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Debt Schedule Of Debt Payments (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 25, 2016
Schedule of Payments [Line Items] |
Pulitzer Excess Cash Flow [Table Text Block] | Pulitzer Excess Cash Flow and the related payments on the 2 nd Lien Term Loan made in 2016 are as follows:
For the Period Ending (Thousands of Dollars) | Pulitzer Excess Cash Flow | Payment Date | Payment Amount (not rejected) |
September 27, 2015 | 5,143 | Q1 2016 | 3,326 |
December 27, 2015 | 2,864 | Q2 2016 | 1,867 |
March 27, 2016 | 2,730 | Q3 2016 | 525 |
June 26, 2016 | 1,583 | Q4 2016 | 299 |
Schedule of Long-term Debt Instruments [Table Text Block] | Debt is summarized as follows:
|  |  | Interest Rates (%)
(Thousands of Dollars) | September 25 2016 |  | September 27 2015 |  | September 25 2016
Revolving Facility | — |  | — |  | 5.65
1 st Lien Term Loan | 101,304 |  | 180,872 |  | 7.25
Notes | 385,000 |  | 400,000 |  | 9.50
2 nd Lien Term Loan | 130,863 |  | 145,000 |  | 12.00
| 617,167 |  | 725,872 |  |
Less current maturities of long-term debt | 25,070 |  | 25,000 |  |
Total long-term debt | 592,097 |  | 700,872 |  |
1st Lien Agreement [Member] |
Schedule of Payments [Line Items] |
Schedule Of Debt Payments [Table Text Block] |
(Thousands of Dollars) | December 27 2015 |  | March 27 2016 |  | June 26 2016 |  | September 25 2016 |  | 2016 |
Mandatory | 6,250 |  | 6,250 |  | 6,250 |  | 6,250 |  | 25,000 |
Voluntary | 5,000 |  | 27,000 |  | 3,000 |  | 6,000 |  | 41,000 |
Excess cash flow | — |  | 1,135 |  | 6,441 |  | 5,992 |  | 13,568 |
| 11,250 |  | 34,385 |  | 15,691 |  | 18,242 |  | 79,568 |

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