COLLATERAL AGREEMENT dated as of March 19, 2007 by and among GRAY TELEVISION, INC. and certain of its Subsidiaries as Grantors, in favor of WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent
Exhibit 10.2
dated as of March 19, 2007
by and among
XXXX TELEVISION, INC.
and certain of its Subsidiaries
as Grantors,
and certain of its Subsidiaries
as Grantors,
in favor of
WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Administrative Agent
as Administrative Agent
Table of Contents
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ARTICLE I DEFINED TERMS | 1 | |||||
SECTION 1.1 |
Terms Defined in the Uniform Commercial Code. | 1 | ||||
SECTION 1.2 |
Definitions | 2 | ||||
SECTION 1.3 |
Other Definitional Provisions | 5 | ||||
ARTICLE II SECURITY INTEREST | 5 | |||||
SECTION 2.1 |
Grant of Security Interest | 5 | ||||
SECTION 2.2 |
Grantors Remain Liable | 7 | ||||
ARTICLE III REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES | 7 | |||||
SECTION 3.1 |
Existence | 7 | ||||
SECTION 3.2 |
Authorization of Agreement; No Conflict | 7 | ||||
SECTION 3.3 |
Consents | 8 | ||||
SECTION 3.4 |
Perfected First Priority Liens | 8 | ||||
SECTION 3.5 |
Title, No Other Liens | 8 | ||||
SECTION 3.6 |
State of Organization; Location of Inventory, Equipment and Fixtures; other Information | 9 | ||||
SECTION 3.7 |
Accounts | 9 | ||||
SECTION 3.8 |
Chattel Paper | 10 | ||||
SECTION 3.9 |
Commercial Tort Claims | 10 | ||||
SECTION 3.10 |
Deposit Accounts | 10 | ||||
SECTION 3.11 |
Intellectual Property | 10 | ||||
SECTION 3.12 |
Inventory | 10 | ||||
SECTION 3.13 |
Investment Property; Partnership/LLC Interests | 10 | ||||
SECTION 3.14 |
Instruments | 11 | ||||
SECTION 3.15 |
Farm Products | 11 | ||||
SECTION 3.16 |
Government Contracts | 11 | ||||
ARTICLE IV COVENANTS | 11 | |||||
SECTION 4.1 |
Maintenance of Perfected Security Interest; Further Information | 11 | ||||
SECTION 4.2 |
Maintenance of Insurance | 11 | ||||
SECTION 4.3 |
Changes in Locations; Changes in Name or Structure | 12 | ||||
SECTION 4.4 |
Required Notifications | 12 | ||||
SECTION 4.5 |
Delivery Covenants | 12 | ||||
SECTION 4.6 |
Control Covenants | 13 | ||||
SECTION 4.7 |
Filing Covenants | 14 | ||||
SECTION 4.8 |
Accounts | 14 | ||||
SECTION 4.9 |
Intellectual Property | 14 | ||||
SECTION 4.10 |
Investment Property; Partnership/LLC Interests. | 15 | ||||
SECTION 4.11 |
Equipment | 16 | ||||
SECTION 4.12 |
Vehicles | 16 | ||||
SECTION 4.13 |
Government Contracts | 16 | ||||
SECTION 4.14 |
Further Assurances | 16 |
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ARTICLE V REMEDIAL PROVISIONS | 17 | |||||
SECTION 5.1 |
General Remedies | 17 | ||||
SECTION 5.2 |
Specific Remedies | 18 | ||||
SECTION 5.3 |
Registration Rights | 20 | ||||
SECTION 5.4 |
Application of Proceeds | 20 | ||||
SECTION 5.5 |
Waiver, Deficiency | 21 | ||||
SECTION 5.6 |
FCC Licenses | 21 | ||||
ARTICLE VI THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT | 21 | |||||
SECTION 6.1 |
Administrative Agent’s Appointment as Attorney-In-Fact | 22 | ||||
SECTION 6.2 |
Duty of Administrative Agent | 23 | ||||
SECTION 6.3 |
Authority of Administrative Agent | 24 | ||||
ARTICLE VII MISCELLANEOUS | 24 | |||||
SECTION 7.1 |
Amendments in Writing | 24 | ||||
SECTION 7.2 |
Notices | 24 | ||||
SECTION 7.3 |
No Waiver by Course of Conduct, Cumulative Remedies | 24 | ||||
SECTION 7.4 |
Enforcement Expenses, Indemnification | 24 | ||||
SECTION 7.5 |
Waiver of Jury Trial | 25 | ||||
SECTION 7.6 |
Successors and Assigns | 25 | ||||
SECTION 7.7 |
Set-Off | 26 | ||||
SECTION 7.8 |
Counterparts | 26 | ||||
SECTION 7.9 |
Severability | 26 | ||||
SECTION 7.10 |
Section Heading | 26 | ||||
SECTION 7.11 |
Integration | 26 | ||||
SECTION 7.12 |
Governing Law | 27 | ||||
SECTION 7.13 |
Consent to Jurisdiction | 27 | ||||
SECTION 7.14 |
Acknowledgements | 27 | ||||
SECTION 7.15 |
Additional Grantors | 27 | ||||
SECTION 7.16 |
Releases | 27 |
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SCHEDULES: | ||
Schedule 3.6 |
Exact Legal Name; Jurisdiction of Organization; Taxpayer Identification Number; Registered Organization Number; Mailing Address; Chief Executive Office and other Locations | |
Schedule 3.9 |
Commercial Tort Claims | |
Schedule 3.10 |
Deposit Accounts | |
Schedule 3.11 |
Intellectual Property | |
Schedule 3.13 |
Investment Property and Partnership/LLC Interests | |
Schedule 3.14 |
Instruments |
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COLLATERAL AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of March 19, 2007, by and among XXXX
TELEVISION, INC., a Georgia corporation (the “Borrower”), certain of its Subsidiaries as
identified on the signature pages hereto and any Additional Grantor (as defined below) who may
become party to this Agreement (such Subsidiaries and Additional Grantors, collectively, with the
Borrower, the “Grantors”), in favor of WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as
Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”) for the ratable benefit
of itself and the other Secured Parties.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
Pursuant to the Credit Agreement dated as of the date hereof (as amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”) by and among the Borrower,
the financial institutions from time to time party hereto (the “Lenders”) and the
Administrative Agent, the Lenders have agreed to make Advances to the Borrower upon the terms and
subject to the conditions set forth therein.
Pursuant to the terms of a Subsidiary Guaranty Agreement of even date, certain Subsidiaries of
the Borrower who are parties hereto have guaranteed the payment and performance of the Obligations.
It is a condition precedent to the obligation of the Lenders to make their respective Advances
to the Borrower under the Credit Agreement that the Grantors shall have executed and delivered this
Agreement to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of itself and the other Secured
Parties.
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are
hereby acknowledged by the parties hereto, and to induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders
to enter into the Credit Agreement and to induce the Lenders to make their respective Advances to
the Borrower thereunder, each Grantor hereby agrees with the Administrative Agent, for the ratable
benefit of itself and the other Secured Parties, as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINED TERMS
SECTION 1.1 Terms Defined in the Uniform Commercial Code.
(a) The following terms when used in this Agreement shall have the meanings assigned to them
in the UCC (as defined herein) as in effect from time to time: “Account”, “Account
Debtor”, “Chattel Paper”; “Commercial Tort Claim”, “Deposit Account”,
“Documents”, “Electronic Chattel Paper”, “Equipment”, “Farm
Products” “Fixture”, “General Intangible”, “Instrument”,
“Inventory”, “Investment Property”, “Letter-of-Credit Rights”,
“Proceeds”, “Record”, “Registered Organization”, “Securities
Account”, “Securities Intermediary”, “Supporting Obligation” and “Tangible
Chattel Paper”.
(b) Terms defined in the UCC and not otherwise defined herein or in the Credit Agreement shall
have the meaning assigned in the UCC as in effect from time to time.
SECTION 1.2 Definitions. The following terms when used in this Agreement shall have
the meanings assigned to them below:
“Additional Grantor” means each Subsidiary of the Borrower which hereafter becomes a
Grantor pursuant to Section 7.15 (as required pursuant to Section 5.13 of the
Credit Agreement).
“Applicable Insolvency Laws” means all Applicable Laws governing bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of debts, relief of debtors, dissolution, insolvency,
fraudulent transfers or conveyances or other similar laws (including, without limitation, 11 U.S.C.
Sections 547, 548 and 550 and other “avoidance” provisions of Title 11 of the United States Code).
“Assignment of Claims Act” means the Assignment of Claims Act of 1940 (41 U.S.C.
Section 15, 31 U.S.C. Section 3737, and 31 U.S.C. Section 3727), including all amendments thereto
and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Collateral” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 2.1.
“Collateral Account” means any collateral account established by the Administrative
Agent as provided in Section 5.2.
“Control” means the manner in which “control” is achieved under the UCC with respect
to any Collateral for which the UCC specifies a method of achieving “control”.
“Controlled Depository” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 4.6.
“Controlled Intermediary” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 4.6.
“Copyrights” means collectively, all of the following of any Grantor: (a) all
copyrights, rights and interests in copyrights, works protectable by copyright, copyright
registrations and copyright applications anywhere in the world, including, without limitation,
those listed on Schedule 3.11 hereto, (b) all reissues, extensions, continuations (in whole
or in part) and renewals of any of the foregoing, (c) all income, royalties, damages and payments
now or hereafter due and/or payable under any of the foregoing or with respect to any of the
foregoing, including, without limitation, damages or payments for past, present or future
infringements of any of the foregoing, (d) the right to xxx for past, present or future
infringements of any of the foregoing and (e) all rights corresponding to any of the foregoing
throughout the world.
