SECOND AMENDMENT TO FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
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SECOND
AMENDMENT TO FOURTH
AMENDED
AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
This
SECOND AMENDMENT TO FOURTH AMENDED AND
RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of October 8, 2009 (this "Amendment"), is by
and among (a) NEXSTAR
BROADCASTING, INC. (the "Borrower"), a
Delaware corporation, (b) NEXSTAR BROADCASTING GROUP,
INC. (the "Ultimate Parent"), a
Delaware corporation, (c) NEXSTAR FINANCE HOLDINGS, INC.
("Nexstar
Finance Holdings"), a Delaware corporation, (d) certain Lenders (as
defined below) and (e) BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as
administrative agent (the "Administrative
Agent") for itself and the other Lenders party to that certain Fourth
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated April 1, 2005, as amended by
that certain First Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of October 18,
2005 (as further amended, supplemented, and restated or otherwise modified and
in effect from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"),
by and among the Borrower, the Ultimate Parent, Nexstar Finance Holdings, the
lending institutions party thereto (the "Lenders"), the
Administrative Agent. Capitalized terms used herein without
definition shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Credit
Agreement as set forth on Annex I.
WHEREAS, the Borrower, the
Ultimate Parent, Nexstar Finance Holdings, the Majority Lenders and the
Administrative Agent have agreed to modify certain terms and conditions of the
Credit Agreement as specifically set forth in this Amendment;
NOW THEREFORE, in
consideration of the foregoing premises and for other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the
Borrower, the Ultimate Parent, Nexstar Finance Holdings, the Lenders and the
Administrative Agent hereby agree as follows:
Sec.1. Amendment
to Credit Agreement. The Credit
Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety and replaced with the document
attached hereto as Annex I.
Sec.2. Amendment
to Exhibit C to Credit Agreement. Exhibit C to the
Credit Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety and replaced with the
document attached hereto as Exhibit C to Annex II.
Sec.3. Amendment
to Exhibit G to Credit Agreement. Exhibit G to the
Credit Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety and replaced with the
document attached hereto as Exhibit G to Annex II.
Sec.4. Amendment
to Schedule 1.01(B) to Credit Agreement. Schedule 1.01(B) to
the Credit Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety and replaced with the
document attached hereto as Schedule 1.01(B) to
Annex II.
Sec.5. Amendment
to Schedule 5.09 to Credit Agreement. Schedule 5.09 to the
Credit Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety and replaced with the
document attached hereto as Schedule 5.09 to
Annex II.
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Sec.6. Amendment
to Schedule 5.16 to Credit Agreement. Schedule 5.16 to the
Credit Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety and replaced with the
document attached hereto as Schedule 5.16 to
Annex II.
Sec.7. Amendment
to Schedule 5.17 to Credit Agreement. Schedule 5.17 to the
Credit Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety and replaced with the
document attached hereto as Schedule 5.17 to
Annex II.
Sec.8. Amendment
to Schedule 5.21 to Credit Agreement. Schedule 5.21 to the
Credit Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety and replaced with the
document attached hereto as Schedule 5.21 to
Annex II.
Sec.9. Amendment
to Schedule 7.05(a) to Credit Agreement. Schedule 7.05(a) to
the Credit Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety and replaced with the
document attached hereto as Schedule 7.05(l) to
Annex II.
Sec.10. Amendment
to Schedule 7.11 to Credit Agreement. Schedule 7.11 to the
Credit Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety and replaced with the
document attached hereto as Schedule 7.11 to
Annex II.
Sec.11. Amendment
to Add a New Schedule 1.01(A) to Credit Agreement. A new Schedule 1.01(A) to
the Credit Agreement is hereby added in its entirety in the form attached hereto
as Schedule
1.01(A) to Annex II.
Sec.12. Amendment
to Add a New Schedule 5.17(c) to Credit Agreement. A new Schedule 5.17(c) to
the Credit Agreement is hereby added in its entirety in the form attached hereto
as Schedule
5.17(c) to Annex II.
Sec.13. Amendment
to Add a New Schedule 6.17(a) to Credit Agreement. A new Schedule 6.17(a) to
the Credit Agreement is hereby added in its entirety in the form attached hereto
as Schedule
6.17(a) to Annex II.
Sec.14. Amendment
to Add a New Schedule 6.17(b) to Credit Agreement. A new Schedule 6.17(b) to
the Credit Agreement is hereby added in its entirety in the form attached hereto
as Schedule
6.17(b) to Annex II.
Sec.15. Amendment
to Add a New Schedule 7.02 to Credit Agreement. A new Schedule 7.02 to the
Credit Agreement is hereby added in its entirety in the form attached hereto as
Schedule 7.02
to Annex II.
Sec.16. Amendment
to Add a New Schedule 7.06 to Credit Agreement. A new Schedule
7.06 to the Credit Agreement is hereby added in its entirety in the form
attached hereto as Schedule 7.06 to
Annex II.
Sec.17. Amendment
to Add a New Schedule 8.01(a) to Credit Agreement. A new Schedule
8.01(a) to the Credit Agreement is hereby added in its entirety in the form
attached hereto as Schedule 8.01(a) to
Annex II.
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Sec.18. Amendment
to Add a New Schedule 8.01(b) to Credit Agreement. A new Schedule
8.01(b) to the Credit Agreement is hereby added in its entirety in the form
attached hereto as Schedule 8.01(b) to
Annex II.
Sec.19. One-time
Limited Waiver. In accordance with Section 10.01 of the
Credit Agreement, the Administrative Agent, the Majority Lenders and the
Majority Revolver Lenders hereby agree to waive any Default arising under Section 8.01(c) or
Section 8.01(e)
of the Credit Agreement as a result of any breach of Section 7.09(a) or
(b) of the
Credit Agreement, but only to the extent such breach occurred during the period
from July 1, 2009 through the Second Amendment Effective Date. This waiver
shall be effective only for the specific instance and for the specific purpose
set forth herein. Except as set forth in this Section 19, nothing in
this Amendment constitutes a waiver of (i) any existing or future Defaults under
the Loan Documents or (ii) any other provision of the Credit Agreement or other
Loan Documents.
Sec.20. Conditions
to Effectiveness. This Amendment
shall become effective as of the date set forth above upon the receipt by the
Administrative Agent of the following items:
(a) there
shall exist no Default immediately after giving effect to this Amendment;
and
(b) the
Administrative Agent shall have received a counterpart signature page to this
Amendment, duly executed and delivered by the Borrower, the Ultimate Parent,
Nexstar Finance Holdings, each Guarantor, the Majority Lenders, the Majority
Revolver Lenders and Majority Term B Lenders; and
(c) the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have received a legal opinion of
counsel to the Credit Parties, which shall be in form, scope and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and include, without
limitation (i) opinions regarding FCC matters, and (ii) an
unqualified no conflicts opinion with respect to (A) the Credit Agreement, (B)
the Loan Documents, (C) the Mission Loan Documents, and (D) all public and
other indebtedness of each Nexstar Entity and each Mission Entity, including
without limitation, the Unsecured Notes; and
(d) the
representations and warranties set forth in Section 22 of this Amendment shall
be true and correct as of the date of this Amendment; and
(e) the
Administrative Agent shall have received, in form and substance reasonably
acceptable to it, all resolutions, incumbency certificates, certificates of no
default, and such other certificates and documents as reasonably requested by
the Administrative Agent or Majority Lenders; and
(f) the
Administrative Agent shall have received, for the pro rata account of the
Lenders timely executing and delivering a signature page to this Amendment, an
amendment fee equal to one hundred basis points (1.00%) of the Commitment of,
and outstanding principal amount of the Term B Loan held by, each such
Lender; and
(g) the
Administrative Agent shall have received all other invoiced fees and expenses
due and owing in connection with this Amendment; and
(h) amendments
and restatements of each of the Security Documents and each Guaranty Agreement,
and, at the request of the Administrative Agent, confirmations and affirmations
of any of the other Loan Documents by the applicable Credit Parties, in each
case reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Majority Lenders,
provided that, amendments and restatements of the Security Documents and
Guaranty Agreements shall contain a provision incorporating by reference all
covenants and agreements of the Borrower and the Mission Borrower contained in
Articles VI and VII of the Credit Agreement and the Mission Credit Agreement
(including all exhibits, schedules and defined terms referred to therein) and
all such covenants and agreements so incorporated shall survive any termination,
cancellation, discharge or replacement of either (i) the Credit Agreement or
(ii) the Mission Credit Agreement); and
(i) the
Administrative Agent shall have received a duly-executed First Amendment to the
Mission Credit Agreement on terms acceptable to the Administrative Agent and
Majority Lenders; and
(j) evidence
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent of the removal of all anti-assignment
or anti-encumbrance clauses in all Nexstar/Mission Agreements; and
(k) the
Administrative Agent shall have received a Compliance Certificate in the form of
Exhibit C attached hereto, which attaches a schedule in form and detail
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent of Consolidated Total Debt,
Consolidated Operating Cash Flow, Consolidated Net Income, Consolidated Total
Leverage Ratio, Consolidated Senior Leverage Ratio, Consolidated Interest
Coverage Ratio, Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio and other financial
covenant related calculations, each calculated pursuant to the applicable
definitions set forth in the Credit Agreement attached as Annex I hereto and as
of the date hereof (provided that with respect to Consolidated Operating Cash
Flow and Consolidated Net Income, such calculation shall be for the Measurement
Period ending on the last day of the most recently completed fiscal quarter of
the Borrower for which financial statements have been delivered) in each case
demonstrating compliance with the applicable financial covenants set forth in
Section 7.09 of the Credit Agreement as set forth in Annex I hereto,
prepared by the principal financial or accounting officer of the Borrower;
and
(l) the
Borrower shall have paid all reasonable invoiced fees and expenses of the
Administrative Agent's counsel, Xxxxxxxx PC.
Sec.21. Affirmation
of Nexstar Entities. Each of the
Nexstar Entities hereby affirms its Obligations under the Credit Agreement, each
of the other Loan Documents to which each is a party, and each of the Mission
Loan Documents to which each is a party, and each hereby affirms its absolute
and unconditional promise to pay to the Lenders the Loans and all other amounts
due (i) under the Credit Agreement (as amended hereby) and the other Loan
Documents and (ii) under the Mission Credit Agreement and the Mission Loan
Documents.
Sec.22. Representations
and Warranties. Each of the
Nexstar Entities represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders as follows:
(a) Representations and
Warranties. Each of the representations and warranties
contained in Article V of the Credit Agreement were true and correct in all
material respects (except
to the extent such representations and warranties are already qualified by
materiality, in which case, such representations and warranties were true and
correct in all respects) when made. Each of the representations and
warranties contained in Article V of the Credit Agreement are true and
correct in all material respects on and as of the date hereof (giving effect to
this Amendment and giving effect to the amended and added Schedules to the
Credit Agreement attached in Annex II hereto), except to the extent such
representations and warranties are already qualified by materiality, in which
case, such representations and warranties are true and correct in all respects
and to the extent that such representations and warranties relate specifically
to a prior date. Each of the Schedules attached to the Credit
Agreement, as amended by this Amendment, and attached to each of the Loan
Documents as amended in connection with this Amendment, reflects disclosures and
information that is true, complete and accurate.
(b) Enforceability. The
execution and delivery by the Nexstar Entities of this Amendment, and the
performance by the Nexstar Entities of this Amendment and the Credit Agreement,
as amended hereby, and each of the Loan Documents (and amendments, restatements
and substitutions therefore in connection with this Amendment) are within the
corporate authority of each of the Nexstar Entities and have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate proceedings. This Amendment and
the Credit Agreement, as amended, and each of the Loan Documents (and
amendments, restatements and substitutions therefore in connection with this
Amendment) hereby, constitute valid and legally binding obligations of each of
the Nexstar Entities, enforceable against it in accordance with their terms,
except as limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or
similar laws relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights in
general.
(c) No
Default. After giving effect to this Amendment, no Default has
occurred and is continuing, and no Default will result from the execution,
delivery and performance by the Nexstar Entities of this Amendment, the other
Loan Documents or from the consummation of the transactions contemplated
herein.
(d) Disclosure. None
of the information provided to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders on or
prior to the date of this Amendment contained any untrue statement of material
fact or omitted to state any material fact (known to any of the Nexstar Entities
in the case of any document or information not furnished by any such Nexstar
Entity) necessary in order to make the statements herein or therein not
misleading. On the date hereof, none of the Nexstar Entities possess
any material information with respect to the operations, business, assets,
properties, liabilities (actual or contingent) or financial condition of the
Nexstar Entities taken as a whole as to which the Lenders do not have
access.
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Sec.23. No Other
Amendments, etc. Except as expressly provided in this
Amendment, (a) all of the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement and
the other Loan Documents (as amended and restated in connection herewith, if
applicable) remain unchanged, and (b) all of the terms and conditions of
the Credit Agreement, as amended hereby, and of the other Loan Documents (as
amended and restated in connection herewith, if applicable) are hereby ratified
and confirmed and remain in full force and effect. Nothing herein
shall be construed to be an amendment, consent or a waiver of any requirements
of any Nexstar Entity or of any other Person under the Credit Agreement or any
of the other Loan Documents except as expressly set forth herein or pursuant to
a written agreement executed in connection herewith. Nothing in this
Amendment
shall be construed to imply any willingness on the part of the Administrative
Agent or any Lender to grant any similar or future amendment, consent or waiver
of any of the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement or the other Loan
Documents.
Sec.24. Release. In order to
induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into this Amendment,
each of the Nexstar Entities acknowledges and agrees
that: (i) none of the Nexstar Entities, Credit Parties or any of
their Affiliates have any claim or cause of action against the Administrative
Agent or any Lender (or any of their respective directors, officers, employees
or agents); (ii) none of the Nexstar Entities, Credit Parties or any of
their Affiliates have any offset right, counterclaim, right of recoupment or any
defense of any kind against the Nexstar Entities', Credit Parties' or any of
their Affiliates' obligations, indebtedness or liabilities to the Administrative
Agent or any Lender; and (iii) each of the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders has heretofore properly performed and satisfied in a timely manner all
of its obligations to the Nexstar Entities, Credit Parties and any of their
Affiliates. Each of the Nexstar Entities, Credit Parties and their
Affiliates wishes to eliminate any possibility that any past conditions, acts,
omissions, events, circumstances or matters would impair or otherwise adversely
affect any of the Administrative Agent's and the Lenders' rights, interests,
contracts, collateral security or remedies. Therefore, each of the
Nexstar Entities, Credit Parties and each of their Affiliates unconditionally
releases, waives and forever discharges (A) any and all liabilities,
obligations, duties, promises or indebtedness of any kind of the Administrative
Agent or any Lender to the Borrower, except the obligations to be performed by
the Administrative Agent or any Lender on or after the date hereof as expressly
stated in this Amendment, the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and
(B) all claims, offsets, causes of action, right of recoupment, suits or
defenses of any kind whatsoever (if any), whether arising at law or in equity,
whether known or unknown, which any Nexstar Entity, Credit Party or any of their
Affiliates might otherwise have against the Administrative Agent, any Lender or
any of their respective directors, officers, employees or agents (the
Administrative Agent, the Lenders and their respective directors, officers,
employees and agents, are collectively referred to herein as the "Lender Parties") in
either case (A) or (B), on account of any past or presently existing condition,
act, omission, event, contract, liability, obligation, indebtedness, claim,
cause of action, defense, circumstance or matter of any kind. Each of
the Nexstar Entities, Credit Parties and each of their Affiliates agree not to
xxx any of the Lender Parties or in any way assist any other person or entity in
suing any of the Lender Parties with respect to any claim released
herein. This release provision may be pleaded as a full and complete
defense to, and may be used as the basis for an injunction against, any action,
suit, or other proceeding which may be instituted, prosecuted, or attempted in
breach of the release contained herein
Sec.25. Execution
in Counterparts. This Amendment
may be executed in any number of counterparts and by each party on a separate
counterpart, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original,
but all of which together shall constitute one instrument. In proving
this Amendment, it shall not be necessary to produce or account for more than
one such counterpart signed by the party against whom enforcement is
sought.
Sec.26. Interpretation. This Amendment,
the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents are the result of negotiation
among, and have been reviewed by counsel to, among others, the Administrative
Agent and the Borrower and are the product of discussions and negotiations among
all parties. Accordingly, this Amendment, Credit Agreement and the
other Loan
Documents are not intended to be construed against the Administrative Agent or
any of the Lenders merely on account of the Administrative Agent's or any
Lender's involvement in the preparation of such documents.
Sec.27. Loan
Document. This Amendment is a Loan Document under the terms of
the Credit Agreement, and any breach of any provision of this Amendment shall be
a Default under the Credit Agreement (as applicable).
Sec.28. Consent
regarding Security Documents and Guaranty Agreements. The Majority
Lenders and Majority Revolver Lenders hereby consent to amendments and
restatements of each of the Security Documents and the Guaranty Agreements to
conform to the provisions of this Amendment. The Majority Lenders and
Majority Revolver Lenders hereby authorize the Collateral Agent and the
Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, to execute and deliver such
amendments and restatements to each of the Security Documents and each of the
Guaranty Agreements.
Sec.29. Miscellaneous. This Amendment
shall be governed by, an construed in accordance with, the law of the State of
New York applicable to agreements made and to be performed entirely within such
state; provided
that the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall retain all rights arising
under Federal Law. The captions in this Amendment are for convenience
of reference only and shall not define or limit the provisions
hereof. The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, on
demand by the Administrative Agent, all reasonable costs and expenses incurred
or sustained by the Administrative Agent in connection with the preparation of
this Amendment, including reasonable legal fees in accordance with Section 10.04
of the Credit Agreement.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have duly executed this Amendment as a sealed
instrument as of the date first set forth above.
The
Borrower:
NEXSTAR BROADCASTING,
INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxxx
Title: Secretary & VP
Controller
The Parent
Guarantors:
NEXSTAR BROADCASTING GROUP,
INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxxx
Title: Secretary & VP
Controller
NEXSTAR FINANCE HOLDINGS,
INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxxx
Title: Secretary & VP
Controller
[Signature
Page to Second Amendment to
Fourth
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement]
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The Administrative
Agent:
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent
By: /s/ Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Title: Assistant Vice
President
The
Lenders:
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as a Lender
By:
Name:
Title:
The Administrative
Agent:
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent
By:
Name:
Title:
The
Lenders:
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxx
Xxxxx
Name: Xxxx
Xxxxx
Title: Senior Vice
President
[Signature
Page to Second Amendment to
Fourth
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement]
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The
Lenders:
ARES
IIIR/IVR CLO LTD, as a Lender
ARES
IIIR/IVR CLO LTD.
By: ARES
CLO MANAGEMENT IIIR/IVR L.P.
By: ARES
CLO GP IIIR/IVR, LLC, ITS GENERAL PARTNER
By: ARES
MAMAGEMENT LLC, ITS MANAGER
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice
President
The
Lenders:
Ares VR
CLO, Ltd, as a Lender
Ares VR
CLO, Ltd
By: ARES
CLO Management VR, L.P.,
Investment Manager
By: Ares
CLO GP VR, LLC,
Its General Partner
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice
President
The
Lenders:
Ares VIII
CLO, Ltd, as a Lender
Ares VIII
CLO, Ltd
By: ARES
CLO Management VIII, L.P.,
Investment Manager
By: Ares
CLO GP VIII, LLC,
Its General Partner
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice
President
The
Lenders:
Ares XI
CLO, Ltd, as a Lender
Ares XI
CLO, Ltd
By: ARES
CLO Management XI, L.P.,
Investment Manager
By: Ares
CLO GP XI, LLC,
Its General Partner
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice
President
The
Lenders:
Ares IX
CLO, Ltd, as a Lender
Ares IX
CLO, Ltd
By: ARES
CLO Management IX, L.P.,
By: Ares
CLO GP IX, LLC, ITS GENERAL PARTNER
By: Ares
MANAGEMENT LLC, ITS MANAGER
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice
President
The
Lenders:
ARES
ENHANCED LOAN INVESTMENT STRATEGY IR LTD, as a Lender
ARES
ENHANCED LOAN INVESTMENT STRATEGY IR LTD.
By: ARES
ENHANCED LOAN MANAGEMENT IR, L.P., as Portfolio Manager
By: Ares
Enhanced Loan IR GP, LLC, as its General Partner
By: Ares
Management LLC, as its Manager
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice
President
The
Lenders:
Atrium
IV
Atrium
V
Castle
Garden
Credit
Suisse Syndicated Loan Fund
Credit
Suisse Senior Loan Fund
CSAM
Funding I
CSAM
Funding III
CSAM
Funding IV
Madison
Park Funding I Ltd.
Madison
Park Funding II Ltd.
Madison
Park Funding III Ltd.
Madison
Park Funding IV Ltd.
Madison
Park Funding V Ltd.
Madison
Park Funding VI Ltd., as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxx
Xxxx
Name: Xxxxx
Xxxx
Title: Authorized
Signatory
The
Lenders:
BABSON
CLO LTD. 2004-I
BABSON
CLO LTD. 2004-II
BABSON
CLO LTD. 2005-I
BABSON
CLO LTD. 2006-II
BABSON
MID-MARKET CLO LTD. 2007-II
SAPPHIRE
VALLEY CDO I, LTD.
By: Babson
Capital Management LLC as Collateral Manager
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
X Xxxxxxxx
Title: Managing
Director
CASCADE
INVESTMENT LLC
XXXXX
INVESTMENT CORPORATION
MAPLEWOOD
(CAYMAN) LIMITED
OLYMPIC
PARK LIMITED
BABSON
CAPITAL LOAN PARTNERS I, LP
By: Babson
Capital Management LLC as Investment Manager
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
X Xxxxxxxx
Title: Managing
Director
MASSACHUSETTS
MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
XXXX
& XXXXXXX XXXXX FOUNDATION TRUST
By: Babson
Capital Management LLC as Investment Adviser
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
X Xxxxxxxx
Title: Managing
Director
XELO VII
LIMITED
By: Babson
Capital Management LLC as Sub-Advisor
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
X Xxxxxxxx
Title: Managing
Director
The
Lenders:
BIG SKY
III SENIOR LOAN TRUST, LENDER
By: XXXXX
XXXXX MANAGEMENT
AS INVESTMENT ADVISOR
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
X Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice
President
The
Lenders:
BlackRock
Floating Rate Income Trust
BlackRock
Limited Duration Income Trust
BlackRock
Senior Income Series
BlackRock
Senior Income Series II
Magnetite
V CLO, Limited, as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx
Title: Authorized
Signatory
CALYON,
NEW YORK BRANCH,
as a
Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Title: Managing
Director
By: /s/ Priya
Vrat
Name: Priya
Vrat
Title: Director
The
Lenders:
Commingled
Pension Trust Fund (High Yield Bond)
of XX
Xxxxxx Chase Bank NA
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx
Title: Managing
Director
The
Lenders:
Credit
Suisse Candlewood Private Finance Master Fund Ltd,
as a
Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx
Xxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
Xxx
Title: Authorized
Signatory
The
Lenders:
Xxxxx
Xxxxx CDO VIII, Ltd.
By: Xxxxx
Xxxxx Management
as
Investment Advisor
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
X Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice
President
The
Lenders:
Xxxxx
Xxxxx CDO IX, Ltd.
By: Xxxxx
Xxxxx Management
as
Investment Advisor
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
X Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice
President
The
Lenders:
Xxxxx
Xxxxx Floating Rate Income Trust
By: Xxxxx
Xxxxx Management
as
Investment Advisor
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
X Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice
President
The
Lenders:
Xxxxx
Xxxxx Institutional Senior Loan Fund
By: Xxxxx
Xxxxx Management
as
Investment Advisor
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
X Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice
President
The
Lenders:
Xxxxx
Xxxxx Limited Duration Income Fund
By: Xxxxx
Xxxxx Management
as
Investment Advisor
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
X Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice
President
The
Lenders:
Xxxxx
Xxxxx Medallion
Floating-Rate
Income Portfolio
By:
Xxxxx Xxxxx Management
As
Investment Advisor
By: /s/
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title:
Vice President
The
Lenders:
XXXXX
XXXXX SENIOR
FLOATING-RATE
TRUST as a Lender
BY:
XXXXX XXXXX MANAGEMENT
AS
INVESTMENT ADVISOR
BY: /s/
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title:
Vice President
The
Lenders:
XXXXX XXXXX SENIOR INCOME TRUST as a
Lender
BY:
XXXXX XXXXX MANAGEMENT
AS
INVESTMENT ADVISOR
BY:
/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title:
Vice President
The
Lenders:
XXXXX
XXXXX SHORT DURATION as a Lender
DIVERSIFIED
INCOME FUND
BY:
XXXXX XXXXX MANAGEMENT
AS
INVESTMENT ADVISOR
BY: /s/
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title:
Vice President
The
Lenders:
XXXXX
XXXXX as a Lender
VT
FLOATING-RATE INCOME FUND
BY:
XXXXX XXXXX MANAGEMENT
AS
INVESTMENT ADVISOR
BY:
/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title:
Vice President
The
Lenders:
ESSEX
PARK CDO
LTD.
