- Tune-in at 9.45 pm Singapore Timeon Saturday, May 4th, to Watch History Live
- Global Livestream available inEnglish and Mandarin, with VOD available after the event
- High resolution clips availablefor Broadcast and Online media use.
SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - 2 May 2019 - Yahoo Finance, VerizonMedia's leading business and financial news site, returns as the exclusivelivestream host of the annual Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting.
Beginning Saturday, May 4th, at9:45am EST/9.45pm SGT, investors and non-investors across Southeast Asia, cantune-in to watch Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett and Vice Chairman CharlieMunger share their candid outlook on the economy, the administration, today'smarkets, the company and more. Stay tuned for updates, and watch the livestream on Yahoo Finance.
Yahoo Finance Editor-in-ChiefAndy Serwer will be on-the-ground at CHI Health Center Omaha (formerlyCenturyLink Center Omaha) with Yahoo Finance on-air hosts Jen Rogers and MylesUdland, and on-air correspondents Julia La Roche and Javier David to provideinsight, analysis and news-making interviews. The schedule of live coverageincludes:
- 9:45amEST/9.45 pm SGT: Yahoo Finance Pre-show
- 10:15amEST/10.15pm SGT: Livestream of morning session featuring the Q&A withBuffett and Munger
- 1:00pm EST/1.00am(Sunday) SGT: Yahoo Finance Halftime Show
- 2:00pmEST/2.00am (Sunday)pm SGT: Livestream of afternoon session featuring additionalQ&A with Buffett and Munger
- 4:30pmEST/4.30am (Sunday) SGT: Yahoo Finance Post-show
- 4:45pmEST/4.45am (Sunday)SGT: Livestream of the afternoon session continues
- 5:30pmEST/5.30am (Sunday)SGT: Meeting concludes
On May 5th, the day following theannual meeting, Yahoo Finance will sit-down with Charlie Munger for anexclusive recap of the 2019 meeting and its implications for the year ahead.
"Yahoo Finance is committed tobuilding the most comprehensive finance and business platform in the world. Ourreturn to Omaha to exclusively livestream an event as momentous as theBerkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting is indicative of our position asa leader in business journalism," said Joanna Lambert, General Manager ofFinance, Tech and Autos at Verizon Media. "This is an important day for peopleacross the globe and we're thrilled to bring our audience an internationallivestream, with insightful reporting and analysis on the meeting."
Throughout the Pre-Show andHalftime Report, Yahoo Finance will also feature a number of live and pre-tapedinterviews with the Yahoo Finance editorial team, including Nebraska GovernorPete Ricketts; Jim Weber, CEO of Brooks Running; Rod Smith, Former DenverBroncos NFL Player; Moïse Mitterrand, CEO of LNC Investissement; KarenHanrahan, CEO of the Glide Foundation; Kevin Clayton, CEO of Clayton Homes; andmany others.
The broadcast will also featureexclusive clips from Yahoo Finance's invite only-event, the 2nd annualU.S.-China Investor Forum, taking place on May 3rd in Omaha, in partnershipwith the Asian Cultural Center. Speakers at the event will include Stella Li,President of BYD Motors, Yefei Lu of Shareholder Value Management, KarenWallace, Director of Investor Education at Morningstar and more, discussingtrade relations and investment opportunities between the United States andChina.
2019 marks Yahoo Finance's fourthyear as the exclusive livestream host. Once again, the global livestream willbe available in both English and Mandarin, with VOD replay available followingthe meeting. An audio replay of the meeting and accompanying interviews willalso be available via podcast, through a partnership with Acast, on iTunes andother podcast stores starting Monday, May 6th.
For more information on theBerkshire Hathaway Live Stream, visit the landing page on Yahoo Finance or add the event to your calendar. Follow theconversation on Twitter with @YahooFinance#BRKLiveStream, or on the Yahoo Finance Instagram and Facebook pages.
MEDIA USAGE TERMS
FOR BROADCAST: Hi-resdownloadable clips will be made available and distributed day-of.
- Only those clips provided by directly Yahoo Finance may be used on-air;clips may NOT be pulled for broadcast use from Yahoo Finance site.
- Clips provided MUST appear in full; clips may NOT be re-cut, edited oraltered in any way.
- Clips MUST retain Yahoo Finance logo in upper right, and be accompaniedby a verbal reference to Yahoo Finance OR cited in text on screen.
FOR ONLINE:Embeddable VOD clips will be available at https://finance.yahoo.com/brklivestream/
Full live stream will beavailable on Yahoo Finance ONLY. The live player/live stream is NOT to beembedded.
- VOD clips may be embedded from Yahoo Finance; clips are not to bedownloaded or posted elsewhere directly, and not to be altered or edited in anyway.
- Embeds must be accompanied by a mention and link back to Yahoo Finance.
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