LIVE. ANY WORD ON HOW THIS WILL AFFECT THE PROJECT’S TIMELINE AMANDA: SUMMER WE LEARNED OF , THIS DELAY DURING AN EARNINGS CALL THIS MORNING, AND THE EXECUTIVES COULD NOT SPECULA WHAT THIS MAY MEAN FOR THE EPIC UNIVERSE HALF -- EPIC UNIVERSE UPON -- UNIVERSAL’S OPENING DATE BECAUSE THEY DON’T KNOW HOW LONG CONSTRUCTION WILL BE ON PAUSE. SINCE IT CLOSED MARCH 16, JUST LIKE DISNEY, UNIVERSAL ORLANDO HAS BEEN A GHOST TOWN. THE FINANCIAL HIT TAKEN BY ITS PARENT COMPANY, COMCAST, BECAME CLEAR DURING AN EARNINGS CALL THURSDAY. COMCAST EXECUTIVES REVEALED UNIVERSAL’S THEME PARKS PLUNGED 32% FOR THE FIRST QUARTER AND WARNED IF THE PARKS DON’T REOPEN SOON, IT WILL GET WORSE. >> AT THIS POINT, ALL OF OUR THEME PARKS ARE CLOSED AND WE DON’T KNOW WHEN THEY WILL REOPEN. WERE THE PARKS TO REMAIN CLOSED THE ENTIRETY OF THE SECO QUARTER, WE WOULD EXPECT TO INCUR A LOSS OF ROUGHTLY $500 MILLION IN THE QUARTER. AMANDA: DESPITE THE LOSSES, THE EXECUTIVES EXPRESSED CONFIDENCE THEIR THEME PARK BUSINESS WILL BALANCE BACK, BUT THEY DID MAKE A MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING THEIR PLANS TO BUILD A NEW PARK IN ORLANDO >> WE HAVE DECIDED TO PAUSE THE CONSTRUCTION ORLANDO’S FOUR GATE OR EPIC UNIVERSE WHILE WE FOCUS ON THE IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES THAT COVID-19 PRESENT. AMANDA: EPIC UNIVERSE WAS SET TO OPEN IN 2023, BUT WITH THE INDEFINITE CONSTRUCTION DELAYS, THAT DATE MAY CHANGE THIS WAS A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE FROM WHAT WE HEARD IN THE PREVIOUS EARNINGS CALL ON MARCH 30. AT THAT TIME THEY SAID EPIC UNIVERSE WOULD REMAIN ACTIVE. OBVIOUSLY, AS THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF SHELTER AT IS DRAGGED ON, THEIR THINKING ON THE STATUS OF THE PROJECT CHANG