania 18 pay purview
buys are in line with last year's record results
of approximately 1 million buys. Commencing with
our April pay purview backlash, the price of our
pay purview programs increased from 29.95 to
34.95, while wrestle mania will remain at 39.95.
Looking forward, the launch of our brand extension
and international expansion strategies has opened
the doors for additional pay purviews. For the
quarter, our revenues for - from television
rights fees increased 17%, principally due to the
growth in international rights fees. Rights fees
for our tough enough television series and other
television specials. We produced two television
specials this year, namely, deaf a sex on the
beach and history of wrestle mania.
Based on our initial success, we plan to do more
of this type of programming in the future.
Working off the success of tough enough 1 and 2,
we signed on to produce tough enough 3, with MTV.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with this
program, it was the number one rated program on
cable among persons 12 to 34 on Thursday night.
Advertising revenues of 21 point 9 million for the
quarter were essentially the same, as compared to
the prior-year quarter. This, once again,
demonstrates the strength of our brand in the down
market and the success in delivering key male
demos that the advertisers seek.
Separately, we've enjoyed a very successful up
front this year. We'll report on those results
during our first-quarter conference call. Branded
merchandise revenues decreased 3% to 30.9 million.
The market for branded merchandise is still weak,
although there are some pockets of strength in the
DVDs and the video games.
Merchandise revenues were about 8.8 million, as
compared to 78.5 million in the prior year.
Included in the 8.8 million was 6.6 million from
merchandise sold at venues and 2.2 million from
our shop zone website and catalog.
the increase in venue sales was due to our higher
per caps in the quarter of $9.47 as compared to
$9.09 last year.
Publishing revenues increased 5%, to 5.9 million,
primarily due to the increase in the number of
special magazine titles and increases in cover
prices of war magazine and deaf a 2002 magazine.
Licensing revenues were 5.6 million in the quarter
as compared to 7.5 million in the prior-year
quarter.
As - an increase in video game revenues was I
don't have set by lower sales of our books in the
quarter. Video game revenues increased by 83% to
1.6 million in the current quarter, primarily due
to Xbox video game, WWE, which sold the most units
for any Xbox third-party software in its first
weeks of launch.
Our video revenues increased 4.9 million due to an
8 6% increase in the number of home video units
sold, principally attributable to the shift in the
DVD formats.
DVD accounted for 49% of the current quarter unit
sales, versus 13% in the prior year quarter. This
trend should continue as the popularity of the DVD
format expands.
the media revenues increased 13% to 1.2 million,
and the world revenues were 3.8 million for the
quarter, as compared to 4.4 million last year.
the company has re-branded this venue and has
expanded into new areas such as rock concerts and
corporate hospitality events. May of 2002,
metropolitan entertainment was contracted to be
the exclusive producer of all concerts and comedy
acts at the world. Our club, the world, has
become increasingly popular as indicative of our
other revenue opportunities that we can develop at
this venue.
Total profit contribution for the quarter was
59.5 million as compared to 55.7 million for the
prior-year quarter. Total profit contribution
margin increased to 44%, up from 43% last year.
the profit contribution margin for the live and
tell advised business was approximately 44% versus
45% in the fourth quarter of last year. Profit
contribution margin for the branded merchandise
business was 44%, as compared to 35% during the
same period last year. In the fourth quarter
2001, the company recorded additional inventory
and return reserves which impacted the margins in
our branded merchandise business segment.
SG and A expenses for the quarter increased 5% to
31.1 million as compared to 29.6 million last
year. This increase was primarily due to costs
associated with the company's name change as well
as the increased costs at the - increased
expenses at the world.
These increases were slightly offset by lower
professional fees. EBITDA grew to 28.5 million
versus 26.1 million last year.
Income from continuing operations was 16 million,
and EPS from continuing operations was 22 cents
per share versus 17 million and 23 cents per share
respectively in the same period last year,
primarily due to higher depreciation and lower
interest income for the year.
We have essentially completed the shutdown of the
XFL. There are still a few minor points yet to be
resolved. We should not see any further
adjustments in subsequent periods.
for the year, net revenues were 425 million versus
456 million, or a 7% decrease from the prior year.
While there has been some softness in our drivers
and our costs have expanded, we finished the year
with EBITDA of 55.2 million versus 92.9 million in
the prior year. Free cash flow for the year was
approximately 23 million. And as Linda indicated,
the company is continuing to review its continuing
operations in all of its operation - investments
in its operations.
