Andrzej Matyczynski
Management
Thank you for joining Reading International's earnings call to discuss our 2019 fourth quarter and full year results. We'll also be addressing the unprecedented COVID-19, or coronavirus, situation that is currently affecting everyone, including Reading. My name is Andrzej Matyczynski. I'm Reading's Executive Vice President of Global Operations. As always, with me are Ellen Cotter, our President and Chief Executive Officer; and Gilbert Avanes, our Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Before we begin the substance of the call, I'll start by stating that in accordance with the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, certain matters that will be addressed in this earnings call may constitute forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual performance to be materially different from the performance indicated or implied by such statements. Such risk factors are clearly set out in our SEC filings. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. In addition, we will discuss non-GAAP financial measures on this call. Reconciliations and definitions of non-GAAP financial measures, which are segment operating income, EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA, are included in our recently issued 2019 fourth quarter and year-end earnings release on the company's website. We have adjusted where applicable the EBITDA items we believe to be external to our business and not reflective of our cost of doing business or results of operation. Such costs include gains on insurance recoveries; legal expenses relating to extraordinary litigation; adjustments for gains, losses relating to property sales; and any other items that can be considered nonrecurring in accordance with the 2-year SEC requirement for determining an item is nonrecurring, infrequent or unusual in nature. We believe adjusted EBITDA is an important supplemental measure of our performance. In today's call, we'll also use an industry-accepted financial measure called theater level cash flow, TLCF, which is theater level cash flow -- theater level revenue less direct theater level expenses; and property level cash flow, PLCF, which is property level revenue less direct property level expenses. Please note that our comments are necessarily summary in nature, and anything we say is qualified by the more detailed disclosure set forth in our Form 10-K. So with that behind us, I'll turn it over to Ellen, who will review the results for the fourth quarter and the full year 2019 and discuss further Reading's precautions and strategies in navigating the uncharted waters of COVID-19. And then Gilbert will provide a more detailed financial review. Ellen?