By:
Blackstone Debt Advisors L.P.
as Collateral Manager, as a
Lender
BY:
/s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title:
Authorized Signatory
The
Lenders:
Fidelity
Advisors Series I: Fidelity Advisor
Floating
Rate High Income Fund, as a Lender
BY:
/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx
Name:
Xxxx Xxxxxx
Title:
Assistant Treasurer
The
Lenders:
Fidelity
Central Investment Portfolios LLC:
Fidelity
Floating Rate Central Investment
Portfolio,
as a Lender
BY:
/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx
Name:
Xxxx Xxxxxx
Title:
Assistant Treasurer
The
Lenders:
Franklin
Floating Rate Daily Access Fund,
as a
Lender
BY:
/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxx
Name:
Xxxxxxx Xxx
Title:
Vice President
The
Lenders:
Franklin
Floating Rate Master Series,
as a
Lender
BY:
/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxx
Name:
Xxxxxxx Xxx
Title:
Vice President
The
Lenders:
Franklin
Xxxxxxxxx Duration Income
Trust, as a
Lender
BY:
/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxx
Name:
Xxxxxxx Xxx
Title:
Vice President
The
Lenders:
Franklin
Xxxxxxxxx Series II Funds Floating
Rate II Fund, as a
Lender
BY:
/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxx
Name:
Xxxxxxx Xxx
Title:
Vice President
The
Lenders:
FUTURE
FUND BOARD OF GUARDIANS, as a Lender
FUTURE
FUND BOARD OF GUARDIANS
By: Ares
Enhanced Loan Investment Strategy Advisor IV, L.P., its investment
manager
By: Ares
Enhanced Loan Investment Strategy Advisor IV GP, LLC, its general
partner
By: Ares
Management LLC, its managing member
BY: /s/
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title:
Vice President
The
Lenders:
(Galaxy
IV CLO, LTD
By: AIG
Global Investment Corp.
its
Collateral Manager
Galaxy V
CLO, LTD
By: AIG
Global Investment Corp.
its
Collateral Manager), as a Lender
BY: /s/
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Title:
Managing Director
The
Lenders:
GE
BUSINESS FINANCIAL SERVICES INC.,
as a
Lender
BY: /s/
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title:
Duly Authorized Signatory
The
Lenders:
GENERAL
ELECTRIC CAPITAL
CORPORATION, as a
Lender
BY: /s/
Xxxxx Xxxx
Name:
Xxxxx Xxxx
Title: As
Authorized Signatory
The
Lenders:
(Other Lenders), as a
Lenders
BY: /s/
XXXXXX X. XXXX, ESQ.
Name: XXXXXX X. XXXX, ESQ.
Title:
GENERAL COUNSEL
ORE HILL PARTNERS LLC
GENESIS
CLO 2007-1 Ltd.
BY: Ore
Hill Partners LLC
Its:
Investment Advisor
The
Lenders:
XXXXXXX
& CO, as a Lender
By:
BOSTON MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH
AS
INVESTMENT ADVISOR
By: /s/
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
The
Lenders:
ING Prime
Rate Trust
By: ING
Investment Management Co.,
as
its investment manager
ING
Senior Income Fund
By: ING
Investment Management Co.,
as
its investment manager
ING
Investment Management CLO III, LTD.
By: ING
Alternative Asset Management LLC,
as
its investment manager
ING
International (II) – Senior Bank Loans Euro
By: ING
Investment Management Co.,
as
its investment manager
ING
Investment Trust Co. Plan for Employee Benefit
Investment
Funds – Senior Loan Fund
By: ING
Investment Trust Co. as its trustee
By: /s/
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, CFA
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, CFA
Title: Senior Vice
President
The
Lenders:
INWOOD
PARK CDO
LTD.
By:
Blackstone Debt Advisors L.P.
as
Collateral Manager, as a Lender
BY: /s/
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title:
Authorized Signatory
The
Lenders: JPMORGAN DISTRESSED DEBT OPPORTUNITIES
MASTER FUND, LTD.
(Other
Lenders), as a Lender
BY: /s/
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title:
Managing Director
The
Lenders:
(Other Lenders), as a
Lender
JPMORGAN
HIGH YIELD BOND FUND
BY: /s/
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title:
Managing Director
The
Lenders: XX Xxxxxx Strategic Income Opportunities
Fund ,
as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxx X.
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxx
X. Xxxxxxxx
Title:
Managing Director
The
Lenders:
LOAN
FUNDING VI LLC,
for
itself or as agent for Corporate Loan Funding VI
LLC ,
as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxx X.
Xxxxxxx
Name: Xxxx
X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Authorized
Signatory
The
Lenders:
Magnolia
Funding ,
as a Lender
By: /s/ XXXXXX
XXXXXXXX
Name:
XXXXXX XXXXXXXX
Title:
AUTHORIZED SIGNATORY
The
Lenders:
MOUNMENT
PARK CDO LTD.
By:
Blackstone Debt Advisors L.P, as a Lender
as
Collateral Manager
By: /s/ Xxxx X
Xxxxxxx
Name: Xxxx
X Xxxxxxx
Title: Authorized
Signatory
National
City Bank, as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title:
Vice President
NYLIM
Flatiron CLO 2006 -1 Ltd
By:
New York Life Investment Management LLC,
As
Collateral Manager and Attorney-in fact
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx
Xxx
Name:
Xxxxxxxx Xxx
Title:
Vice President
New
York Life Insurance Company
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx
Xxx
Name:
Xxxxxxxx Xxx
Title:
Corporate Vice President
New
York Life Insurance and Annuity Corporation
By:
New York Life Investment Management LLC,
its
Investment Manager
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx
Xxx
Name:
Xxxxxxxx Xxx
Title:
Vice President
NYLIM
Institutional Floating Rate Fund L.P
By:
New York Life Investment Management, LLC,
its
Investment Manager
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx
Xxx
Name:
Xxxxxxxx Xxx
Title:
Vice President
MainStay
Floating Rate Fund, a series of Eclipse
Funds
Inc. By: New York Life Investment
Management
LLC
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx
Xxx
Name:
Xxxxxxxx Xxx
Title:
Vice President
MainStay
VP Floating Rate Portfolio, a series of
Mainstay
VP Series Fund, Inc. By: New York Life
Investment
Management LLC
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx
Xxx
Name:
Xxxxxxxx Xxx
Title:
Vice President
The
Lenders:
X’Xxxxxx Credit Opportunity Master
Limited, as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
AS
ATTORNEY-IN-FACT
The
Lenders:
Potential CLO I, Ltd., as a
Lender
By: Octagon
Credit Investor, LLC
as
Attorney in Fact
By: /s/ Xxxxxx C,
Young
Name:
Xxxxxx C, Xxxxx
Title: Portfolio
Manger
The
Lenders:
PPM Shadow Creek Funding LLC,
as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxx
Xxx
Name:
Xxxxx Xxx
Title:
Assistant Vice President
The
Lenders:
Royal Bank of Canada, as a
Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Title:
Authorized Signatory
The
Lenders:
Sankaty Credit Opportunities IV,
LP, as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxx X.
Xxxxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Title:
Chief Compliance Officer
Assistant
Secretary
The
Lenders:
Sankaty Credit Opportunities (Off
Shore Master) IV, L.P, as a Lender
By: /s/ Xxxx X.
Xxxxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Title:
Chief Compliance Officer
Assistant
Secretary
The
Lenders: XX Xxxxxx Leveraged Loans Master Fund, LP, as a
Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxx X.
Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxx
X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: Managing
Director
The
Lenders:
SENIOR
DEBT PORTFOLIO
Boston
Management and Research
As Investment Advisor, as a
Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title:
Vice President
This
consent is made by the following Lender through the undersigned investment
advisor:
X. Xxxx
Price institutional Floating Rate Fund
By: T
Xxxx Price Associates, Inc., as investment advisor:
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx X.
Xxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
Title: Vice
President
The
Lenders:
THE
NORINCHUKIN BANK, NEW YORK BRANCH,
Through
State Street Bank and Trust Company N.A as
Fiduciary
Custodian
By: Xxxxx
Xxxxx Management, Attorney-in-fact
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Vice
President
The
Lenders:
The
Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd., New
York Branch, as a
Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxx
Title: Senior
Director
The
Lenders:
Wellington
Management Company, LLP as a Lender
Each of the persons listed on Annex
A,
Severally but not jointly, as
Lender
By: Wellington Management Company,
LLP
As investment adviser
By: /s/ Xxxxxx X.
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx X.
Xxxxxxx
Vice
President and Counsel
[Signature
Page to Second Amendment to
Fourth
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement]
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Final
Execution Version
RATIFICATION OF
GUARANTORS
Each of
the undersigned Guarantors hereby (a) acknowledges and consents to the
foregoing Amendment and the Nexstar Entities execution thereof; (b) joins
the foregoing Amendment for the purpose of consenting to and being bound by the
provisions thereof, (c) ratifies and confirms all of their respective
obligations and liabilities under the Loan Documents to which any of them is a
party and ratifies and confirms that such obligations and liabilities extend to
and continue in effect with respect to, and continue to guarantee and secure, as
applicable, the Obligations of the Borrower under the Credit Agreement;
(d) acknowledges and confirms that the liens and security interests granted
by such Guarantor pursuant to the Loan Documents are and continue to be valid
and perfected first priority liens and security interests (subject only to
Permitted Liens) that secure all of the Obligations on and after the date
hereof; (e) acknowledges and agrees that such Guarantor does not have any
claim or cause of action against the Administrative Agent or any Lender (or any
of its respective directors, officers, employees or agents);
(f) acknowledges, affirms and agrees that such Guarantor does not have any
defense, claim, cause of action, counterclaim, offset or right of recoupment of
any kind or nature against any of their respective obligations, indebtedness or
liabilities to the Administrative Agent or any Lender and (g) acknowledges,
affirms and agrees with each term of the Amendment, including, without
limitation, Section 24 thereof.
The
Guarantors:
MISSION
BROADCASTING, INC.
By: /s/
Xxxxx X. Xxxxx,
President
Xxxxx X. Xxxxx, President
NEXSTAR
BROADCASTING GROUP, INC.
NEXSTAR
FINANCE HOLDINGS, INC.
By: /s/
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Secretary & VP
Controller
Name: Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxxx
Title: Secretary
& VP Controller
[Signature
Page to Second Amendment to
Fourth
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement]
5432462v.2
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Annex
I to the Second Amendment
Annex I
[See
Attached]
Annex I
to Second Amendment to
Fourth
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
5432462v.2
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Annex
I to the Second Amendment
FOURTH
AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
AMONG
NEXSTAR
BROADCASTING, INC.,
NEXSTAR
BROADCASTING GROUP, INC.
AND
CERTAIN OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES
FROM
TIME TO TIME PARTIES HERETO,
THE
SEVERAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
FROM
TIME TO TIME PARTIES HERETO,
BANK
OF AMERICA, N.A.,
AS
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT,
UBS
SECURITIES LLC
AND
XXXXXXX
LYNCH, PIERCE, XXXXXX & XXXXX INCORPORATED,
AS
CO-SYNDICATION AGENTS
__________________________________
BANK OF
AMERICA SECURITIES LLC,
AND
UBS
SECURITIES LLC,
AS JOINT
LEAD ARRANGERS
AND
BANK OF
AMERICA SECURITIES LLC,
AND
XXXXXXX
LYNCH, PIERCE, XXXXXX & XXXXX INCORPORATED,
AS JOINT
BOOK MANAGERS
__________________________________
DATED AS
OF APRIL 1, 2005
__________________________________
5432462v.2
25690/684
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE
I.
|
DEFINITIONS
|
1
|
1.01.
|
Defined Terms
|
1
|
1.02.
|
Other
Definitional Provisions
|
21
|
1.03.
|
Accounting Principles
|
21
|
1.04.
|
Classes and Types of Loans and
Borrowings
|
21
|
1.05.
|
Rounding
|
21
|
1.06.
|
Times of Day
|
21
|
1.07.
|
Letter of Credit Amounts
|
21
|
ARTICLE
II.
|
THE
CREDIT FACILITIES
|
22
|
2.01.
|
Amounts
and Terms of Commitments
|
22
|
2.02.
|
Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of
Loans
|
22
|
2.03.
|
Letters
of Credit.
|
22
|
2.04.
|
Reduction and Termination of
Commitments.
|
25
|
2.05.
|
Voluntary Prepayments
|
25
|
2.06.
|
Mandatory Prepayments
|
25
|
2.07.
|
Repayment of Loans
|
26
|
2.08.
|
Interest.
|
21
|
2.09.
|
Fees
|
21
|
2.10.
|
Computation of Interest and
Fees
|
27
|
2.11.
|
Evidence of Debt.
|
27
|
2.12.
|
Payments Generally; Administrative Agent's
Clawback
|
27
|
2.13.
|
Sharing of Payments by
Lenders
|
27
|
2.14.
|
Security Documents and Guaranty
Agreements
|
27
|
ARTICLE
III.
|
TAXES,
YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
|
28
|
3.01.
|
Taxes.
|
28
|
3.02.
|
Illegality
|
28
|
3.03.
|
Inability to Determine
Rates
|
29
|
3.04.
|
Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurodollar
Loans
|
29
|
3.05.
|
Compensation for Losses
|
29
|
3.06.
|
Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of
Lenders
|
29
|
3.07.
|
Survival
|
29
|
ARTICLE
IV.
|
CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT
|
30
|
4.01.
|
Conditions to the Effective
Date
|
31
|
4.02.
|
Additional Conditions to the Effective
Date
|
31
|
4.03.
|
Conditions to All Borrowings and the Issuance of
Any Letters of Credit
|
32
|
ARTICLE
V.
|
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
|
34
|
5.01.
|
Existence; Compliance with
Law
|
34
|
5.02.
|
Corporate, Limited Liability Company or
Partnership Authorization; No Contravention
|
34
|
5.03.
|
Governmental Authorization
|
34
|
5.04.
|
Binding Effect
|
35
|
5.05.
|
Litigation
|
35
|
5.06.
|
No Default
|
35
|
5.07.
|
ERISA Compliance
|
35
|
5.08.
|
Use of Proceeds; Margin
Regulations
|
36
|
5.09.
|
Ownership of Property; Intellectual
Property.
|
36
|
5.10.
|
Taxes
|
36
|
5.11.
|
Financial Statements.
|
36
|
5.12.
|
Securities Law, etc.;
Compliance
|
37
|
5.13.
|
Governmental Regulation
|
37
|
5.14.
|
Accuracy of Information
|
37
|
5.15.
|
Environmental Laws
|
37
|
5.16.
|
Environmental
Compliance.
|
37
|
5.17.
|
FCC Licenses.
|
37
|
5.18.
|
Subsidiaries
|
39
|
5.19.
|
Solvency
|
39
|
5.20.
|
Labor Controversies
|
39
|
5.21.
|
Security Documents.
|
39
|
5.22.
|
Network Affiliation
Agreements
|
39
|
5.23.
|
Condition of Stations
|
39
|
5.24.
|
Special Purpose Entities
|
39
|
5.25.
|
Information Certificate
|
39
|
5.26.
|
Maintenance of Insurance
|
39
|
5.27.
|
Security Documents
|
39
|
5.28.
|
Nexstar/Mission Agreements
|
39
|
ARTICLE
VI.
|
AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS
|
40
|
6.01.
|
Financial Statements
|
40
|
6.02.
|
Certificates; Other
Information
|
40
|
6.03.
|
Notices
|
41
|
6.04.
|
FCC Information
|
41
|
6.05.
|
FCC Licenses and Regulatory
Compliance
|
42
|
6.06.
|
License Lapse
|
42
|
6.07.
|
Maintenance of Corporate, Limited Liability
Company or Partnership Existence, etc
|
42
|
6.08.
|
Foreign Qualification, etc
|
42
|
6.09.
|
Payment of Taxes, etc
|
42
|
6.10.
|
Maintenance of Property;
Insurance
|
42
|
6.11.
|
Compliance with Laws, etc
|
42
|
6.12.
|
Books and Records.
|
42
|
6.13.
|
Use of Proceeds
|
42
|
6.14.
|
End of Fiscal Years; Fiscal
Quarters
|
42
|
6.15.
|
Interest Rate Protection
|
42
|
6.16.
|
Additional Security; Further
Assurances.
|
42
|
6.17.
|
Post Second Amendment Effective Date Collateral
Requirements
|
44
|
6.18.
|
Lien Searches.
|
45
|
6.19.
|
Designation as Senior Debt
|
45
|
6.20.
|
Operating Accounts as
Collateral
|
45
|
6.21.
|
Compliance with Environmental
Laws
|
45
|
6.22.
|
Preparation of Environmental
Reports
|
46
|
6.23.
|
Further Assurances
|
46
|
6.24.
|
Compliance with Terms of
Leaseholds
|
46
|
6.25.
|
Cooperation
|
46
|
ARTICLE
VII.
|
NEGATIVE
COVENANTS
|
47
|
7.01.
|
Changes in Business
|
47
|
7.02.
|
Limitation on Liens
|
47
|
7.03.
|
Disposition of Assets
|
47
|
7.04.
|
Consolidations, Mergers, Acquisitions,
etc
|
48
|
7.05.
|
Limitation on Indebtedness
|
48
|
7.06.
|
Transactions with
Affiliates
|
50
|
7.07.
|
Use of Credits; Compliance with Margin
Regulations
|
50
|
7.08.
|
Environmental Liabilities
|
50
|
7.09.
|
Financial
Covenants.
|
50
|
7.10.
|
Restricted Payments
|
51
|
7.11.
|
Advances, Investments and
Loans
|
51
|
7.12.
|
Limitation on Business Activities of the Nexstar
Entities.
|
51
|
7.13.
|
Sales or Issuances of Capital
Stock
|
51
|
7.14.
|
No Waivers, Amendments or Restrictive Agreements;
Charter Documents
|
51
|
7.15.
|
Prepayments, Etc. of
Indebtedness
|
51
|
7.16.
|
Debt Repurchases
|
52
|
7.17.
|
Nexstar and Mission
|
52
|
ARTICLE
VIII.
|
EVENTS
OF DEFAULT
|
53
|
8.01.
|
Event of Default
|
53
|
8.02.
|
Remedies
|
55
|
8.03.
|
Rights Not Exclusive
|
55
|
8.04.
|
Application of Funds
|
55
|
ARTICLE
IX.
|
ADMINISTRATIVE
AGENT
|
57
|
9.01.
|
Appointment and Authority
|
57
|
9.02.
|
Rights as a Lender
|
57
|
9.03.
|
Exculpatory Provisions
|
57
|
9.04.
|
Reliance by Administrative
Agent
|
57
|
9.05.
|
Delegation of Duties
|
57
|
9.06.
|
Resignation of Administrative
Agent
|
57
|
9.07.
|
Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other
Lenders
|
58
|
9.08.
|
No Other Duties, Etc
|
58
|
9.09.
|
Administrative Agent May File Proofs of
Claim
|
58
|
9.10.
|
Collateral and Guaranty
Matters
|
59
|
9.11.
|
Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured
Hedge Agreements
|
59
|
9.12.
|
Intercreditor Agreement.
|
59
|
ARTICLE
X.
|
MISCELLANEOUS
|
60
|
10.01.
|
Amendment
and Waivers.
|
60
|
10.02.
|
Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic
Communication.
|
60
|
10.03.
|
No Waiver; Cumulative
Remedies
|
61
|
10.04.
|
Expenses; Indemnity; Damage
Waiver.
|
61
|
10.05.
|
Payments Set Aside
|
62
|
10.06.
|
Successors and Assigns.
|
62
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10.07.
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Treatment of Certain Information;
Confidentiality
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64
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10.08.
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Right of Setoff
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64
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10.09.
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Interest Rate Limitation
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64
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10.10.
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Counterparts; Integration;
Effectiveness
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64
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10.11.
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Survival of Representations and
Warranties
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64
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10.12.
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Severability
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64
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10.13.
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Replacement of Lenders
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65
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10.14.
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Governing Law; Jurisdiction;
Etc.
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65
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10.15.
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WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
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65
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10.16.
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Effectiveness.
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65
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10.17.
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USA Patriot Act Notice
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66
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10.18.
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Termination
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66
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10.19.
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Additional Mandatory
Prepayments
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66
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10.20.
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ENTIRE AGREEMENT
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67
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10.21.
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No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility
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67
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10.22.
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Time of the Essence
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67
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Schedules
and Exhibits
SCHEDULE
1.01(A)
|
NEXSTAR/MISSION
AGREEMENTS
|
SCHEDULE
1.01(B)
|
PRO
FORMA ADJUSTMENTS TO CONSOLIDATED OPERATING CASH FLOW
|
SCHEDULE
1.01(C)
|
DESCRIPTION
OF PERMITTED REVOLVER REALLOCATION
|
SCHEDULE
2.01
|
COMMITMENTS
|
SCHEDULE
5.07
|
ERISA
COMPLIANCE
|
SCHEDULE
5.09
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OWNED
AND LEASED REAL PROPERTIES
|
SCHEDULE
5.16
|
FCC
LICENSES
|
SCHEDULE
5.17
|
SUBSIDIARIES
|
SCHEDULE
5.17(c)
|
FCC
DISCLOSURE
|
SCHEDULE
5.21
|
NETWORK
AFFILIATION AGREEMENTS
|
SCHEDULE
6.17(a)
|
STATIONS
WITH TOWERS AND TRANSMITTERS
|
SCHEDULE
6.17(b)
|
XXXXX
CASH ACCOUNTS
|
SCHEDULE
7.02
|
LIENS
IN EXISTENCE ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT EFFECTIVE DATE
|
SCHEDULE
7.05(l)
|
EXISTING
INDEBTEDNESS ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT EFFECTIVE DATE
|
SCHEDULE
7.06
|
EXISTING
AFFILIATE TRANSACTIONS ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT EFFECTIVE
DATE
|
SCHEDULE
7.11
|
INVESTMENTS
ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT EFFECTIVE DATE
|
SCHEDULE
8.01(a)
|
MISSION
ENTITIES REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
|
SCHEDULE
8.01(b)
|
MISSION
ENTITIES COVENANTS
|
SCHEDULE
10.02
|
ADMINISTRATIVE
AGENT'S OFFICE; CERTAIN ADDRESSES FOR NOTICES
|
SCHEDULE
10.06
|
PROCESSING
AND RECORDATION FEES
|
EXHIBIT
A
|
Form
of Assignment and Assumption
|
EXHIBIT
B
|
Form
of Closing Certificate
|
EXHIBIT
C
|
Form
of Compliance Certificate
|
EXHIBIT
D-1
|
Form
of Confirmation Agreement for the Security Agreement
|
EXHIBIT
D-2
|
Form
of Confirmation Agreement for the Pledge and Security
Agreement
|
EXHIBIT
D-3
|
Form
of Confirmation Agreement for the Nexstar Guaranty
Agreement
|
EXHIBIT
D-4
|
Form
of Confirmation Agreement for the Nexstar Guaranty of Mission
Obligations
|
EXHIBIT
E
|
Form
of Information Certificate
|
EXHIBIT
F
|
Form
of Revolving Loan Note
|
EXHIBIT
G
|
Form
of Revolving Loan Notice
|
EXHIBIT
H
|
Form
of Solvency Certificate
|
EXHIBIT
I
|
Form
of Term B Loan Note
|
EXHIBIT
J
|
Form
of Term B Loan Notice
|
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FOURTH
AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
THIS FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED
CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of April 1, 2005, is among NEXSTAR BROADCASTING, INC., a
corporation organized under the Laws of the State of Delaware, NEXSTAR BROADCASTING GROUP,
INC., a corporation organized under the Laws of the State of Delaware,
certain of its Subsidiaries from time to time parties to this Agreement, the
several banks and other financial institutions or entities from time to time
parties hereto (the "Lenders"), BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as the
Administrative Agent for the Lenders, and UBS SECURITIES LLC and XXXXXXX LYNCH, PIERCE, XXXXXX &
XXXXX INCORPORATED, as the Co-Syndication Agents.
RECITALS
A. The
Borrower, the Ultimate Parent, the Subsidiaries of the Ultimate Parent, the
Administrative Agent, and the several banks parties thereto entered into that
certain Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of December 30,
2003 (as amended through the date hereof, the "Existing Nexstar Credit
Agreement").
B. The
parties wish to amend and restate the Existing Nexstar Credit Agreement, which
amendment and restatement is in extension and renewal, and not in extinguishment
or novation, of the indebtedness outstanding under the Existing Nexstar Credit
Agreement, as herein provided, it being acknowledged and agreed by the Borrower,
the Ultimate Parent and the other Parent Guarantors that the Indebtedness under
this Agreement constitutes an extension, renewal, increase and ratification of
the outstanding indebtedness under the Existing Nexstar Credit Agreement, and
that all Liens and Guaranty Agreements that secure the repayment of outstanding
indebtedness under the Existing Nexstar Credit Agreement shall continue to
secure Indebtedness under this Agreement.
In
consideration of the mutual agreements, provisions and covenants contained
herein, the parties agree that the Existing Nexstar Credit Agreement shall be
and hereby is amended and restated in its entirety as follows:
ARTICLE
I.
DEFINITIONS
1.01 Defined
Terms. All capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined in
this Agreement, including in the Preamble hereto, shall have the meanings
specified below:
"ABRY Fund" means XXXX
X.X. II, XXXX X.X. III, XXXX X.X. IV, or any investment entity controlled by,
controlling, or under common control with XXXX X.X. II, XXXX X.X. III and/or
XXXX X.X. IV.
"XXXX X.X. II" means
ABRY Broadcast Partners II, L.P., a limited partnership organized under the Laws
of the State of Delaware.
"XXXX X.X. III" means
ABRY Broadcast Partners III, L.P., a limited partnership organized under the
Laws of the State of Delaware.
