Yahoo Finance returns as exclusive livestream host of Berkshire Hathaway�s annual shareholders meeting

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• Global Livestream available in
  English and Mandarin, with VOD available after the event
• High resolution clips available
  for Broadcast and Online media use.

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SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - 2 May 2019 - Yahoo Finance, Verizon
Media’s leading business and financial news site, returns as the exclusive
livestream host of the annual Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting.

 

Beginning Saturday, May 4th, at
9:45am EST/9.45pm SGT, investors and non-investors across Southeast Asia, can
tune-in to watch Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett and Vice Chairman Charlie
Munger share their candid outlook on the economy, the administration, today’s
markets, the company and more. Stay tuned for updates, and watch the live
stream on Yahoo Finance. 

 

Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief
Andy Serwer will be on-the-ground at CHI Health Center Omaha (formerly
CenturyLink Center Omaha) with Yahoo Finance on-air hosts Jen Rogers and Myles
Udland, and on-air correspondents Julia La Roche and Javier David to provide
insight, analysis and news-making interviews. The schedule of live coverage
includes:

 

• 9:45am
  EST/9.45 pm SGT: Yahoo Finance Pre-show
• 10:15am
  EST/10.15pm SGT: Livestream of morning session featuring the Q&A with
  Buffett and Munger
• 1:00pm EST/1.00am
  (Sunday) SGT: Yahoo Finance Halftime Show
• 2:00pm
  EST/2.00am (Sunday)pm SGT: Livestream of afternoon session featuring additional
  Q&A with Buffett and Munger
• 4:30pm
  EST/4.30am (Sunday) SGT: Yahoo Finance Post-show
• 4:45pm
  EST/4.45am (Sunday)SGT: Livestream of the afternoon session continues
• 5:30pm
  EST/5.30am (Sunday)SGT: Meeting concludes

On May 5th, the day following the
annual meeting, Yahoo Finance will sit-down with Charlie Munger for an
exclusive recap of the 2019 meeting and its implications for the year ahead.

 

“Yahoo Finance is committed to
building the most comprehensive finance and business platform in the world. Our
return to Omaha to exclusively livestream an event as momentous as the
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting is indicative of our position as
a leader in business journalism,” said Joanna Lambert, General Manager of
Finance, Tech and Autos at Verizon Media. “This is an important day for people
across the globe and we’re thrilled to bring our audience an international
livestream, with insightful reporting and analysis on the meeting.”

 

Throughout the Pre-Show and
Halftime Report, Yahoo Finance will also feature a number of live and pre-taped
interviews with the Yahoo Finance editorial team, including Nebraska Governor
Pete Ricketts; Jim Weber, CEO of Brooks Running; Rod Smith, Former Denver
Broncos NFL Player; Moïse Mitterrand, CEO of LNC Investissement; Karen
Hanrahan, CEO of the Glide Foundation; Kevin Clayton, CEO of Clayton Homes; and
many others.

 

The broadcast will also feature
exclusive clips from Yahoo Finance’s invite only-event, the 2nd annual
U.S.-China Investor Forum, taking place on May 3rd in Omaha, in partnership
with the Asian Cultural Center. Speakers at the event will include Stella Li,
President of BYD Motors, Yefei Lu of Shareholder Value Management, Karen
Wallace, Director of Investor Education at Morningstar and more, discussing
trade relations and investment opportunities between the United States and
China.

 

2019 marks Yahoo Finance’s fourth
year as the exclusive livestream host. Once again, the global livestream will
be available in both English and Mandarin, with VOD replay available following
the meeting. An audio replay of the meeting and accompanying interviews will
also be available via podcast, through a partnership with Acast, on iTunes and
other podcast stores starting Monday, May 6th.

 

For more information on the
Berkshire Hathaway Live Stream, visit the landing page on Yahoo Finance or add the event to your calendar. Follow the
conversation on Twitter with @YahooFinance
#BRKLiveStream, or on the Yahoo Finance Instagram and Facebook pages.

 

MEDIA USAGE TERMS

FOR BROADCAST: Hi-res
downloadable 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 or
  altered in any way.
• Clips MUST retain Yahoo Finance logo in upper right, and be accompanied
  by 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 be
available on Yahoo Finance ONLY. The live player/live stream is NOT to be
embedded.

• VOD clips may be embedded from Yahoo Finance; clips are not to be
  downloaded or posted elsewhere directly, and not to be altered or edited in any
  way.
• Embeds must be accompanied by a mention and link back to Yahoo Finance.

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