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Note 10 - Postemployment Benefit Plans, Pre-spin	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016
Postemployment Benefit Plans, Pre-Spin [Member]
Notes to Financial Statements
Postemployment Benefits Disclosure [Text Block]	10 . POSTEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT PLANS, PRE-SPIN Multiemployer Benefit Plans.  Through June 30, 2015, certain of the Company’s employees participated in The Retirement Plan for Graham Holdings Company (the “GHC Retirement Plan”) and GHC’s Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (collectively with the GHC Retirement Plan, the “GHC Plans”). The total cost of the GHC Plans was actuarially determined and the Company received an allocation of the service cost associated with the GHC Plans based upon actual benefits earned by the Company’s employees. The amount of pension expense allocated to the Company related to these multiemployer plans was $0 and $1.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively, and is reflected within operating and Selling, general and administrative expenses in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income. As of June 30, 2015, the GHC Retirement Plan was fully funded and is not in critical or endangered status as currently defined by the Pension Protection Act of 2006. The GHC Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan is unfunded. Multiemployer Savings Plans.  Also, through June 30, 2015, the Company’s employees participated in defined contribution plans (primarily 401(k) plans) sponsored by GHC. The defined contribution plans allowed eligible employees to contribute a portion of their salary to the plans, and, in some cases, a matching contribution to the funds was provided. The Company recorded expense associated with these GHC-sponsored defined contribution plans of approximately $0 and $0.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively.
Postemployment Benefits Disclosure [Text Block]	12 . DEFINED BENEFIT POSTRETIREMENT PLAN The Company recorded $0.1 million in DB SERP expense related to net periodic costs amortization of actuarial loss for the three months ended March 31, 2016. During 2016, the Company expects to recognize a total actuarial loss recognition of $0.2 million. As the plan is unfunded, the Company makes contributions to the DB SERP based on actual benefit payments which were $0.01 million for each of the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015.

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The entire disclosure for postemployment benefits, which may include supplemental unemployment benefits, obligations recognized for all types of benefits provided to former or inactive employees, their beneficiaries, and covered dependents after employment but before retirement. Disclosure may also include discussion that an obligation for postemployment benefits is not accrued in accordance with regulation only because the amount cannot be reasonably estimated.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 712
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
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-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6410195&loc=d3e80090-111668

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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