Sinclair to Seek Partial Amendment and Extension of STG Credit Facilities
Sinclair Broadcast Group (Nasdaq: SBGI) announced its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sinclair Television Group, intends to amend and extend its term loan B-1 tranche. This includes refinancing to create new term loans with a maturity of seven years post-amendment.
This amendment is contingent on market and customary closing conditions. The company warns that various risks, including COVID-19 impacts and regulatory challenges, may affect the execution and future performance of this financial strategy.
- Refinancing will extend the maturity of term loan B-1 to seven years, potentially improving cash flow management.
- Execution of the proposed amendment is subject to various risks and uncertainties.
- Potential adverse effects from COVID-19 may impact financial results and advertising revenue.
- The company faces substantial indebtedness, which could affect its ability to service debt.
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (“Sinclair” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: SBGI) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sinclair Television Group, Inc. (“STG”), intends to amend and extend the existing term loan B-1 tranche under its credit agreement, including the incurrence of new term loans in order to refinance such term loan B-1 tranche (which currently has a maturity date of January 3, 2024) with such new term loans which will provide for, among other things, a maturity date that is seven years after the effectiveness of such amendment.
The credit facility amendment is subject to market and other customary closing conditions.
Forward-Looking Statements:
The matters discussed in this news release include forward-looking statements regarding, among other things, future events and actions. When used in this news release, the words “outlook,” “intends to,” “believes,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “achieves,” “estimates,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results in the future could differ materially and adversely from those described in the forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including and in addition to the assumptions set forth therein, but not limited to: STG’s ability to consummate the proposed amendment and extension of certain loans under its credit facility; the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business operations, financial results and financial position and on the world economy, including the significant disruption to the operations of the professional sports leagues, need to provide rebates to our distributors related to canceled professional sporting events, and loss of advertising revenue due to postponement or cancellation of professional sporting events, and reduced consumer spending as a result of shelter in place and stay at home orders; our ability to generate cash to service our substantial indebtedness; successful execution of outsourcing agreements; the successful execution of retransmission consent agreements; the successful execution of network affiliation and distribution agreements; the successful execution of media rights agreements with professional sports teams; the impact of OTT and other emerging technologies and their potential impact on cord-cutting; the impact of distributors offering "skinny" programming bundles that may not include all programming of our networks; pricing and demand fluctuations in local and national advertising; volatility in programming costs; the market acceptance of new programming; our ability to identify and consummate acquisitions and investments, to manage increased leverage resulting from acquisitions and investments, and to achieve anticipated returns on those investments once consummated; the impact of pending and future litigation claims against the Company; the impact of FCC and other regulatory proceedings against the Company, uncertainties associated with potential changes in the regulatory environment affecting our business and growth strategy; and any risk factors set forth in the Company's recent reports on Form 10-Q and/or Form 10-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements except as required by law.
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