Operator
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. And welcome to the Scripps second quarter earnings report. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. And later we'll conduct a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder this conference is being recorded. And I would now like to turn the conference over to our host, Vice President, Investor Relations, Mr. Tim Stautberg. Please go ahead. Timothy E. Stautberg –Vice President, Communications and Investor Relations: Good morning all, and thanks for joining us. We’ll start the conference today with a few comments from Ken Lowe, our President and CEO and Joe NeCastro, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Our prepared remarks should take about 20 minutes. We know you have busy schedules, so we’ll still make sure that we’re done by the top of the hour. Before we begin, let me introduce the other members of our senior management team, who are here with us on the call. Joining us are Rich Boehne, Chief Operating Officer; John Lansing, President of Scripps Networks, Mark Contreras, Senior Vice President of Newspapers, Bill Peterson Senior Vice President of our TV Station group and Lori Hickok, Vice President and Controller. Let me remind you, if you prefer to listen in on the web you can go to Scripps.com, click on Shareholders and find the link at the top of the page. An audio archive will be available on Scripps.com later today, and we’ll leave it there for a few weeks, so you can access it at your convenience. Our discussion this morning will contain certain forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ from those predicted. Some of the factors which may cause results to differ are set forth in our publicly filed documents including our 2006 Form 10-K. Now here’s Ken.