"XXXX X.X. IV" means
ABRY Partners IV, L.P., a limited partnership organized under the Laws of the
State of Delaware.
"Acquisition" means,
with respect to any Person, the occurrence of any of the following specified
events: (i) any transaction or series of transactions for the
purpose of, or resulting in, directly or indirectly, any of the following
(including without limitation, any such transaction or transactions in
connection with a like-kind exchange or otherwise): (a) the acquisition by
such Person of all or substantially all of the assets of another Person, or of
any business or division of another Person, or any television broadcasting
station, (b) the acquisition by such Person of more than 50% of any class
of Capital Stock (or similar ownership interests) of any other Person,
(c) a merger, consolidation, amalgamation, or other combination by such
Person with another Person or (ii) the entering into of any Local Marketing
Agreement, Joint Sales Agreement and/or Shared Services Agreement, or other
similar agreement by such Person. The terms "Acquire," "Acquired" and "Acquisition of" shall
have correlative meanings.
"Additional Security
Documents" has the meaning specified in Section 6.16(a).
"Adjusted Current
Liabilities" means for any Person on any date of determination, current
liabilities of such Person on such date minus the sum of (a) the current portion
of any long-term Indebtedness (including, without limitation, the current
portion of any Capital Lease Obligations) of such Person on such date, plus (b)
deferred income tax liabilities of such Person on such date.
"Adjusted Working
Capital" means for any Person on any date of determination, (a) the
current assets of such Person on such date, minus (b) the sum of (i) cash and
Cash Equivalents of such Person on such date, plus (ii) the Adjusted Current
Liabilities of such Person on such date, in each case as determined on a
consolidated basis.
"Administrative Agent"
means Bank of America, N.A. in its capacity as Administrative Agent for the
Lenders hereunder, and any successor to such agent.
"Administrative
Agent's Office" means the
Administrative Agent's address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on
Schedule 10.02,
or such other address or account of the Administrative Agent as the
Administrative Agent may from time to time notify to the Borrower and the
Lenders.
"Administrative
Questionnaire" means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied
by the Administrative Agent.
"Affiliate" means,
with respect to any Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through
one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common
Control with the Person specified.
"Agents" means the
Administrative Agent and the Co-Syndication Agents.
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"Aggregate Available
Revolving Commitment" means the sum of the Available Revolving
Commitments of all Lenders.
"Aggregate Combined Revolving
Commitment" means the Aggregate Revolving Commitment.
"Aggregate Outstanding Term B
Loan Balance" means the sum of the aggregate outstanding principal
balances of all Term B Loans, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time
pursuant to this Agreement.
"Aggregate Revolving
Commitment" means the sum of the Revolving Commitments of all of the
Lenders, in the amount of $82,500,000 as of the Second Amendment Effective Date,
as such amount may be reduced from time to time pursuant to this Agreement.1
"Agreement" means this
Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, including the Schedules and
Exhibits hereto, as the same may be amended, modified, restated, supplemented,
renewed, extended, increased, rearranged and/or substituted from time to
time.
"Anticipated Reinvestment
Amount" [Intentionally Deleted].
"Applicable Law" means
(a) in respect of any Person, all provisions of Laws applicable to such
Person, and all orders and decrees of all courts and determinations of
arbitrators applicable to such Person and (b) in respect of contracts made
or performed in the State of Texas, "Applicable Law" shall
also mean the Laws of the United States of America, including, without limiting
the foregoing, 12 USC Sections 85 and 86, as amended to the date
hereof and as the same may be amended at any time and from time to time
hereafter, and any other statute of the United States of America now or at any
time hereafter prescribing the maximum rates of interest on loans and extensions
of credit, and the Laws of the State of Texas, including, without limitation,
Chapter 303 of the Texas Finance Code, as amended, and any other statute of
the State of Texas now or at any time hereafter prescribing maximum rates of
interest on loans and extensions of credit; provided that the parties hereto
agree pursuant to Texas Finance Code Section 346.004 that the provisions of
Chapter 346 of the Texas Finance Code, shall not apply to Loans, the
Letters of Credit, this Agreement, the Notes or any other Loan
Documents.
"Applicable Margin"
means
(i) with
respect to Loans which are Eurodollar Loans, a rate per annum equal to 4.00%;
and
(ii) with
respect to Loans which are Base Rate Loans, a rate per annum equal to
3.00%.
1 The
Aggregate Revolving Commitment was previously reallocated -- thus
when added to the Mission Aggregate Revolving Commitment, the total amount will
remain unchanged.
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"Approved Fund" means
any Fund that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a
Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages
a Lender.
"Assignee Group" means
two or more Eligible Assignees that are Affiliates of one another or two or more
Approved Funds managed by the same investment advisor.
"Assignment and
Assumption" means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender
and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is
required by Section 10.06(b)),
and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit A or any
other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
"Audited Financial
Statements" means the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Ultimate
Parent and its consolidated Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Year ended December 31,
2004, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations,
shareholders' equity and cash flows for such Fiscal Year of the Ultimate Parent
and its consolidated Subsidiaries, including the notes thereto.
"Authorization" means
any filing, recording and registration with, and any validation or exemption,
approval, order, authorization, consent, License, certificate, franchise and
permit from, any Governmental Authority, including, without limitation, FCC
Licenses.
"Available Revolving
Commitment" means, at any time as to any Lender, an amount equal to the
excess, if any, of (i) the amount of the Revolving Commitment of such
Lender at such time, over (ii) the
sum of the outstanding principal balances of all Revolving Loans of such Lender
plus the sum of
all participations of such Lender in L/C Obligations at such time.
"Bank of America"
means Bank of America, N.A., a national banking association.
"Bankruptcy Code"
means the Federal Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 (11 U.S.C. Sec. 101, et seq.).
"Base Rate" means for
any day a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the sum of
1/2 of 1% plus the Federal Funds Rate for such day, (b) the Prime Rate for
such day and (c) the sum of (i) 1.00% plus (ii) the Eurodollar
Rate (for an Interest Period of one month, determined in accordance with
subsection (b) of the definition of Eurodollar Base Rate).
"Base Rate Loan" means
any Loan that bears an interest rate based on the Base Rate.
"Beneficial Owner" has
the meaning assigned to such term in Rule 13d-3 and Rule 13d-5 under
the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"Board of Directors"
means, as to any Person, either (a) the board of directors of such Person
(or, in the case of any Person that is a limited liability company, the managers
of such Person) or (b) any duly authorized committee thereof.
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"Board Resolution"
means, as to any Person, a copy of a resolution of such Person certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of such Person to have been duly adopted by
requisite action of the Board of Directors of such Person and to be in full
force and effect on the date of such certification.
"Borrower" means
Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
"Borrowing" has the
meaning specified in Section 1.04.
"Borrowing Date"
means, in relation to any Loan, the date of the borrowing of such Loan as
specified in the Revolving Loan Notice or Term B Loan Notice, as
applicable.
"Business Day" means
any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in
Dallas, Texas or, New York City are authorized or required by Law to close and,
if such term is used in relation to any Eurodollar Loan or the Interest Period
therefor, on such day dealings are carried on by and between banks in Dollar
deposits in the applicable interbank market.
"Capital Expenditures"
means, for any period and with respect to any Person, the aggregate of all
expenditures by such Person and its Subsidiaries with respect to such period
which should be capitalized according to GAAP on a consolidated balance sheet of
such Person and its Subsidiaries, including all expenditures with respect to
fixed or capital assets which should be so capitalized and, without duplication,
the amount of all Capital Lease Obligations incurred during such period; it
being understood that "Capital Expenditures"
shall not include, without duplication, non-cash payments and payments made or
accrued in respect of Film Obligations or Consolidation Expenses.
"Capital Lease" has
the meaning specified in the definition of "Capital Lease
Obligations".
"Capital Lease
Obligations" means, with respect to any Person, all monetary obligations
of such Person under any leasing or similar arrangement which, in accordance
with GAAP, is classified as a capital lease (a "Capital
Lease").
"Capital Stock" means
(i) any capital stock, partnership, membership, joint venture or other
ownership or equity interest, participation or securities (whether voting or
non-voting, whether preferred, common or otherwise, and including any stock
appreciation, contingent interest or similar right) and (ii) any option,
warrant, security or other right (including debt securities or other evidence of
Indebtedness) directly or indirectly convertible into or exercisable or
exchangeable for, or otherwise to acquire directly or indirectly, any capital
stock, partnership, membership, joint venture or other ownership or equity
interest, participation or security described in clause
(i) above.
“Cash Collateral
Account” means a blocked, non-interest bearing deposit account of one or
more of the Credit Parties at Bank of America in the name of the Administrative
Agent and under the sole dominion and control of the Administrative Agent, and
otherwise established in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent.
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"Cash Collateralize"
with respect to any Person, means to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the
Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the L/C
Issuer and the Lenders, as collateral for the L/C Obligations, cash or deposit
account balances of such Person pursuant to documentation in form and substance
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer (which documents are
hereby consented to by the Lenders) ("Cash
Collateral"). Derivatives of such term shall have
corresponding meanings. The Borrower hereby grants to the
Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the L/C
Issuer and the Lenders, a security interest in all such cash and deposit account
balances of the Borrower. Cash Collateral shall be invested in Cash
Equivalents of a tenor satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and as
instructed by the Borrower, which Cash Equivalents shall be held in the name of
the Borrower and under the control of the Administrative Agent in a manner
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
"Cash Equivalents"
means any or all of the following: (i) obligations of, or guaranteed as to
interest and principal by, the United States government maturing within one year
after the date on which such obligations are purchased; (ii) open market
commercial paper of any corporation (other than any Nexstar Entity, other Credit
Party or any Affiliate of any Nexstar Entity or other Credit Party) incorporated
under the Laws of the United States or any State thereof or the District of
Columbia rated P-1 or its equivalent by Xxxxx'x or A-1 or its equivalent or
higher by S&P; (iii) time deposits or certificates of deposit maturing
within one year after the issuance thereof issued by commercial banks organized
under the Laws of any country which is a member of the OECD and having a
combined capital and surplus in excess of $250,000,000 or which is a Lender or
Xxxxx Brothers Xxxxxxxx & Co.; (iv) repurchase agreements with respect
to securities described in clause (i) above
entered into with an office of a bank or trust company meeting the criteria
specified in clause
(iii); and (v) money market funds investing only in investments
described in clauses
(i) through (iv).
"Cash Management
Agreement" means any agreement to provide cash management services,
including treasury, depository, overdraft, credit or debit card, electronic
funds transfer and other cash management arrangements.
"Cash Management Bank"
means Bank of America and its Affiliates and any other Person that, at the time
it enters into a Cash Management Agreement, is a Lender or an Affiliate of a
Lender, in its capacity as a party to such Cash Management
Agreement.
“CERCLA” means the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of
1980.
“CERCLIS” means the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Information
System maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
"Change in Law" means
the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the
following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any Law, rule,
regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any Law, rule, regulation or treaty or
in the administration, interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental
Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, guideline or directive
(whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental
Authority.
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"Change of Control"
means any of the following:
(i) the
consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or
consolidation) the result of which is that any Person, other than a Principal,
becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 35% of the
Voting Stock of the Ultimate Parent, measured by voting power rather than number
of shares;
(ii) a
majority of the Board of Directors of the Ultimate Parent shall cease to be
Continuing Directors;
(iii) at
any time during the first 18 months after the consummation of the Initial Public
Offering, the Principals, taken together, shall cease to directly or indirectly
own and hold at least 35% on a fully diluted basis of the Voting Stock of the
Ultimate Parent, measured by voting power rather than number of
shares;
(iv) the
Ultimate Parent shall cease to own, directly or indirectly, 100% on a fully
diluted basis of the Capital Stock of Nexstar Finance Holdings; or
(v) Nexstar
Finance Holdings shall cease to own 100% on a fully diluted basis of the Capital
Stock of the Borrower.
"Charter Documents"
means, with respect to any Person, (i) the articles or certificate of
formation, incorporation or organization (or the equivalent organizational
documents) of such Person, (ii) the bylaws, partnership agreement, limited
liability company agreement or regulations (or the equivalent governing
documents) of such Person and (iii) each document setting forth the
designation, amount and relative rights, limitations and preferences of any
class or series of such Person's Capital Stock or of any rights in respect of
such Person's Capital Stock, and any shareholder or stockholder agreement or
other like agreement or arrangement to which such Person is a party or by which
it is bound and, with respect to the Nexstar Entities, the term "Charter
Documents" shall include the Nexstar Stockholders Agreement.
"Class" has the
meaning specified in Section 1.04.
"Closing Certificate"
means a Closing Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
"Code" means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and any regulations
promulgated thereunder.
"Collateral" means the
Pledged Collateral, the Security Agreement Collateral and the Mortgaged
Properties, and any other property or assets of any Credit Party subject to a
Lien to secure all or any portion of the Obligations.
"Collateral Agent"
means the Administrative Agent acting as collateral agent pursuant to the
Security Documents (or any other Collateral Agent specifically permitted under
the terms hereof, provided that no such other "Collateral Agent" shall be
considered a "Collateral Agent" for the purposes of Section
10.01).
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"Commitment" means,
for each Lender, its Revolving Commitment.
"Communications Act"
has the meaning specified in Section 5.17.
"Compliance
Certificate" means, as to any Person, a certificate of such Person
executed on its behalf by the Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief
Financial Officer or Vice President of such Person, substantially in the form of
Exhibit C,
with such changes as acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
"Confirmation
Agreements" means (i) a First Amendment and Confirmation Agreement
for the Security Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit D-1,
(ii) a First Amendment and Confirmation Agreement for the Pledge and
Security Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit D-2,
(iii) a First Amendment and Confirmation Agreement for the Nexstar Guaranty
Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit D-3 and
(iv) a First Amendment and Confirmation Agreement for the Nexstar Guaranty
of Mission Obligations, substantially in the form of Exhibit D-4.
"Consolidated Amortization
Expense" means, for any period, for any Person, the consolidated
amortization expense (including amortization of Film Obligations and goodwill)
of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
"Consolidated Cash Interest
Expense" means, for any period, for any Person, Consolidated Interest
Expense for such Person for such period, but excluding to the extent otherwise
included therein, (i) interest expense to the extent not payable in cash
(e.g., interest
or dividends on securities which must (or may, at the election of such Person or
any of its Subsidiaries) be paid in additional securities, imputed interest,
amortization of original issue discount and/or by an addition to the accreted
value thereof, or non-cash accounting adjustments relating to derivatives
transactions or contracts) during such period, (ii) amortization of
discount during such period, and (iii) deferred financing costs during such
period.
"Consolidated Depreciation
Expense" means, for any period, for any Person, the depreciation expense
of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
"Consolidated Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio" means, on any date, the ratio of (a) Consolidated
Operating Cash Flow of the Borrower and it Subsidiaries for the applicable
Measurement Period to (b) the sum of (without duplication)
(i) Consolidated Cash Interest Expense of the Ultimate Parent and it
Subsidiaries, plus (ii) all scheduled principal payments on Indebtedness of
the Ultimate Parent and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, excluding with
respect to this subsection (ii) only, the payment of principal of the Loans
due on their respective Maturity Dates, plus (iii) Capital Expenditures of
the Ultimate Parent and it Subsidiaries, plus (iv) accrued current income
tax expense for the Ultimate Parent and its Subsidiaries (other than any such
expense paid or payable during such period with respect to extraordinary gains)
on a consolidated basis, in each case for the Measurement Period relating to
such date.
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"Consolidated Interest
Coverage Ratio" means, on any date, the ratio of (i) Consolidated
Operating Cash Flow of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the Measurement
Period relating to such date to (ii) the
Consolidated Cash Interest Expense of the Ultimate Parent and its Subsidiaries
for such Measurement Period.
"Consolidated Interest
Expense" means, for any period, for any Person, the interest expense of
such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a consolidated
basis in accordance with GAAP, including, without duplication, total interest
expense for such period (including interest attributable to Capital Leases) with
respect to all outstanding Indebtedness of such Person and its
Subsidiaries, capitalized interest and all commissions, discounts and other fees
and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers' acceptance
financing, as such amounts may be increased or decreased by the net income (or
loss) from Interest Rate Protection Agreements of such Person for such
period.
"Consolidated Net
Income" means, for any period, for any Person, the net income (or loss)
of such Person and its Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with GAAP; provided
that there shall be excluded, without duplication, (i) income of any Subsidiary of
such Person which is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of such Person, except to the
extent of the amount of any dividends or other distributions actually paid by a
Subsidiary which is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the Borrower or any
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower during such period, (ii) income of
any other Person accrued prior to the date (A) any such other Person
becomes a Subsidiary of the Person whose net income is being determined,
(B) any such other Person is merged into such Person whose net income is
being determined or any Subsidiary of such Person whose net income is being
determined or (C) the assets of any such other Person are acquired by the
Person whose net income is being determined or by any Subsidiary of such Person
whose net income is being determined, (iii) the income of any Subsidiary of
such Person during such period to the extent that the declaration or payment of
dividends or similar distributions by that Subsidiary of such income is not at
the time permitted by operation of the terms of its Charter Documents or any
other agreement binding on such Subsidiary or any Requirement of Law applicable
to such Subsidiary or such Person or any of its other Subsidiaries,
(iv) any after-tax gains and after-tax losses attributable to extraordinary
and non-recurring items, including Recovery Events, Extraordinary Receipts and
Dispositions outside the ordinary course of business and any after-tax gains on
pension reversions received by such Person or its Subsidiaries, and (v) to
the extent included in calculating such net income, non-cash revenue and
non-cash expenses earned or incurred by such Person or any of its
Subsidiaries.
"Consolidated Operating Cash
Flow" means, for any period, for any Person,
(a) Consolidated
Net Income of such Person for such period, plus
(b) (to
the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income) the sum of,
without duplication, (i) Consolidated Depreciation Expense,
(ii) Consolidated Amortization Expense, (iii) Consolidated Interest
Expense, (iv) income tax expense for such Person and its Subsidiaries
(other than any such expense with respect to extraordinary gains),
(v) recurring and non-recurring non-cash losses and expenses (determined on
a consolidated basis), and (vi) fees and expenses incurred in connection
with the Second Amendment and paid in cash in the third
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and
fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, including fees and expenses of advisors and legal
counsel, and the costs incurred in connection with the requirements under the
Loan Documents with respect to the Collateral, in each case only to the extent
that such fees and expenses are treated as operating expenses and, less
(c) the
sum of (i) Film Cash Payments becoming due and payable during such period,
and (ii) (to the extent included in calculating such Consolidated Net
Income) non-cash revenues, in each case (notwithstanding clause (ii) of the
proviso in the definition of "Consolidated Net Income") calculated, if
applicable, on a Pro Forma Basis (except for purposes of calculating the
Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio and the Consolidated Interest Coverage
Ratio) after giving effect to (A) any sale or Disposition of any Station as
if the same were consummated or became effective on the first day of such period
and (B) subject to the provisos set forth below, any Local Marketing
Agreement, Joint Sales Agreement and/or Shared Services Agreement, as if the
same were consummated or became effective on the first day of such period, each
as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP after eliminating
all intercompany items;
provided
that
(1) in
the case of any Local Marketing Agreement, Joint Sales Agreement and/or Shared
Services Agreement,
(x) Consolidated
Operating Cash Flow shall reflect adjustments thereto for anticipated changes in
network compensation for such period to be effected within 120 days after the
entering into of any such Local Marketing Agreement, Joint Sales Agreement
and/or Shared Services Agreement, commissions for national representatives and
other items of revenue or expense (including as the result of a reduction in the
number of employees within 120 days after the date of entering into any such
Local Marketing Agreement, Joint Sales Agreement and/or Shared Services
Agreement), in each case as may be satisfactory to the Administrative Agent
and
(y) notwithstanding
the foregoing or anything else in this Agreement to the contrary only net
amounts receivable that are subject to no contingency with respect to any such
Local Marketing Agreement, Joint Sales Agreement and/or Shared Services
Agreement may be treated on a Pro Forma Basis in calculating Consolidated
Operating Cash Flow; and
(2) Consolidated
Operating Cash Flow shall also reflect the adjustments thereto set forth on
Schedule
1.01(B); and
(3) notwithstanding
the foregoing or anything in this Agreement to the contrary, in no event shall
(A) any gain realized by the Borrower or any Subsidiary as a result of the
purchase, forgiveness or other cancellation of any Indebtedness of the Borrower
or any Subsidiary for less than the face value of such Indebtedness be included
in Consolidated Operating Cash Flow and (B) any cash flow or net income
attributable to any
Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary be included in
the calculation of Consolidated Operating Cash Flow of the
Borrower.
"Consolidated Senior Leverage
Ratio" means, on any date, the ratio of
(a) the
amount of Consolidated Total Debt of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on such
date
minus, to the
extent included in Consolidated Total Debt, the sum of the outstanding
face amount of (i) the 7% Senior Subordinated Notes issued by Borrower on
December 30, 2003, and due 2014, plus (ii) the 12% Senior Subordinated
PIK Notes due 2014 issued by Borrower, plus (iii) any Subordinated Notes
issued in accordance with the terms of Section 7.05;
to
(b) the
Consolidated Operating Cash Flow of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the
applicable Measurement Period relating to such date.
"Consolidated Total
Debt" means, for any Person on any date, the Indebtedness of such Person
and its Subsidiaries on such date, determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with GAAP. Consolidated Total Debt shall be calculated on
such date giving effect to all transactions (and all resulting borrowings and
other consequences) consummated or to be consummated on such date.
"Consolidated Total Leverage
Ratio" means, on any date, the ratio of
(a) the
sum of (i) the Consolidated Total Debt of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
on such date minus the sum of outstanding principal amount of any Unsecured
Notes that meet each of the following characteristics: (A) the
Indebtedness under such Unsecured Note matures after the latest maturity date of
the Loans, (B) such Indebtedness is subject to payment-in kind interest
payments and requires no cash interest or other payment, but in each case only
(1) for so long as such interest payments are payment-in-kind under the
documentation of any such Unsecured Notes as it exists on the Second Amendment
Effective Date (all extensions, refinancings, refundings, renewals and increases
of any such Indebtedness, or extensions or renewals of payment-in-kind features
of such Indebtedness shall NOT meet this requirement) and (2) until such
Indebtedness begins accruing interest that will require any cash payment, and
(ii) all Indebtedness of Nexstar Finance Holdings requiring interest and/or
principal payments in cash on or before such date to
(b) the
Consolidated Operating Cash Flow of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the
applicable Measurement Period relating to such date.
"Consolidation
Expenses" means, for any period and with respect to any Person, the
aggregate of all expenditures by such Person and its Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis during such period related to the consolidation of
Stations.
"Continuing Directors"
means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors of
the Ultimate Parent who (i) was a member of such Board of Directors or
similar governing persons of the Ultimate Parent on the Effective Date;
(ii) was nominated for election or
elected to such Board of Directors with approval of a majority of the Continuing
Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such
nomination or election; or (iii) was nominated by one or more Principals
owning at least 20% of the Voting Stock (measured by voting power rather than
the number of shares) of the Ultimate Parent at the time of such
nomination.
"Contractual
Obligation" means, as to any Person, any provision of any security issued
by such Person or of any agreement, undertaking, contract, lease, loan
agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument, document or
agreement to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property
is bound.
"Control" means the
possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the
direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability
to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. "Controlling" and
"Controlled"
have meanings correlative thereto.
"Co-Syndication
Agents" means UBS Securities LLC and Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx &
Xxxxx Incorporated, in their capacity as Co-Syndication Agents for the Lenders
hereunder, and any successor to such agents.
"Credit Event" means
the making of any Loan or the issuance of any Letter of Credit.
"Credit Parties" means
the collective reference to the Parent Guarantors (including but not limited to
Nexstar Finance Holdings), the Borrower, the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Mission
Entities and any other Person hereafter executing and delivering a Security
Document or a Guaranty Agreement or any equivalent document for the benefit of
the Administrative Agent and/or any Lender; provided
that Xxxxx X. Xxxxx will not be deemed to be a Credit Party.
"Debtor Relief Laws"
means the Bankruptcy Code, and all other liquidation, conservatorship,
bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement,
receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the
United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and
affecting the rights of creditors generally.
"Default" means any
event or circumstance that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the
giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, would (if not cured or otherwise
remedied during such time) constitute an Event of Default.
"Default Rate" means
(a) when used with respect to Obligations other than Letter of Credit Fees,
an interest rate equal to (i) the Base Rate plus (ii) the
Applicable Margin, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans plus (iii) 2%
per annum; provided, however, that with
respect to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate
equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Margin) otherwise
applicable to such Loan plus 2% per annum, and (b) when used with respect
to Letter of Credit Fees, a rate equal to the Applicable Margin plus 2% per
annum.
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"Defaulting Lender"
means any Mission Defaulting Lender or any Lender, as determined by the
Administrative Agent, that has (a) failed to fund any portion of the Loans
or participations in L/C Obligations required to be funded by it hereunder
within one Business Day after the date required to be funded by it hereunder,
(b) notified the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer in
writing that it does not intend to comply with any of its funding obligations
under this Agreement or has made a public statement to the effect that it does
not intend to comply with its funding obligations under this Agreement or under
other agreements generally in which it commits to extend credit,
(c) failed, within three Business Days after request by the Administrative
Agent, to confirm that it will comply with the terms of this Agreement relating
to its obligations to fund prospective Loans and participations in then
outstanding L/C Obligations, (d) otherwise failed to pay over to the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by
it hereunder within one Business Day after the date when due, unless the subject
of a good faith dispute, or (e) (i) become or is insolvent or
(ii) become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has
had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of
creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its
business or custodian, appointed for it, or has taken any action in furtherance
of, or indicating its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such
proceeding or appointment.
