Today, FORBES released their 40th annual edition of the FORBES 400 Richest Americans Directory and, for the 8th straight year, I am proud to be acknowledged in the report for helping to financially value the leading media moguls for this edition. It is an honor to be trusted, depended upon and respected for my expertise each year by the wealth and media reporters at FORBES.
October 5, 2021
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2015 – 2022
Kamen & Co. Group Services, LLC specializes in understanding how value is created and maximized in the print, digital, broadcast, film, data, social media, domain, cable, video, sports, entertainment and emerging technology sectors.
Kevin B. Kamen, President/CEO
Throughout the years, Kamen & Co. has gained a level of experience unequaled in the publishing and broadcast industries. For four years, President and CEO Kevin B. Kamen wrote the leading monthly Management column on Publishing for Editor & Publisher’s FPP magazine. Our success benefits our customers and their management teams. We know the business and can make a difference for you.
Kamen & Co. offers a full range of print-media and broadcast services. Our firm is family owned and operated and we are dedicated to achieving customer satisfaction with the highest degree of quality service.
Kamen & Co. has the resources, specialized knowledge and experience to handle complex projects.
Whether brokering the sale of a media company or a single publication, appraising a newspaper, shopper, magazine, broadcast, book publishing, video game, listing or database organization for full valuation, or creating a structured formal business plan, our team builds a relationship that is long-term and based on mutual respect and trust. Understanding each individual client’s confidential needs and fostering a working relationship that achieves their specific goals is of utmost importance to us. That’s the reason we keep listening.
Kevin,
Thanks so much for working tirelessly in getting this transaction thru. Your professionalism and attention to detail came shining thru! Thanks so much for bringing the sale to a successful close.
Mazel Tov!
Tecla Murphy, Publisher
Outlook by the Bay, LLC
Annapolis, Maryland
Dear Kevin (Kamen & Co. Group Services),
Although you represented the sellers in this deal, I want to thank you, Kevin Kamen, for all that you did in brokering the sale of The Wave newspaper of the Rockaways in Queens, N.Y., to my family and me. Your leadership, negotiating skill-set and knowledge of the business, market and industry served as a most valuable tool throughout the entire process. When negotiations hit a bit of a snag you were able to masterfully get the two sides together to compromise. As the buyer of this wonderful legacy newspaper, The Wave of Rockaways, I want to personally thank you for everything you did to make the sale happen. You were always professional, reasonable and did a great job!
Walter H. Sanchez
Queens Ledger News Group, NY
Still, the Globe didn’t lose all of its value at once. In 2010, when entrepreneur Aaron Kushner came calling only to be turned away by Times Co. management, a sale would likely have fetched $120 million in the view of media appraiser Kevin Kamen. By February of this year, he’d adjusted his estimate down to $63 million, just $7 million off the actual price Henry paid. (Kamen was similarly on target in guessing how much Tribune Co. would sell Newsday for; Cablevision CVC +5.2% paid $650 million for it in 2008.) Jeff Bercovici, Forbes
Kevin Kamen, a media appraiser at Kamen & Co. Group Services in Uniondale, NY correctly predicted as far back as 2010 that a buyer would be willing to pay $42 million to $51 million for The Journal . . .”They paid about $4 million to $5 million more than they should have,” Kamen told WPRI.com . . . Kamen suggested GateHouse was motivated to pay a premium in part to ensure a competing newspaper chain didn’t get The (Providence) Journal instead. Ted Nessi, Reporter, WPRI 12 / WPRI.com
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