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Note 2 - Revenue | 6 Months Ended
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Mar. 29, 2020
Notes to Financial Statements |
Revenue from Contract with Customer [Text Block] |
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The following table presents our revenue disaggregated by source:
|  | 13 Weeks Ended |  |  | 26 Weeks Ended |
|  | March 29, |  |  | March 31, |  |  | March 29, |  |  | March 31, |
(Thousands of Dollars) |  | 2020 |  |  | 2019 |  |  | 2020 |  |  | 2019 |
Advertising and marketing services revenue |  | 60,945 |  |  | 62,934 |  |  | 126,672 |  |  | 138,897 |
Subscription revenue |  | 46,443 |  |  | 45,076 |  |  | 88,138 |  |  | 91,345 |
TownNews and other digital services revenue |  | 5,211 |  |  | 4,744 |  |  | 10,429 |  |  | 9,421 |
Other revenue |  | 8,768 |  |  | 9,950 |  |  | 18,471 |  |  | 19,242 |
Total operating revenue |  | 121,367 |  |  | 122,704 |  |  | 243,710 |  |  | 258,905 |
Recognition principles: Revenue is recognized when a performance obligation is satisfied by the transfer of control of the contracted goods or services to our customers, in an amount that reflects the consideration we expect to receive in exchange for those goods or services. Arrangements with multiple performance obligations: We have various advertising and subscription agreements which include both print and digital performance obligations. Revenue from sales agreements that contain multiple performance obligations are allocated to each obligation based on the relative standalone selling price. We determine standalone selling prices based on observable prices charged to customers. Contract Assets and Liabilities: The Company’s primary source of contract liabilities is unearned revenue from subscriptions paid in advance of the service provided. The Company expects to recognize the revenue related to unsatisfied performance obligations over the next twelve months in accordance with the terms of the subscriptions and other contracts with customers. The unearned revenue balances described herein are the Company's only contract liability. Unearned revenue was $ 58,563,000 as of March 29, 2020 and $ 21,720,000 as of September 29, 2019 . Revenue recognized in the 13 and 26 weeks ended March 29, 2020 that was included in the contract liability as of September 29, 2019 was $ 4,460,000 and $ 17,858,000 . Contract asset balances relate to our Management Agreement revenue and were $0 as of March 29, 2020 and $ 1,107,000 as of September 29, 2019 and consisted solely of the variable consideration earned under the Management Agreement. In conjunction with the execution of the Purchase Agreement, the previously recorded contract asset balance was collected on March 16, 2020. Accounts receivable, excluding allowance for doubtful accounts and contract assets, was $ 81,007,000 and $ 47,863,000 as of March 29, 2020 and September 29, 2019 , respectively. Allowance for doubtful accounts was $ 7,661,000 and $ 6,434,000 as of March 29, 2020 and September 29, 2019 , respectively. Practical expedients: Sales commissions are expensed as incurred as the associated contractual periods are one year or less. These costs are recorded within compensation. The vast majority of our contracts have original expected lengths of one year or less and revenue is earned at a rate and amount that corresponds directly with the value to the customer.

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