"Disposition" means
the direct or indirect sale, assignment, lease (as lessor), transfer, conveyance
or other disposition (including, without limitation, dispositions of or pursuant
to Local Marketing Agreements, Joint Sales Agreement or Shared Services
Agreements or pursuant to Sale and Leaseback Transactions), in a single
transaction or a series of related transactions, by any Nexstar Entity to any
Person (other than the Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower)
of any assets or property of any Nexstar Entity; provided
that in any event the term "Disposition" shall
mean and include sales, assignments, leases (as lessor), transfers, conveyances
or other dispositions (including, without limitation, pursuant to Local
Marketing Agreements, Joint Sales Agreements or Shared Services Agreements) of
principal divisions, or lines of business of, any Nexstar Entity including,
without limitation, any Station of any Nexstar Entity or the Capital Stock of
any Subsidiary of any Nexstar Entity. The terms "Dispose" and "Disposed of" shall
have correlative meanings.
"Disqualified Stock"
means any Capital Stock which, by its terms (or by the terms of any security
into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), at the option of
the holder thereof or upon the happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily
redeemable pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or is redeemable,
at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part.
"Dividend" means, with
respect to any Person, that such Person has authorized, declared or paid a
dividend or returned any equity capital to holders of its Capital Stock as such
or made any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to
holders of its Capital Stock as such.
"Dollars" and "$" each mean lawful
money of the United States.
"Domestic Lending
Office" shall have the meaning specified in the definition of "Lending
Office".
"Effective Date" has
the meaning specified in Section 10.16.
"Eligible Assignee"
means (a) a Lender; (b) an Affiliate of a Lender; (c) an Approved
Fund; and (d) any other Person (other than a natural person) approved by
(i) the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer, and (ii) unless an
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower (each such
approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided that
notwithstanding the foregoing, "Eligible Assignee"
shall not include the Borrower or any of the Borrower's Affiliates or
Subsidiaries.
“Environmental Laws”
means any and all Federal, state, local, and foreign statutes, Laws,
regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits,
concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or governmental
restrictions relating to pollution and the protection of the environment or the
release of any materials into the environment, including those related to
hazardous substances or wastes, air emissions and discharges to waste or public
systems.
“Environmental
Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any
liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or
indemnities), of the Borrower, any other Credit Party or any of their respective
Subsidiaries directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon
(a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use,
handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous
Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or
threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or
(e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to
which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the
foregoing.
"ERISA" means the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder as from time to time in effect.
"ERISA Affiliate"
means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) under common control
with any Nexstar Entity within the meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the
Code (and Sections 414(m) and (o) for purposes of provisions relating to
Sections 412, 414(t)(2) and 4971 of the Code).
"ERISA Event" means
(i) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan or a Multiemployer
Plan which could reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to any
Nexstar Entity; (ii) a withdrawal by any Nexstar Entity or any ERISA
Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan
year in which it was a substantial employer (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of
ERISA) or a cessation of operations which is treated as such a withdrawal under
Section 4062(e) of ERISA where such withdrawal or cessation could reasonably be
expected to result in a material liability to any Nexstar Entity; (iii) a
complete or partial withdrawal by any Nexstar Entity or any ERISA Affiliate from
a Multiemployer Plan which could reasonably be expected to result in a material
liability to any Nexstar Entity or notification that a Multiemployer Plan is
insolvent or in reorganization; (iv) the filing of a notice of intent to
terminate other than under a standard termination pursuant to Section 4041(b) of
ERISA
where such standard termination or the process of affecting such standard
termination will not result in a material liability to any Nexstar Entity or an
ERISA Affiliate, the treatment of a plan amendment as a termination under
Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to
terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (v) a failure by any
Nexstar Entity or any ERISA Affiliate to make required contributions to a
Pension Plan, Multiemployer Plan or other Plan subject to Section 412 of the
Code; (vi) an event or condition which might reasonably be expected to
constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the
appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan;
(vii) the imposition of any material liability under Title IV of ERISA,
other than PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA,
upon any Nexstar Entity or any ERISA Affiliate; or (viii) an application
for a funding waiver or an extension of any amortization period pursuant to
Section 412 of the Code with respect to any Plan.
"Eurodollar Base Rate"
means:
(a) For
any Interest Period with respect to a Eurodollar Loan, the rate per annum equal
to (i) the British Bankers Association LIBOR Rate as published by Reuters
(or other commercially available source providing quotations of BBA LIBOR as
designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) (“BBA LIBOR”), at
approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the
commencement of such Interest Period, for Dollar deposits (for delivery on the
first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest
Period or (ii) if such published rate is not available at such time for any
reason, the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the rate at which
deposits in Dollars for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period in
same day funds in the approximate amount of the Eurodollar Loan being made,
continued or converted by Bank of America and with a term equivalent to such
Interest Period would be offered by Bank of America’s London Branch to major
banks in the London interbank Eurodollar market at their request at
approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the
commencement of such Interest Period; provided that, for an Interest
Period of less than three months, if the Eurodollar Base Rate would, but for the
application of this proviso, be less than the Eurodollar Base Rate for an
Interest Period of three months, the Eurodollar Base Rate shall be the
Eurodollar Base Rate for an Interest Period of three months.
(b) For
any interest rate calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan, the rate per
annum equal to (i) BBA LIBOR, at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time on the
date of determination (provided that if such day is not a Business Day in
London, the next preceding London Business Day) for Dollar deposits being
delivered in the London interbank market for a term of one month commencing that
day or (ii) if such published rate is not available at such time for any reason,
the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the rate at which deposits
in Dollars for delivery on the date of determination in same day funds in the
approximate amount of the Base Rate Loan being made, continued or converted by
Bank of America and with a term equal to one month would be offered by Bank of
America’s London Branch to major banks in the London interbank Eurodollar market
at their request at the date and time of determination.
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"Eurodollar Loan"
means any Loan that bears interest rate computed on the basis of the Eurodollar
Rate.
"Eurodollar Rate"
means for any Interest Period with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, a rate per
annum equal to the greater of (a) 1.00% and (b) the rate determined by the
Administrative Agent pursuant to the following formula:
Eurodollar
Rate =
|
Eurodollar
Base
Rate
1.00
– Eurodollar Reserve Percentage
|
"Eurodollar Reserve
Percentage" means, for any day during any Interest Period, the reserve
percentage (expressed as a decimal, carried out to five decimal places) in
effect on such day, whether or not applicable to any Lender, under regulations
issued from time to time by the Federal Reserve Board for determining the
maximum reserve requirement (including any emergency, supplemental or other
marginal reserve requirement) with respect to Eurocurrency funding (currently
referred to as "Eurocurrency liabilities"). The Eurodollar Rate for
each outstanding Eurodollar Loan shall be adjusted automatically as of the
effective date of any change in the Eurodollar Reserve Percentage.
"Event of Default"
means any of the events or circumstances specified in Section 8.01.
"Excess Cash Flow"
means for any Person for any period,
(a) the
sum for such period of (i) Consolidated Net Income; plus
(ii) Consolidated Amortization Expense and Consolidated Depreciation
Expense, in each case to the extent deducted in determining such Consolidated
Net Income; plus (iii) non-cash charges, to the extent deducted in
determining such Consolidated Net Income;
less (to
the extent not already deducted in determining Consolidated Net
Income);
(b) the
sum for such period of (i) Capital Expenditures of such Person and its
consolidated Subsidiaries and payments becoming due and payable during such
period by such Person and its consolidated Subsidiaries in respect of Film
Obligations; plus (ii) Consolidation Expenses of such Person for such
period; plus (iii) (A) Adjusted Working Capital of such Person as
determined on the last day of such period minus (B) Adjusted Working
Capital of such Person as determined on the first day of such period; plus
(iv) regularly scheduled payments of principal and voluntary prepayments of
principal of (x) Term B Loans, (y) to the extent accompanied by a
Commitment reduction, Revolving Loans and (z) other Indebtedness, by such
Person and its consolidated Subsidiaries, to the extent not prohibited
hereunder; plus (v) all non-cash revenues and gains, to the extent included
in determining such Consolidated Net Income; plus (vi) gains realized in
respect of Dispositions, to the extent included in determining such Consolidated
Net Income.
"Excluded Proceeds"
means none.
"Excluded Taxes"
means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or
any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation
of the Borrower hereunder, (a) taxes imposed on or measured by its overall
net income (however denominated), and franchise taxes imposed on it (in lieu of
net income taxes), by the jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof)
under the Laws of which such recipient is organized or in which its principal
office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its applicable Lending
Office is located, (b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United
States or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction in which the
Borrower is located and (c) in the case of a Foreign Lender (other than an
assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 10.13),
any withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender at
the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party hereto (or designates a new Lending
Office) or is attributable to such Foreign Lender's failure or inability (other
than as a result of a Change in Law) to comply with Section 3.01(e),
except to the extent that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was
entitled, at the time of designation of a new Lending Office (or assignment), to
receive additional amounts from the Borrower with respect to such withholding
tax pursuant to Section 3.01(a).
"Existing Nexstar Credit
Agreement" has the meaning specified in Recital A.
"Extraordinary
Receipt" means any cash received by or paid to or for the account of any
Person not in the ordinary course of business (net of any taxes paid or payable
as a result of the receipt of such cash (or reasonably and in good faith
reserved for the payment of any such taxes after taking into account all
available credits and deductions)), including tax refunds, pension plan
reversions, proceeds of insurance (other than proceeds of business interruption
insurance to the extent such proceeds constitute compensation for lost
earnings), condemnation awards (and payments in lieu thereof), indemnity
payments and any purchase price adjustments, provided that
any amounts deducted from Extraordinary Receipts that are not immediately due
and payable shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent to be held as
collateral in accordance with the terms of Section
10.19(l).
"Facility Percentage"
means, as to any Lender at any time, the quotient (expressed as a percentage) of
(i) the sum of (A) such Lender's Revolving Commitment (as in effect at such
time) or, if such Revolving Commitment has been terminated in full, such
Lender's outstanding Revolving Loans and participations in L/C Obligations (or,
without duplication, obligations held by the L/C Issuer in respect of L/C
Obligations, in the case of the L/C Issuer), plus (B) such Lender's outstanding
Term B Loans, divided by (ii) the sum of (A) the Aggregate Revolving Commitment
(as in effect at such time) or, if the Aggregate Revolving Commitment has been
terminated in full, the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Revolving
Loans and L/C Obligations, plus (B) the Aggregate Outstanding Term B Loan
Balance.
"FCC" means the
Federal Communications Commission.
"FCC License" has the
meaning specified in Section 5.17.
"Federal Funds
Rate" means,
for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on
overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve
System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day;
provided that (a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for
such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business
Day as so published on the next succeeding Business Day, and (b) if no such rate
is so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for
such day shall be the average rate (rounded upward, if necessary, to a whole
multiple of 1/100 of 1%) charged to Bank of America on such day on such
transactions as determined by the Administrative Agent.
"Federal Reserve
Board" means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any
successor thereto.
"Fee Letters" means
(i) the letter agreement, dated March 15, 2005, among the Borrower, the Mission
Borrower, the Administrative Agent and BAS, (ii) the letter agreement, dated
March 15, 2005, among the Borrower, the Mission Borrower, the Administrative
Agent, the Joint Lead Arrangers, the Joint Book Managers, UBS Loan Finance LLC
and Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Capital Corporation, and (iii) any other fee letter entered
into by the Borrower any Agent, Joint Lead Arranger, Joint Book Manager or
Lender in connection with this Agreement.
"Film Cash Payments"
means, for any period for any Person, the sum (determined on a consolidated
basis and without duplication) of all payments by such Person and its
Subsidiaries becoming due and payable during such period in respect of Film
Obligations; provided
that amounts applied to the prepayment of Film Obligations owing under
Prepayable Film Contracts shall not be deemed to be Film Cash
Payments.
"Film Obligations"
means obligations in respect of the purchase, use, license or acquisition of
programs, programming materials, films, and similar assets used in connection
with the business and operations of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries.
"Fiscal Quarter" means
each of the following quarterly periods: (i) January 1 of each calendar
year through and including March 31 of such calendar year, (ii) April 1 of
each calendar year through and including June 30 of such calendar year,
(iii) July 1 of each calendar year through and including September 30 of
such calendar year and (iv) October 1 through and including December 31 of
such calendar year.
"Fiscal Year" means a
calendar year.
"Foreign Lender" means
any Lender that is organized under the Laws of a jurisdiction other than that in
which the Borrower is resident for tax purposes. For purposes of this
definition, the United States, each State thereof and the District of Columbia
shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.
"Former Major Network
Affiliate" at any time means any Station that, at such time, is not
subject to a Network Affiliation Agreement with a Major Television Network, if
either (i) such Station is subject to a Network Affiliation Agreement with
a Major Television Network on the Effective Date, or (ii) if such Station
is not a Station on the Effective Date, then such Station was subject to a
Network Affiliation Agreement with a Major Television Network on the date it
became a
Station; provided
that, for purposes of this definition and Section 8.01(p),
two or more Stations that substantially simulcast the same programming will be
deemed to be a single Station so long as they do so.
"Fund" means any
Person (other than a natural person) that is (or will be) engaged in making,
purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar
extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business.
"GAAP" means generally
accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the opinions
and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the
Financial Accounting Standards Board or such other principles as may be approved
by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States, that
are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination,
consistently applied.
"Governmental
Authority" means the government of the United States or any other nation,
or of any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency,
authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity
exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or
administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any
supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central
Bank).
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"Granting Lender" has
the meaning specified in Section
10.06(h).
"Guarantor" means each
Credit Party which is a party to a Guaranty Agreement.
"Guaranty Agreements"
means the Nexstar Guaranty Agreement, the Mission Guaranty of Nexstar
Obligations, the Nexstar Guaranty of Mission Obligations, each Guaranty
Supplement to each of the foregoing and any other agreement executed and
delivered to the Administrative Agent guaranteeing any of the Obligations, and
any and all amendments, modifications, restatements, extensions, increases,
rearrangements and/or substitutions of any of the foregoing.
"Guaranty Obligation"
means, as applied to any Person, any direct or indirect liability of that Person
with respect to any Indebtedness, lease, dividend, letter of credit or other
obligation (the "primary obligations")
of another Person (the "primary obligor"),
including any obligation of that Person, whether or not contingent, without
duplication (i) to purchase, repurchase or otherwise acquire such primary
obligations or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor;
(ii) to advance or provide funds (x) for the payment or discharge of any such
primary obligation, or (y) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the
primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency or any
balance sheet item, level of income or financial condition of the primary
obligor; (iii) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the
purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of
the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation; or (iv)
otherwise to assure or hold harmless the holder of any such primary obligation
against loss in respect thereof; in each case, including arrangements ("non-recourse guaranty
arrangements") wherein the rights and remedies of the holder of the
primary obligation are limited to repossession or sale of certain property of
such Person. The amount of any Guaranty Obligation shall be deemed
equal to the stated or
determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guaranty
Obligation is made (or if less, the stated or determinable amount of such
Guaranty Obligation) or, if not stated or if indeterminable, the maximum
reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof; provided
that the amount of any non-recourse guaranty arrangement shall not be deemed to
exceed the fair value of the property which may be repossessed or sold by the
holder of the primary obligation in question.
"Guaranty Supplements"
means each of the Guaranty Supplements which are attached to the Guaranty
Agreements as Annex A thereto.
“Hazardous Materials”
means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or
toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum
distillates, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated
biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or
wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.
"Hedge Bank" means (a)
any Person that, at the time it entered into an Interest Rate Protection
Agreement permitted under Article VII, was a
Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender and (b) the Administrative Agent and
each of its Affiliates party to an Interest Rate Protection Agreement, in its
capacity as a party to such Interest Rate Protection Agreement.
"Highest Lawful Rate"
means at the particular time in question the maximum rate of interest which,
under Applicable Law, any Lender is then permitted to charge on the
Obligations. If the maximum rate of interest which, under Applicable
Law, any Lender is permitted to charge on the Obligations shall change after the
date hereof, the Highest Lawful Rate shall be automatically increased or
decreased, as the case may be, from time to time as of the effective time of
each change in the Highest Lawful Rate without notice to the
Borrower. For purposes of determining the Highest Lawful Rate under
Texas Law (if applicable), on each day, if any, that Chapter 303 of the
Texas Finance Code, as amended, establishes the Highest Lawful Rate, such rate
shall be the weekly ceiling computed in accordance with Section 303.003 of
the Texas Finance Code, as amended, for that day.
"Holders" means the
requisite holders of any of the Senior Second Lien Secured Notes or Subordinated
Notes, as applicable, of any class or type, or the trustee of any indenture
executed in connection with such Senior Second Lien Secured Notes or
Subordinated Notes, as applicable, in each case as applicable such that such
holders or trustee is authorized to act on behalf of all such holders of the
Senior Second Lien Secured Notes or Subordinated Notes of such class or
type.
"Honor Date" has the
meaning specified in Section
2.03(c)(i).
"Impacted Lender"
means a Defaulting Lender, a Mission Impacted Lender or a Lender as to which (a)
the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent has a good faith belief that the
Lender has defaulted in fulfilling its obligations under one or more other
syndicated credit facilities or (b) an entity that Controls the Lender has been
deemed insolvent or become subject to a bankruptcy or other similar
proceeding.
"Incremental Facility"
[Intentionally Deleted].
"Incremental Revolving
Commitments" [Intentionally Deleted].
"Incremental Revolving
Lenders" [Intentionally Deleted].
"Incremental Revolving
Loans" [Intentionally Deleted].
"Indebtedness" of any
Person means, without duplication, (i) all indebtedness for borrowed money;
(ii) all obligations issued, undertaken or assumed as the deferred purchase
price of property or services (other than (x) trade payables entered into in the
ordinary course of business pursuant to ordinary terms and (y) ordinary course
purchase price adjustments); (iii) all reimbursement or payment obligations
with respect to letters of credit or non-contingent reimbursement or payment
obligations with respect to bankers' acceptances, surety bonds and similar
documents; (iv) all obligations evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or
similar instruments, including obligations so evidenced incurred in connection
with the acquisition of property, assets or businesses; (v) all
indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement or sales of accounts receivable, in any such case with
respect to property acquired by the Person (even though the rights and remedies
of the seller or bank under such agreement in the event of default are limited
to repossession or sale of such property); (vi) all Capital Lease
Obligations; (vii) all net obligations with respect to Interest Rate
Protection Agreements; (viii) Disqualified Stock; (ix) all indebtedness
referred to in clauses
(i) through (viii) above secured
by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right,
contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien upon or in property
(including accounts and contracts rights) owned by such Person, even though such
Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such Indebtedness (in
which event the amount thereof shall not be deemed to exceed the fair value of
such property); and (x) all Guaranty Obligations in respect of obligations
of the kinds referred to in clauses (i) through
(ix)
above.
"Indemnified Taxes"
means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
"Indemnitee" has the
meaning specified in Section
10.04(b).
"Information" has the
meaning specified in Section
10.07.
"Information
Certificate" means a certificate of the Borrower executed on the
Borrower's behalf by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, substantially in the
form of Exhibit
E.
"Initial Borrowing
Date" means the date, occurring on the Effective Date, on which the
initial Credit Event occurs.
"Initial Excess Cash
Flow" means for any Person for any period,
(a) the
sum for such period of (i) Consolidated Net Income; plus (ii) Consolidated
Amortization Expense and Consolidated Depreciation Expense, in each case to the
extent deducted in determining such Consolidated Net Income; plus (iii) non-cash
charges, to the extent deducted in determining such Consolidated Net Income;
less (to
the extent not already deducted in determining Consolidated Net
Income);
(b) the
sum for such period of (i) Capital Expenditures of such Person and its
consolidated Subsidiaries and payments becoming due and payable during such
period by such Person and its consolidated Subsidiaries in respect of Film
Obligations; plus (ii) Consolidation Expenses of such Person for such
period; plus (iii) (A) Adjusted Working Capital of such Person as determined on
the last day of such period minus (B) Adjusted Working Capital of such
Person as determined on the first day of such period; plus (iv) regularly
scheduled payments of principal and voluntary prepayments of principal of (x)
Term B Loans, (y) to the extent accompanied by a Commitment reduction, Revolving
Loans and (z) other Indebtedness, by such Person and its consolidated
Subsidiaries, to the extent not prohibited hereunder; plus (v) all Restricted
Payments paid by such Person or any of its consolidated Subsidiaries (other than
to such Person or any such Subsidiary) permitted by Section 7.10 of this
Agreement as it existed immediately prior to the Second Amendment Effective
Date; plus (vi) all non-cash revenues and gains, to the extent included in
determining such Consolidated Net Income; plus (vii) gains realized in respect
of Dispositions, to the extent included in determining such Consolidated Net
Income.
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"Initial Public
Offering" means the sale by the Ultimate Parent of shares of its common
stock in a public offering registered under the Securities Act of
1933.
"Insolvency
Proceeding" means (i) any case, action or proceeding before any
court or other Governmental Authority relating to bankruptcy, reorganization,
insolvency, liquidation, receivership, dissolution, winding-up or relief of
debtors, or (ii) any general assignment for the benefit of creditors,
composition, marshalling of assets for creditors, or other, similar arrangement
in respect of its creditors generally; in each case undertaken under U.S.
Federal, State or foreign Law, including the Bankruptcy Code.
"Intellectual
Property" has the meaning specified in Section
5.09.
"Intercreditor
Agreement" has the meaning specified in Section
7.05(s).
"Interest Payment
Date" means (i) with respect to any Base Rate Loan, the last
Business Day of each calendar quarter and the Maturity Date, (ii) with
respect to any Eurodollar Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable
to such Eurodollar Loan and the date such Eurodollar Loan is repaid or prepaid;
provided,
however, that if any Interest Period for any Eurodollar Loan exceeds three
months, then the date which falls three months after the beginning of such
Interest Period or, if applicable, at the end of any three-month interval
thereafter shall also be an "Interest Payment
Date" for such Eurodollar Loan.
"Interest Period"
means, in relation to any Eurodollar Loan, the period commencing on the date
such Eurodollar Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurodollar
Loan and ending on the date one, two, three or six months thereafter (or, nine
or twelve months thereafter upon the request of the Borrower and the consent of
the Administrative Agent and each Lender that is making or has made such Loan,
which shall not be unreasonably withheld, if loans of such duration are
generally available in the London interbank Eurodollar market), as selected or
deemed
selected by the Borrower in its Revolving Loan Notice or Term B Loan Notice, as
the case may be; provided
that:
(i) if
any Interest Period would otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day,
such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day
unless the result of such extension would be to carry such Interest Period into
another calendar month, in which event such Interest Period shall end on the
immediately preceding Business Day;
(ii) any
Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on
a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month
at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the
calendar month which is one, two, three, six, nine or twelve months, as the case
may be, after the calendar month in which such Interest Period began;
and
(iii) no
Interest Period for any Loan shall extend beyond the Maturity Date.
"Interest Rate Protection
Agreement" means an interest rate swap, cap, collar, option or similar
arrangement entered into to hedge interest rate risk (and not for speculative
purposes), including without limitation, fixed to floating and floating to
fixed, and any other derivative product, so long as such other derivative
product is consented to by Administrative Agent.
"Internal Control
Event" means a material weakness in, or fraud that involves management or
other employees who have a significant role in, the Borrower’s or Ultimate
Parent's internal controls over financial reporting, in each case as described
in the Securities Laws.
"ISP" means, with
respect to any Letter of Credit, the "International Standby Practices 1998"
published by the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice (or
such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of
issuance).
"Issuer Documents"
means with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Letter of Credit Application,
and any other document, agreement and instrument entered into by the L/C Issuer
and the Borrower (or any Subsidiary) or in favor of the L/C Issuer and relating
to any such Letter of Credit.
"Joinder to Pledge and
Security Agreement" means a supplement to the Pledge and Security
Agreement in the form of Annex B thereto, whereby a Nexstar Entity becomes a
party to, and assumes all obligations of, a pledgor under the Pledge and
Security Agreement.
"Joinder to Security
Agreement" means a supplement to the Security Agreement in the form of
Annex C thereto, whereby a Nexstar Entity becomes a party to, and assumes all
obligations of, a grantor under the Security Agreement.
"Joint Book Managers"
means Bank of America Securities LLC and Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx &
Xxxxx Incorporated, in their capacity as Joint Book Managers.
"Joint Lead Arrangers"
means Bank of America Securities LLC and UBS Securities LLC, in their capacity
as Joint Lead Arrangers.
"Joint Sales
Agreement" means an agreement for the sale of commercial or advertising
time or any similar arrangement pursuant to which a Person obtains the right to
(i) sell at least a majority of the time for commercial spot
announcements, and/or resell to advertisers such time on, (ii) provide the
sales staff for the sale of the advertising time or the collection of accounts
receivable with respect to commercial advertisements broadcast on,
(iii) set the rates for advertising on and/or (iv) provide the
advertising material for broadcast on, a television broadcast station the FCC
License of which is held by a Person other than an Affiliate of such
Person.
"Laws" means,
collectively, all international, foreign, Federal, state and local statutes,
treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative
or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or
administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the
enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable
administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and
permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case
whether or not having the force of law.