For the year, and from the balance sheet point of
view for the year, we finished roughly with about
487 million in total assets, with approximately
294 million in cash and short-term investments,
64 million in receivables. Our long-term debt was
10 million, and our total shareholders' equity was
approximately 390 million.
Our capital expenditures for the year were about
$19 million.
As we indicated in our press release, we have put
forth some guidance for fiscal 2003. We've
assumed the same level of television ratings and
pay purview buys. Attendance is projected to
increase to the number - to increase in the
number of events, and we are using a lower average
attendance per event in our projections.
the full-year impact of our price increases in pay
purview are also a factor in our assumptions, and
as Linda pointed out, we have a very strong and
loyal core fan base who continue to watch our
television programs, attend our live events, and
purchase our branded merchandise. The launch of
our brand extension and the growth of our
international business is designed to capture more
of the casual fan.
As always, and as mentioned earlier, we are
reviewing our continuing investment in our
operations, and as we move forward to maximize our
profitability. We have provided additional
details on our website, as Tom pointed out.
At this point, I'd like to open it up for
questions.
Operator
Thank you. The floor is now open
for questions. If you do have a question or
comment, please press 1 followed by 4 on your
touch-tone phones. If you're on a speakerphone,
we ask that you please pick up your handset to
minimize any background noise and if at any point
your question has been answered, you may remove
yourself from the queue by pressing the pound key.
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, if you do have a
question or comment, please press 1, followed by
4, on your touch-tone phone.
and our first question is coming from Mr. Jeff
Hoskins of Gerard Klauer Mattison. Sir, your line
is live. If you're on a speakerphone, please pick
up your handset to pose your question.
Unknown Speaker
Can you hear me now.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah.
Unknown Speaker
Okay. Congratulations on a great quarter,
guys. Well done.
Unknown Speaker
Thanks.
Unknown Speaker
I wanted to ask you a question. You talked a
little bit about the ratings on Raw and Smackdown
but can you talk a little bit maybe just in
general terms on your level of satisfaction with
the new shows?
Unknown Speaker
the new shows - let me just clarify one thing.
The new shows are new titles and new content, in
the new hours, so that we're all clear that we
have revitalized some of our shows. On Saturday
night on TNN we now have velocity followed by
confidential. Confidential has been - has been
getting great reviews for us. In fact, I think we
increased our ratings the first week by about 53%,
and bumped up the male viewing audience during
that time as well.
Prior to that, we've had a block on, you know,
from 10:00 to 12:00 on sat night, and that was
a - the excess program, and that was not doing as
well. So these two new programs, I think, are -
are really doing well for us. We're pleased, and
TNN is certainly pleased as well that we, you
know, have changed that format.
In fact, with now the addition of those two
programs and as well as heat, which is on MTV, Raw
and those three programs on the, you know, cable
prime time rankers, Raw is number one and those
three programs, heat, velocity, and tough enough,
are like No. 14. So we're - we're right in there
in the marketplace. We're pleased with the new
formats.
and then the other programs that are in
syndication are recap and magazine shows which
then give the audience a bit more flavor for both
Raw and for Smackdown, as each of those individual
programs, you know, cover those particular either
cable or broadcast programs for the week.
So we're pleased with that. It seems to be going
well for us, and as usual, we're always tweaking
our content to provide our fans with more
information. They like to be on the inside.
Unknown Speaker
Great. And just one question on capex for
2002, if I may. $15 million, is that - are there
any projects that you can identify for us that
make that up?
Unknown Speaker
Jeff, did you mean for fiscal 2003?
Unknown Speaker
Excuse me. Fiscal 2003, yeah, Auguste.
Unknown Speaker
We have some of those projects. Some of them
relate to our IT projects. Some of them - and
some relate to some of our expansions in our
production facilities and finishing off some of
the expenditures in our world operation.
Unknown Speaker
Okay. Thanks a lot.
Unknown Speaker
Thanks, Jeff.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is
coming from Paul Molson of Business Capital
Management.
Unknown Speaker
Hello?
Unknown Speaker
Hi, Paul.
Unknown Speaker
Hi. How are you doing. Linda, I have a
question for you. You mentioned that the ratings
were down because of competition on other
networks. Let me ask you this: How much do you
think is due to the actual story lines that have
been turning people off, the fact that the writing
team has been hot-shotting the angles, making
changing them from week to week, where you have
major story lines being dropped, and what effect
do you think having Austin no longer with the
company temporarily or permanent is going to have
an effect, going forward? I have another question
after you're done.
Unknown Speaker
Okay. Paul, you're obviously a fan. Or at
least a viewer.
