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Cox to sell Travel Channel: sources
Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:12pm EDT
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By Jui Chakravorty Das and Yinka Adegoke
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Travel Channel is up for sale in an auction expected to draw interest from media companies such as Scripps Networks Interactive Inc and Time Warner Inc and fetch $600 million to $1 billion, two sources familiar with the matter said.
Scripps Networks and Time Warner have expressed interest in looking at the sales prospectus, which will be sent out to possible buyers within the next week, both sources said. Goldman Sachs Group Inc is handling the sale.
The people requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the upcoming auction publicly.
Cox declined comment. The company said in June it was considering strategic options for the Travel Channel, including "maintaining the current business structure to joint ventures and other potential structures," but added it had made no decision. Scripps Networks, Time Warner and Goldman Sachs declined comment.
The Travel Channel is known for shows such as "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations," in which Bourdain travels around the world to showcase local cuisines; and "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern," in which Zimmern tries out unusual delicacies such as lamb eyeballs, squirrel brains and tiger pie from places such as Tanzania and Nicaragua.
WIDESPREAD INTEREST
Interest in the Travel Channel could be widespread among media companies, which have seen cable networks weather the recession better than other media businesses that have been deeply hurt by the pullback in advertising.
Cable networks are not entirely dependent on advertising
revenue because they also receive affiliate fees from cable and satellite operators.
Companies such as CBS Corp and General Electric Co's NBC Universal might also bid for the channel, analysts said.
Cox acquired Travel Channel in 2007, receiving $1.275 billion in cash along with the channel in exchange for its 25 percent stake in Discovery Communications Inc.
Based on Discovery's market cap of $6.16 billion on Wednesday, 25 percent of the company would amount to $1.54 billion. So a price tag of anything above $300 million would translate into more than what Cox paid for the channel.
Discovery was privately-owned when it made the exchange, making it unclear if its value had risen or fallen since.
With 99.1 million subscribers, the expected valuations of $600 million to $1 billion for Travel Channel compute to about $6 to $10 per subscriber -- a far cry from the $35 per subscriber the Weather Channel sold for last July.
One of the reasons for the lower valuations is Weather Channel's strong brand positioning online, which warrants a premium as more subscribers and advertisers move to the Internet. Continued...
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