"L/C Advance" means,
with respect to each Lender, such Lender's funding of its participation in any
L/C Borrowing in accordance with its Revolving Commitment
Percentage.
"L/C Borrowing" means
an extension of credit resulting from a drawing under any Letter of Credit which
has not been reimbursed on the date when made or refinanced as a Revolving
Borrowing.
"L/C Credit Extension"
means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the issuance thereof or extension
of the expiry date thereof, or the increase of the amount thereof.
"L/C Issuer" means
Bank of America in its capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, or any
successor issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder.
"L/C Obligations"
means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate amount available to be
drawn under all outstanding Letters of Credit plus the aggregate of
all Unreimbursed Amounts, including all L/C Borrowings. For purposes
of computing the amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the
amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.07. For
all purposes of this Agreement, if on any date of determination a Letter of
Credit has expired by its terms but any amount may still be drawn thereunder by
reason of the operation of Rule 3.14 of the ISP, such Letter of Credit shall be
deemed to be "outstanding" in the amount so remaining available to be
drawn.
"Leasehold" of any
Person means all of the right, title and interest of such Person as lessee or
licensee in, to and under leases or licenses of land, improvements and/or
fixtures.
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"Lenders" has the
meaning specified in the Preamble hereto and such term shall also include the
L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent in its capacity as a lender hereunder and
the Co-Syndication Agents in their capacities as lenders hereunder.
"Lending Office"
means, as to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender described as such
in such Lender's Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices
as a Lender may from time to time notify the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent.
"Letter of Credit"
means any standby letter of credit issued hereunder.
"Letter of Credit
Application" means an application and agreement for the issuance or
amendment of a Letter of Credit in the form from time to time in use by the L/C
Issuer.
"Letter of Credit Expiration
Date" means the day that is seven days prior to the Stated Revolving
Credit Maturity Date (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding
Business Day).
"Letter of Credit Fee"
has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(i).
"Letter of Credit
Sublimit" means an amount equal to $1,000,000. The Letter of Credit
Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Revolving
Commitments.
"License" means any
authorization, permit, consent, franchise, ordinance, registration, certificate,
license, agreement or other right filed with, granted by or entered into with a
Governmental Authority or other Person which permits or authorizes the use of an
electromagnetic transmission frequency or the construction or operation of a
broadcast television station system or any part thereof or any other
authorization, permit, consent, franchise, ordinance, registration, certificate,
license, agreement or other right filed with, granted by or entered into with a
Governmental Authority or other Person which is necessary for the lawful conduct
of the business of constructing or operating a broadcast television
station.
"Lien" means, with
respect to any property or asset (or any revenues, income or profits
therefrom) of any Person (in each case whether the same is consensual or
nonconsensual or arises by contract, operation of law, legal process or
otherwise), (i) any mortgage, lien, security interest, pledge, attachment,
levy or other charge or encumbrance of any kind thereupon or in respect thereof
or (ii) any other arrangement under which the same is transferred,
sequestered or otherwise identified with the intention of subjecting the same
to, or making the same available for, the payment or performance of any
liability in priority to the payment of the ordinary, unsecured creditors of
such Person. For purposes of this Agreement, a Person shall be deemed
to own subject to a Lien any asset that it has acquired or holds subject to the
interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, Capital
Lease or other title retention agreement relating to such asset.
"Liquidity" means, on
any date of determination for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis, the sum of (a) aggregate available cash on hand of the
Borrower on such date (not including cash in Cash Collateral Accounts or used to
Cash Collateralize any of the Obligations), plus (b) the Available
Revolving Commitment on such date.
"Loan" means any
extension of credit made by any Lender pursuant to this Agreement.
"Loan Documents" means
this Agreement, all Guaranty Agreements, all Security Documents, all
Confirmation Agreements, all Issuer Documents, any Request for Credit Extension,
any Notes executed and delivered pursuant to Section 2.11(a)
or in connection with any reallocation of the Revolving Commitment under the
Revolver Reallocation Letter, the Revolver Reallocation Letter, all Secured Cash
Management Agreements, and all other waivers, consents, agreements and
amendments executed in connection with the Revolver Reallocation Letter, any
Secured Hedge Agreement, any other subordination agreement entered into with any
Person with respect to the Obligations, the Fee Letters and any other agreements
between any Person and any Lender respecting fees payable in connection with
this Agreement, and any amendment and/or other agreements executed in connection
with any Replacement Term B Loans and all other written agreements, documents,
instruments and certificates now or hereafter executed and delivered by any
Credit Party or any other Person to or for the benefit of the Administrative
Agent, any Lender or any Affiliate of any Lender pursuant to or in connection
with any of the foregoing, and any and all amendments, increases, supplements
and other modifications thereof and all renewals, extensions, restatements,
rearrangements and/or substitutions from time to time of all or any part of the
foregoing; provided,
that, for the purposes of Sections 8.02 and
10.01 of this
Agreement, the term "Loan Documents" shall
not include any Interest Rate Protection Agreement, Secured Hedge Agreement or
any Secured Cash Management Agreement.
"Local Marketing
Agreement" means a local marketing arrangement, time brokerage agreement,
management agreement or similar arrangement pursuant to which a Person, subject
to customary preemption rights and other limitations, obtains the right to
exhibit programming and sell advertising time during more than fifteen percent
(15%) of the air time of a television broadcast station licensed to another
Person.
"Major Television
Network" means any of ABC, Inc., National Broadcasting Company, Inc.,
CBS, Inc., FOX Television Network, or any other television network which
produces and makes available more than 15 hours of weekly prime time television
programming.
"Majority Lenders"
means, at any time, (i) Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders and whose
Facility Percentages aggregate more than 50% of the aggregate Facility
Percentages of the Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders, and (ii) Mission
Lenders (whether or not also Lenders) that are not Defaulting Lenders and whose
respective Mission Facility Percentages aggregate more than 50% of the aggregate
Mission Facility Percentages of the Mission Lenders that are not Defaulting
Lenders.
"Majority Revolver
Lenders" means, at any time, Revolving Lenders that are not Defaulting
Lenders having more than 50% of the Aggregate Combined Revolving Commitment (as in effect at such
time) of the Revolving Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders or, if the
Aggregate Combined Revolving Commitment has been terminated in full, the
aggregate principal amount of outstanding Revolving Loans and L/C Obligations of
the Revolving Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders.
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"Margin Stock" means
"margin stock" as such term is defined in Regulation T, U or X of the Federal
Reserve Board.
"Material Adverse
Effect" means, relative to any occurrence of whatever nature (including
any adverse determination in any litigation, arbitration or governmental
investigation or proceeding), a material adverse effect (i) on the operations,
business, assets, properties, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of
the Nexstar Entities taken as a whole, (ii) the ability of any Credit Party
to perform its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party or
(iii) the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document or the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders
under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents.
"Maturity Date" for
any Loan means (i) with respect to Revolving Loans, the Stated Revolving Credit
Maturity Date, and (ii) with respect to Term B Loans, the Stated Term B Maturity
Date.
"Measurement Period"
means, with respect to any date, the most recently ended four consecutive Fiscal
Quarter period for which financial statements have been or were required to have
been delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.01(a)
or (b) prior to
such date.
"Mission Aggregate Available
Revolving Commitment" means the "Aggregate Available Revolving
Commitment" as that term is defined in the Mission Credit
Agreement.
"Mission Borrower"
means the "Borrower" as that term is defined in the Mission Credit
Agreement.
"Mission Commitments"
means the "Commitments" as that term is defined in the Mission Credit
Agreement.
"Mission Credit
Agreement" means that Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated
as of the date of this Agreement among Mission Borrower, as borrower, the
financial institutions from time to time parties thereto, Bank of America, N.A.,
as administrative agent, UBS Securities LLC and Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx
& Xxxxx Incorporated, as the co-syndication agents, as the same may be
further amended, modified, restated, supplemented, renewed, extended, increased,
rearranged and/or substituted from time to time.
"Mission Defaulting
Lender" means "Defaulting Lender" as defined in the Mission Credit
Agreement.
"Mission Entity" means
the Mission Borrower or any Person which is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of
the Mission Borrower.
"Mission Facility
Percentage" means the "Facility Percentage" as that term is defined in
the Mission Credit Agreement.
"Mission Guaranty of Nexstar
Obligations" means the First Restated Guaranty Agreement, dated as of
December 30, 2003, executed by the Mission Entities in favor of the Lenders,
whereby the Mission Entities have guaranteed the Obligations.
"Mission Impacted
Lender" means "Impacted Lender" as that term is defined in the Mission
Credit Agreement.
"Mission Lenders"
means the "Lenders" as that term is defined in the Mission Credit
Agreement.
"Mission Letters of
Credit" means the "Letters of Credit" as that term is defined in the
Mission Credit Agreement.
"Mission Loan" means
any extension of credit made by any Lender under or pursuant to the Mission
Credit Agreement.
"Mission Loan
Documents" means the "Loan Documents" as that term is defined in the
Mission Credit Agreement.
"Mission Obligations"
means the "Obligations" as that term is defined in the Mission Credit
Agreement.
"Mission Term B
Lenders" means the "Term B Lenders" as that term is defined in the
Mission Credit Agreement.
"Moody's" means
Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc., and its successors.
"Mortgage Policies"
means the Mortgage Policies under, and as defined in, the Existing Nexstar
Credit Agreement, and all other New Mortgage Policies and other title policies
delivered in connection with this Agreement, the Loan Documents and the Mission
Loan Documents.
"Mortgaged Properties"
means all Real Property owned or leased by any Nexstar Entity or Mission Entity
and listed on Schedule
5.09 (and not one of the two properties listed on such schedule
asterisked as not to be mortgaged), and all other real property owned by any
Credit Party which is subject to a New Mortgage or other mortgage or deed of
trust Lien to secure all or any part of the Obligations.
"Mortgages" means all
Mortgages (as defined in the Existing Nexstar Credit Agreement) granted by
certain of the Nexstar Entities pursuant to the Existing Nexstar Credit
Agreement (or any predecessor credit agreement which was amended and restated by
the Existing Nexstar Credit Agreement) and which have not been released prior to
the Effective Date, together with all New Mortgages and all other mortgages and
deeds of trust granted by any of the Credit Parties to secure all or any portion
of the Obligations, whether pursuant to the terms of Sections 6.16
and 6.17 or
otherwise.
"Multiemployer Plan"
means a "multiemployer plan" (within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of
ERISA) and to which any Nexstar Entity or any ERISA Affiliate makes, is
making,
or is obligated to make contributions or, during the preceding three calendar
years, has made, or been obligated to make, contributions.
"Net Cash Proceeds"
means, in connection with any Disposition (including any Sale and Leaseback
Transaction), the cash proceeds (including any cash payments received by way of
deferred payment pursuant to a promissory note, receivable or otherwise, but
only as and when received in cash, this provision not permitting any payment to
be made by means other than cash) of such Disposition net of (i) reasonable
transaction costs (including any underwriting, brokerage or other selling
commissions and reasonable legal, advisory and other fees and expenses,
including title and recording expenses, associated therewith actually incurred
and satisfactorily documented), and (ii) taxes estimated to be paid as a
result of such Disposition, provided that
any amounts deducted from Net Cash Proceeds that are not immediately due and
payable shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent to be held as collateral
in accordance with the terms of Section
10.19(l).
"Net Debt Proceeds"
means, with respect to the incurrence or issuance of any Indebtedness by any
Nexstar Entity, (i) the gross cash proceeds received in connection with
such incurrence or issuance, as and when received, minus (ii) all
reasonable out-of-pocket transaction costs (including legal, investment banking
or other fees and disbursements) associated therewith actually incurred (whether
by such Nexstar Entity or an Affiliate thereof), satisfactorily documented and
paid or payable (whether on behalf of such Nexstar Entity or an Affiliate
thereof) to any Person not an Affiliate of a Nexstar Entity, provided that
any amounts deducted from Net Debt Proceeds that are not immediately due and
payable shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent to be held as collateral
in accordance with the terms of Section
10.19(l).
"Net Issuance
Proceeds" means, with respect to the sale or issuance of Capital Stock,
or any capital contribution to, any Nexstar Entity from a source other than a
Nexstar Entity, (i) the gross cash proceeds received in connection with
such sale or issuance or such capital contribution, as and when received minus (ii) all
reasonable out-of-pocket transaction costs (including legal, investment banking
or other fees and disbursements) associated therewith actually incurred (whether
by such Nexstar Entity or an Affiliate thereof), satisfactorily documented and
paid (whether on behalf of such Nexstar Entity or an Affiliate thereof) to any
Person not an Affiliate of a Nexstar Entity, provided that
any amounts deducted from Net Issuance Proceeds that are not immediately due and
payable shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent to be held as collateral
in accordance with the terms of Section
10.19(l).
"Network Affiliation
Agreements" means each agreement set forth on Schedule 5.21
and each other agreement entered into by a Television Company with any Major
Television Network pursuant to which a Television Company and such Major
Television Network agree to be affiliated and such Major Television Network
agrees that such Television Company shall serve as that Major Television
Network's primary outlet within any defined market for television programming
provided by such Major Television Network for broadcast by its station
affiliates.
"New Mortgages" has
the meaning specified in Section
6.17(a).
"New Mortgage
Policies" has the meaning specified in Section
6.17(a)(ii).
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"Nexstar Entity" means
the Ultimate Parent and any Person which is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of
the Ultimate Parent.
"Nexstar Finance
Holdings" means Nexstar Finance Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation
and a Nexstar Entity.
"Nexstar Guaranty
Agreement" means that certain First Restated Guaranty Agreement, dated as
of December 30, 2003, executed and delivered by the Parent Guarantors and the
Subsidiary Guarantors in favor of the Lenders, whereby the Parent Guarantors and
the Subsidiary Guarantors guaranty the obligations of the Borrower under the
Loan Documents.
"Nexstar Guaranty of Mission
Obligations" means that certain First Restated Guaranty Agreement, dated
as of December 30, 2003, executed and delivered by the Nexstar Entities in favor
of the Mission Lenders, whereby the Nexstar Entities guaranty the obligations of
the Mission Entities under the Mission Loan Documents.
"Nexstar/Mission
Agreements" means any and all agreements executed between or among the
Borrower and the Mission Borrower, or any Nexstar Entity and any Mission Entity,
including, without limitation, those agreements listed on Schedule
1.01A.
"Nexstar Stockholders
Agreement" means the Stockholders Agreement, dated as of November 26,
2003, among the Ultimate Parent, XXXX X.X. II, XXXX X.X. III, Banc of America
Capital Investors and Sook, without giving effect to any amendments or waivers
thereto.
"Notes" means,
collectively, the Revolving Loan Notes and the Term B Loan Notes.
“NPL” means the
National Priorities List under CERCLA.
"Obligations" means
all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of,
any Credit Party arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to
any Loan, Letter of Credit or other obligations and liabilities of any Credit
Party to the Administrative Agent or to any Lender (or, in the case of any
Secured Hedge Agreement or Secured Cash Management Agreement, any Affiliate of
any Lender), whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by
assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or
hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue after the
commencement by or against any Credit Party or any Affiliate thereof of any
proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such
proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in
such proceeding.
"OECD" means the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
"Other Taxes" means
all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property
taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or
under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of,
or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan
Document.
"Outstanding Amount"
means (i) with respect to Revolving Loans and Term B Loans on any date, the
aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any
borrowings and prepayments or repayments of Revolving Loans and Term B Loans, as
the case may be, occurring on such date; and (ii) with respect to any L/C
Obligations on any date, the amount of such L/C Obligations on such date after
giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension occurring on such date and any other
changes in the aggregate amount of the L/C Obligations as of such date,
including as a result of any reimbursements by the Borrower of Unreimbursed
Amounts.
"Parent Guarantor"
means the Ultimate Parent and all Subsidiaries of the Ultimate Parent other than
the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
"Participant" has the
meaning specified in Section
10.06(d).
"PBGC" means the
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any entity succeeding to any of its
principal functions under ERISA.
"Pension Plan" means a
pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA) subject to Title IV of ERISA
which any Nexstar Entity or any ERISA Affiliate sponsors or maintains, or to
which it makes, is making, or is obligated to make contributions, or in the case
of a multiple employer plan (as described in Section 4064(a) of ERISA) has made
contributions at any time during the immediately preceding five (5) plan years,
but excluding any Multiemployer Plan.
“Permitted
Encumbrances” has the meaning specified in the New
Mortgages.
"Permitted Liens" has
the meaning specified in Section 7.02.
"Permitted Parent Preferred
Equity" means none.
"Permitted Revolver
Reallocation" has the meaning specified in the Revolver Reallocation
Letter.
"Person" means any
natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture,
association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other
entity.
"Plan" means an
employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) which any Nexstar
Entity or any ERISA Affiliate sponsors or maintains or to which any Nexstar
Entity or any ERISA Affiliate makes, is making, or is obligated to make
contributions and includes any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan.
"Platform" has the
meaning specified in Section
6.02.
"Pledge and Security
Agreement" means the First Restated Pledge and Security Agreement, dated
as of December 30, 2003, pursuant to which each Credit Party has pledged or
collaterally assigned 100% of the Capital Stock of each of its Subsidiaries, and
any intercompany notes held by it.
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"Pledged Collateral"
has the meaning specified in the Nexstar Pledge and Security
Agreement.
"Prepayable Film
Contract" means a contract evidencing a Film Obligation in which the
amount owed by a Person or any of its Subsidiaries under such contract exceeds
the remaining value of such contract to such Person or such Subsidiary, as
reasonably determined by such Person.
"Prime Rate" means the
rate of interest in effect for such day as publicly announced from time to time
by Bank of America as its “prime rate.” The “prime rate” is a rate
set by Bank of America based upon various factors including Bank of America’s
costs and desired return, general economic conditions and other factors, and is
used as a reference point for pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above,
or below such announced rate. Any change in such rate announced by
Bank of America shall take effect at the opening of business on the day
specified in the public announcement of such change.
"Principal" means ABRY
Partners, LLC or any Person that (i) directly or indirectly, is in control of,
is controlled by, or is under common control with, ABRY Partners, LLC, and (ii)
is organized primarily for the purpose of making equity or debt investments in
one or more companies or a Person controlled by ABRY Partners,
LLC. For purposes of this definition, "control" of a Person means the
power, directly or indirectly, to direct or cause the direction of the
management and policies of such Person whether by contract or
otherwise.
"Pro Forma Basis"
means a method of calculation using financial information of a specified date
(and/or the applicable Measurement Period relating to such specified date, as
applicable), but including in such calculation the financial effect of the
relevant or proposed transactions (in connection with which such calculation is
required to be made), as if such transactions had been consummated on the first
day of the applicable Measurement Period or the date being tested (as
applicable). Any calculation or preparation pursuant to the foregoing
shall be made in good faith by the Borrower and shall be set forth in a
certificate, as provided herein, furnished to the Lenders showing such
calculation (and the methodology used) in reasonable detail (with supporting
schedules as to the results of operations of the assets Acquired or Disposed of,
if applicable), which calculation or preparation and methodology shall be
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
"Pro Forma Compliance
Certificate" means, for any Person, a Compliance Certificate with respect
to the financial covenants in Section 7.09,
prepared on a Pro Forma Basis with respect to the relevant proposed transaction
for which such Pro Forma Compliance Certificate is required to be delivered and
any other transactions relating thereto certifying and demonstrating that no
Default exists both before and after giving effect to such proposed transaction,
with such changes as acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
"Quorum Contingent
Note" means the Second Amended and Restated Subordinated Promissory Note,
dated as of December 30, 2003, made by the Ultimate Parent and payable to
Midwest Television Statutory Trust, II.
"Real Property" means,
with respect to any Person, all of the right, title and interest of such Person
in and to land, improvements and fixtures, including Leaseholds.
"Recovery Event" means
the receipt by any Nexstar Entity of any insurance or other cash proceeds
payable by reason of theft, loss, physical destruction, condemnation or damage
or any other similar event with respect to any property or assets of any Nexstar
Entity.
"Register" has the
meaning specified in Section
10.06(c).
"Registered Public Accounting
Firm" has the meaning specified in the Securities Laws and shall be
independent of the Borrower as prescribed by the Securities Laws.
"Reinvestment Assets"
[Intentionally Deleted].
"Reinvestment Notice"
[Intentionally Deleted].
"Reinvestment Period"
[Intentionally Deleted].
"Reinvestment Prepayment
Date" [Intentionally Deleted].
"Related Parties"
means, with respect to any Person, such Person's Affiliates and the partners,
directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person and of such
Person's Affiliates.
"Replacement Term B
Loans" has the meaning specified in Section
2.01(c).
"Reportable Event"
means, any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA or the
regulations thereunder, other than any such event for which the 30-day notice
requirement under ERISA has been waived in regulations issued by the
PBGC.
"Request for Credit
Extension" means (a) with respect to a Revolving Borrowing or a
conversion or continuation of Revolving Loans, a Revolving Loan Notice, (b) with
respect to a Term B Loan Borrowing or a conversion or continuation of Term B
Loans, a Term B Loan Notice, and (c) with respect to an L/C Credit Extension, a
Letter of Credit Application.
"Requirement of Law"
means, as to any Person, any law (statutory or common), treaty, rule or
regulation or determination of a court or of a Governmental Authority, in each
case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to
which such Person or any of its property is subject.
"Responsible Officer"
means, for each Credit Party, its chief executive officer, its president, any
vice-president, its chief financial officer, controller, vice president-finance,
treasurer or assistant treasurer, or any other officer having substantially the
same authority and responsibility, in each case acting solely in such capacity
and without personal liability.
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"Restricted Payment"
means, as to any Credit Party, (i) the authorization, declaration or
payment of any Dividend by such Person, (ii) the redemption, retirement,
purchase or other acquisition,
directly or indirectly, for consideration by such Person of any Capital Stock of
such Person, or (iii) the making of any payment of principal or interest
(or any comparable reduction of principal or yield provision) by any such Person
on any Unsecured Notes, Senior Second Lien Secured Notes or Subordinated Notes
(including, without limitation, any redemption, defeasance, setting aside of
funds, or other provision for, or assurance of, payment).
"Restructuring
Advisor" means, if any, the restructuring advisor to the Administrative
Agent hired by the Administrative Agent or its counsel, in its sole discretion
or at the request of the Majority Lenders or the Majority Revolver Lenders,
provided that the Administrative Agent shall have (i) notified the Borrower of
the identity of the proposed restructuring advisor prior to hiring such
restructuring advisor and (ii) provided the Borrower an opportunity to consult
with the Administrative Agent regarding such proposed hire.
"Revolver Reallocation
Letter" means that certain letter among the Revolving Lenders permitting
under certain circumstances the reallocation of the Revolving Commitment as
described on Schedule
1.01(C).
"Revolving Borrowing"
means a Borrowing hereunder consisting of Revolving Loans made to the Borrower
on the same Borrowing Date and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, having the same
Interest Periods.
"Revolving Commitment"
means, as to any Lender, the obligation of such Lender, if any, to make
Revolving Loans to, and issue or participate in L/C Obligations on behalf of,
the Borrower hereunder in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed at any one
time the amount set forth under the heading "Revolving Commitment"
opposite such Lender's name on Schedule 2.01
or, in the case of any Lender that is an Eligible Assignee, the amount of the
Revolving Commitment of the assigning Lender which is assigned to such Eligible
Assignee in accordance with Section 10.06
and set forth in the applicable Assignment and Assumption (in each case as the
same may be adjusted from time to time as provided herein), as such Revolving
Commitment may be adjusted in accordance with the terms of the Revolver
Reallocation Letter.
"Revolving Commitment
Fee" has the meaning specified in Section 2.09(a).
"Revolving Commitment
Percentage" means, as to any Lender at any time, (i) the percentage
(carried out to the ninth decimal place) which the amount of such Lender's
Revolving Commitment then constitutes of the sum of the amount of all Revolving
Commitments, or (ii) at any time after the Revolving Commitments shall have
expired or terminated, the percentage which the aggregate principal amount of
such Lender's Revolving Loans made under its Revolving Commitment then
outstanding constitutes of the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans
made under the Revolving Commitments then outstanding. The initial Revolving
Commitment Percentage of each Lender is set forth opposite the name of such
Lender on Schedule
2.01, or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender
becomes a party thereto, as applicable.
"Revolving Commitment
Period" means the period from and including the Effective Date to but not
including the Stated Revolving Credit Maturity Date.
"Revolving Facility"
means the revolving loan facility provided for in Section 2.01(b).
"Revolving Facility
Percentage" means, as to any Lender at any time, (i) the percentage
(carried out to the ninth decimal place) which (x) the amount of such Lender's
Revolving Commitment then constitutes of (y) the amount of the Aggregate
Revolving Commitment, or (ii) at any time after the Revolving Commitments
have expired or terminated, the percentage which the aggregate principal amount
of such Lender's Revolving Loans then outstanding constitutes of the aggregate
principal amount of all Revolving Loans then outstanding.
"Revolving Lender"
means each Lender that has a Revolving Commitment or that is a holder of a
Revolving Loan made under the Revolving Commitments.
"Revolving Loan" has
the meaning specified in Section 2.01(b).
"Revolving Loan Note"
means a promissory note made by the Borrower in favor of a Lender evidencing
Revolving Loans made by such Lender substantially in the form of Exhibit
F.
"Revolving Loan
Notice" means a notice of (a) a Revolving Borrowing, (b) a conversion of
Revolving Loans from one Type to the other, or (c) a continuation of Revolving
Loans, pursuant to Section 2.02(a),
which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit
G.
