Retirement Plans

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2017

Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]

Our principal defined benefit pension plan is the TEGNA Retirement Plan (TRP). The disclosure table below includes the pension expenses of the TRP and the TEGNA Supplemental Retirement Plan (SERP). The total net pension obligations, both current and non-current liabilities, as of June 30, 2017, were $211.5 million ($31.0 million is recorded as a current obligation within accrued liabilities on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet).

Our pension costs, which include costs for the qualified TRP plan and the nonqualified SERP plan, are presented in the following table (in thousands):



	Quarter ended June 30,						Six months ended June 30,
	2017			2016			2017			2016

Service cost-benefits earned during the period	$	311		$	158		$	436		$	408
Interest cost on benefit obligation	6,056			6,837			11,981			13,187
Expected return on plan assets	(6,511		)	(6,632		)	(13,161		)	(13,382		)
Amortization of prior service cost	167			190			317			340
Amortization of actuarial loss	2,187			2,194			4,162			3,894
Expense for company-sponsored retirement plans	$	2,210		$	2,747		$	3,735		$	4,447

The service cost component of our pension expense is recorded within the operating expense line items Cost of revenue, Business units - Selling, general and administrative, and Corporate - General, and administrative within the Consolidated Statements of Income. All other components of the pension expense are included within the Other non-operating items line item of the Consolidated Statements of Income.

In April 2017, we made a $1.7 million contribution to the TRP, and plan to make additional contributions of $20.6 million to the TRP during the remainder of 2017. During the six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, we made benefit payments to participants of the SERP of $3.8 million and $3.3 million, respectively.