“Copyright Licenses” means any written agreement naming any Grantor as licensor or
licensee, including, without limitation, those listed in Schedule 3.11, granting any right
under any Copyright, including, without limitation, the grant of rights to manufacture, distribute,
exploit and sell materials derived from any Copyright.
“Effective Endorsement and Assignment” means, with respect to any specific type of
Collateral, all such endorsements, assignments and other instruments of transfer reasonably
requested by the Administrative Agent with respect to the Security Interest granted in such
Collateral, and in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent.
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“Excluded Deposit Account” means Deposit Accounts established solely for the purpose
of funding payroll and other compensation and benefits to employees.
“Government Contract” means a contract between any Grantor and an agency, department
or instrumentality of the United States or any state, municipal or local Governmental Authority
located in the United States or all obligations of any such Governmental Authority arising under
any Account now or hereafter owing by any such Governmental Authority, as account debtor, to any
Grantor.
“Intellectual Property” means collectively, all of the following of any Grantor: (a)
all systems software, applications software and internet rights, including, without limitation,
screen displays and formats, internet domain names, web sites (including web links), program
structures, sequence and organization, all documentation for such software, including, without
limitation, user manuals, flowcharts, programmer’s notes, functional specifications, and operations
manuals, all formulas, processes, ideas and know-how embodied in any of the foregoing, and all
program materials, flowcharts, notes and outlines created in connection with any of the foregoing,
whether or not patentable or copyrightable, (b) concepts, discoveries, improvements and ideas, (c)
any useful information relating to the items described in clause (a) or (b), including know-how,
technology, engineering drawings, reports, design information, trade secrets, practices, laboratory
notebooks, specifications, test procedures, maintenance manuals, research, development,
manufacturing, marketing, merchandising, selling, purchasing and accounting, (d) Patents and Patent
Licenses, Copyrights and Copyright Licenses, Trademarks and Trademark Licenses, and (e) other
licenses to use any of the items described in the foregoing clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) or any
other similar items of such Grantor necessary for the conduct of its business.
“Issuer” means any issuer of any Investment Property or Partnership/LLC Interests
(including, without limitation, any Issuer as defined in the UCC).
“Margin Stock” means “margin security” or “margin stock” as defined in Regulations T,
U and X (12 C.F.R. Parts 220, 221 and 224) of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
“Partnership/LLC Interests” means, with respect to any Grantor, the entire partnership
interest, membership interest or limited liability company interest, as applicable, of such Grantor
in each partnership, limited partnership or limited liability company owned thereby, including,
without limitation, such Grantor’s capital account, its interest as a partner or member, as
applicable, in the net cash flow, net profit and net loss, and items of income, gain, loss,
deduction and credit of any such partnership, limited partnership or limited liability company, as
applicable, such Grantor’s interest in all distributions made or to be made by any such
partnership, limited partnership or limited liability company, as applicable, to such Grantor and
all of the other economic rights, titles and interests of such Grantor as a partner or member, as
applicable, of any such partnership, limited partnership or limited liability company, as
applicable, whether set forth in the partnership agreement or membership agreement, as
applicable, of such partnership, limited partnership or limited liability company, as
applicable, by separate agreement or otherwise.
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“Patents” means collectively, all of the following of any Grantor: (a) all patents,
rights and interests in patents, patentable inventions and patent applications anywhere in the
world, including, without limitation, those listed on Schedule 3.11 hereto, (b) all
reissues, extensions, continuations (in whole or in part) and renewals of any of the foregoing, (c)
all income, royalties, damages or payments now or hereafter due and/or payable under any of the
foregoing or with respect to any of the foregoing, including, without limitation, damages or
payments for past, present or future infringements of any of the foregoing, (d) the right to xxx
for past, present and future infringements of any of the foregoing and (e) all rights corresponding
to any of the foregoing throughout the world.
“Patent License” means all agreements now or hereafter in existence, whether written,
implied or oral, providing for the grant by or to any Grantor of any right to manufacture, use or
sell any invention covered in whole or in part by a Patent, including, without limitation, any of
the foregoing referred to in Schedule 3.11 hereto.
“Restricted Securities Collateral” means any portion of the Collateral as to which a
registration under the provisions of the Securities Act would be necessary or advisable in order
for the Administrative Agent to exercise its right to sell such Collateral.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, including all amendments thereto
and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Trademarks” means collectively all of the following of any Grantor: (a) all
trademarks, rights and interests in trademarks, trade names, corporate names, company names,
business names, fictitious business names, trade styles, service marks, logos, other business
identifiers, prints and labels on which any of the foregoing have appeared or appear, whether
registered or unregistered, all registrations and recordings thereof, and all applications in
connection therewith (other than each application to register any trademark or service xxxx xxxxx
to the filing under Applicable Law of a verified statement of use for such trademark or service
xxxx) anywhere in the world, including, without limitation, those listed on Schedule 3.11
hereto, (b) all reissues, extensions, continuations (in whole or in part) and renewals of any of
the foregoing, (c) all income, royalties, damages and payments now or hereafter due and/or payable
under any of the foregoing or with respect to any of the foregoing, including, without limitation,
damages or payments for past, present or future infringements of any of the foregoing, (d) the
right to xxx for past, present or future infringements of any of the foregoing and (e) all rights
corresponding to any of the foregoing (including the goodwill) throughout the world.
“Trademark License” means any agreement now or hereafter in existence, whether written
or oral, providing for the grant by or to any Grantor of any right to use any Trademark, including,
without limitation, any of the foregoing referred to in Schedule 3.11.
“UCC” means means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York,
as amended or modified from time to time.
“Vehicles” means all cars, trucks, trailers, construction and earth moving equipment
and other vehicles covered by a certificate of title under the laws of any state, all tires and all
other appurtenances to any of the foregoing.
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SECTION 1.3 Other Definitional Provisions. Terms defined in the Credit Agreement and
not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the Credit Agreement. With
reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in
such other Loan Document: (a) the definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular
and plural forms of the terms defined, (b) whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall
include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms, (c) the words “include”, “includes”
and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”, (d) the word
“will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”, (e) any
definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed
as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document, as from time to time amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or
modifications set forth herein), (f) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to
include such Person’s permitted successors and assigns, (g) the words “herein”, “hereof” and
“hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its
entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (h) all references herein to Articles,
Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and
Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement, (i) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed
to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and
properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights, (j) the term “documents”
includes any and all instruments, documents, agreements, certificates, notices, reports, financial
statements and other writings, however evidenced, whether in physical or electronic form, (k) in
the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from”
means “from and including;” the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding;” and the word
“through” means “to and including”, (l) Section headings herein and in the other Loan Documents are
included for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this
Agreement or any other Loan Document and (k) where the context requires, terms relating to the
Collateral or any part thereof, when used in relation to a Grantor, shall refer to such Grantor’s
Collateral or the relevant part thereof.
ARTICLE II
SECURITY INTEREST
SECTION 2.1 Grant of Security Interest. Each Grantor hereby grants, pledges and
collaterally assigns to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of itself and the other
Secured Parties, a security interest in all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest in the
following property, now owned or at any time hereafter acquired by such Grantor or in which such
Grantor now has or at any time in the future may acquire any right, title or interest, and wherever
located or deemed located (collectively, the
“Collateral”), as collateral security for the prompt and complete payment and
performance when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the
Obligations:
(a) all Accounts;
(b) all cash and currency;
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(c) all Chattel Paper;
(d) all Commercial Tort Claims identified on Schedule 3.9;
(e) all Deposit Accounts;
(f) all Documents;
(g) all Equipment;
(h) all Fixtures;
(i) all General Intangibles;
(j) all Instruments;
(k) all Intellectual Property;
(l) all Inventory;
(m) all Investment Property;
(n) all Letter-of-Credit Rights;
(o) all Vehicles;
(p) all other personal property not otherwise described above;
(q) all books and records pertaining to the Collateral; and
(r) to the extent not otherwise included, all Proceeds and products of any and all of the
foregoing and all collateral security and Supporting Obligations (as now or hereafter defined in
the UCC) given by any Person with respect to any of the foregoing; provided, that the
Security Interests granted herein shall not extend to, and the term “Collateral” shall not include,
(A) any Margin Stock, (B) any rights under any lease, contract or agreement (including, without
limitation, any license for Intellectual Property) to the extent that the granting of a security
interest therein is specifically prohibited in writing by, or would constitute an event of default
under or would grant a party a termination right under, any agreement governing such right, unless
such prohibition is not enforceable or is otherwise ineffective under Applicable Law or (C) any
license or authorization issued by the FCC or any successor or similar regulatory authority to the
extent that the granting of a security interest therein is specifically prohibited under Applicable
Law (provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Security Interests
granted herein shall extend to, and the term “Collateral” shall include, all proceeds received
upon any sale, transfer or other disposition of any such license or authorization).
Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, such proviso shall not affect, limit, restrict or impair the
grant by any Grantor of a Security Interest in any Account or any money or other amounts due and
payable to any Grantor or to become due and payable to any Grantor under any lease, contract or
agreement described in clause (B) above.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, the payment and performance of the Obligations shall not be
secured by any Interest Rate Hedge Agreement between any Grantor and any Secured Party.
SECTION 2.2 Grantors Remain Liable. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding:
(a) each Grantor shall remain liable to perform all of its duties and obligations under the
contracts and agreements included in the Collateral to the same extent as if this Agreement had not
been executed, (b) the exercise by Administrative Agent of any of the rights hereunder shall not
release any Grantor from any of its duties or obligations under the contracts and agreements
included in the Collateral, (c) neither the Administrative Agent nor any other Secured Party shall
have any obligation or liability under the contracts and agreements included in the Collateral by
reason of this Agreement, nor shall the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party be
obligated to perform any of the obligations or duties of any Grantor thereunder or to take any
action to collect or enforce any claim for payment assigned hereunder, and (d) neither the
Administrative Agent nor any other Secured Party shall have any liability in contract or tort for
any Grantor’s acts or omissions.
