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Business Segment Information
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Business segment information
Business segment information

We classify our operations into two reportable segments: Media: consisting of our 46 television stations operating in 38 markets, offering high-quality television programming and digital content; and Digital: primarily consisting of our Cars.com and CareerBuilder business units which operate in the automotive and human capital solutions industries, respectively. Our reportable segments have been determined based on our management and internal reporting structure, the nature of products and services offered by the segments, and the financial information that is evaluated regularly by our chief operating decision maker.

The Digital Segment and the digital revenues line exclude online/digital revenues generated by digital platforms that are associated with our Media Segment’s operating properties as such amounts are reflected in the Media Segment. Summary operating results for each of our business segments were as follows (in thousands):
 
Three months ended Mar. 31,
 
2017
 
2016
 
 
 
 
Operating Revenues:
 
 
 
Media
$
446,310

 
$
443,829

Digital
332,161

 
337,903

Total
$
778,471

 
$
781,732

 
 
 
 
Operating Income (net of depreciation, amortization, asset impairment and facility consolidation charges):
 
 
 
Media (a)
$
139,624

 
$
170,358

Digital
28,775

 
47,219

Corporate (a)
(15,023
)
 
(14,208
)
Total
$
153,376

 
$
203,369

 
 
 
 
Depreciation, amortization, asset impairment and facility consolidation charges:
 
 
 
Media
$
20,000

 
$
19,441

Digital
34,051

 
30,361

Corporate
237

 
721

Total
$
54,288

 
$
50,523

 
 
 
 
 
 
Identifiable assets by segment:
Mar. 31, 2017
 
Dec. 31, 2016
 
 
 
 
Media
$
4,760,976

 
$
4,786,050

Digital
3,608,032

 
3,649,347

Corporate
96,003

 
107,328

Total
$
8,465,011

 
$
8,542,725

 
 
 
 
(a) As disclosed in Note 1, in the first quarter of 2017 we adopted new accounting guidance that changed the classification of certain components of postretirement benefit expense. The service cost component of the postretirement benefit expense will continue to be presented as an operating expense while all other components of postretirement benefit expense will be presented as non-operating expense. The prior year period was adjusted to reflect the effects of applying the new guidance. This resulted in an increase to our Media and Corporate segments operating income in first quarter of 2016 of $1.1 million and $0.4 million, respectively.