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Employee Benefits | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2011
Compensation And Retirement Disclosure Abstract |
Compensation And Employee Benefit Plans Text Block | 16. EMPLOYEE SAVINGS AND BENEFIT PLANS Deferred Compensation Plans The Company provides certain of its employees and the Board of Directors with an opportunity to defer a portion of their compensation on a tax-favored basis. The obligations by the Company to pay these benefits under the deferred compensation plans represent unsecured general obligations that rank equally with the Company's other unsecured indebtedness. Amounts deferred under these plans were included in other long-term liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets. Any change in the deferred compensation liability for each quarter is recorded to general and administrative expense and to station operating expenses in the statement of operations. 401(k) Savings Plan E ffective July 1, 2011, t he Company reinstated it s discretionary matching contribution, which is subject to certain conditions. The Company's previous discretionary matching contribution was suspended in 2008. Benefit Plan Data The following table presents, for the periods indicated, certain information on employee savings and benefit plans:
|  |  | Six Months Ended
|  |  | June 30,
Benefit Plan Disclosures |  | 2011 |  | 2010
|  |  | (amounts in thousands)
Reconciliation Of Deferred Compensation Liabilities |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Beginning of period balance, January 1 |  | $ | 6,622 |  |  | $ | 5,173
| Employee compensation deferrals |  |  | 483 |  |  |  | 529
| Employee compensation payments |  |  | (294) |  |  |  | (78)
| Increase (decrease) in plan fair value |  |  | 340 |  |  |  | (296)
| End of period balance |  | $ | 7,151 |  |  | $ | 5,328

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