ARTICLE III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
To induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into the Credit Agreement and to
induce the Lenders to make their respective Advances to the Borrower thereunder, each Grantor
hereby represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties that:
SECTION 3.1 Existence. Such Grantor is duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or formation. Such Grantor has
the requisite power and authority to own its properties and to carry on its business as now being
and hereafter proposed to be conducted. Such Grantor is duly qualified, in good standing and
authorized to do business in each jurisdiction in which the character of its properties or the
nature of its business requires such qualification and authorization, except where failure to be so
qualified, in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Materially Adverse Effect.
SECTION 3.2 Authorization of Agreement; No Conflict. Such Grantor has the power and
has taken all necessary corporate and other action to authorize the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby. This Agreement, and each
other Loan Document to which it is a party, has
been duly executed and delivered by the duly authorized officers of such Grantor and is a
legal, valid and binding obligation of the Grantors enforceable against such Grantor in accordance
with its terms, subject, as to enforcement of remedies, to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights and
remedies generally and subject, as to enforceability, to general principles of equity. The
execution, delivery and performance by the Grantors of this Agreement and the transactions
contemplated hereby will not (a) violate any Applicable Law respecting any Grantor, (b) conflict
with, result in a breach of, or constitute a default under the certificate or articles of
incorporation or by-laws or partnership agreements or operating agreements or trust agreements (or
the equivalents thereof),
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as the case may be, as amended, of any Grantor, or under any material
Operating Agreement, or any other material indenture, agreement, or other instrument, to which any
Grantor is a party or by which any of them or their respective properties may be bound or (c)
result in or require the creation or imposition of any Lien upon or with respect to any property
now owned or hereafter acquired by the Grantors, except for Permitted Liens.
SECTION 3.3 Consents. No approval, consent, exemption, authorization or other action
by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is necessary or
required in connection with the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement by, or
enforcement of this Agreement against, any Grantor or any Issuer, except (a) as may be required by
laws affecting the offering and sale of securities generally, (b) filings with the United States
Copyright Office and/or the United States Patent and Trademark Office, (c) filings under the UCC
and/or the Assignment of Claims Act, (d) the filing with the FCC of a copy of this Agreement as
required by Section 73.3613 of the FCC’s rules, (e) the FCC’s prior consent, to the extent that the
exercise by the Administrative Agent or the other Secured Parties of certain of their rights,
powers, privileges and remedies hereunder may constitute a de jure or de facto voluntary or
involuntary assignment of a Station’s FCC License or a voluntary or involuntary transfer of de jure
or de facto control of the holder of any such Station’s FCC License and (f) as may be required with
respect to Vehicles represented by a certificate of title.
SECTION 3.4 Perfected First Priority Liens. Each financing statement naming any
Grantor as a debtor is in appropriate form for filing in the appropriate filing offices of the
states specified on Schedule 3.6. The Security Interests granted pursuant to this
Agreement (a) constitute valid security interests in all of the Collateral in favor of the
Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of itself and the other Secured Parties, as
collateral security for the Obligations, and (b) (i) when UCC financing statements containing an
adequate description of the Collateral shall have been filed in the offices specified in
Schedule 3.6, the Security Interests will constitute perfected security interests in all
right, title and interest of such Grantor in the Collateral to the extent that a security interest
therein may be perfected by filing pursuant to the UCC, prior to all other Liens and rights of
others therein except for Permitted Liens; (ii) when each Copyright security agreement has been
filed with the United States Copyright Office, the Security Interests will constitute perfected
security interests in all right, title and interest of such Grantor in the Intellectual Property
therein described, prior to all other Liens and rights of others therein except for Permitted
Liens; and (iii) when each control agreement has been executed and delivered to the Administrative
Agent, the
Security Interests will constitute perfected security interests in all right, title and
interest of the Grantors in the Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts, as applicable, subject
thereto, prior to all other Liens and rights of others therein and subject to no adverse claims
except for Permitted Liens.
SECTION 3.5 Title, No Other Liens. The Grantors have good, legal and marketable title
to, or a valid leasehold interest in, all of their respective material assets. None of the
properties or assets of the Grantors is subject to any Liens, except for Permitted Liens. Except
for financing statements evidencing Permitted Liens, no financing statement under the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect in any jurisdiction and no other filing which names any Grantor as
debtor or which covers or purports to cover any of the assets of any Grantor is currently effective
and on file in any state or other jurisdiction, and no Grantor has signed any such financing
statement or filing or any security agreement authorizing any secured party
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thereunder to file any
such financing statement or filing. No Collateral is in the possession or Control of any Person
asserting any claim thereto or security interest therein, except that (a) the Administrative Agent
or its designee may have possession or Control of Collateral as contemplated hereby, (b) a
depositary bank may have Control of a Deposit Account owned by a Grantor at such depositary bank
and a Securities Intermediary may have Control over a Securities Account owned by a Grantor at such
Securities Intermediary, in each case subject to the terms of any Deposit Account control agreement
or Securities Account control agreement, as applicable and to the extent required by Section
4.6, in favor of the Administrative Agent, and (c) a bailee, consignee or other Person may have
possession of the Collateral as contemplated by, and so long as, the applicable Grantors have
complied to the satisfaction of the Administrative Agent with the applicable provisions of
Section 4.6(c).
SECTION 3.6 State of Organization; Location of Inventory, Equipment and Fixtures; other
Information.
(a) The exact legal name of each Grantor is set forth on Schedule 3.6 (as such
schedule may be updated from time to time pursuant to Section 4.3).
(b) Each Grantor is a Registered Organization organized under the laws of the state identified
on Schedule 3.6 under such Grantor’s name (as such schedule may be updated from time to
time pursuant to Section 4.3). The taxpayer identification number and Registered
Organization number of each Grantor is set forth on Schedule 3.6 under such Grantor’s name
(as such schedule may be updated from time to time pursuant to Section 4.3).
(c) All Collateral consisting of Inventory, Equipment and Fixtures (whether now owned or
hereafter acquired) is (or will be) located at the locations specified on Schedule 3.6,
except as otherwise permitted hereunder.
(d) The mailing address, chief place of business, chief executive office and office where each
Grantor keeps its books and records relating to the Accounts, Documents, General Intangibles,
Instruments and Investment Property in which it has any interest is located at the
locations specified on Schedule 3.6 under such Grantor’s name. No Grantor has any
other places of business except those separately set forth on Schedule 3.6 under such
Grantor’s name. No Grantor does business nor has done business during the past five years under
any trade name or fictitious business name except as disclosed on Schedule 3.6 under such
Grantor’s name. Except as disclosed on Schedule 3.6 under such Grantor’s name, no Grantor
has acquired assets from any Person, other than assets acquired in the ordinary course of such
Grantor’s business, during the past five years.
SECTION 3.7 Accounts. Each existing Account constitutes, and each hereafter arising
Account will constitute, the legally valid and binding obligation of the applicable Account Debtor.
The amount represented by each Grantor to the Administrative Agent as owing by each Account Debtor
is, or will be, the correct amount actually and unconditionally owing, except for ordinary course
cash discounts and allowances where applicable. No Account Debtor has any defense, set-off, claim
or counterclaim against any Grantor that can be asserted against the Administrative Agent, whether
in any proceeding to enforce the Administrative Agent’s rights in the Collateral or otherwise
except defenses, setoffs, claims or counterclaims that are not,
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in the aggregate, material to the
value of the Accounts. None of the Accounts is, nor will any hereafter arising Account be,
evidenced by a promissory note or other Instrument (other than a check) that has not been pledged
to the Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms hereof.
SECTION 3.8 Chattel Paper. As of the date hereof, no Grantor holds any Chattel Paper
in the ordinary course of its business.
SECTION 3.9 Commercial Tort Claims. As of the date hereof, all Commercial Tort Claims
owned by any Grantor are listed on Schedule 3.9.
SECTION 3.10 Deposit Accounts. As of the date hereof, all Deposit Accounts
(including, without limitation, cash management accounts that are Deposit Accounts), securities
accounts and lockboxes including the: (a) owner of the account, (b) name and address of financial
institution or securities broker where such accounts are located, (c) account numbers and (d)
purpose or use of such account owned by any Grantor are listed on Schedule 3.10.
SECTION 3.11 Intellectual Property.
(a) As of the date hereof, all Copyright registrations, Copyright applications, issued
Patents, Patent applications, Trademark registrations and Trademark applications owned by any
Grantor in its own name on the date hereof is listed on Schedule 3.11 (as such
schedule may be updated from time to time pursuant to Section 4.3).
(b) Except as set forth in Schedule 3.11 on the date hereof (as such schedule may be
updated from time to time pursuant to Section 4.3), none of the Intellectual Property owned
by any Grantor is the subject of any written licensing or franchise agreement pursuant to which
such Grantor is the licensor or franchisor, except as could not reasonably be expected to have a
Materially Adverse Effect.
SECTION 3.12 Inventory. Collateral consisting of Inventory is of good and
merchantable quality, free from any material defects. To the knowledge of each Grantor, none of
such Inventory is subject to any licensing, Patent, Trademark, trade name or Copyright with any
Person that restricts any Grantor’s ability to manufacture and/or sell such Inventory. The
completion of the manufacturing process of such Inventory by a Person other than the applicable
Grantor would be permitted under any contract to which such Grantor is a party or to which the
Inventory is subject.
SECTION 3.13 Investment Property; Partnership/LLC Interests.
