Media & Entertainment

American Appraisal understands the economic and competitive factors affecting our clients in the media and entertainment industry.  

Who We Serve
Our media and entertainment industry clients include:

• Domestic and international media and communications conglomerates
• Recorded music and music publishing companies
• Radio, television and cable broadcasting organizations
• Newspaper publishing companies
• Book, magazine and digital publishers
• Online media companies

What We Do
American Appraisal’s work in the media and entertainment industry includes:

• Deal sourcing
• Due diligence
• Decision support and business modelling
• Insurance placement and risk management
• Transfer pricing and tax restructuring advice
• Financing and debt advisory
• Real estate advisory, including property tax valuations and negotiations
• Fair value accounting for business combinations under FASB ASC 805 and IFRS 3
• Asset componentization for IAS 16 compliance
• Impairment testing under ASC 350 and 360 and IAS 36
• Fair market value opinions for regulatory and tax compliance
• Asset-based financing
• Dispute resolution
• Fairness and solvency opinions
• Cost segregation studies
• Fixed asset inventory and reconciliation

Recent Experience
American Appraisal’s recent experience includes:

• Valuing the business enterprise of a large international music company for restructuring purposes
• Annual impairment tests for a variety of broadcasting, newspaper, book/magazine publishing, music and online media companies
• Valuing the legal entities and underlying assets of an international music company for tax reporting purposes
• Valuation advice for a major newspaper publisher
• Providing a solvency opinion related to a leveraged buy-out of a large broadcasting company
• Valuing real and personal property at seven locations for one of the largest newspaper companies in the United States

Why American Appraisal?
American Appraisal has been serving the international media and entertainment industry for more than 20 years. As our clients deal with the rapid and significant changes taking place in the industry, they rely on American Appraisal to provide independent, objective third-party valuation and consulting services.