Unknown Speaker
I've been a viewer and a fan for well over 20
years.
Unknown Speaker
First of all, we would stand up straight and
tall and say that the first obligation we have to
our fans is through our writing and our
creativity. We have taken a particular course in,
you know, expanding the two brands and to voting
story lines and content on Monday night for Raw
and a particular talent group and the same thing
on Thursday, with the Smackdown show.
We expected, when we did that, to take a half step
backwards. We were not surprised to see some
decline in the ratings with that, as we get those
talents organized and working together, as we also
create better story lines with longer story a. I
think your point is very well taken. Those are
all the things that we're working on. When we
bought WCW and integrated those talents into our
brand, it wasn't as simple as we thought and we
believe that this tactic with the brand
extension - and as I mentioned earlier - will
add, you know, eventually - it already has added
more live events because now we have a Raw tour
and a Smackdown tour, but eventually we will add,
you know, more pay purview, and I know I'm going
on a bit, but the brand extension also gives us
the opportunity to tour more internationally.
For instance, last May when we were in Europe, we
had the Raw tour. When we go back in October,
we'll have the Smackdown tour. If we didn't have
the two separate shows and brands at this point,
we wouldn't be able make those international jumps
like we're doing now.
Unknown Speaker
Okay. Going back to attendance for a second,
would you say that your large growth right now
rests overseas because attendance at the stateside
shows has not been good. I believe it's to the
point now where you're not even selling out Raw
and Smackdown tapings. And some of the house
shows, I know, have played to well less than
capacity. So would you say going forward, you're
going to concentrate more on having the
international shows?
Unknown Speaker
Not more. Not more of a concentration but we
will increase the number of international shows.
But we will not decrease the number of our
domestic shows. In fact, we've already increased
those.
I do think that the softening in ratings does
translate into, you know, the softening at live
events. If you have, you know, fewer eyeballs
watching. Hey, we're all about presenting to the
public and the fans what they want to see.
Sometimes we're great at it. Sometimes we're
right on. And sometimes, you know, if you're
writing 52 weeks a year, you can't hit the button
every time.
Unknown Speaker
Of course, of course.
Unknown Speaker
We do have a proven track record of success for
over now about three generations so we're
confident that our programming will be more
creative and inventive, even in a very competitive
marketplace, so we know that we are always capable
of adjusting and retooling and reinventing
ourselves, and it's all about, you know, building
new characters and personalities.
You asked about stone cold. You know, when stone
cold was injured a couple of years ago and was out
for eight months, everyone wondered, well, who was
going to take his place. Well, there was this
young and upcoming star called The Rock. The Rock
came in and clearly took his place now. So now
the conversation is well, now, The Rock is doing
movies so who is going to come in and take his
place. Well, we've got this really bright and up
and coming star, you know, Brock less inner.
Those are just small examples of a very deep
talent roster with a lot of talented people, you
know, HHH, Undertaker that's really a staple with
us. You know, Chris Jericho, Ron Van Damme. All
of these are really talented performers. Booker T
is just an exceptional fellow who is coming along
very well. So it's always about building new
talent and we're always doing that with our
training camps, et cetera.
So stone cold has, I think, a short-term impact.
Not a long-term impact. The ratings were not, you
know, affected by his absence. Clearly it's a
loss when you have a popular star like that, but
it's short-term.
Unknown Speaker
I do have - regarding the progression of other
stars, you know, I know I may be getting a little
bit too much into fan dome where it's not really
going to count on the business. I would like to
ask you about that but I don't know if you would
think that's appropriate right here and now, in
terms of you mentioned these ear people, the
Undertaker who has been around for well over, I
believe it's 12 years now and then there's the
reputation of having the glass ceiling in the WWF
where other wrestlers can't get pushed, which like
I don't know it's going to be broken, but right
now, there's no one really to step in that void
right now. Yes, you're trying to push Brock less
inner, yes, you're trying to push Booker T, but
there really is no one there to take over the
void. Like you said, Rock is going to be going
for movies. HHH has not been drawing that well.
So, you know, at what level will these people
really get a full frontal push to help fill the
void?
Unknown Speaker
Well, Paul, you really are into fan dome at
this point.
Unknown Speaker
Right. That's what I thought.
Unknown Speaker
But, you know, we're no different, you know,
with a coach with a new team that puts in a new
quarterback. You just have to have time to play
on the field and gel with the team. With that
experience and the creativity comes building the
fans.
It took us about two-and-a-half years to build The
Rock, so I think - I think we're on the right
track of knowing and having the right formula. It
just takes some time to do it.