(a) As of the date hereof, all Investment Property (including, without limitation, Securities
Accounts and cash management accounts that are Investment Property) and all Partnership/LLC
Interests owned by any Grantor are listed on Schedule 3.13 (as such schedule may be updated
from time to time pursuant to Section 4.3).
(b) All Investment Property and all Partnership/LLC Interests issued by any Issuer to any
Grantor (i) have been duly and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable, (ii) are
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beneficially owned as of record by such Grantor and (ii) constitute all the issued and outstanding
shares of all classes of the capital stock of such Issuer issued to such Grantor.
(c) None of the Partnership/LLC Interests (i) are traded on a Securities exchange or in
Securities markets, (ii) by their terms expressly provide that they are Securities governed by
Article 8 of the UCC, (iii) are Investment Company Securities or (iv) are held in a Securities
Account.
SECTION 3.14 Instruments.
As of the date hereof, no Grantor holds any Instruments, or is named a payee of any promissory
note or other evidence of indebtedness, other than the Instruments, promissory notes or other
evidence of indebtedness listed on Schedule 3.14.
SECTION 3.15 Farm Products. None of the Collateral constitutes, or is the Proceeds of, Farm Products.
SECTION 3.16 Government Contracts. As of the date hereof, no Grantor is party to any
contract with a Governmental Authority under which such Governmental Authority, as account debtor,
owes a monetary obligation to any Grantor under any account.
ARTICLE IV
COVENANTS
Until the Obligations shall have been paid in full (other than contingent and expense
reimbursement claims for which no demand has been made) and the Commitments terminated, unless
consent has been obtained in the manner provided for in Section 7.1, each Grantor covenants
and agrees that:
SECTION 4.1 Maintenance of Perfected Security Interest; Further Information.
(a) Each Grantor shall maintain the Security Interest created by this Agreement as a first
priority perfected Security Interest (other than Permitted Liens) and shall defend such Security
Interest against the claims and demands of all Persons whomsoever (other than Permitted Liens).
(b) Each Grantor will furnish to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties, upon
the Administrative Agent’s reasonable request, from time to time (but, unless a Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, Grantors shall only be required to provide such
information twice in any twelve (12) month period), statements and schedules further identifying
and describing the assets and property of such Grantor and such other reports in connection
therewith as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, all in reasonable detail.
SECTION 4.2 Maintenance of Insurance.
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(a) Each Grantor will maintain insurance with financially sound and reputable companies as
required by Section 5.5 of the Credit Agreement, and will meet all other obligations and
requirements of Section 5.5 of the Credit Agreement as if such Grantor were a party to the
Credit Agreement.
(b) Upon the request of the Administrative Agent from time to time, each Grantor shall deliver
to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders periodic information from a reputable insurance broker
with respect to the insurance referred to in this Section 4.2.
SECTION 4.3 Changes in Locations; Changes in Name or Structure. No Grantor will, except upon thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to the Administrative
Agent and delivery to the Administrative Agent of (a) all additional financing statements (executed
if necessary for any particular filing jurisdiction) and other instruments and documents reasonably
requested by the Administrative Agent to maintain the validity, perfection and priority of the
Security Interests and (b) if applicable, a written supplement to the Schedules of this Agreement:
(i) permit any Deposit Account (other than Excluded Deposit Accounts) to be held by or at a
depositary bank other than the depositary bank that held such Deposit Account as of the date hereof
as set forth on Schedule 3.10;
(ii) permit any Investment Property (other than Certificated Securities delivered to the
Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 4.5) to be held by a Securities Intermediary other
than the Securities Intermediary that held such Investment Property as of the date hereof as set
forth on Schedule 3.13;
(iii) change its jurisdiction of organization or the location of its chief executive office
from that identified on Schedule 3.6; or
(iv) change its name, identity or corporate or organizational structure to such an extent that
any financing statement filed by the Administrative Agent in connection with this Agreement would
become misleading.
SECTION 4.4 Required Notifications. Each Grantor shall promptly notify the
Administrative Agent, in writing, of: (a) any Lien (other than the Security Interests or Permitted
Liens) on any of the Collateral which would adversely affect the ability of the Administrative
Agent to exercise any of its remedies hereunder, (b) the occurrence of any other event which could
reasonably be expected to have a Materially Adverse Effect on the aggregate value of the Collateral
or on the Security Interests, (c) any Collateral which, to the knowledge of such Grantor,
constitutes a Government Contract, and (d) the acquisition or ownership by such Grantor of any (i)
Commercial Tort Claim, (ii) Deposit Account (other than Excluded Deposit Accounts) or (iii)
Investment Property after the date hereof.
SECTION 4.5 Delivery Covenants. Each Grantor will deliver and pledge to the
Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of itself and the other Secured Parties, all
Certificated Securities, Partnership/LLC Interests evidenced by a certificate, negotiable
Documents, Instruments, and Tangible Chattel Paper owned or held by such Grantor, in each case,
together with an Effective Endorsement and Assignment and all Supporting Obligations, as
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applicable, unless such delivery and pledge has been waived in writing by the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 4.6 Control Covenants.
(a) Each Grantor shall instruct (and otherwise use its commercially reasonable efforts) to
cause (i) each depositary bank (other than the Administrative Agent) holding a Deposit Account
(other than Excluded Deposit Accounts) owned by such Grantor and (ii) each Securities Intermediary
holding any Investment Property owned by such Grantor, to execute and deliver a control agreement,
sufficient to provide the Administrative Agent with Control of such Deposit Account or Investment
Property and otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent
(any such depositary bank executing and delivering any such control agreement, a “Controlled
Depositary”, and any such Securities Intermediary executing and delivering any such control
agreement, a “Controlled Intermediary”). In the event any such depositary bank or
Securities Intermediary refuses to execute and deliver such control agreement, the Administrative
Agent, in its sole discretion, may require the applicable Deposit Account and Investment Property
to be transferred to the Administrative Agent or a Controlled Depositary or Controlled
Intermediary, as applicable. After the date hereof, all Deposit Accounts (other than Excluded
Deposit Accounts) and all Investment Property will be maintained with the Administrative Agent or
with a Controlled Depository or a Controlled Intermediary, as applicable.
(b) Each Grantor will take such actions and deliver all such agreements as are reasonably
requested by the Administrative Agent to provide the Administrative Agent with Control of all
Letter-of-Credit Rights and Electronic Chattel Paper owned or held by such Grantor, including,
without limitation, with respect to any such Electronic Chattel Paper, by having the Administrative
Agent identified as the assignee of the Record(s) pertaining to the single authoritative copy
thereof.
(c) If any Collateral (other than Collateral specifically subject to the provisions of
Section 4.6(a) and Section 4.6(b)) exceeding in value $50,000 in the aggregate
(such Collateral exceeding such amount, the “Excess Collateral”) is at any time in the
possession or control of any consignee, warehouseman, bailee (other than a carrier transporting
Inventory to a purchaser in the ordinary course of business), processor, or any other third party,
such Grantor shall notify in writing such Person of the Security Interests created hereby, shall
use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain such Person’s written agreement in writing to
hold all such Collateral for the Administrative Agent’s account subject to the Administrative
Agent’s instructions; provided that if such Grantor is not able to obtain such agreement
and cause the delivery of such items, the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, may require
such Excess Collateral to be moved to another location specified thereby. Further, each Grantor
shall perfect and protect such Grantor’s ownership interests in all Inventory stored with a
consignee against creditors of the consignee by filing and maintaining financing statements against
the consignee reflecting the consignment arrangement filed in all appropriate filing offices,
providing any written notices required to notify any prior creditors of the consignee of the
consignment arrangement, and taking such other actions as may be appropriate to perfect and protect
such Grantor’s interests in such inventory under Section 2-326, Section 9-103, Section 9-324 and
Section 9-505 of the UCC or otherwise. All such financing statements filed pursuant to this
Section 4.6(c) shall be
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assigned, on the face thereof, to the Administrative Agent, for the
ratable benefit of itself and the other Secured Parties.
SECTION 4.7 Filing Covenants. Pursuant to Section 9-509 of the UCC and any other Applicable Law, each Grantor authorizes
the Administrative Agent to file or record financing statements and other filing or recording
documents or instruments with respect to the Collateral without the signature of such Grantor in
such form and in such offices as the Administrative Agent determines appropriate to perfect the
Security Interests of the Administrative Agent under this Agreement (with copies thereof to be
promptly delivered to the Borrower). Such financing statements may describe the Collateral in the
same manner as described herein. Further, a photographic or other reproduction of this Agreement
shall be sufficient as a financing statement or other filing or recording document or instrument
for filing or recording in any jurisdiction. Grantor hereby authorizes, ratifies and confirms all
financing statements and other filing or recording documents or instruments filed by Administrative
Agent prior to the date of this Agreement.
SECTION 4.8 Accounts.
(a) Other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with its past practice, no
Grantor will (i) grant any extension of the time of payment of any Account, (ii) compromise or
settle any Account for less than the full amount thereof, (iii) release, wholly or partially, any
Account Debtor, (iv) allow any credit or discount whatsoever on any Account or (v) amend,
supplement or modify any Account in any manner that could reasonably be likely to adversely affect
the value thereof.
(b) Each Grantor will deliver to the Administrative Agent a copy of each material demand,
notice or document received by it that questions or calls into doubt the validity or enforceability
of any material Account.
(c) At any time and from time to time, upon the Administrative Agent’s reasonable request and
at the expense of the relevant Grantor, such Grantor shall cause independent public accountants or
others reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent to furnish to the Administrative Agent
reports showing reconciliations, aging and test verifications of, and trial balances for, the
Accounts; provided that, unless a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, such Grantor shall only be required to provide such information twice in any twelve
(12) month period.
SECTION 4.9 Intellectual Property.
