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Subsequent Events
3 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
Subsequent Events

NOTE 10SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

October 2012 Senior Secured Credit Facility Amendments

On October 25, 2012, Clear Channel amended the terms of its senior secured credit facilities (the “Amendments”).  The Amendments, among other things: permit exchange offers of term loans for new debt securities in an aggregate principal amount of up to $5.0 billion; provide Clear Channel with greater flexibility to prepay tranche A term loans; following the repayment or extension of all tranche A term loans, permit below par non-pro rata purchases of term loans pursuant to customary Dutch auction procedures whereby all lenders of the class of term loans offered to be purchased will be offered an opportunity to participate; following the repayment or extension of all tranche A term loans, permit the repurchase of junior debt maturing before January 2016 with cash on hand in an amount not to exceed $200.0 million; combine the term loan B, the delayed draw term loan 1 and the delayed draw term loan 2 under the senior secured credit facilities; preserve revolving credit facility capacity in the event Clear Channel repays all amounts outstanding under the revolving credit facility; and eliminate certain restrictions on the ability of CCOH and its subsidiaries to incur debt.

 

October 2012 Refinancing Transaction

On October 25, 2012, Clear Channel exchanged $2.0 billion aggregate principal amount of term loans under its senior secured credit facilities for a like principal amount of newly issued Clear Channel 9.0% priority guarantee notes due 2019 (the “Notes”). The exchange offer, which was offered to eligible existing lenders under Clear Channel's senior secured credit facilities, was exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

The Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, jointly and severally, on a senior basis by Clear Channel Capital I, LLC, and all of Clear Channel's existing and future domestic wholly-owned restricted subsidiaries.  The Notes and the related guarantees are secured by (1) a lien on (a) the capital stock of Clear Channel and (b) certain property and related assets that do not constitute “principal property” (as defined in the indenture governing certain existing senior notes of Clear Channel), in each case equal in priority to the liens securing the obligations under Clear Channel's senior secured credit facilities and existing priority guarantee notes and (2) a lien on the accounts receivable and related assets securing Clear Channel's receivables based credit facility junior in priority to the lien securing Clear Channel's obligations thereunder. In addition to the collateral granted to secure the Notes, the collateral agent and the trustee for the Notes entered into an agreement with the administrative agent for the lenders under the senior secured credit facilities to turn over to the trustee under the Notes, for the benefit of the holders of the Notes, a pro rata share of any recovery received on account of the principal properties, subject to certain terms and conditions.

 

Option Exchange

On October 22, 2012, the Company announced an offering (the “Offer”) to eligible employees of the Company and its direct and indirect subsidiaries to exchange outstanding options to purchase shares of the Company's Class A common stock (the “Common Stock”) granted under the Clear Channel 2008 Executive Incentive Plan that have a per share exercise price equal to $10.00 (“Eligible Options”) for shares of restricted Common Stock granted as of the date of the commencement of the Offer in an amount equal to 90.0% of the number of shares of Common Stock underlying such person's Eligible Options tendered and accepted for exchange, on the terms and under the conditions set forth in the Offer.