"S&P" means
Standard & Poor's Ratings Group, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies,
Inc., and its successors.
"Sale and Leaseback
Transaction" means any arrangement, directly or indirectly, with any
Person whereby a seller or transferor shall sell or otherwise transfer any real
or personal property and then or thereafter such Person or an Affiliate or
Subsidiary of such Person shall lease, or repurchase under an extended purchase
contract, conditional sales or other title retention agreement, the same or
similar property.
"Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx" means
the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002.
"SEC" means the
Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to
any of its principal functions.
"Second Amendment"
means that certain Second Amendment to Fourth Amended and Restated Credit
Agreement, dated as of October 8, 2009, among Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.,
Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., Nexstar Finance Holdings, Inc., the Lenders
and the Administrative Agent.
"Second Amendment Effective
Date" means the date that all applicable conditions of effectiveness set
forth in the Second Amendment are satisfied.
"Secured Cash Management
Agreement" means any Cash Management Agreement that is entered into by
and between any one or more Credit Parties and any Cash Management
Bank.
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"Secured Hedge
Agreement" means any Interest Rate Protection Agreement permitted under
Article VII
that was entered into by and between any Credit Party and any Hedge
Bank.
"Secured Parties"
means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the L/C Issuer, the
Hedge Banks, the Cash Management Banks, each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by
the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.05, and the
other Persons the Obligations owing to which are or are purported to be secured
by the Collateral under the terms of the Security Documents.
"Securities Laws"
means the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx and the applicable accounting and auditing principles, rules,
standards and practices promulgated, approved or incorporated by the SEC or the
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, as each of the foregoing may be
amended and in effect on any applicable date hereunder.
"Security Agreement"
means the First Restated Security Agreement, dated as of December 30,
2003, pursuant to which each Nexstar Entity has granted security interests in
its assets.
"Security Agreement
Collateral" has the meaning specified in the Security
Agreement.
"Security Documents"
means collectively the Pledge and Security Agreement, the Security Agreement,
each Mortgage and each Joinder to Pledge and Security Agreement and Joinder to
Security Agreement, and any other pledge agreement, security agreement, guaranty
or other document granting a Lien or security interest to secure payment of all
or any portion of the Obligations, or otherwise assuring payment of all or any
portion of the Obligations, executed and delivered by any Credit Party, Xxxxx
Xxxxx or any other Person, pursuant to any Loan Document or otherwise, that
certain Omnibus Consent, dated as of October 8, 2009, by and among the Nexstar
Entities and the Mission Entities, and acknowledged and agreed to by the
Administrative Agent, and any Intercreditor Agreement, other intercreditor
agreement or similar agreement executed by the Collateral Agent or the
Administrative Agent from time to time in connection with this Agreement or any
Loan Document or any of the Collateral, each of the mortgages, collateral
assignments, security agreement supplements, intellectual property security
agreement supplements, security agreements, pledge agreements or other similar
agreements delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.16 or Section 6.17, and
each of the other agreements, instruments or documents that creates or purports
to create a Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the
Secured Parties.
"Senior Second Lien Secured
Notes" has the meaning specified in Section
7.05(s).
"Settlement
Securities" means any and all Capital Stock received in connection with
the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers and customers and in settlement of
delinquent obligations of, and other disputes with, customers and suppliers
arising in the ordinary course of business.
"Shared Services
Agreement" means a shared services arrangement or other similar
arrangement pursuant to which two Persons owning separate television broadcast
stations agree to share
the costs of certain services and procurements which they individually require
in connection with the ownership and operation of one television broadcast
station, whether through the form of joint or cooperative buying arrangements or
the performance of certain functions relating to the operation of one television
broadcast station by employees of the owner and operator of the other television
broadcast station, including, but not limited to, the co-location of the studio,
non-managerial administrative and/or master control and technical facilities of
such television broadcast station and/or the sharing of maintenance, security
and other services relating to such facilities.
"Significant Station"
on any date means any Station, if the Consolidated Operating Cash Flow for such
Station exceeds 10% of the sum of the Consolidated Operating Cash Flow for all
Stations and the corporate overhead expenses for all Stations, in each case
determined for the Measurement Period for such date; provided
that, for purposes of this definition and Section 8.01(p),
two or more Stations that substantially simulcast the same programming will be
deemed to be a single Station so long as they do so.
"Solvency Certificate"
means a certificate of the Nexstar Entities executed on their behalf by the
Chief Financial Officer of each of the Nexstar Entities, substantially in the
form of Exhibit H.
"Solvent" means, when
used with respect to any Person, means that, as of any date of determination,
(a) the amount of the "fair value" or "present fair saleable value" of the
assets of such Person (on a going-concern basis) will, as of such date, exceed
the amount of all "liabilities of such Person, contingent or otherwise," as of
such date, as such quoted terms are determined in accordance with applicable
federal and state laws governing determinations of the insolvency of debtors,
(b) such fair value or present fair saleable value of the assets of such Person
(on a going-concern basis) will, as of such date, be greater than the amount
that will be required to pay the liability of such Person on its debts as such
debts become absolute and matured, (c) such Person will not have, as of such
date, an unreasonably small amount of capital with which to conduct its
business, and (d) such Person will be able to pay its debts as they
mature. For purposes of this definition, (i) "debt" means
liability on a "claim," (ii) "claim" means any (x) right to payment,
whether or not such a right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated,
fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable,
secured or unsecured or (y) right to an equitable remedy for breach of
performance if such breach gives rise to a right to payment, whether or not such
right to an equitable remedy is reduced to judgment, fixed, contingent, matured
or unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured or unsecured and
(iii) unliquidated, contingent, disputed and unmatured claims shall be
valued at the amount that can be reasonably expected to be actual and
matured.
"Sook" means Xxxxx
Xxxx, an individual residing on the Effective Date in the State of
Texas.
"Stated Revolving Credit
Maturity Date" means the earlier of (i) April 1, 2012 and
(ii) the date on which Revolving Loans become due and payable in full
pursuant to acceleration or otherwise.
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"Stated Term B Maturity
Date" means the earlier of (i) October 1, 2012 and (ii) the
date on which Term B Loans become due and payable in full pursuant to
acceleration or otherwise.
"Station" means, at
any time (i) each television station listed in Schedule 5.16
hereto, (ii) any television station licensed by the FCC to any Nexstar
Entity on, or at any time after, the Effective Date and (iii) any
television station that is the subject of a Local Marketing Agreement, Joint
Sales Agreement or Shared Services Agreement consented to by the Majority
Lenders or otherwise permitted under Section 7.04. This
definition of "Station" may be used with respect to any single television
station meeting any of the preceding requirements or all such television
stations, as the context requires.
"Subject Leased Space"
means either (a) the leased property in Beaumont-Port Xxxxxx that is used for
the Station KBTV, or (b) leased property, that in each case of (a) and (b)
preceding to the extent that each such lease meets each of the following
qualifications:
(i) a
Credit Party is the lessee,
(ii) such
leased property is noted on Schedule 5.09 as a
line item with a double asterisk,
(iii) the
terms of each such lease require the consent of the landlord or lessor in order
to grant a security interest and Lien,
(iv) the
Administrative Agent has received a true and correct copy of the executed lease
and all related documentation for such leased property, as such documentation is
in effect on the Second Amendment Effective Date, and
(v) the
Borrower has used its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the consent of
the landlord to the grant of a security interest or Lien in favor of the
Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
"Subordinated Notes"
has the meaning specified in Section
7.05(s).
"Subsidiary" means, as
to any Person, (i) any corporation more than 50% of whose Capital Stock of
any class or classes having by the terms thereof ordinary voting power to elect
a majority of the directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether or not
at the time stock of any class or classes of such corporation shall have or
might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) is at the
time owned by such Person directly or indirectly through Subsidiaries, and
(ii) any partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture
or other entity in which such Person, directly or indirectly through
Subsidiaries, has more than a 50% equity interest at the time. With
respect to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, in calculating financial covenants
or financial performance (including the calculation of Excess Cash Flow) and for
financial reporting purposes, the financial position and results of the Mission
Borrower shall be included as if it were a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the
Borrower and any television station owned by a Mission Entity were a "Station" so long as
Joint Sales Agreements, Shared Services Agreements and/or Local Marketing
Agreements between the Mission Entities and one or more
Subsidiaries of the Borrower, covering all of the television broadcast stations
of the Mission Entities, are in full force and effect.
"Subsidiary Guarantor"
means each Subsidiary of the Borrower.
"Taxes" means all
present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings,
assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority,
including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable
thereto.
"Television Broadcasting
Business" means a business substantially all of which consists of the
construction, ownership, operation, management, promotion, extension or other
utilization of any type of television broadcasting system or any similar
television broadcasting business, including the syndication of television
programming, the obtaining of a License or franchise to operate such a system or
business, and activities incidental thereto, such as providing production
services.
"Television Company"
means any Nexstar Entity, to the extent such Person owns or operates a
Station.
"Term B Facility
Percentage" means, as to any Lender at any time, the percentage (carried
out to the ninth decimal place) which (i) the sum of all of such Lender's Term B
Loans then outstanding constitutes of (ii) the sum of the Aggregate Outstanding
Term B Loan Balance. The initial Term B Facility Percentage of each
Lender is set forth opposite the name of such Lender on Schedule 2.01, or in
the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party
thereto, as applicable.
"Term B Lender" means
each Lender that is the holder of a Term B Loan.
"Term B Loan" has the
meaning specified in Section 2.01(a)(i)
and shall also include any Replacement Term B Loan.
"Term B Loan Amount"
means, as to any Lender, the aggregate principal amount of the Term B Loans to
be made by such Lender to the Borrower hereunder, as set forth under the heading
"Term B Loan Amount" opposite such Lender's name on Schedule
2.01.
"Term B Loan
Borrowing" means a Borrowing hereunder consisting of Term B Loans made to
the Borrower on the same Borrowing Date and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans,
having the same Interest Periods.
"Term B Loan Note"
means a promissory note made by the Borrower in favor of a Lender evidencing
Term B Loans made by such Lender substantially in the form of Exhibit
I.
"Term B Loan Notice"
means a notice of (a) a Borrowing of Term B Loans, (b) a conversion of Term B
Loans from one Type to the other, or (c) a continuation of Term B Loans as the
same Type, pursuant to Section 2.02(a),
which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit
J.
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"Termination Value"
means, in respect of any one or more Interest Rate Protection Agreements, after
taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement
relating to such Interest Rate Protection Agreements, (a) for any date on or
after the date such Interest Rate Protection Agreements have been closed out and
termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination
value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the
amount(s) determined as the xxxx-to-market value(s) for such Interest Rate
Protection Agreements, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other
readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Interest
Rate Protection Agreements (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a
Lender).
"Tranche" means the
collective reference to Eurodollar Loans made by the Lenders to the Borrower,
the then current Interest Periods with respect to which begin on the same date
and end on the same later date, whether or not such Loans shall originally have
been made on the same day.
"Transaction" means
collectively, the incurrence of the Loans and other extensions of credit to be
made to the Nexstar Entities on the Effective Date and the refinancing of the
Loans under the Existing Nexstar Credit Agreement.
"Type" has the meaning
specified in Section
1.04.
"Ultimate Parent"
means Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
"Unfunded Pension
Liability" means the excess of a Pension Plan's benefit liabilities under
Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA, over the current value of that Plan's assets,
determined in accordance with the assumptions used for funding the Pension Plan
pursuant to Section 412 of the Code for the applicable plan
year.
"United States" and
"U.S." each
means the United States of America.
"Unreimbursed Amount"
has the meaning specified in Section
2.03(c)(i).
"Unsecured Notes"
means collectively, (1) the 11.375% Senior Discount Notes issued by Nexstar
Finance Holdings, Inc., (2) the 7% Senior Subordinated PIK Notes due 2014,
issued by Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc., (3) the 7% Senior Subordinated Notes due
2014, issued by Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. and (4) the Senior Subordinated PIK
Notes due 2014, issued by Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.
"Voting Stock" of any
Person as of any date means the Capital Stock of such Person that is at the time
entitled to vote in the election of the Board of Directors of such
Person.
"Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary" means, as to any Person, (i) any corporation 100% of
whose common stock (other than director's or other qualifying shares) is at the
time owned by such Person and/or one or more direct or indirect Wholly-Owned
Subsidiaries of such Person and (ii) any partnership, limited liability
company, association or other entity in which such Person and/or one or more
direct or indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person has a 100% equity
interest at such time.
1.02 Other
Definitional Provisions.
(a) Unless
otherwise specified herein or therein, all terms defined in this Agreement shall
have such defined meanings when used in any Exhibit, Schedule or other Loan
Document or any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant
hereto. The meanings of defined terms shall be equally applicable to
the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.
(b) The
words "hereof",
"herein",
"hereunder" and
words of similar import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this
Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement, and
Section, Schedule and Exhibit references are to this Agreement unless otherwise
specified. All references in a Loan Document to Articles, Sections,
Preliminary Statements, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to
Articles and Sections of, and Preliminary Statements, Exhibits and Schedules to,
the Loan Document in which such references appear.
(c) The
term "documents" includes
any and all instruments, documents, agreements, certificates, indentures,
notices and other writings, however evidenced.
(d) The
terms "including" or "include" are not
limiting and mean "including without limitation" or "include without
limitation".
(e) References
in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to knowledge by any Credit Party of
events or circumstances shall be deemed to refer to events or circumstances of
which a Responsible Officer of such Person has actual knowledge or reasonably
should have knowledge.
(f) References
in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to financial statements shall be
deemed to include all related schedules and notes thereto.
(g) Except
as otherwise specified herein, all references to any Governmental Authority or
Requirement of Law defined or referred to herein shall be deemed references to
such Governmental Authority or Requirement of Law or any successor Governmental
Authority or Requirement of Law, and any rules or regulations promulgated
thereunder from time to time, in each case as the same may have been or may be
amended or supplemented from time to time.
(h) References
herein to a certification or statement of an officer of a Person or other
individual shall mean a certification or statement of such Person, which is
executed on behalf of such Person by such individual in his or her capacity as
an officer of such Person.
(i) Subject
to the definitions of the terms "Interest Period" and "Interest Payment Date" in
Section 1.01,
whenever any performance obligation hereunder shall be stated to be due or
required to be satisfied on a day other than a Business Day, such performance
shall be made or satisfied on the next succeeding Business Day. 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." If
any provision of this Agreement refers to any action taken or to be taken by any
Person, or which such Person is prohibited from taking, such provision shall be
interpreted to encompass any and all means, direct or indirect, of taking, or
not taking, such action.
(j) Unless
otherwise expressly provided herein, references to agreements and other
contractual instruments shall be deemed to include all amendments and other
modifications thereto, but only to the extent such amendments and other
modifications are not prohibited by the terms of any Loan Document.
(k) References
to any statute or regulation are to be construed as including all statutory and
regulatory provisions consolidating, amending or replacing such statute or
regulation.
1.03 Accounting
Principles. Except as provided to the contrary herein, all
accounting terms used herein shall be interpreted in accordance with
GAAP. Unless the context otherwise clearly requires, all financial
computations required under this Agreement shall be made in accordance with
GAAP; provided
that if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrower wishes
to amend any covenant in Article VII or the definition of any term used therein
to eliminate the effect of any change in GAAP occurring after the Effective Date
or the operation of such covenant (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the
Borrower that the Majority Lenders wish to amend Article VII or any such
definition for such purpose), then compliance with such covenant shall be
determined on the basis of GAAP in effect immediately before the relevant change
in GAAP became effective, until either such notice is withdrawn or such covenant
or definition is amended in a manner satisfactory to the Borrower and the
Majority Lenders. Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any change
in GAAP that would have a material effect whether or not the Borrower wishes to
adopt that change.
1.04 Classes and Types of Loans
and Borrowings. The term "Borrowing" denotes
the aggregation of Loans of one or more Lenders to be made to the Borrower
pursuant to Section 2.02 on
the same date, all of which Loans are of the same Class and Type and, in the
case of Eurodollar Loans, have the same initial Interest
Period. Loans made under this Agreement are distinguished by "Class" and by "Type". The
"Class" of a
Loan (or of a commitment to make such a Loan or of a Borrowing comprised of such
Loans) refers to whether such commitment or Loan is (a) a Revolving Commitment
or a Revolving Loan made under the Revolving Commitments or (b) a Term B Loan,
each of which constitutes a "Class". The
"Type" of a
Loan refers to whether such Loan is a Eurodollar Loan or a Base Rate Loan, each
of which constitutes a "Type". Identification
of a Loan (or of a Commitment to make such a Loan or of a Borrowing comprised of
such Loans) by both Class and Type.
1.05 Rounding. If
any rounding of any financial ratio shall occur, such financial ratio shall be
calculated by dividing the appropriate component by the other component,
carrying the result to one place more than the number of places by which such
ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest
number (with a rounding up if there is no nearest number).
1.06 Times of
Day. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to
times of day shall be references to central time (daylight or standard, as
applicable).
1.07 Letter of Credit
Amounts. Unless otherwise specified herein, the amount of a
Letter of Credit at any time shall be deemed to be the stated amount of such
Letter of Credit in effect at such time; provided, however, that with respect to
any Letter of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any Issuer Document
related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in the stated
amount thereof, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be the
maximum stated amount of such Letter of Credit after giving effect to all such
increases, whether or not such maximum stated amount is in effect at such
time.
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ARTICLE
II.
THE CREDIT
FACILITIES
2.01 Amounts and Terms of
Commitments.
(a) The Term B
Loans.
(i) Each
Term B Lender severally agrees, subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter
set forth, to make a term loan (each, a "Term B Loan") to the
Borrower on the Effective Date (and not thereafter) in an aggregate principal
amount not to exceed the Term B Loan Amount of such Term B Lender; provided
however that after giving effect to any Term B Loan, the aggregate principal
amount of all outstanding Term B Loans shall not exceed the aggregate Term B
Loan Amounts for all of the Term B Lenders. Within such limits, and
subject to the other terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Borrower may
borrow Term B Loans under this Section 2.01(a)(i);
provided that amounts borrowed as Term B Loans which are repaid or prepaid may
not be reborrowed.
(ii) Term
B Loans may from time to time be (i) Eurodollar Loans or (ii) Base Rate Loans or
a combination thereof, as determined by the Borrower pursuant to Section
2.02.
(b) The Revolving
Loans. Each Revolving Lender severally agrees, subject to the
terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to make revolving loans (each, a
"Revolving
Loan") to the Borrower from time to time on any Business Day, during the
Revolving Commitment Period, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed at
any time outstanding the Revolving Commitment of such Revolving Lender; provided,
however that after giving effect to any Revolving Loan made under a Revolving
Commitment, the aggregate principal amount of all outstanding Revolving Loans
made under the Revolving Commitments plus the aggregate amount of all
outstanding L/C Obligations shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving
Commitment. Within such limits, and subject to the other terms and
conditions hereof, the Borrower may borrow Revolving Loans under this Section 2.01(b),
prepay Revolving Loans pursuant to Section 2.05,
2.06 or 10.19 and reborrow
Revolving Loans pursuant to this Section 2.01(b). Revolving
Loans may from time to time be (i) Eurodollar Loans or
(ii) Base
Rate Loans or a combination thereof, as determined by the Borrower pursuant to
Section
2.02.
(c) Refinancing of Term
Loans. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.01 or
elsewhere in this Agreement to the contrary, this Agreement may be amended with
the written consent of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and the Lenders
providing the relevant Replacement Term B Loans (as defined below) to permit the
refinancing, replacement or modification of all (but not less than all)
outstanding Term B Loans ("Refinanced Term B
Loans") with a replacement term loan tranche hereunder ("Replacement Term B
Loans"), provided that (i) the aggregate principal amount of such
Replacement Term B Loans shall not exceed the aggregate principal amount of such
Refinanced Term B Loans, (ii) the Applicable Margin for such Replacement
Term B Loans shall not be higher than the Applicable Margin for such Refinanced
Term B Loans, (iii) the weighted average life to maturity of such Replacement
Term B Loans shall not be shorter than the weighted average life to maturity of
such Refinanced Term B Loans at the time of such refinancing, (iv) the
Majority Revolver Lenders have consented in writing to such Replacement Term B
Loans prior to the issuance thereof, (v) the Administrative Agent shall have
received not less than 30 days prior written notice thereof (or such lesser
period as agreed to by the Administrative Agent) and (vi) all other terms
applicable to such Replacement Term B Loans shall be substantially identical to,
or less favorable to the Lenders providing such Replacement Term B Loans than,
those applicable to such Refinanced Term B Loans, except to the extent necessary
to provide for covenants and other terms applicable to any period after the
latest final maturity of the Term B Loans in effect immediately prior to such
refinancing. The election by any Lender to provide or participate in
the Replacement Term B Loans shall not obligate any other Lender to so provide
or participate. The Borrower shall repay to any Lender who elects not
to provide or participate in any Replacement Term B Loans the outstanding Term B
Loans held by such Lender (plus any accrued and unpaid interest or other amounts
due in connection therewith) prior to or simultaneously with any refinancing,
replacement or modification of outstanding Term B Loans hereunder.
(d) Permitted Revolver
Reallocation. Each Permitted Revolver Reallocation shall be
limited to a reallocation of the Aggregate Available Revolving Commitment and
the Mission Aggregate Available Revolving Commitment. In connection
with each such Permitted Revolver Reallocation, at the request of the
Administrative Agent or any Revolving Lender, the Borrower shall execute and
deliver to the Administrative Agent replacement Revolving Loan Notes in an
amount equal to each Lender's Revolving Commitment as adjusted in accordance
with the terms of the Revolver Reallocation Letter.
2.02 Borrowings, Conversions and
Continuations of Loans.
(a) Subject
to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Borrower may borrow, (x)
under the Revolving Commitments on any Business Day during the Revolving
Commitment Period and (y) Term B Loan Amounts on the Effective
Date.
Each
Borrowing, each conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, and each
continuation of Eurodollar Loans shall be made upon the Borrower's irrevocable
notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by
telephone. Each such notice must be received by the Administrative
Agent not later than 10:00 a.m. (i) three Business Days prior to the requested
date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Loans or
of any conversion of Eurodollar Loans to Base Rate Loans, and (ii) on the
requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans; provided, however, that if the
Borrower wishes to request Eurodollar Loans having an Interest Period other than
one, two, three or six months in duration as provided in the definition of
"Interest Period" then: (I) the applicable notice must be received by the
Administrative Agent not later than 10:00 a.m. four Business Days prior to the
requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation, whereupon the
Administrative Agent shall give prompt notice to each Lender that is making or
had made such Loan of such request and determine whether the requested Interest
Period is acceptable to all of them, and (II) not later than 10:00 a.m., three
Business Days before the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or
continuation, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower (which notice
may be by telephone) whether or not the requested Interest Period has been
consented to by all such Lenders. Each telephonic notice by the
Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.02(a) must
be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a written
Revolving Loan Notice or Term Loan Notice, as applicable, appropriately
completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower. Each
Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Loans shall be in a
principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess
thereof. Except as provided in Sections 2.03(c),
each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal
amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof (or, if
the Aggregate Available Revolving Commitment is less than $1,000,000, such
lesser amount). Each Revolving Loan Notice or Term Loan Notice, as
applicable (whether telephonic or written), shall specify (i) whether the
Borrower is requesting a Borrowing, a conversion of Loans from one Type to the
other, or a continuation of Eurodollar Loans, (ii) the requested date of the
Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a
Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed,
converted or continued, (iv) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which
existing Loans are to be converted, and (v) if applicable, the duration of the
Interest Period with respect thereto. If the Borrower fails to
specify a Type of Loan in a Revolving Loan Notice or Term Loan Notice, as
applicable, or if the Borrower fails to give a timely notice requesting a
conversion or continuation, then the applicable Loans shall be made as, or
converted to, Base Rate Loans. Any such automatic conversion to Base
Rate Loans shall be effective as of the last day of the Interest Period then in
effect with respect to the applicable Eurodollar Loans. If the
Borrower requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurodollar
Loans in any such Revolving Loan Notice or Term Loan Notice, as applicable, but
fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an
Interest Period of one month.
(b) Following
receipt of a Revolving Loan Notice or Term Loan Notice, as applicable, the
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the amount of its pro
rata share of the applicable Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or
continuation is provided by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify
each Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans
described in the preceding subsection. Each Revolving Lender will
make the amount of its pro rata share of each
requested Borrowing made under the Revolving Facility available to the
Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the Administrative
Agent's Office not later than 12 noon on the Business Day specified in the
Revolving Loan Notice. Each Term B Lender will make the amount of its
pro rata share of each requested Borrowing made under the Term B Loans available
to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the Administrative
Agent's Office not later than 12:00 noon on the Business Day specified in
the Term B Loan Notice. Upon satisfaction of the applicable
conditions set forth in Section 4.03 (and, if
such Borrowing is the initial Credit Event, Sections 4.02 and
4.01), the
Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Borrower
in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting
the account of the Borrower on the books of Bank of America with the amount of
such funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance
with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative
Agent by the Borrower; provided, however, that if, on
the date the Revolving Loan Notice with respect to such Borrowing is given by
the Borrower, there are L/C Borrowings outstanding, then the proceeds of such
Borrowing, first, shall be
applied to the payment in full of any such L/C Borrowings, and second, shall be made
available to the Borrower as provided above.