(a) Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Materially Adverse Effect, each
Grantor (either itself or through licensees) (i) will to use each registered Trademark (owned by
such Grantor) and Trademark for which an application (owned by such Grantor) is pending, to the
extent reasonably necessary to maintain such Trademark in full force free from any claim of
abandonment for non-use, (ii) will maintain products and services offered under such Trademark at a
level substantially consistent with the quality of such products and services as of the date
hereof, (iii) will not (and will not permit any licensee or sublicensee thereof to) do any act or
knowingly omit to do any act whereby such Trademark could reasonably be expected to
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become
invalidated or impaired in any way, (iv) will not do any act, or knowingly omit to do any
act, whereby any issued Patent owned by such Grantor would reasonably be expected to become
forfeited, abandoned or dedicated to the public, (v) will not (and will not permit any licensee or
sublicensee thereof to) do any act or knowingly omit to do any act whereby any registered Copyright
owned by such Grantor or Copyright for which an application is pending (owned by such Grantor)
could reasonably be expected to become invalidated or otherwise impaired and (vi) will not (either
itself or through licensees) do any act whereby any material portion of the Copyrights may fall
into the public domain.
(b) Each Grantor will notify the Administrative Agent and the Lenders promptly if it knows, or
has reason to know, that any application or registration relating to any material Intellectual
Property owned by such Grantor may become forfeited, abandoned or dedicated to the public, or of
any adverse determination or development (including, without limitation, the institution of, or any
such determination or development in, any proceeding in the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, the United States Copyright Office or any court or tribunal in any country) regarding such
Grantor’s ownership of, or the validity of, any material Intellectual Property owned by such
Grantor or such Grantor’s right to register the same or to own and maintain the same.
(c) Whenever such Grantor, either by itself or through any agent, employee, licensee or
designee, shall file an application for the registration of any Intellectual Property with the
United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any similar office
or agency in any other country or any political subdivision thereof, such Grantor shall report such
filing to the Administrative Agent within five (5) Business Days after the last day of the fiscal
quarter in which such filing occurs. Upon request of the Administrative Agent, such Grantor shall
execute and deliver, and have recorded, any and all agreements, instruments, documents, and papers
as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request to evidence the Administrative Agent’s and the
other Secured Parties’ security interest in any material Copyright, Patent or Trademark and the
goodwill and General Intangibles of such Grantor relating thereto or represented thereby.
(d) Each Grantor will take all reasonable and necessary steps, at such Grantor’s sole cost and
expense, including, without limitation, in any proceeding before the United States Patent and
Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any similar office or agency in any other
country or any political subdivision thereof, to maintain and pursue each application (and to
obtain the relevant registration) and to maintain each registration of the material Intellectual
Property, including, without limitation, filing of applications for renewal, affidavits of use and
affidavits of incontestability.
(e) In the event that any material Intellectual Property owned by a Grantor is infringed,
misappropriated or diluted by a third party, the applicable Grantor shall (i) at such Grantor’s
sole cost and expense, take such actions as such Grantor shall reasonably deem appropriate under
the circumstances to protect such Intellectual Property and (ii) if such Intellectual Property is
of material economic value, promptly notify the Administrative Agent after it learns of such
infringement, misappropriation or dilution.
SECTION 4.10 Investment Property; Partnership/LLC Interests.
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(a) Without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, no Grantor will (i) vote to
enable, or take any other action to permit, any applicable Issuer to issue any Investment Property
or Partnership/LLC Interests to such Grantor, except for such those additional Investment Property
or Partnership/LLC Interests issued to such Grantor that will be subject to the Security Interest
granted herein in favor of the Administrative Agent, or (ii) enter into any agreement or
undertaking restricting the right or ability of such Grantor or the Administrative Agent to sell,
assign or transfer any Investment Property or Partnership/LLC Interests or Proceeds thereof. The
Grantors will defend the right, title and interest of the Administrative Agent in and to any
Investment Property and Partnership/LLC Interests against the claims and demands of all Persons
whomsoever.
(b) If any Grantor shall become entitled to receive or shall receive (i) any Certificated
Securities (including, without limitation, any certificate representing a stock dividend or a
distribution in connection with any reclassification, increase or reduction of capital or any
certificate issued in connection with any reorganization), option or rights in respect of the
ownership interests of any Issuer, whether in addition to, in substitution of, as a conversion of,
or in exchange for, any Investment Property, or otherwise in respect thereof, or (ii) any sums paid
upon or in respect of any Investment Property upon the liquidation or dissolution of any Issuer,
such Grantor shall accept the same as the agent of the Administrative Agent and the other Secured
Parties, hold the same in trust for the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties,
segregated from other funds of such Grantor, and promptly deliver the same to the Administrative
Agent in accordance with the terms hereof.
SECTION 4.11 Equipment. Each Grantor will maintain each item of Equipment in good
working order and condition (reasonable wear and tear and obsolescence excepted), and generally in
accordance with any manufacturer’s manual, except for such failures that would not have a
Materially Adverse Effect.
SECTION 4.12 Vehicles. Upon the request of the Administrative Agent upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, all applications for certificates of
title or ownership indicating the Administrative Agent’s first priority Lien on the Vehicles
(subject to any Permitted Liens) covered by such certificates, and any other necessary
documentation, shall be filed in each office in each jurisdiction which the Administrative Agent
shall deem reasonably advisable to perfect its Liens on the Vehicles; provided that with respect to
Vehicles subject to Permitted Liens, no such application or other documentation shall be required.
Prior thereto, each certificate of title or ownership relating to each Vehicle shall be maintained
by the applicable Grantor in accordance with Applicable Law to reflect the ownership interest of
such Grantor.
SECTION 4.13 Government Contracts. Each Grantor shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent, in writing, if it enters into
any contract with a Governmental Authority under which such Governmental Authority, as account
debtor, owes a material monetary obligation to any Grantor under any Account.
SECTION 4.14 Further Assurances. Upon the request of the Administrative Agent and at
the sole expense of the Grantors, each Grantor will promptly and duly execute and deliver, and have
recorded, such further instruments and documents and take such further actions as the
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Administrative Agent may reasonably request for the purpose of obtaining or preserving the full
benefits of this Agreement and of the rights and powers herein granted, including, without
limitation, (i) the assignment of any material contract, (ii) with respect to Government Contracts,
assignment agreements and notices of assignment, in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, duly executed by any Grantors party to such Government Contract in compliance
with the Assignment of Claims Act (or analogous state Applicable Law), and (iii) all applications,
certificates, instruments, registration statements, and all other documents and papers the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request and as may be required by law in connection with the
obtaining of any consent, approval, registration, qualification, or authorization of any Person
deemed necessary or appropriate for the effective exercise of any rights under this Agreement.
ARTICLE V
REMEDIAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 5.1 General Remedies. If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing,
the Administrative Agent, on behalf of itself and the other Secured Parties, may exercise, in
addition to all other rights and remedies granted to them in this Agreement and in any other
instrument or agreement securing, evidencing or relating to the Obligations, all rights and
remedies of a secured party under the UCC or any other Applicable Law. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent, without demand of performance or other
demand, presentment, protest, advertisement or notice of any kind (except any notice required by
law referred to below) to or upon any Grantor or any other Person (all and each of which demands,
defenses, advertisements and notices are hereby waived), may in such circumstances forthwith
collect, receive, appropriate and realize upon the Collateral, or any part thereof, and/or may
forthwith sell, lease, assign, give option or options to purchase, or otherwise dispose of and
deliver the Collateral or any part thereof (or contract to do any of the foregoing), in one or more
parcels at public or private sale or sales, at any exchange, broker’s board or office of the
Administrative Agent or any Lender or elsewhere upon such terms and conditions as it may deem
advisable and at such prices as it may deem best, for cash or on credit or for future delivery
without assumption of any credit risk. The Administrative Agent may disclaim any warranties in
connection with any sale or other disposition of the Collateral, including, without limitation, any
warranties of title, possession, quiet enjoyment and the like. The Administrative Agent or any
other Secured Party shall have the right upon any such public sale or sales, and, to the extent
permitted by law, upon any such private sale or sales, to purchase the whole or any part of the
Collateral so sold, free of any right or equity of redemption in any Grantor, which right or equity
is hereby waived and
released. Each Grantor further agrees, at the Administrative Agent’s request, to assemble the
Collateral and make it available to the Administrative Agent at places which the Administrative
Agent shall reasonably select, whether at such Grantor’s premises or elsewhere. To the extent
permitted by Applicable Law, each Grantor waives all claims, damages and demands it may acquire
against the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party arising out of the exercise by them of
any rights hereunder except to the extent any such claims, damages, or demands result solely from
the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party,
in each case against whom such claim is asserted. If any notice of a proposed sale or other
disposition of Collateral shall be required by
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law, such notice shall be deemed reasonable and
proper if given at least ten (10) days before such sale or other disposition.
SECTION 5.2 Specific Remedies.
(a) The Administrative Agent hereby authorizes each Grantor to collect such Grantor’s
Accounts, under the Administrative Agent’s direction and control; provided that, the
Administrative Agent may curtail or terminate such authority at any time after the occurrence and
during the continuance of an Event of Default.
