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FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENT (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2018
Fair Value Disclosures [Abstract] |
Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis | The following table presents for each of these hierarchy levels, the Company's financial assets and financial liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis:
| Fair Value Hierarchy |  | September 30, 2018 |  | December 31, 2017
Assets: |  |  |  |  |
Money market funds | Level I |  | $ | 296,123 |  |  | $ | 5,949 |
Investment securities pledged as collateral | Level I |  | 1,521,045 |  |  | 1,720,357 |
Prepaid forward contracts | Level II |  | 31,510 |  |  | 52,545 |
Interest rate swap contracts | Level II |  | 3,269 |  |  | — |
Liabilities: |  |  |  |  |
Prepaid forward contracts | Level II |  | 10,131 |  |  | 162,049 |
Interest rate swap contracts | Level II |  | 143,719 |  |  | 77,902 |
Contingent consideration related to 2017 and 2018 acquisitions | Level III |  | 6,733 |  |  | 32,233 |
Schedule of Carrying Values and Estimated Fair Values of Debt Instruments |
|  |  | September 30, 2018 |  | December 31, 2017
| Fair Value Hierarchy |  | Carrying Amount (a) |  | Estimated Fair Value |  | Carrying Amount (a) |  | Estimated Fair Value
CSC Holdings debt instruments: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Credit facility debt | Level II |  | $ | 4,980,221 |  |  | $ | 5,033,750 |  |  | $ | 3,393,306 |  |  | $ | 3,435,000 |
Collateralized indebtedness | Level II |  | 1,400,398 |  |  | 1,352,771 |  |  | 1,349,474 |  |  | 1,305,932 |
Senior guaranteed notes | Level II |  | 3,284,419 |  |  | 3,293,125 |  |  | 2,291,185 |  |  | 2,420,000 |
Senior notes and debentures | Level II |  | 5,610,048 |  |  | 6,245,760 |  |  | 6,409,889 |  |  | 7,221,846 |
Notes payable | Level II |  | 42,810 |  |  | 42,653 |  |  | 56,956 |  |  | 55,289 |
Cablevision senior notes: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Senior notes and debentures | Level II |  | 1,076,681 |  |  | 1,189,098 |  |  | 1,818,115 |  |  | 1,931,239 |
Cequel debt instruments: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Cequel credit facility debt | Level II |  | 1,241,272 |  |  | 1,249,188 |  |  | 1,250,217 |  |  | 1,258,675 |
Senior secured notes | Level II |  | 2,573,423 |  |  | 2,604,930 |  |  | 2,570,506 |  |  | 2,658,930 |
Senior notes | Level II |  | 2,811,167 |  |  | 3,013,615 |  |  | 2,770,737 |  |  | 2,983,615 |
Notes payable | Level II |  | 34,281 |  |  | 34,281 |  |  | 8,946 |  |  | 8,946 |
|  |  | $ | 23,054,720 |  |  | $ | 24,059,171 |  |  | $ | 21,919,331 |  |  | $ | 23,279,472 |
(a) | Amounts are net of unamortized deferred financing costs, premiums and discounts.

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of assets and liabilities, including [financial] instruments measured at fair value that are classified in stockholders' equity, if any, that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis. The disclosures contemplated herein include the fair value measurements at the reporting date by the level within the fair value hierarchy in which the fair value measurements in their entirety fall, segregating fair value measurements using quoted prices in active markets for identical assets (Level 1), significant other observable inputs (Level 2), and significant unobservable inputs (Level 3). + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 820 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=66048111&loc=d3e19190-110258 + Details
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