The retail operation, which includes more than 1,350 gas stations primarily in the Northeast, the Carolinas and Florida, accounts for just 4 percent of the company's revenue.
Instead, analysts and bankers predict, companies like Viacom and Disney, and others, would be more likely to buy additional stations in markets in which they already have holdings or to swap stations, primarily for tax purposes.
But the pick of the crop has to be the tie-in events with Battersea Power Station, primarily because it makes the perfect excuse for visiting its new pop-up park (open until September).
Disney cited a strong performance at ABC and the company-owned television stations primarily stemming from a strong advertising market and the continued success of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire".
Also on Thursday, Media General, which owns newspapers and TV stations, primarily in the South, reported sharply lower earnings of $9.6 million, or 43 cents a share, in the fourth quarter, down from $1.33 a share in the period a year earlier.
It was home to Jamboree USA, the nation's second-longest-running live country music show, beamed from WWVA's powerful 50,000-watt AM radio station primarily to the northeastern United States and Canada.
F.C.C. officials said, for instance, that the new rules would not address a request by NPR that the agency protect some of the signals of the strings of radio transmitters, known as translators, that are used to extend the broadcast signal of a station, primarily in rural and remote areas.
County officials hope the countywide distribution of 90,000 Oops! stickers — similar to the ones White Plains started using 10 years ago — will reduce the amount of incorrectly mixed garbage that winds up at those stations, primarily by giving sanitation workers a way to communicate with property owners whose garbage goes uncollected because they broke the rules, Mr. Lauro said.
Fellow appeal court justice Hugh Fraser noted "expert evidence" before the land court that power stations primarily in India and China would "burn the same amount of thermal coal and produce the same amount of greenhouse gases whether or not the proposed Alpha mine proceeded".
Diller uses HSN's 12 UHF TV stations primarily to broadcast Home Shopping Network.
