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
We provide valuation expertise in all classifications of tangible and intangible assets, including:

We assist our media and entertainment clients with the following valuation and consulting services:

• Purchase price allocations for financial and tax reporting (US GAAP and IFRS)
• Impairment testing
• Fresh start accounting
• Equity and option valuations
• Fairness and solvency opinions
• Fixed asset inventory and reconciliation
• Insurable values

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 goodwill and indefinite-lived assets 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 of real and personal property, intangible assets and certain liabilities of a major East Coast newspaper publisher for fresh start accounting purposes
• 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.