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Debt (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Jun. 26, 2016
Schedule of Payments [Line Items] |
Pulitzer Excess Cash Flow [Table Text Block] | For the last four quarters, Pulitzer Excess Cash Flow and the related payments on the 2 nd Lien Term Loan are as follows:
For the Period Ending (Thousands of Dollars) | Pulitzer Excess Cash Flow | Payment Amount (not rejected) |
September 27, 2015 | 5,143 | 3,326 |
December 27, 2015 | 2,864 | 1,867 |
March 27, 2016 | 2,730 | 525 |
June 26, 2016 | 1,583 | * |
New 1st Lien Term Loan [Member] |
Schedule of Payments [Line Items] |
Schedule Of Debt Payments [Table Text Block] | 2016 payments made, or required to be made for the remainder of the year, under the 1 st Lien Term Loan are summarized as follows:
| 13 Weeks Ended |  | 13 Weeks Ending |
(Thousands of Dollars) | December 27 2015 |  | March 27 2016 |  | June 26 2016 |  | September 25 2016 |
Mandatory | 6,250 |  | 6,250 |  | 6,250 |  | 6,250 |
Voluntary | 5,000 |  | 27,000 |  | 3,000 |  | — |
Excess cash flow payment | — |  | 1,135 |  | 6,441 |  | 5,992 |
| 11,250 |  | 34,385 |  | 15,691 |  | 12,242 |

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