(b) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(i) the Administrative Agent may communicate with Account Debtors of any Account
subject to a Security Interest and upon the request of the Administrative Agent, each
Grantor shall notify (such notice to be in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent) its Account Debtors and parties to the material contracts subject to a
Security Interest that such Accounts and the material contracts have been assigned to the
Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of itself and the other Secured Parties;
(ii) each Grantor shall forward to the Administrative Agent, on the last Business Day
of each week, deposit slips related to all cash, money, checks or any other similar items of
payment received by the Grantor during such week, and, if requested by the Administrative
Agent, copies of such checks or any other similar items of payment, together with a
statement showing the application of all payments on the Collateral during such week and a
collection report with regard thereto, in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent;
(iii) whenever any Grantor shall receive any cash, money, checks or any other similar
items of payment relating to any Collateral (including any Proceeds of any Collateral),
subject to the terms of any Permitted Liens, such Grantor agrees that it will, within one
(1) Business Day of such receipt, deposit all such items of payment into the Collateral
Account or in a Deposit Account (other than an Excluded Deposit Account) at a Controlled
Depositary, until such Grantor shall deposit such cash, money, checks or any other similar
items of payment in the Collateral Account or in a Deposit Account (other than an Excluded
Deposit Account) at a Controlled Depositary, such Grantor shall hold such cash, money,
checks or any other similar items of payment in trust for the
Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties and as property of the
Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties, separate from the other funds of such
Grantor, and the Administrative Agent shall have the right to transfer or direct the
transfer of the balance of each Deposit Account to the Collateral Account. All such
Collateral and Proceeds of Collateral received by the Administrative Agent hereunder shall
be held by the Administrative Agent in the Collateral Account as collateral security for all
the Obligations and shall not constitute payment thereof until applied as provided in
Section 5.4;
(iv) the Administrative Agent shall have the right to receive any and all cash
dividends, payments or distributions made in respect of any Investment Property or
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Partnership/LLC Interests or other Proceeds paid in respect of any Investment Property or
Partnership/LLC Interests, and any or all of any Investment Property or Partnership/LLC
Interests shall be registered in the name of the Administrative Agent or its nominee, and
the Administrative Agent or its nominee may thereafter exercise (A) all voting, corporate
and other rights pertaining to such Investment Property or Partnership/LLC Interests at any
meeting of shareholders, partners or members of the relevant Issuers, subject to Section
5.6 and (B) any and all rights of conversion, exchange and subscription and any other
rights, privileges or options pertaining to such Investment Property or Partnership/LLC
Interests as if it were the absolute owner thereof (including, without limitation, the right
to exchange at its discretion any and all of the Investment Property or Partnership/LLC
Interests upon the merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization or other
fundamental change in the corporate, partnership or company structure of any Issuer or upon
the exercise by any Grantor or the Administrative Agent of any right, privilege or option
pertaining to such Investment Property or Partnership/LLC Interests, and in connection
therewith, the right to deposit and deliver any and all of the Investment Property or
Partnership/LLC Interests with any committee, depositary, transfer agent, registrar or other
designated agency upon such terms and conditions as the Administrative Agent may determine),
all without liability except to account for property actually received by it; but the
Administrative Agent shall have no duty to any Grantor to exercise any such right, privilege
or option and the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties shall not be
responsible for any failure to do so or delay in so doing. In furtherance thereof, each
Grantor hereby authorizes and instructs each Issuer with respect to any Collateral
consisting of Investment Property and Partnership/LLC Interests to (i) comply with any
instruction received by it from the Administrative Agent in writing that (A) states that an
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (B) is otherwise in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement, without any other or further instructions from such Grantor, and
each Grantor agrees that each Issuer shall be fully protected in so complying following
receipt of such notice and prior to notice that such Event of Default is no longer
continuing, and (ii) except as otherwise expressly permitted hereby, pay any dividends,
distributions or other payments with respect to any Investment Property or Partnership/LLC
Interests directly to the Administrative Agent; and
(v) the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to (but shall not be required to): (A)
proceed to perform any and all obligations of the applicable Grantor under any material
contract and exercise all rights of such Grantor thereunder as fully as such Grantor itself
could, (B) do all other acts which the Administrative Agent may deem
necessary or proper to protect its Security Interest granted hereunder, provided such
acts are not inconsistent with or in violation of the terms of any of the Credit Agreement,
of the other Loan Documents or Applicable Law, and (C) sell, assign or otherwise transfer
any material contract in accordance with the Credit Agreement, the other Loan Documents and
Applicable Law, subject, however, to the prior approval of each other party to such material
contract, to the extent required under the material contract.
(c) Unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Administrative
Agent shall have given notice to the relevant Grantor of the Administrative Agent’s intent to
exercise its corresponding rights pursuant to Section 5.2(b), each Grantor shall be
permitted to receive all cash dividends, payments or other distributions made in respect of any
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Investment Property and Partnership/LLC Interests, in each case paid in the normal course of
business of the relevant Issuer and consistent with past practice, to the extent permitted in the
Credit Agreement, and to exercise all voting and other corporate, company and partnership rights
with respect to any Investment Property and Partnership/LLC Interests, subject to Section
5.6; provided that, no vote shall be cast or other corporate, company and partnership
right exercised or other action taken which, in the Administrative Agent’s reasonable judgment,
would impair the Collateral in any material respect or which would result in a Default or Event of
Default under any provision of the Credit Agreement, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
SECTION 5.3 Registration Rights.
(a) Each Grantor recognizes that the Administrative Agent may be unable to effect a public
sale of any or all the Restricted Securities Collateral, by reason of certain prohibitions
contained in the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or otherwise, and may be
compelled to resort to one or more private sales thereof to a restricted group of purchasers which
will be obliged to agree, among other things, to acquire such securities for their own account for
investment and not with a view to the distribution or resale thereof. Each Grantor acknowledges
and agrees that any such private sale may result in prices and other terms less favorable than if
such sale were a public sale and, notwithstanding such circumstances, agrees that any such private
sale shall be deemed to have been made in a commercially reasonable manner. The Administrative
Agent shall be under no obligation to delay a sale of any of the Restricted Securities Collateral
for the period of time necessary to permit the Issuer thereof to register such securities for
public sale under the Securities Act, or under applicable state securities laws, even if such
Issuer would agree to do so.
(b) Each Grantor agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to do or cause to be done
all such other acts as may be necessary to make such sale or sales of all or any portion of the
Restricted Securities Collateral valid and binding and in compliance with any and all other
Applicable Laws. Each Grantor further agrees that a breach of any of the covenants contained in
this Section 5.3 will cause irreparable injury to the Administrative Agent and the other
Secured Parties, that the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties have no adequate
remedy at law in respect of such breach and, as a consequence, that each and every covenant
contained in this Section 5.3 shall be specifically enforceable against such Grantor, and
such Grantor hereby waives and agrees not to assert any defenses against an action for specific
performance of such
covenants except for a defense that no Event of Default has occurred under the Credit
Agreement.
SECTION 5.4 Application of Proceeds. At such intervals as may be agreed upon by the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent, or, if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, at any time at the Administrative Agent’s election, the Administrative Agent may apply
all or any part of the Collateral or any Proceeds of the Collateral in payment in whole or in part
of the Obligations (after deducting all reasonable costs and expenses of every kind incurred in
connection therewith or incidental to the care or safekeeping of any of the Collateral or in any
way relating to the Collateral or the rights of the Administrative Agent and the other Secured
Parties hereunder, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements) in
accordance with Section 8.3 of the Credit Agreement. Only after (i) the payment by the
Administrative Agent of any other amount required by any provision of Applicable Law,
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including,
without limitation, Section 9-610 and Section 9-615 of the UCC and (ii) the payment in full of the
Obligations and the termination of the Commitments, shall the Administrative Agent account for the
surplus, if any, to any Grantor, or to whomever may be lawfully entitled to receive the same (if
such Person is not a Grantor).
SECTION 5.5 Waiver, Deficiency. Each Grantor hereby waives, to the extent permitted
by Applicable Law, all rights of redemption, appraisement, valuation, stay, extension or moratorium
now or hereafter in force under any Applicable Law in order to prevent or delay the enforcement of
this Agreement or the absolute sale of the Collateral or any portion thereof. Each Grantor shall
remain liable for any deficiency if the proceeds of any sale or other disposition of the Collateral
are insufficient to pay its Obligations and the fees and disbursements of any attorneys employed by
the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party to collect such deficiency.
SECTION 5.6 FCC Licenses. Notwithstanding anything herein which may be construed to the
contrary, no action shall be taken by any of the Secured Parties with respect to the FCC Licenses
(or any pledged Collateral relating to such licenses) unless and until all requirements of
Applicable Law, including, without limitation, any state law, or any required approval under the
Communications Act, and any applicable rules and regulations thereunder, requiring the consent to
or approval of such action by the FCC or any governmental or other authority, have been satisfied.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing and notwithstanding anything to the contrary
herein, the Administrative Agent (on behalf of itself and the other Secured Parties) hereby agrees
that voting rights in the ownership interests of the Grantors in the Stations will remain with the
holders of such voting rights upon and following the occurrence of an Event of Default unless and
until any required prior approvals of the FCC to the transfer of such voting rights shall have been
obtained. The Grantors covenant that, upon request of any of the Secured Parties after and during
the continuance of an Event of Default, they will cause to be filed such applications and take such
other action as may be requested by such Person or Persons to obtain consent or approval of the FCC
or any governmental or other authority which has granted any FCC License
to any Grantor to any action contemplated by this Agreement and to give effect to the Security
Interest of the Administrative Agent, including, without limitation, the execution of an
application for consent by the FCC to a change in ownership or control pursuant to the provisions
of the Communications Act. To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Administrative Agent is
hereby irrevocably appointed the true and lawful attorney-in-fact of each Grantor, in its name and
stead, to execute and file, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default
after ten (10) Business Days’ prior notice to the Borrower, all necessary applications with the FCC
and with any governmental or other authority. The power of attorney granted herein is coupled with
an interest and shall be irrevocable for so long as any of the Obligations remains unpaid or
unperformed or any of the Lenders have any obligation to make Advances under the Credit Agreement,
regardless of whether the conditions precedent to the making of any such Advances has been or can
be fulfilled.
ARTICLE VI
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
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SECTION 6.1 Administrative Agent’s Appointment as Attorney-In-Fact.
