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Long-Term Debt (Notes) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2022
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Long-Term Debt | Long-Term Debt A summary of our debt as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021 is as follows:
|  |  | June 30, 2022 |  |  |  | December 31, 2021
|  |  | Principal Amount |  | Carrying Value |  | Fair Value |  |  |  | Principal Amount |  | Carrying Value |  | Fair Value
Senior unsecured notes |  |  | $ | 25,150 |  |  | $ | 25,075 |  |  | $ | 21,535 |  |  |  |  | $ | 23,950 |  |  | $ | 23,882 |  |  | $ | 24,630 |
Senior secured notes and debentures(a) |  |  | 56,852 |  |  | 57,258 |  |  | 49,843 |  |  |  |  | 56,525 |  |  | 57,011 |  |  | 64,346 |
Credit facilities(b) |  |  | 13,729 |  |  | 13,668 |  |  | 13,026 |  |  |  |  | 10,723 |  |  | 10,668 |  |  | 10,665 |
|  |  | $ | 95,731 |  |  | $ | 96,001 |  |  | $ | 84,404 |  |  |  |  | $ | 91,198 |  |  | $ | 91,561 |  |  | $ | 99,641 |
(a)Includes the Company's £625 million and £650 million fixed-rate British pound sterling denominated notes (the “Sterling Notes”) remeasured using the exchange rate at the respective dates. (b)The Company has availability under the Charter Operating credit facilities of approximately $4.4 billion as of June 30, 2022. The estimated fair value of the Company’s senior unsecured and secured notes and debentures as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021 is based on quoted market prices in active markets and is classified within Level 1 of the valuation hierarchy, while the estimated fair value of the Company’s credit facilities is based on quoted market prices in inactive markets and is classified within Level 2. In January 2022, CCO Holdings, LLC ("CCO Holdings") and CCO Holdings Capital Corp. jointly issued $1.2 billion of 4.750% senior unsecured notes due February 2032 at par. The net proceeds were used for general corporate purposes, including to fund buybacks of Charter Class A common stock and Charter Holdings common units, to repay certain indebtedness and to pay related fees and expenses. In March 2022, Charter Operating and Charter Communications Operating Capital Corp. jointly issued $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 4.400% senior secured notes due April 2033 at a price of 99.634% of the aggregate principal amount, $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 5.250% senior secured notes due April 2053 at a price of 99.300% of the aggregate principal amount and $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 5.500% senior secured notes due April 2063 at a price of 99.255% of the aggregate principal amount. The net proceeds were used for general corporate purposes, including to fund buybacks of Charter Class A common stock and Charter Holdings common units, to repay certain indebtedness and to pay related fees and expenses. In May and June 2022, Charter Operating and Charter Communications Operating Capital Corp. redeemed all of their outstanding 4.464% senior notes due July 2022. In May 2022, Charter Operating entered into an amendment to its credit agreement (the "Amendment") to: (i) upsize term A loans by $2.3 billion to $6.05 billion and extend the maturity to August 31, 2027 from March 31, 2023 and February 1, 2025, (ii) create and borrow a new tranche of $500 million of term A-6 loans maturing August 31, 2028, (iii) increase the size of Charter Operating's revolving credit facility and extend the maturity date to August 31, 2027 from March 31, 2023 and February 1, 2025 and (iv) make certain other amendments to the credit agreement. The Company used a portion of the proceeds from the Amendment to repay all of the term A-2 loans, term A-4 loans and borrowings under the revolving credit facility outstanding prior to the effective date of the Amendment. After giving effect to the Amendment: (i) the aggregate principal amount of term A-5 loans outstanding is $6.05 billion with a pricing of Secured Overnight Financing Rate ("SOFR") plus 1.25%, (ii) the aggregate principal amount of term A-6 loans outstanding is $500 million with a pricing of SOFR plus 1.50% and (iii) the aggregate amount of the revolving credit facility increased to a total capacity of $5.5 billion and the interest rate benchmark changed from London Interbank Offering Rate ("LIBOR") to SOFR, with a pricing of SOFR plus 1.25%. The aggregate principal amount of term B-1 loans (maturing April 30, 2025) and term B-2 loans (maturing February 1, 2027) outstanding are $2.4 billion and $3.7 billion, respectively, with LIBOR-based pricing unchanged. The Amendment also removed mandatory prepayment requirements upon asset sales and property or casualty insurance recoveries, made changes to the affirmative covenants, including changes to the financial reporting covenants, and made changes to the negative covenants, including removal of certain negative covenants in their entirety. Losses on extinguishment of debt are recorded in other income (expenses), net in the consolidated statements of operations and consisted of the following.
| Three Months Ended June 30, |  | Six Months Ended June 30,
| 2022 |  | 2021 |  | 2022 |  | 2021
CCO Holdings notes redemption | $ | — |  |  | $ | (46) |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | (75) |
Charter Operating credit facility refinancing | (2) |  |  | — |  |  | (2) |  |  | — |
Charter Operating notes redemption | (1) |  |  | — |  |  | (1) |  |  | — |
| $ | (3) |  |  | $ | (46) |  |  | $ | (3) |  |  | $ | (75) |

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