(c) Except
as otherwise provided herein, a Eurodollar Loan may be continued or converted
only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar
Loan. During the existence of an Event of Default, no Loans may be
requested as, converted to or continued as Eurodollar Loans.
(d) The
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the
interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurodollar Loans upon
determination of such interest rate. At any time that Base Rate Loans
are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the
Lenders of any change in Bank of America's prime rate used in determining the
Base Rate promptly following the public announcement of such
change.
(e) After
giving effect to all Borrowings, all conversions of Loans from one Type to the
other, and all continuations of Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more
than five different Interest Periods in effect in respect of all Loans which are
Eurodollar Loans.
2.03 Letters of
Credit.
(a) The Letter of Credit
Commitment.
(i) Subject
to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (A) the L/C Issuer agrees, in
reliance upon the agreements of the Lenders set forth in this Section 2.03,
(1) from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Effective
Date until the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, to issue Letters of Credit for
the account of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, and to amend or extend Letters
of Credit previously issued by it, in accordance with subsection (b) below, and
(2) to honor drawings under the Letters of Credit; and (B) the Lenders severally
agree to participate in Letters of Credit issued for the account of
the
Borrower
or its Subsidiaries and any drawings
thereunder; provided that after
giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension with respect to any Letter of Credit,
(x) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Loans and all L/C
Obligations shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitments, (y) the
aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Loans of any Lender, plus such Lender's
Revolving Commitment Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations
shall not exceed such Lender's Revolving Commitment, and (z) the
Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations shall not exceed the Letter of Credit
Sublimit. Each request by the Borrower for the issuance or amendment
of a Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be a representation by the Borrower
that the L/C Credit Extension so requested complies with the conditions set
forth in the proviso to the preceding sentence. Within the foregoing
limits, and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Borrower's ability
to obtain Letters of Credit shall be fully revolving, and accordingly the
Borrower may, during the foregoing period, obtain Letters of Credit to replace
Letters of Credit that have expired or that have been drawn upon and
reimbursed.
(ii) The
L/C Issuer shall not issue any Letter of Credit, if:
(A) the
expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit would occur more than twelve
months after the date of issuance or last extension, unless the Majority Lenders
have approved such expiry date in writing; or
(B) the
expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit would occur after the Letter of
Credit Expiration Date, unless all the Lenders have approved such expiry
date.
(iii) The
L/C Issuer shall not be under any obligation to issue any Letter of Credit
if:
(A) any
order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by
its terms purport to enjoin or restrain the L/C Issuer from issuing such Letter
of Credit, or any Law applicable to the L/C Issuer or any request or directive
(whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with
jurisdiction over the L/C Issuer shall prohibit, or request that the L/C Issuer
refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of
Credit in particular or shall impose upon the L/C Issuer with respect to such
Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which the
L/C Issuer is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the
Effective Date, or shall impose upon the L/C Issuer any unreimbursed loss, cost
or expense which was not applicable on the Effective Date and which the L/C
Issuer in good xxxxx xxxxx material to it;
(B) the
issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate one or more generally applicable
policies of the L/C Issuer not implemented in contemplation of such proposed
Letter of Credit;
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(C) except as
otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer, such Letter of
Credit is in an initial stated amount less than $20,000;
(D) such
Letter of Credit is to be denominated in a currency other than Dollars;
or
(E) a
default of any Lender's obligations to fund under Section 2.03(c)
exists or any Lender is at such time an Impacted Lender hereunder, unless the
L/C Issuer has entered into satisfactory arrangements with the Borrower or such
Lender to eliminate the L/C Issuer's risk with respect to such
Lender.
(iv) The
L/C Issuer shall not amend any Letter of Credit if the L/C Issuer would not be
permitted at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its amended form under
the terms hereof.
(v) The
L/C Issuer shall be under no obligation to amend any Letter of Credit if (A) the
L/C Issuer would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of Credit
in its amended form under the terms hereof, or (B) the beneficiary of such
Letter of Credit does not accept the proposed amendment to such Letter of
Credit.
(vi) The
L/C Issuer shall act on behalf of the Lenders with respect to any Letters of
Credit issued by it and the documents associated therewith, and the L/C Issuer
shall have all of the benefits and immunities (A) provided to the
Administrative Agent in Article IX with
respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by the L/C Issuer in connection
with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by it and Issuer
Documents pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the term
"Administrative Agent" as used in Article IX included
the L/C Issuer with respect to such acts or omissions, and (B) as additionally
provided herein with respect to the L/C Issuer.
(b) Procedures for Issuance and
Amendment of Letters of Credit; Auto-Extension Letters of
Credit.
(i) Each
Letter of Credit shall be issued or amended, as the case may be, upon the
request of the Borrower delivered to the L/C Issuer (with a copy to the
Administrative Agent) in the form of a Letter of Credit Application,
appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the
Borrower. Such Letter of Credit Application must be received by the
L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent not later than 10:00 a.m. at least two
Business Days (or such later date and time as the Administrative Agent and the
L/C Issuer may agree in a particular instance in their sole discretion) prior to
the proposed issuance date or date of amendment, as the case may
be. In the case of a request for an initial issuance of a Letter of
Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail
satisfactory to the L/C Issuer: (A) the proposed issuance date of the requested
Letter of Credit (which shall be a Business Day); (B) the amount thereof;
(C) the expiry date thereof; (D) the name and address of the beneficiary
thereof; (E) the documents to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any
drawing thereunder; (F) the full text of any certificate to be presented by such
beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; and (G) such other matters as the
L/C Issuer may require. In the case of a request for an amendment of
any outstanding Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall
specify in form and detail satisfactory to the L/C Issuer (A) the Letter of
Credit to be amended; (B) the proposed date of amendment thereof (which shall be
a Business Day); (C) the nature of the proposed amendment; and (D) such other
matters as the L/C Issuer may require. Additionally, the Borrower
shall furnish to the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent such other
documents and information pertaining to such requested Letter of Credit issuance
or amendment, including any Issuer Documents, as the L/C Issuer or the
Administrative Agent may require.
(ii) Promptly
after receipt of any Letter of Credit Application, the L/C Issuer will confirm
with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the
Administrative Agent has received a copy of such Letter of Credit Application
from the Borrower and, if not, the L/C Issuer will provide the Administrative
Agent with a copy thereof. Unless the L/C Issuer has received written
notice from any Lender, the Administrative Agent or any Credit Party, at least
one Business Day prior to the requested date of issuance or amendment of the
applicable Letter of Credit, that one or more applicable conditions contained in
Article IV
shall not then be satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof,
the L/C Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue a Letter of Credit for the
account of the Borrower (or the applicable Subsidiary) or enter into the
applicable amendment, as the case may be, in each case in accordance with the
L/C Issuer's usual and customary business practices. Immediately upon
the issuance of each Letter of Credit, each Lender shall be deemed to, and
hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the L/C Issuer a
risk participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount equal to the product of
such Lender's Revolving Commitment Percentage times the amount of
such Letter of Credit.
(iii) Promptly
after its delivery of any Letter of Credit or any amendment to a Letter of
Credit to an advising bank with respect thereto or to the beneficiary thereof,
the L/C Issuer will also deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent a
true and complete copy of such Letter of Credit or amendment.
(c) Drawings
and Reimbursements; Funding of Participations.
(i) Upon
receipt from the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit of any notice of a drawing
under such Letter of Credit, the L/C Issuer shall notify the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent thereof. Not later than 10:00 a.m. on the date
of any payment by the L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit (each such date, an
"Honor Date"),
the Borrower shall reimburse the L/C Issuer through the Administrative Agent in
an amount equal to the amount of such drawing. If the Borrower fails
to so reimburse the L/C Issuer by such time, the Administrative Agent shall
promptly notify each Lender of the Honor Date, the amount of the unreimbursed
drawing (the "Unreimbursed
Amount"), and the amount of such Lender's Revolving Commitment Percentage
thereof. In such event, the Borrower shall be deemed to have
requested a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans to be disbursed on the Honor Date in an
amount equal to the Unreimbursed Amount, without regard to the minimum and
multiples specified in Section 2.02 for the
principal amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the amount of the unutilized
portion of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and the conditions set forth in
Section 4.03
(other than the delivery of a Revolving Loan Notice). Any notice
given by the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.03(c)(i)
may be given by telephone if immediately confirmed in writing; provided that the
lack of such an immediate confirmation shall not affect the conclusiveness or
binding effect of such notice.
(ii) Each
Lender shall upon any notice pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i)
make funds available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C
Issuer at the Administrative Agent's Office in an amount equal to its Revolving
Commitment Percentage of the Unreimbursed Amount not later than 12:00 noon on
the Business Day specified in such notice by the Administrative Agent,
whereupon, subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(c)(iii),
each Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base
Rate Loan to the Borrower in such amount. The Administrative Agent
shall remit the funds so received to the L/C Issuer.
(iii) With
respect to any Unreimbursed Amount that is not fully refinanced by a Borrowing
of Base Rate Loans because the conditions set forth in Section 4.03
cannot be satisfied or for any other reason, the Borrower shall be deemed to
have incurred from the L/C Issuer an L/C Borrowing in the amount of the
Unreimbursed Amount that is not so refinanced, which L/C Borrowing shall be due
and payable on demand (together with interest) and shall bear interest at the
Default Rate. In such event, each Lender's payment to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(ii)
shall be deemed payment in respect of its participation in such L/C Borrowing
and shall constitute an L/C Advance from such Lender in satisfaction of its
participation obligation under this Section
2.03.
(iv) Until
each Lender funds its Revolving Loan or L/C Advance pursuant to this Section 2.03(c)
to reimburse the L/C Issuer for any amount drawn under any Letter of Credit,
interest in respect of such Lender's Revolving Commitment Percentage of such
amount shall be solely for the account of the L/C Issuer.
(v) Each
Lender's obligation to make Revolving Loans or L/C Advances to reimburse the L/C
Issuer for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit, as contemplated by this Section 2.03(c),
shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any
circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or
other right which such Lender may have against the L/C Issuer, the Borrower or
any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (B) the occurrence or continuance of
a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition,
whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that each
Lender's obligation to make Revolving Loans pursuant to this Section 2.03(c)
is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.03 (other
than delivery by the Borrower of a Revolving Loan Notice). No such
making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the
Borrower to reimburse the L/C Issuer for the amount of any payment made by the
L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together with interest as provided
herein.
(vi) If
any Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account
of the L/C Issuer any amount required to be paid by such Lender pursuant to the
foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03(c) by
the time specified in Section 2.03(c)(ii),
the L/C Issuer shall be entitled to recover from such Lender (acting through the
Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the
period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment
is immediately available to the L/C Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the
greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the L/C Issuer in
accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation. A
certificate of the L/C Issuer submitted to any Lender (through the
Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this clause (vi)
shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) Repayment of
Participations.
(i) At
any time after the L/C Issuer has made a payment under any Letter of Credit and
has received from any Lender such Lender's L/C Advance in respect of such
payment in accordance with Section 2.03(c), if
the Administrative Agent receives for the account of the L/C Issuer any payment
in respect of the related Unreimbursed Amount or interest thereon (whether
directly from the Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of Cash Collateral
applied thereto by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent will
distribute to such Lender its Revolving Commitment Percentage thereof
(appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period
of time during which such Lender's L/C Advance was outstanding) in the same
funds as those received by the Administrative Agent.
(ii) If
any payment received by the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C
Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) is
required to be returned under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.05
(including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the L/C Issuer in its
discretion), each Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account
of the L/C Issuer its Revolving Commitment Percentage thereof on demand of the
Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the
date such amount is returned by such Lender, at a rate per annum equal to the
Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect. The obligations of
the Lenders under this clause shall survive the payment in full of the
Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.
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(e) Obligations
Absolute. The obligation of the
Borrower to reimburse the L/C Issuer for each drawing under each Letter of
Credit and to repay each L/C Borrowing shall be absolute, unconditional and
irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement under all circumstances, including the following:
(i) any
lack of validity or enforceability of such Letter of Credit, this Agreement, or
any other Loan Document;
(ii) the
existence of any claim, counterclaim, setoff, defense or other right that the
Borrower or any Subsidiary may have at any time against any beneficiary or any
transferee of such Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such beneficiary
or any such transferee may be acting), the L/C Issuer or any other Person,
whether in connection with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereby
or by such Letter of Credit or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, or
any unrelated transaction;
(iii) any
draft, demand, certificate or other document presented under such Letter of
Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect
or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect; or any loss
or delay in the transmission or otherwise of any document required in order to
make a drawing under such Letter of Credit;
(iv) any
payment by the L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit against presentation of a
draft or certificate that does not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter
of Credit; or any payment made by the L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit to
any Person purporting to be a trustee in bankruptcy, debtor-in-possession,
assignee for the benefit of creditors, liquidator, receiver or other
representative of or successor to any beneficiary or any transferee of such
Letter of Credit, including any arising in connection with any proceeding under
any Debtor Relief Law; or
(v) any
other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the
foregoing, including any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a
defense available to, or a discharge of, the Borrower or any
Subsidiary.
The
Borrower shall promptly examine a copy of each Letter of Credit and each
amendment thereto that is delivered to it and, in the event of any claim of
noncompliance with the Borrower's instructions or other irregularity, the
Borrower will immediately notify the L/C Issuer. The Borrower shall
be conclusively deemed to have waived any such claim against the L/C Issuer and
its correspondents unless such notice is given as aforesaid.
(f) Role of L/C
Issuer. Each
Lender and the Borrower agree that, in paying any drawing under a Letter of
Credit, the L/C Issuer shall not have any responsibility to obtain any document
(other than any sight draft, certificates and documents expressly required by
the Letter of Credit) or to ascertain or inquire as to the validity or accuracy
of any such document or the authority of the Person executing or delivering any
such document. None
of the L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related
Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the L/C Issuer shall
be liable to any Lender for (i) any action taken or omitted in connection
herewith at the request or with the approval of the Lenders or the Majority
Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any action taken or omitted in the absence of
gross negligence or willful misconduct; or (iii) the due execution,
effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any document or instrument related
to any Letter of Credit or Issuer Document. The Borrower hereby
assumes all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with
respect to its use of any Letter of Credit; provided, however, that this
assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude the Borrower's pursuing
such rights and remedies as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at
law or under any other agreement. None of the L/C Issuer, the
Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any
correspondent, participant or assignee of the L/C Issuer shall be liable or
responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (v) of Section 2.03(e);
provided, however, that
anything in such clauses to the contrary notwithstanding, the Borrower may have
a claim against the L/C Issuer, and the L/C Issuer may be liable to the
Borrower, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to
consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by the Borrower which the Borrower
proves were caused by the L/C Issuer's willful misconduct or gross negligence or
the L/C Issuer's willful failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the
presentation to it by the beneficiary of a sight draft and certificate(s)
strictly complying with the terms and conditions of a Letter of Credit. In furtherance and not
in limitation of the foregoing, the L/C Issuer may accept documents that appear
on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further investigation,
regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, and the L/C Issuer
shall not be responsible for the validity or sufficiency of any instrument
transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign a Letter of Credit
or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part,
which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason.
(g) Cash
Collateral. Upon (a) the request of the Administrative Agent,
(i) if the L/C Issuer has honored any full or partial drawing request under any
Letter of Credit and such drawing has resulted in an L/C Borrowing hereunder, or
(ii) if, as of the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, any L/C Obligation for any
reason remains outstanding and partially or wholly undrawn, or (b) the
occurrence of a Default or (c) the occurrence of the circumstances described in
Section
2.06(a)(ii) or Section 10.19(a)(ii)
requiring the Borrower to Cash Collateralize Letters of Credit, then the
Borrower shall, in each case, immediately Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations
in an amount equal to the L/C Obligations (or in the case of clause (c) above,
the excess amount required pursuant to Section 2.06(a)(ii)
or Section
10.19(a)(ii) ) and such cash will be held as security for all Obligations
of the Borrower to the Lenders hereunder in a Cash Collateral Account to be
established by the Administrative Agent, and during the existence of an Event of
Default, the Administrative Agent may, upon the request of the Majority Lenders,
apply such amounts so held to the payment of such outstanding Obligations; provided
that on a date upon which no Default exists and no L/C Obligations remain
outstanding, the Administrative Agent, at the request and expense of the
Borrower, will duly release the cash held hereunder as security in any Cash
Collateral Account and shall assign, transfer and deliver to the Borrower
(without recourse and without any representation or warranty)
such cash as is then being released and has not theretofore been released
pursuant to this Agreement.
(h) Applicability of
ISP. Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the L/C Issuer and
the Borrower when a Letter of Credit is issued, the rules of the ISP shall apply
to each standby Letter of Credit.
(i) Letter of Credit
Fees. The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for
the account of each Lender in accordance with its Revolving Commitment
Percentage a Letter of Credit fee for each Letter of Credit equal to the
Applicable Margin for Revolving Loans that are Eurodollar Loans (as in effect
from time to time during the period of calculation thereof) (the "Letter of Credit
Fee") times the daily
amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit; provided, however, during the
existence of an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), the
Letter of Credit Fee shall be equal to the Default Rate. For purposes
of computing the daily amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit,
the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.07. Letter
of Credit Fees shall be (i) computed on a quarterly basis in arrears and
(ii) due and payable on the first Business Day after the end of each March,
June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after
the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date
and thereafter on demand.
(j) Fronting Fee and Documentary
and Processing Charges Payable to L/C Issuer. The Borrower
shall pay directly to the L/C Issuer for its own account a fronting fee with
respect to each Letter of Credit, at the rate per annum specified in the Fee
Letters, computed on the daily amount available to be drawn under such Letter of
Credit on a quarterly basis in arrears. Such fronting fee shall be
due and payable on the tenth Business Day after the end of each March, June,
September and December in respect of the most recently-ended quarterly period
(or portion thereof, in the case of the first payment), commencing with the
first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the
Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand. For
purposes of computing the daily amount available to be drawn under any Letter of
Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance
with Section 1.07. In
addition, the Borrower shall pay directly to the L/C Issuer for its own account
the customary issuance, presentation, amendment and other processing fees, and
other standard costs and charges, of the L/C Issuer relating to letters of
credit as from time to time in effect. Such customary fees and
standard costs and charges are due and payable on demand and are
nonrefundable.
(k) Conflict with Issuer
Documents. In the event of any conflict between the terms
hereof and the terms of any Issuer Document, the terms hereof shall
control.
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2.04 Reduction and Termination of
Commitments.
(a) Voluntary. The
Borrower may, upon not less than five Business Days' prior notice to the
Administrative Agent, terminate or permanently reduce the Aggregate Revolving
Commitment, without premium or penalty, by an aggregate minimum amount of
$1,000,000 or any multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof; provided,
however that no such termination or reduction shall be permitted if after giving
effect thereto and to any prepayment of Revolving Loans made under the Revolving
Commitments which are made on the effective date of such termination or
reduction (x) the then outstanding principal amount of all Revolving Loans made
under the Revolving Commitments plus the amount of
the then outstanding L/C Obligations would exceed the Aggregate Revolving
Commitment then in effect or (y) the aggregate amount of all L/C Obligations
would exceed the Letter of Credit Commitment then in effect; and provided
further that once reduced in accordance with this Section 2.04,
the Aggregate Revolving Commitment may not be increased. No voluntary
termination or reduction in the Aggregate Revolving Commitment shall be
effective unless the Mission Borrower makes a concurrent ratable reduction to
the Mission Aggregate Revolving Commitment.
(b) Mandatory. The
Aggregate Revolving Commitment shall be automatically and immediately reduced
without notice to the Borrower or any other Credit Party:
(i) on
such date and by the amount of any prepayment required to be made under any of
Sections 2.06 (b),
(c), (d), (e) or (f) or Sections 10.19(b), (c), (d),
(e), (f) or (g) (without duplication) that is applied to prepay the
Revolving Loans in accordance with the terms of Section 2.06 or Section 10.19, provided
that, notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as there exists no Default
at such time, no such reduction in the Aggregate Revolving Commitment will be
made with respect to any prepayment required to be made under Section 10.19(g),
and
(ii) on
such date that any prepayment is required to be made under any of Sections 2.06(b), (c), (d),
(e), (f) or (g) or Sections 10.19(b), (c), (d),
(e), (f) or (g) and the Outstanding Amount of the Term B Loans is zero
(or has been reduced to zero by such prepayment), such reduction in the
Aggregate Revolving Commitment to be in such amount of the Net Cash Proceeds,
Net Debt Proceeds, Net Issuance Proceeds and/or Extraordinary Receipts, as
applicable, that are not applied to prepay the Term B Loans but would have been
if the Outstanding Amount of such Term B Loans was in excess of such proceeds,
provided
that, notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as there exists no Default
at such time, no such reduction in the Aggregate Revolving Commitment will be
made with respect to any prepayment required to be made under Section 10.19(g);
and
(c) Commitment Reductions,
Generally. Once reduced in accordance with this Section 2.04,
the Aggregate Revolving Commitment may not be increased. Any
reduction of the Aggregate Revolving Commitment pursuant to this Section 2.04
shall be applied pro rata to each Lender's Revolving Commitment. All
accrued commitment and letter of credit fees to the effective date of any
reduction or termination of the Aggregate Revolving Commitment shall be paid on
the effective date of such reduction or termination. The
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the affected Lenders of any such
reduction or termination of the Aggregate Revolving Commitment.
2.05 Voluntary
Prepayments.
(a) The
Borrower may, prior to 11:00 a.m., upon at least three Business Days' written
notice by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent in the case of Eurodollar
Loans, and prior to 9:00 a.m., upon two Business Days' written notice on any
Business Day in the case of Base Rate Loans, prepay Revolving Loans and/or Term
B Loans, as the Borrower may elect, in whole or in part, in amounts of
$1,000,000 or an integral multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof.
(b) Any
notice of prepayment delivered pursuant to this Section 2.05 shall
specify the date and amount of such prepayment, whether the prepayment is to be
made with respect to Revolving Loans and/or Term B Loans and the Type of Loans
to be prepaid. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each
affected Lender thereof and of such Lender's pro rata portion of such
prepayment. If such notice is given by the Borrower and not
withdrawn, the Borrower shall make such prepayment, and the payment amount
specified in such notice shall be due and payable, on the date specified therein
together with accrued interest to each such date on the amount prepaid and the
amounts, if any, required pursuant to Section 3.05; provided
that interest to be paid in connection with any such prepayment of Base Rate
Loans (other than a prepayment in full) shall instead be paid on the next
occurring Interest Payment Date.
(c) Any
prepayment of Term B Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05 shall be
applied to the remaining scheduled installments of Term B Loans to be made
pursuant to Section
2.07(a) pro rata (based on the then remaining amounts of such remaining
installments).
2.06 Mandatory
Prepayments.
(a)
(i) If
on any date the aggregate unpaid principal amount of outstanding Revolving Loans
made under the Revolving Commitments, plus the outstanding
L/C Obligations (to the extent not Cash Collateralized pursuant to clause
(ii) below or as provided for in Section 2.03(g))
exceeds the Aggregate Revolving Commitment, then the Borrower shall immediately
prepay the amount of such excess. Any payments on Revolving Loans
made under the Revolving Commitments pursuant to this Section 2.06(a)(i)
shall be applied pro rata among the Lenders with Revolving
Commitments.
(ii) If
on any date the aggregate amount of all L/C Obligations shall exceed the Letter
of Credit Commitment, the Borrower shall Cash Collateralize on such date an
amount equal to the excess of the L/C Obligations over the Letter of Credit
Commitment.
(iii) If
on any date the aggregate unpaid principal amount of outstanding Incremental
Revolving Loans made under an Incremental Facility exceeds the aggregate amount
of the Incremental Revolving Commitments relating to such Incremental Facility,
then the Borrower shall immediately prepay the amount of such
excess. Any payments on Incremental Revolving Loans made under an
Incremental Facility pursuant to this Section 2.06(a)(iii)
shall be applied pro rata among the applicable Incremental Revolving
Lenders having Incremental Revolving Commitments with respect to such
Incremental Facility.
(b)
(i) If
on any date any Nexstar Entity shall make any Disposition, an amount equal to
100% of the Net Cash Proceeds from such Disposition shall be applied on such
date to prepay outstanding principal of the Term B Loans and the Revolving Loans
on a pro rata basis among such Loans, provided that with respect to no more than
$2,000,000 in the aggregate of the Net Cash Proceeds received in connection with
any Disposition, the Net Cash Proceeds therefrom shall not be required to be so
applied if no Default then exists and, provided further, that this requirement
for mandatory prepayment will be further reduced to the extent that the Borrower
elects, as hereinafter provided, to attempt to cause some or all of such Net
Cash Proceeds to be reinvested in Reinvestment Assets. The Borrower
may elect to attempt to cause some or all of the Net Cash Proceeds from a
Disposition to be reinvested in Reinvestment Assets during the Reinvestment
Period (a "Reinvestment
Election") if (x) no Default exists on the date of such Reinvestment
Election and (y) such Reinvestment Election is made by the delivery of a
Reinvestment Notice to the Administrative Agent on or before the date of the
consummation of such Disposition, with such Reinvestment Election being
effective with respect to the Net Cash Proceeds of such Disposition equal to the
Anticipated Reinvestment Amount specified in such Reinvestment
Notice.
(ii) Nothing
in this Section 2.06 (b)
shall be deemed to permit any Disposition not otherwise permitted under this
Agreement.
(iii) On
the Reinvestment Prepayment Date with respect to a Reinvestment Election, an
amount equal to the Reinvestment Prepayment Amount, if any, for such
Reinvestment Election shall be applied to prepay outstanding principal of the
Term B Loans and the Revolving Loans on a pro rata basis among such
Loans.