(a) Each Grantor hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the Administrative Agent and any
officer or agent thereof, with full power of substitution, as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact
with full irrevocable power and authority in the place and stead of such Grantor and in the name of
such Grantor or in its own name, for the purpose of carrying out the terms of this Agreement, to
take any and all appropriate action and to execute any and all documents and instruments which may
be necessary or desirable to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement, and, without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, each Grantor hereby gives the Administrative Agent the power and
right, on behalf of such Grantor, without notice to or assent by such Grantor, to do any or all of
the following upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default:
(i) in the name of such Grantor or its own name, or otherwise, take possession of and
indorse and collect any checks, drafts, notes, acceptances or other instruments for the
payment of moneys due under any Account or material contract subject to a Security Interest
or with respect to any other Collateral and file any claim or take any other action or
proceeding in any court of law or equity or otherwise deemed appropriate by the
Administrative Agent for the purpose of collecting any and all such moneys due under any
Account or material contract subject to a Security Interest or with respect to any other
Collateral whenever payable;
(ii) in the case of any Intellectual Property, execute and deliver, and have recorded,
any and all agreements, instruments, documents and papers as the Administrative Agent may
request to evidence the Administrative Agent’s and the other Secured Parties’ security
interest in such Intellectual Property and the goodwill and General Intangibles of such
Grantor relating thereto or represented thereby;
(iii) pay or discharge taxes and Liens levied or placed on or threatened against the
Collateral, effect any repairs or any insurance called for by the terms of this Agreement
and pay all or any part of the premiums therefor and the costs thereof;
(iv) execute, in connection with any sale provided for in this Agreement, any
endorsements, assignments or other instruments of conveyance or transfer with respect to the
Collateral; and
(v) (A) direct any party liable for any payment under any of the Collateral to make
payment of any and all moneys due or to become due thereunder directly to the Administrative
Agent or as the Administrative Agent shall direct; (B) ask or demand for, collect, and
receive payment of and receipt for, any and all moneys, claims and other amounts due or to
become due at any time in respect of or arising out of any Collateral; (C) sign and indorse
any invoices, freight or express bills, bills of lading, storage or warehouse receipts,
drafts against debtors, assignments, verifications, notices and other documents in
connection with any of the Collateral; (D) commence and prosecute any suits, actions or
proceedings at law or in equity in any court of competent jurisdiction to collect the
Collateral or any portion thereof and to enforce any other right in respect of any
Collateral; (E) defend any suit, action or proceeding brought against such Grantor
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respect to any Collateral; (F) settle, compromise or adjust any such suit, action or
proceeding and, in connection therewith, give such discharges or releases as the
Administrative Agent may deem appropriate; (G) assign any Copyright, Patent or Trademark
(along with the goodwill of the business to which any such Copyright, Patent or Trademark
pertains), for such term or terms, on such conditions, and in such manner, as the
Administrative Agent shall in its sole discretion determine; and (H) generally, sell,
transfer, pledge and make any agreement with respect to or otherwise deal with any of the
Collateral as fully and completely as though the Administrative Agent were the absolute
owner thereof for all purposes, and do, at the Administrative Agent’s option and such
Grantor’s expense, at any time, or from time to time, all acts and things which the
Administrative Agent deems necessary to protect, preserve or realize upon the Collateral and
the Administrative Agent’s and the other Secured Parties’ Security Interests therein and to
effect the intent of this Agreement, all as fully and effectively as such Grantor might do.
(b) If any Grantor fails to perform or comply with any of its agreements contained herein, the
Administrative Agent, at its option, but without any obligation so to do, may perform or comply, or
otherwise cause performance or compliance, with such agreement in accordance with the provisions of
Section 6.1(a).
(c) The reasonable expenses of the Administrative Agent incurred in connection with actions
taken pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, together with interest thereon at a rate per annum
equal to the highest rate per annum at which interest would then be payable on any category of past
due Base Rate Loans under the Credit Agreement, from the date of payment by the Administrative
Agent to the date reimbursed by the relevant Grantor, shall be payable by such Grantor to the
Administrative Agent on demand.
(d) Each Grantor hereby ratifies only those actions and things that said attorneys shall
lawfully do or cause to be done in the exercise of the power of attorney granted hereunder in
accordance with Section 6.1(a). All powers, authorizations and agencies contained in this
Agreement are coupled with an interest and are irrevocable until this Agreement is terminated and
the Security Interests created hereby are released.
SECTION 6.2 Duty of Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent’s sole duty with
respect to the custody, safekeeping and physical preservation of the Collateral in its possession,
under Section 9-207 of the UCC or otherwise, shall be to deal with it in the same manner as the
Administrative Agent deals with similar property for its own account. Neither the Administrative
Agent, any other Secured Party nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents
shall be liable for failure to demand, collect or realize upon any of the Collateral or for any
delay in doing so or shall be under any obligation to sell or otherwise dispose of any Collateral
upon the request of any Grantor or any other Person or to take any other action whatsoever with
regard to the Collateral or any part thereof. The powers conferred on the Administrative Agent and
the other Secured Parties hereunder are solely to protect the Administrative Agent’s and the other
Secured Parties’ interests in the Collateral and shall not impose any duty upon the Administrative
Agent or any other Secured Party to exercise any such powers. The Administrative Agent and the
other Secured Parties shall be accountable only for amounts that they actually receive as a result
of the exercise of such powers, and neither they nor
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any of their officers, directors, employees or
agents shall be responsible to any Grantor for any act or failure to act hereunder, except for
their own gross negligence or willful misconduct.
SECTION 6.3 Authority of Administrative Agent. Each Grantor acknowledges that the
rights and responsibilities of the Administrative Agent under this Agreement with respect to any
action taken by the Administrative Agent or the exercise or non-exercise by the Administrative
Agent of any option, voting right, request, judgment or other right or remedy provided for herein
or resulting or arising out of this Agreement shall, as between the Administrative Agent and the
other Secured Parties, be governed by the Credit Agreement and by such other agreements with
respect thereto as may exist from time to time among them, but, as between the Administrative Agent
and the Grantors, the Administrative Agent shall be conclusively presumed to be acting as agent for
itself and the other Secured Parties with full and valid authority so to act or refrain from
acting, and no Grantor shall be under any obligation, or entitlement to make any inquiry respecting
such authority.
ARTICLE VII
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 7.1 Amendments in Writing. None of the terms or provisions of this Agreement
may be waived, amended, supplemented or otherwise modified except in accordance with Section
11.12 of the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 7.2 Notices. All notices, requests and demands to or upon the Administrative
Agent or any Grantor hereunder shall be effected in the manner provided for in Section 11.1
of the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 7.3 No Waiver by Course of Conduct, Cumulative Remedies. The rights and
remedies of the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties under this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies which they
would otherwise have. No failure or delay by the Administrative Agent, the Required Lenders, the
other Secured Parties, or any of them in exercising any right shall operate as a waiver of such
right. The Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties expressly reserve the right to
require strict compliance with the terms of this Agreement in connection with any future funding of
a Request for Advance. In the event the Lenders decide to fund a Request for Advance at a time
when the Borrower is not in strict compliance with the terms of this Agreement, such decision by
the Lenders shall not be deemed to constitute an undertaking by the Lenders to fund any further
Request for Advance or preclude the Secured Parties from exercising any rights available under the
Loan Documents or at law or equity. Any waiver or indulgence granted by the Administrative Agent,
the Lenders, or the Required Lenders, shall not constitute a modification of this Agreement or any
other Loan Document, except to the extent expressly provided in such waiver or indulgence, or
constitute a course of dealing at variance with the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document such as to require further notice of their intent to require strict adherence to the terms
of this Agreement or any other Loan Document in the future.
SECTION 7.4 Enforcement Expenses, Indemnification.
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(a) Each Grantor agrees to pay or reimburse each Secured Party for all its costs and expenses
incurred in connection with enforcing or preserving any rights under this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents to which such Grantor is a party, (including, without limitation, in connection with
any workout, restructuring, bankruptcy or other similar proceeding) including, without limitation,
the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to each Secured Party.
(b) Each Grantor agrees to pay, and to save the Administrative Agent and the other Secured
Parties harmless from, any and all liabilities with respect to, or resulting from any delay in
paying, any and all stamp, excise, sales or other taxes (in each case, subject to Section
2.12 of the Credit Agreement) which may be payable or determined to be payable with respect to
any of the Collateral or in connection with any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) Each Grantor agrees to pay, and to save the Administrative Agent and the other Secured
Parties harmless from any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, costs and
expenses in connection with actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind
or nature whatsoever with respect to the execution, delivery, enforcement, performance and
administration of this Agreement to the extent any Grantor would be required to do so pursuant to
Sections 5.11 and 11.2 of the Credit Agreement.
(d) The agreements in this Section 7.4 shall survive termination of the Commitments
and repayment of the Obligations and all other amounts payable under the Credit Agreement and the
other Loan Documents. To the extent that any conflict may exist between this Section 7.4
and Sections 5.11 and 11.2 of the Credit Agreement, then Sections 5.11 and
11.2 of the Credit Agreement shall control.
SECTION 7.5 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL
PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN
DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY
OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY
OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE
EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE
OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS,
AS APPLICABLE, BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
SECTION 7.6 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon the
successors and permitted assigns of each Grantor and shall inure to the benefit of each Grantor
(and shall bind all Persons who become bound as a Grantor to this Collateral Agreement), the
Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties and their successors and permitted assigns;
provided that no Grantor may assign, transfer or delegate any of its rights or
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obligations
under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (given in
accordance with Section 7.1).