Unknown Speaker
Thank you very much.
Unknown Speaker
Thank you, Paul.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is
coming from Dennis MAC Alpine of MAC Alpine
associates.
Unknown Speaker
Good morning. Would you - as a follow-up to
that, I gather we can assume, then, that The Rock
and stone cold are essentially gone as far as the
television shows?
Unknown Speaker
No, no, no. Not The Rock. Stone cold is - he
is on a suspension at this particular point for
his conduct. The Rock is, you know, splitting
time between careers of movie world as well as
WWE. Now, that has also a positive impact on WWE.
He will be, again in August and September, filming
a new movie, El Dorado, which again we are the
executive producers of and participant not only
with an executive producer's fee but also in
profit participation on gross, so with The Rock
being out on the one hand, we still have, you
know, a driver of revenues and brand extension and
growth by having one of our superstars into a
different medium.
Also, The Rock, you know, will be in and out
during our television programming, and will be
written into the story line, you know, where
appropriate.
So The Rock is still very much a part of who we
are and what we're about.
I think it's interesting, if you say okay, well,
The Rock was out, maybe that had something to do
with some decline in revenues. If you want to see
exactly what a driver is with the popularity of
the Rock outside of our own programming, we have
two of our shows on in Mexico City. The largest
viewing internationally of scorpion king happened
in Mexico City which absolutely blew us away that
there were that many screens in Mexico city to
view scorpion king and we are now going to have a
tour in Mexico city on September 28th is not only
did Rock being in Scorpion King also help drive
our brand but also opened a couple of doors for us
now to be in the 20,000 capacity stadium. I think
it's (inaudible) if you'll forgive my
pronunciation in Spanish. So brand extension,
brand rub, growth of our superstars outside of our
own medium is positive for us.
Unknown Speaker
Can you comment as to what the - the total
take for the WWE was from Scorpion King?
Unknown Speaker
It hasn't been finalized yet except for our
executive producer's fee which was $2 million.
But there will - there's a participation in the
gross now, as we've gone over certain thresholds,
but that won't be settled out for a while.
Unknown Speaker
Okay. And then in your expectations for next
year, you talked about advertising revenues of
about 75 million, which would be down, I guess,
about 10% from last year. In view of your comment
on the up front being strong, how did - how do
you get from one to the other?
Unknown Speaker
We've been particularly conservative, Dennis,
given some softness in the ratings to projects, I
think, what's a reasonable expectation in the
advertising marketplace. We did have a very good
up front. We reached the levels that we expected
to reach, which is good, and I think, you know,
our programming last year in the worst advertising
market where, you know, some advertising dollars
were off 15, 20, 25 percent and more, you know, we
were down about 7%. So as the market and the
advertising comes back strong, we can expect to go
25 to 30% above where we were, so we - you know,
we projected conservatively based on holding
ratings where they are now and I think that's a
realistic approach. I have to tell you I expect
to beat that and I hope to.
Unknown Speaker
But you did, as far as the up front goes, sell
at the same ratings as you had for the last year?
Unknown Speaker
No. We didn't sell at the same ratings. We
adjusted our ratings and sold our up front what we
believe to be will be a very realistic stretch for
us this year.
Unknown Speaker
Okay. Thank you.
Unknown Speaker
Thank you, Dennis.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is
coming from Mario Cabelli of Marathon partners.
Unknown Speaker
Hi.
Unknown Speaker
Hi, Mario.
Unknown Speaker
I'm wondering, have you been pleased with the
restructuring you announced in November? Have you
been getting the improved efficiencies that were
announced in the press release with the smaller
workforce? Thanks.
Unknown Speaker
the answer is yes and no. We accomplished what
we had opened with that restructuring. I am
not - I am not pleased at this particular point
with, you know, total SG and A, and that is something
that we will be working on throughout this year.
Unknown Speaker
Thank you.
Operator
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Unknown Speaker
I would just like to thank everyone for
participating with us this morning. We are - we
are really focusing and concentrating on our
creative and our programming, and as always,
looking to focus on our - you know, our
operations and maximizing our profitability. We
have some challenges and opportunities ahead of us
this year, and we will rise to the occasion on
both.
Unknown Speaker
I just want to - this is Tom Gibbons again. I
just want to thank everyone for joining us this
morning, and I want to remind you once again that
we do have more detailed guidance on our corporate
website, WWW.WWEcorpBIS.com. With that being
said, I want to thank you and we'll see you again
next quarter.
Operator
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