(c) Within
90 days after any Nexstar Entity receives any proceeds from any Recovery Event,
an amount equal to 100% of the proceeds of such Recovery Event (net of
reasonable costs including, without limitation, legal costs and expenses and
taxes incurred in connection with such Recovery Event and the collection of the
proceeds thereof) shall be applied to prepay outstanding principal of the Term B
Loans and the Revolving Loans on a pro rata basis among such Loans; provided
that so long as no Default then exists, this requirement for mandatory
prepayment shall be reduced by any amounts (i) actually applied on or before
such 90th day or (ii) committed in writing on or before such 90th day to be
applied to the replacement or restoration of the assets subject to such Recovery
Event within 365 days after such Recovery Event and; provided
further that with respect to no more than $1,000,000 in the aggregate of the
proceeds received from any Recovery Event, the proceeds therefrom shall not be
required to be so applied if no Default then exists.
(d) On
each date which is 90 days after the last day of each Fiscal Year commencing
with the Fiscal Year ending on December 31, 2005, an amount equal to 75% of the
Excess Cash Flow of the Borrower for such Fiscal Year shall be applied to prepay
outstanding principal of the Term B Loans and the Revolving Loans on a pro rata
basis among such Loans; provided
that (A) if the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio on the last day of each of the
last two consecutive Fiscal Quarters during such Fiscal Year is equal to or less
than 5.50:1.00, an amount equal to 50%, and not 75%, of the Excess Cash Flow of
the Borrower for such Fiscal Year shall be applied to prepay outstanding
principal of the Term B Loans and the Revolving Loans on a pro rata basis among
such Loans, and (B) if the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio on the last day of
each of the last two consecutive Fiscal Quarters during such Fiscal Year is
equal to or less than 4.50:1.00, then no payment in respect of such Fiscal Year
shall be required pursuant to this Section 2.06(d) and,
provided further that with respect to each Fiscal Year, the amount which would
otherwise be payable pursuant to this Section 2.06(d) may
be reduced by $2,000,000 so long as no Default exists on such 90th
day.
(e) On
the Business Day after the date of the receipt by any Nexstar Entity of Net
Issuance Proceeds from any sale or issuance of Capital Stock (including the
Permitted Parent Preferred Equity described in Section 7.05(j)) or
cash capital contribution other than Excluded Proceeds, the Borrower shall
prepay outstanding principal of the Term B Loans and the Revolving Loans, on a
pro rata basis among such Loans, in an amount equal to 50% of such Net Issuance
Proceeds, provided
so long as no Default exists on the date of such issuance, the amount of the
prepayments required to be made under this Section 2.06(e) shall
be reduced to the extent (but only to the extent) that such Net Issuance
Proceeds are used or to be used in connection with an Acquisition made in
accordance with the terms of Section 7.04
(including by waiver or consent) which a Nexstar Entity commits to in writing
pursuant to a stock purchase agreement (or similar agreement) within six months
after the date of such issuance; provided further
that at any time after the expiration of such six month period, if (A) the
definitive agreement executed in connection with any such Acquisition is
terminated, expires or otherwise becomes ineffective prior to the consummation
of such Acquisition, (B) the Borrower is no longer pursuing the consummation of
the Acquisition in good faith or (C) such Acquisition is not consummated within
18 months from the date the Nexstar Entity committed in writing to such
Acquisition, then the amount of prepayments required to be made under this Section 2.06(e) shall
be increased by the amount of such Net Issuance Proceeds
that were not used to consummate such Acquisition; and provided
further
that during the existence of a Default, the Borrower shall prepay outstanding
principal of the Term B Loans and the Revolving Loans, on a pro rata basis among
such Loans, in an amount equal to 100% of such Net Issuance
Proceeds.
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(f) If
on any date any Nexstar Entity shall incur or issue any Indebtedness (other than
(x) the Permitted Parent Preferred Equity described in Section 7.05(j) and (y) Indebtedness
described in subsections (a) - (d), (f) - (i) of Section 7.05), then
on each such date of incurrence or issuance an amount equal to the amount of the
Net Debt Proceeds received with respect to such Indebtedness shall be applied to
prepay outstanding principal of the Term B Loans and the Revolving Loans, on a
pro rata basis among such Loans; provided
that so long as no Default exists on the date of such incurrence or issuance,
the amount of the prepayments required to be made under this Section 2.06(f) shall
be reduced to the extent (but only to the extent) that such Net Debt Proceeds
are used or to be used in connection with an Acquisition made in accordance with
Section 7.04
(including by waiver or consent) which a Nexstar Entity commits to in writing
pursuant to a stock purchase agreement (or similar agreement) within six months
after the date of such incurrence or issuance of Indebtedness; provided
further that at any time after the expiration of such six month period,
if (A) the definitive agreement executed in connection with any such Acquisition
is terminated, expires or otherwise becomes ineffective prior to the
consummation of such Acquisition, (B) the Borrower is no longer pursuing the
consummation of the Acquisition in good faith or (C) such Acquisition is not
consummated within 18 months from the date the Nexstar Entity committed in
writing to such Acquisition, then the amount of prepayments required to be made
under this Section
2.06(f) shall be increased by the amount of such Net Debt Proceeds that
were not used to consummate such Acquisition.
(g) Intentionally
Omitted.
(h) The
Borrower shall pay, together with each prepayment under this Section 2.06,
accrued interest on the amount prepaid and any amounts required pursuant to
Section 3.05;
provided
that interest to be paid in connection with any such prepayment of Base Rate
Loans (other than a prepayment in full) shall instead be paid on the next
occurring Interest Payment Date.
(i) Any
prepayments pursuant to this Section 2.06
made on a day other than an Interest Payment Date for any Loan shall be applied
first to any Base Rate Loans then outstanding and then to Eurodollar Loans with
the shortest Interest Periods remaining.
(j) Any
prepayment of Term B Loans pursuant to this Section 2.06 shall be
applied to the remaining scheduled installments of Term B Loans to be made
pursuant to Section
2.07(a), pro rata (based on the then remaining amounts of such remaining
installments).
(k) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this Section 2.06, any
Term B Lender may elect, by delivering written notice to the Administrative
Agent prior to
the receipt thereof, not to receive its pro rata portion of any mandatory
prepayment that would otherwise be payable to such Term B Lender pursuant to
this Section
2.06, whereupon such portion shall be reallocated to prepay the
outstanding principal amount of all Term B Loans and Revolving Loans other than
the Term B Loans held by such Term B Lender and any other Term B Lender that has
elected not to receive its pro rata portion of such mandatory prepayment, on a
pro rata basis among such Loans.
2.07 Repayment of
Loans.
(a) The Term B
Loans. The Term B Loans shall mature, and the outstanding
principal amount thereof shall be due and payable in full (together with all
accrued and unpaid interest thereon), on the Stated Term B Maturity
Date. In addition, on the last day of each Fiscal Quarter (or, in the
case of the final principal installment to be repaid in Fiscal Year 2012, on the
Stated Term B Maturity Date), commencing on December 30, 2005, the Borrower
shall repay, and there shall become due and payable, a quarterly principal
installment on the Term B Loans in an amount equal to 0.25% of the Aggregate
Outstanding Term B Loan Balance on December 30, 2005 (immediately prior to the
installment payable on such date); provided
that the final principal installment in the amount of the then unpaid principal
amount of the Term B Loans, together with all unpaid Obligations accrued in
connection with such Term B Loans, shall be due on the Stated Term B Maturity
Date.
(b) Application of Term B Loan
Payments. Subject to Section 2.06(k) and
Section
10.19(k), any payment made on Term B Loans pursuant to this Section 2.07, Section 2.05, Section 2.06 or
Section 10.19
shall be applied pro rata to each Lender's Term B Loans in accordance with such
Lender's Term B Facility Percentage.
(c) The Revolving
Loans. Each Revolving Loan shall mature, and the outstanding
principal amount thereof shall be due and payable in full (together with all
accrued and unpaid interest thereon) on the Stated Revolving Credit Maturity
Date.
(d) All
Obligations. The aggregate amount of all outstanding and
unpaid Obligations shall be due and payable in full on October 1,
2012.
(e) Application of Revolving
Loan Payments. Any payment made on Revolving Loans pursuant to
this Section 2.07,
Section 2.05,
Section 2.06 or
Section 10.19
shall be applied pro rata to each Lender's Revolving Loans in accordance with
such Lender's Revolving Facility Percentage.
2.08 Interest.
(a) Subject
to the provisions of subsection (b) below, (i) each Eurodollar Loan shall bear
interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at
a rate per annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period plus the
Applicable Margin, but in no event in excess of the Highest Lawful Rate; and
(ii) each Base Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount
thereof from the applicable borrowing
date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin, but
in no event in excess of the Highest Lawful Rate.
(b)
(i) If
(A) any amount of principal of any Loan, or any regularly scheduled amount
payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document, is not paid in full when due
(subject to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by
acceleration or otherwise, or (B) an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, all amounts bearing interest hereunder shall thereafter bear
interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the
Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Laws, but in no event
in excess of the Highest Lawful Rate.
(ii) If
any amount (other than principal of any Loan) payable by the Borrower under any
Loan Document is not paid when due (subject to any applicable grace periods),
whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, then all amounts
bearing interest hereunder shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating
interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest
extent permitted by Applicable Laws, but in no event in excess of the Highest
Lawful Rate.
(iii) Accrued
and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including interest on past due
interest) shall be due and payable upon demand.
(c) Interest
on each Loan shall be due and payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date
applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified
herein. Interest hereunder shall be due and payable in accordance
with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the
commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.
2.09 Fees. In
addition to certain fees described in subsections (i) and (j) of Section 2.03:
(a) The
Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of each
Lender with a Revolving Commitment, on the last Business Day of each March,
June, September and December and on the earlier of the Stated Revolving Credit
Maturity Date and the date on which the Aggregate Revolving Commitments shall
have been terminated in full, an aggregate commitment fee (the "Revolving Commitment
Fee") on the daily average amount for the quarterly period then ended of
the Aggregate Available Revolving Commitment equal to 0.75% per
annum. The Revolving Commitment Fee shall begin to accrue on and
after the Effective Date and shall cease to accrue on the earlier of the Stated
Revolving Credit Maturity Date and the date on which the Aggregate Revolving
Commitments shall have been terminated in full.
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(b) Other
Fees.
(i) The
Borrower shall pay to the Joint Lead Arrangers, Joint Book Managers and the
Administrative Agent for their own respective accounts fees in the amounts and
at the times specified in the Fee Letters. Such fees shall be fully
earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason
whatsoever.
(ii) The
Borrower shall pay to the Lenders such fees as shall have been separately agreed
upon in writing in the amounts and at the times so specified. Such
fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason
whatsoever.
(c) Fees under Existing Nexstar
Credit Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in
this Agreement, all fees which, as of the Effective Date, remain outstanding
under the Existing Nexstar Credit Agreement will be due and payable on the first
payment date scheduled for payment of fees under this Agreement occurring after
the Effective Date.
2.10 Computation of Interest and
Fees. All computations of commitment fees, and interest
payable in respect of Base Rate Loans when the Base Rate is determined by Bank
of America's "prime rate" shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or 366
days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed. All other
computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a 360 day year
and actual days elapsed (which results in more fees or interest, as applicable,
being paid than if computed on the basis of a 365 day year). Interest
shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which the Loan is made, and shall not
accrue on a Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such
portion is paid, provided that any Loan that is repaid on the same day on which
it is made shall, subject to Section 2.12(a), bear
interest for one day. Each determination by the Administrative Agent
of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all
purposes, absent manifest error.
2.11 Evidence of
Debt.
(a) The
Credit Events made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or
records maintained by such Lender and by the Administrative Agent in the
ordinary course of business. The accounts or records maintained by
the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be conclusive absent manifest
error of the amount of the Credit Events made by the Lenders to the Borrower and
the interest and payments thereon. Any failure to so record or any
error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation
of the Borrower hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the
Obligations. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and
records maintained by any Lender and the accounts and records of the
Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the
Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest
error. Upon the request of any Lender made through the Administrative
Agent, the Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the
Administrative Agent) a Revolving Loan Note and/or a Term B Loan Note, as
applicable, which shall evidence such Lender's Loans in addition to such
accounts or records. Each Lender may attach schedules to its Note and
endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Loans
and payments with respect thereto.
(b) In
addition to the accounts and records referred to in subsection (a), each Lender
and the Administrative Agent shall maintain in accordance with its usual
practice accounts or records evidencing the purchases and sales by such Lender
of participations in Letters of Credit. In the event of any conflict
between the accounts and records maintained by the Administrative Agent and the
accounts and records of any Lender in respect of such matters, the accounts and
records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest
error.
2.12 Payments Generally;
Administrative Agent's Clawback.
(a) General. All
payments (including prepayments) to be made by the Borrower shall be made
without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or
setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments
by the Borrower hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the
account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the
Administrative Agent's Office in Dollars and in immediately available funds not
later than 12:00 noon on the date specified herein. The
Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its share, if any,
of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lender's
Lending Office. All payments received by the Administrative Agent
after 12:00 noon shall be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day
and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue to (but excluding)
such next succeeding Business Day. If any payment to be made by the
Borrower shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall
instead come due on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time
shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as the case may
be.
(b)
(i) Funding by Lenders;
Presumption by Administrative Agent. Unless the Administrative
Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any
Borrowing of Eurodollar Loans (or, in the case of any Borrowing of Base Rate
Loans, prior to 12:00 noon on the date of such Borrowing) that such Lender will
not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender's share of such
Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such
share available on such date in accordance with Section 2.02 (or, in
the case of a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, that such Lender has made such share
available in accordance with and at the time required by Section 2.02) and
may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a
corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made
its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent,
then the applicable Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the
Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount in
immediately available funds with interest thereon, for each day from and
including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but
excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (A) in the case of
a payment to be made by such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a
rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry
rules on interbank compensation and (B) in the case of a payment to be made by
the
Borrower, the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans. If the
Borrower and such Lender shall pay such interest to the Administrative Agent for
the same or an overlapping period, the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit
to the Borrower the amount of such interest paid by the Borrower for such
period. If such Lender pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to
the Administrative Agent, then the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender's
Loan included in such Borrowing. Any payment by the Borrower shall be
without prejudice to any claim the Borrower may have against a Lender that shall
have failed to make such payment to the Administrative Agent.
(ii) Payments by Borrower;
Presumptions by Administrative Agent. Unless the
Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the
date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of
the Lenders or the L/C Issuer hereunder that the Borrower will not make such
payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such
payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such
assumption, distribute to the Lenders or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, the
amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such
payment, then each of the Lenders or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be,
severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the
amount so distributed to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, in immediately available
funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such
amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the
Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate
determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules
on interbank compensation.
A notice
of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or the Borrower with respect to any
amount owing under this subsection (b) shall be conclusive, absent manifest
error.
(c) Failure to Satisfy
Conditions Precedent. If any Lender makes available to the
Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender as provided in
the foregoing provisions of this Article II, and such funds are not made
available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to
the applicable Credit Event set forth in Article IV are not satisfied or waived
in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall return such
funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender, without
interest.
(d) Obligations of Lenders
Several. The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make
Loans, to fund participations in Letters of Credit and to make payments pursuant
to Section
10.04(c) are several and not joint. The failure of any Lender
to make any Loan, to fund any such participation or to make any payment under
Section
10.04(c) on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other
Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender
shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan, to
purchase its participation or to make its payment under Section
10.04(c).
(e) Funding
Source. Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender
to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to
constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain
the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.
2.13 Sharing of Payments by
Lenders. If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of
setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal
of or interest on any of the Loans made by it, or the participations in L/C
Obligations held by it resulting in such Lender's receiving payment of a
proportion of the aggregate amount of such Loans or participations and accrued
interest thereon greater than its pro rata share thereof as provided herein,
then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall (a) notify the
Administrative Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase (for cash at face value)
participations in the Loans and subparticipations in L/C Obligations of the
other Lenders, or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the
benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in
accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on
their respective Loans and other amounts owing them, provided that:
(i) if
any such participations or subparticipations are purchased and all or any
portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations or
subparticipations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the
extent of such recovery, without interest; and
(ii) the
provisions of this Section shall not be construed to apply to (A) any
payment made by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express
terms of this Agreement, (B) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration
for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or
subparticipations in L/C Obligations to any assignee or participant, other than
to the Borrower or any Subsidiary or any Affiliate of either thereof (as to
which the provisions of this Section shall apply) or (C) any payment obtained by
the L/C Issuer in connection with Cash Collateralizing any L/C Obligations, any
other Cash Collateral or other arrangements made in respect of an Impacted
Lender.
Each
Credit Party consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may
effectively do so under Applicable Law, that any Lender acquiring a
participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against such
Credit Party rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such
participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of such Credit
Party in the amount of such participation.
2.14 Security Documents and
Guaranty Agreements.
(a) All
Obligations under this Agreement and all other Loan Documents shall be secured
in accordance with the Security Documents.
(b) All
Obligations under this Agreement and all other Loan Documents shall be
unconditionally guaranteed by the Parent Guarantors and the Subsidiary
Guarantors pursuant to the Nexstar Guaranty Agreement.
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ARTICLE
III.
TAXES,
YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
3.01 Taxes.
(a) Payments Free of
Taxes. Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation
of the Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be made free
and clear of and without reduction or withholding for any Indemnified Taxes or
Other Taxes, provided that if the Borrower shall be required by Applicable Law
to deduct any Indemnified Taxes (including any Other Taxes) from such payments,
then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making
all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums
payable under this Section) the Administrative Agent, Lender or L/C Issuer, as
the case may be, receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had
no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower shall make such deductions and
(iii) the Borrower shall timely pay the full amount deducted to the relevant
Governmental Authority in accordance with Applicable Law.
(b) Payment of Other Taxes by
the Borrower. Without limiting the provisions of subsection
(a) above, the Borrower shall timely pay any Other Taxes to the relevant
Governmental Authority in accordance with Applicable Law.
(c) Indemnification by the
Borrower. The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative
Agent, each Lender and the L/C Issuer, within 10 days after demand therefor, for
the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes (including Indemnified
Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable
under this Section) paid by the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C
Issuer, as the case may be, and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses
arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes
or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant
Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such
payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender or the L/C Issuer
(with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its
own behalf or on behalf of a Lender or the L/C Issuer, shall be conclusive
absent manifest error.
(d) Evidence of
Payments. As soon as practicable after any payment of
Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the Borrower to a Governmental Authority,
the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a
certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing
such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of
such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(e) Status of
Lenders. Each Foreign Lender shall deliver to the Borrower
(with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at the time or times prescribed by
Applicable Law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative
Agent, such properly completed
and executed documentation prescribed by Applicable Law as will permit payments
to be made hereunder without withholding. In addition, any Lender, if
requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other
documentation prescribed by Applicable Law or reasonably requested by the
Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the
Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to
backup withholding or information reporting requirements.
Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that the Borrower is
resident for tax purposes in the United States, any Foreign Lender shall deliver
to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall
be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign
Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter
upon the request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), whichever of the
following is applicable:
(i) duly
completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN claiming eligibility
for benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a
party,
(ii) duly
completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI,
(iii) in
the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for
portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate to the
effect that such Foreign Lender is not (A) a "bank" within the meaning of
Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (B) a "10 percent shareholder" of the Borrower
within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or (C) a "controlled
foreign corporation" described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code and (y) duly
completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, or
(iv) any
other form or similar documentation prescribed by Applicable Law as a basis for
claiming exemption from or a reduction in United States Federal withholding tax
duly completed together with such supplementary documentation as may be
prescribed by Applicable Law to permit the Borrower to determine the withholding
or deduction required to be made.
(f) Treatment of Certain
Refunds. If the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C
Issuer determines, in its sole discretion, that it has received a refund of any
Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by the Borrower or with
respect to which the Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this
Section, it shall pay to the Borrower an amount equal to such refund (but only
to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the
Borrower under this Section with respect to the Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise
to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent,
such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, and without interest (other
than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to
such refund), provided that the
Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C
Issuer, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower (plus any
penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant
Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C
Issuer in the event the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer is
required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. This
subsection shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent, any
Lender or the L/C Issuer to make available its tax returns (or any other
information relating to its taxes that it deems confidential) to the Borrower or
any other Person.
3.02 Illegality. If
any Lender determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any
Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its
applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund Eurodollar Loans, or to
determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurodollar Rate, or any
Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of
such Lender to purchase or sell, or to take deposits of, Dollars in the London
interbank market, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrower through
the Administrative Agent, any obligation of such Lender to make or continue
Eurodollar Loans or to convert Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar Loans shall be
suspended until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower
that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer
exist. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower shall, upon demand
from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay or, if
applicable, convert all Eurodollar Loans of such Lender to Base Rate Loans,
either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may
lawfully continue to maintain such Eurodollar Loans to such day, or immediately,
if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurodollar
Loans. Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrower shall
also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted.
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3.03 Inability to Determine
Rates. If the Majority
Lenders determine that for any reason in connection with any request for a
Eurodollar Loan or a conversion to or continuation thereof that (a) Dollar
deposits are not being offered to banks in the London interbank eurodollar
market for the applicable amount and Interest Period of such Eurodollar Loan,
(b) adequate and reasonable means do not exist for determining the Eurodollar
Base Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed
Eurodollar Loan, or (c) the Eurodollar Base Rate for any requested Interest
Period with respect to a proposed Eurodollar Loan does not adequately and fairly
reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding such Loan, the Administrative Agent
will promptly so notify the Borrower and each Lender. Thereafter, the
obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain Eurodollar Loans shall be
suspended until the Administrative Agent (upon the instruction of the Majority
Lenders) revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, the
Borrower may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to or
continuation of Eurodollar Loans or, failing that, will be deemed to have
converted such request into a request for a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans in the
amount specified therein.
3.04 Increased Costs; Reserves on
Eurodollar Loans.
(a) Increased Costs
Generally. If any Change in Law shall:
(i) impose,
modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan,
insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for
the account of, or credit extended or participated in by, any Lender
(except any reserve requirement reflected in the Eurodollar Rate) or the L/C
Issuer;
(ii) subject
any Lender or the L/C Issuer to any tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to
this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, any participation in a Letter of Credit or
any Eurodollar Loan made by it, or change the basis of taxation of payments to
such Lender or the L/C Issuer in respect thereof (except for Indemnified Taxes
or Other Taxes covered by Section 3.01 and the
imposition of, or any change in the rate of, any Excluded Tax payable by such
Lender or the L/C Issuer); or
(iii) impose
on any Lender or the L/C Issuer or the London interbank market any other
condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or Eurodollar Loans made by
such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein;
and the
result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of
making or maintaining any Eurodollar Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to
make any such Loan), or to increase the cost to such Lender or the L/C Issuer of
participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit (or of maintaining
its obligation to participate in or to issue any Letter of Credit), or to reduce
the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or the L/C Issuer
hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount) then, upon
request of such Lender or the L/C Issuer, the Borrower will pay to such Lender
or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will
compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, for such
additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.
(b) Capital
Requirements. If any Lender or the L/C Issuer determines that
any Change in Law affecting such Lender or the L/C Issuer or any Lending Office
of such Lender or such Lender's or the L/C Issuer's holding company, if any,
regarding capital requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate
of return on such Lender's or the L/C Issuer's capital or on the capital of such
Lender's or the L/C Issuer's holding company, if any, as a consequence of this
Agreement, the Commitments of such Lender or the Loans made by, or
participations in Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the Letters of
Credit issued by the L/C Issuer, to a level below that which such Lender or the
L/C Issuer or such Lender's or the L/C Issuer's holding company could have
achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender's or
the L/C Issuer's policies and the policies of such Lender's or the L/C Issuer's
holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time the
Borrower will pay to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, such
additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer or
such Lender's or the L/C Issuer's holding company for any such reduction
suffered.
(c) Certificates for
Reimbursement. A certificate of a Lender or the L/C Issuer
setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or the
L/C Issuer or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in
subsection (a) or (b) of this Section 3.04 and
delivered to the Borrower shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The
Borrower shall pay such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, the amount
shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt
thereof.
(d) Delay in
Requests. Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the
L/C Issuer to demand compensation pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this
Section 3.04
shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender's or the L/C Issuer's right to
demand such compensation, provided that the
Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender or the L/C Issuer pursuant
to the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.04 for any
increased costs incurred or reductions suffered more than nine months prior to
the date that such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, notifies the
Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions
and of such Lender's or the L/C Issuer's intention to claim compensation
therefor (except that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs
or reductions is retroactive, then the nine-month period referred to above shall
be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof).
3.05 Compensation for
Losses. Upon demand of any Lender (with a copy to the
Administrative Agent) from time to time, the Borrower shall promptly compensate
such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense
incurred by it as a result of:
(a) any
continuation, conversion, payment or prepayment of any Loan other than a Base
Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan
(whether voluntary, mandatory, automatic, by reason of acceleration, or
otherwise);
(b) any
failure by the Borrower (for a reason other than the failure of such Lender to
make a Loan) to prepay, borrow, continue or convert any Loan other than a Base
Rate Loan on the date or in the amount notified by the Borrower; or
(c) any
assignment of a Eurodollar Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest
Period therefor as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 10.13;
including
any loss or expense arising from the liquid