SECTION 7.7 Set-Off. Each Grantor hereby irrevocably authorizes the Administrative
Agent and each Secured Party at any time and from time to time pursuant to Section 11.4 of
the Credit Agreement, without notice to such Grantor or any other Grantor, any such notice being
expressly waived by each Grantor, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, to set off and
apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever
currency) at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such
Secured Party, the Issuing Bank or any such Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of such
Grantor, against any and all of the obligations of the Grantor now or hereafter existing under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document to such Secured Party or the Issuing Bank, irrespective of
whether or not such Secured Party or the Issuing Bank shall have made any demand under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document and although such obligations of the Grantor may be contingent
or unmatured or are owed to a branch or office of such Secured Party or the Issuing Bank different
from the branch or office holding such deposit or obligated on such indebtedness. The rights of
each Secured Party, the Issuing Bank and their respective Affiliates under this Section
7.7 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such
Secured Party, the Issuing Bank or their respective Affiliates may have. Each Lender and the
Issuing Bank agrees to notify the Grantor and the Administrative Agent promptly after any such
setoff and application; provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the
validity of such setoff and application. To the extent that any conflict may exist between this
Section 7.7 and Section 11.4 of the Credit Agreement, then Section 11.4 of
the Credit Agreement shall control.
SECTION 7.8 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such separate counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of
a signature page of this Agreement shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed
counterpart of this Agreement and delivery of or any document or instrument delivered in connection
herewith by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of such
other document or instrument, as applicable.
SECTION 7.9 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement which is prohibited or
unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or
unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof in that jurisdiction or
affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.
SECTION 7.10 Section Heading. The Section headings of the various subdivisions used
in this Agreement are for convenience only and shall not in any way modify or amend any of the
terms or provisions hereof, nor be used in connection with the interpretation of any provision
hereof.
SECTION 7.11 Integration. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, this
Agreement, the Loan Documents and the other documents described or contemplated in the Credit
Agreement will embody the entire agreement and understanding among the parties hereto and thereto
and supersede all prior agreements and understandings relating to the subject matter
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hereof and
thereof except as expressly set forth or referred to herein or in the other Loan Documents.
SECTION 7.12 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, construed and
enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to agreements made to be
performed in New York.
SECTION 7.13 Consent to Jurisdiction. If any action or proceeding shall be brought by
the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder or under any other Loan Document in order to
enforce any right or remedy under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document, the Grantors hereby consent, and will cause their
subsidiaries to submit, to the jurisdiction of any state or federal court of competent jurisdiction
sitting in the county of New York on the date of this Agreement. The Grantors hereby agree that,
to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, service of the summons and complaint and all other
process which may be served in any such suit, action or proceeding may be effected by mailing by
registered mail a copy of such process to the offices of the Borrower at the address given in
Section 11.1 of the Credit Agreement and that personal service of process shall not be
required. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit service of process by any other method
permitted by law, or the bringing of any suit, action or proceeding in any other jurisdiction. The
Grantors agree that final judgment in such suit, action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may
be enforced in any other jurisdiction by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by
Applicable Law.
SECTION 7.14 Acknowledgements.
(a) Each Grantor hereby acknowledges that: (i) it has been advised by counsel in the
negotiation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a
party, (ii) neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender has any fiduciary relationship with or
duty to any Grantor arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents, and the relationship between the Grantors, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent
and Lenders, on the other hand, in connection herewith or therewith is solely that of debtor and
creditor, and (iii) no joint venture is created hereby or by the other Loan Documents or otherwise
exists by virtue of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby among the Lenders or among the
Grantors and the Lenders.
(b) Each Issuer party to this Agreement acknowledges receipt of a copy of this Agreement and
agrees to be bound thereby and to comply with the terms thereof insofar as such terms are
applicable to it. Each Issuer agrees to provide such notices to the Administrative Agent as may be
necessary to give full effect to the provisions of this Agreement.
SECTION 7.15 Additional Grantors. Each Subsidiary of the Borrower that is required to
become a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 5.13 of the Credit Agreement shall
become a Grantor for all purposes of this Agreement upon execution and delivery by such Subsidiary
of a joinder agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 7.16 Releases.
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(a) At such time as the Obligations shall have been paid in full (other than contingent and
expense reimbursement obligations for which no demand has been made) and the Commitments have been
terminated, the Collateral shall be released from the Liens created hereby, and this Agreement and
all obligations (other than those expressly stated to survive such termination) of the
Administrative Agent and each Grantor hereunder shall terminate, all without
delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any party, and all rights to the
Collateral shall revert to the Grantors. At the request and sole expense of any Grantor following
any such termination, the Administrative Agent shall deliver to such Grantor any Collateral held by
the Administrative Agent hereunder, and execute and deliver to such Grantor such documents as such
Grantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination.
(b) If any of the Collateral shall be sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of by any
Grantor in a transaction permitted by the Credit Agreement, then the Administrative Agent, at the
request and sole expense of such Grantor, shall execute and deliver to such Grantor all releases or
other documents reasonably necessary or desirable for the release of the Liens created hereby on
such Collateral. In the event that all the Capital Stock or all of the assets of any Grantor shall
be sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of in a transaction permitted by the Credit Agreement,
then, at the request of the Borrower and at the expense of the Grantors, such Grantor shall be
released from its obligations hereunder; provided that the Borrower shall have delivered to
the Administrative Agent, at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the date of the proposed
release, a written request for release identifying the relevant Grantor and the terms of the sale
or other disposition in reasonable detail, including the price thereof and any expenses in
connection therewith, together with a certification by the Borrower stating that such transaction
is in compliance with the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Collateral Agreement to be executed
under seal by their duly authorized officers, all as of the day and year first written above.
XXXX TELEVISION, INC., as Grantor |
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By: | /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxxx X. Xxxx | |||
Title: | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | |||
WVLT-TV, INC., as Grantor and Issuer |
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By: | /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxxx X. Xxxx | |||
Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |||
XXXX TELEVISION GROUP, INC., as Grantor and Issuer | ||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxxx X. Xxxx | |||
Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |||
XXXX TELEVISION LICENSEE, INC., as Grantor and Issuer | ||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxxx X. Xxxx | |||
Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |||
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[Xxxx
Television Collateral Agreement]
XXXX TEXAS L.P., as Grantor and Issuer By Xxxx Television Group, Inc., its General Partner |
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By: | /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxxx X. Xxxx | |||
Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |||
XXXX TEXAS, LLC, as Grantor and Issuer |
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By: | /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxxx X. Xxxx | |||
Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |||
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[Xxxx
Television Collateral Agreement]
WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL | ||||||
ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent | ||||||
By: Name: |
/s/ Xxx Xxxxxx
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Title: | Director |
[Xxxx
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Exact Legal Name; Jurisdiction of Organization; Taxpayer Identification Number; Registered
Organization Number; Mailing Address; Chief Executive Office and other Locations
Organization Number; Mailing Address; Chief Executive Office and other Locations
Deposit Accounts
Address of Financial | ||||||||
Grantor | Financial Institution | Account Number | Institution | Account Purpose | ||||
SCHEDULE 3.11
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Collateral Agreement
to
Collateral Agreement
Intellectual Property
1. The listing of Trademarks (as defined in the Collateral Agreement) should include: (a) the
Trademark; (b) Registration Number or Serial Number; (c) the Owner; (d) the Filing Date; (e) the
Registration Date (if applicable); (f) the Date Affidavit of Use and/or Renewal is Due; and (g)
Whether the Affidavit of Use and/or Renewal has been filed.
2. The listing of Trademark Licenses (as defined in the Collateral Agreement) should include:
(a) Name and Address of Licensee/Licensor; (b) Date; (c) List of each Trademark Licensed/Assigned;
and (d) Description of product to which license/assignment applies.
3. The listing of Patents (as defined in the Collateral Agreement) should include: (a)
Country; (b) Patent Number; (c) Issue Date; (d) Inventor(s); (e) Title of Invention; (f) Dates on
which Maintenance Fees were paid; and (g) Identity of Party Paying Maintenance Fees.
4. The listing of Patent (as defined in the Collateral Agreement) applications should include:
(a) Application Number; (b) Filing Date; (c) Inventors; and (d) Title of Invention.
5. The listing of Patent Licenses (as defined in the Collateral Agreement) should include:
(a) Name and Address of Licensee/Licensor; (b) Date; (c) List of each Patent Licensed/Assigned; and
(d) Description of product to which license/assignment applies
6. The listing of Copyrights (as defined in the Collateral Agreement) should include: (a)
Registration Number; (b) Registration Date; (c) Title as listed in Registration; (d) Publication
Date; (e) Creation Date; (f) Author; and(g) Subject Matter Covered.
7. The listing of Copyright Licenses (as defined in the Collateral Agreement) should include:
(a) Name and Address of Licensee/Licensor; (b) Date; (c) Work Licensed or Assigned.
SCHEDULE 3.13
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Collateral Agreement
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Collateral Agreement
Investment Property and Partnership/LLC Interests
Certificated Securities:
[Grantor]:
Percentage of | ||||||||
Ownership Interests of | ||||||||
Name of Issuer | Class and Series | Par Value | Certificate Number | such Class and Series | ||||
Securities Accounts (including cash management accounts that are Investment Property) and
Uncertificated Securities:
[Grantor]:
Address of Financial | ||||||||
Financial Institution | Account Number | Institution | Account Purpose | |||||
Percentage of Ownership | ||||||||
Name of Issuer | Class and Series | Par Value | Interests of such Class and Series | |||||
Partnerships/LLC Interests:
[Grantor]:
Name of Issuer | ||||||
(including identification of | Certificate Number | Percentage of Ownership | ||||
type of entity) | Type of Ownership Interest | (if any) | Interests of such Type | |||
SCHEDULE 3.14
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Collateral Agreement
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Collateral Agreement
Instruments
Payor | Payee | Amount | Date | Maturity | ||||