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| Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] | |
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Business
Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Global Eagle (together with its subsidiaries, “Global Eagle” or the “Company”) is a leading provider of satellite-based connectivity and media to fast-growing, global mobility markets across air, land and sea. Global Eagle offers a fully integrated suite of rich media content and seamless connectivity solutions that cover the globe. As of March 31, 2017, its business was comprised of three operating segments: Media & Content, Aviation Connectivity and Maritime & Land Connectivity. See Note 13. Segment Information for further discussion on the Company’s reportable segments.
Prior to the Company’s acquisition (the “EMC Acquisition”) of Emerging Markets Communications (“EMC”) on July 27, 2016 (the “EMC Acquisition Date”), the Company’s business consisted of two operating segments: Content and Connectivity. (EMC was a communications services provider that offered land-based sites and marine vessels globally a multimedia platform delivering communications, Internet, live television, on-demand video, voice, cellular and 3G/LTE services. See Note 3. Business Combinations.) Following the EMC Acquisition, the acquired EMC business became a third operating segment, which the Company called Maritime & Land Connectivity, and the Company renamed its other two segments as Media & Content and Aviation Connectivity. In the second quarter of 2017, the Company reorganized its business from three operating segments back into two operating segments—Media & Content and Connectivity. Notwithstanding the transition in the second quarter 2017 to two operating segments, these condensed consolidated financial statements and associated Notes—which speak as of March 31, 2017 unless otherwise indicated—present the Company’s business as three operating segments (i.e., the operating segments as they existed at the end of the first quarter of 2017), and the financial results reported herein do not reflect the subsequent changes to the Company’s operating segments. See Note 13. Segment Information for a further discussion of our reportable segments.
Media & Content
The Media & Content segment curates, manages, provides post-production and distributes wholly-owned and licensed media content, video and music programming, advertising, applications and video games to the airline, maritime and other “away from home” non-theatrical markets.
Aviation Connectivity and Maritime & Land Connectivity
The Aviation Connectivity and Maritime & Land Connectivity segments were distinguished primarily based on the type of customers they serve. These operating segments provided their customers, including their passengers and crew, with (i) Wi-Fi connectivity via C, Ka and Ku satellite transmissions that enabled access to the Internet, live television, on-demand content, shopping and travel-related information and (ii) operational solutions that allowed customers to improve the management of their internal operations.
The former Maritime & Land Connectivity segment commenced operations following the closing of the EMC Acquisition. As described above in this Note, this former segment became part of our Connectivity segment in the second quarter of 2017.
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