UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 14, 2009
LBI MEDIA HOLDINGS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)
| 333-110122 | 05-0584918 | |
| (Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) | |
| 1845 West Empire Avenue Burbank, California | 91504 | |
| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) | |
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (818) 563-5722
Not applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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| Item 2.02. | Results of Operations and Financial Condition |
LBI Media, Inc. (“LBI Media”), a California corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of LBI Media Holdings, Inc., issued a press release on May 14, 2009. The press release announced its consolidated financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2009. The press release is filed as Exhibit 99.1 and is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. The information in this Form 8-K and the exhibit attached hereto is being furnished (not filed) under Item 2.02 of Form 8-K.
In the press release, LBI Media used the term “Adjusted EBITDA.” Adjusted EBITDA consists of net income or loss plus income tax benefit or expense, net interest expense, interest rate swap income or expense, stock-based compensation expense, impairment of broadcast licenses, depreciation and amortization and other non-cash gains or losses. The term, as defined by LBI Media, may not be comparable to similarly titled measures employed by other companies and is not a measure of performance calculated in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”).
The management of LBI Media considers the measure an important indicator of its liquidity relating to its operations, as it eliminates the effects of certain non-cash items and the company’s capital structure. The management believes liquidity is an important measure for LBI Media because it reflects its ability to meet its interest payments under its substantial indebtedness and is a measure of the amount of cash available to grow LBI Media through its acquisition strategy. The measure should be considered in addition to, but not as a substitute for or superior to, other measures of liquidity and financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP, such as cash flows from operating activities, operating income, and net income.
LBI Media believes Adjusted EBITDA is useful to an investor in evaluating its liquidity and cash flow because:
| • | it is widely used in the broadcasting industry to measure a company’s liquidity and cash flow without regard to items such as stock-based compensation expense, depreciation and amortization and impairment of broadcast licenses. The broadcast industry uses liquidity to determine whether a company will be able to cover its capital expenditures and whether a company will be able to acquire additional assets and broadcast licenses if the company has an acquisition strategy. LBI Media believes that by eliminating the effect of certain non-cash items, Adjusted EBITDA provides a meaningful measure of liquidity; |
| • | it gives investors another measure to evaluate and compare the results of LBI Media’s operations from period to period by removing the impact of non-cash expense items, such as impairment of broadcast licenses. By removing the non-cash items, it allows investors to better determine whether LBI Media will be able to meet its debt obligations as they become due; and |
| • | it provides a liquidity measure before the impact of a company’s capital structure by removing net interest expense items and interest rate swap income or expenses. |
LBI Media’s management uses Adjusted EBITDA:
| • | as a measure to assist LBI Media in planning its acquisition strategy; |
| • | in presentations to LBI Media’s board of directors to enable them to have the same consistent measurement basis of liquidity and cash flow used by management; |
| • | as a measure for determining LBI Media’s operating budget and its ability to fund working capital; and |
| • | as a measure for planning and forecasting capital expenditures. |
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits |
| (d) | Exhibits |
| 99.1 | Press Release of LBI Media, Inc. dated May 14, 2009 (financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2009). |
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, LBI Media Holdings, Inc. has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized, in the City of Burbank, State of California, on May 14, 2009.
| LBI MEDIA HOLDINGS, INC. | ||
| By: | /s/ Wisdom Lu | |
| Wisdom Lu | ||
| Chief Financial Officer | ||