Explanatory Note
Continued Discussions with Creditors
Audacy, Inc. (the “Company” or “Audacy”) continues to engage in discussions with its creditors with respect to a number of potential alternatives regarding a restructuring of the Company’s outstanding indebtedness.
Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
Credit Facility Amendment
On December 8, 2023, Audacy Capital Corp. (formerly known as Entercom Media Corp., the “Issuer”), the guarantors party thereto and the lenders party thereto, entered into Amendment No. 12 (the “Credit Facility Amendment”) to the credit agreement, dated as of October 17, 2016 (as amended, restated, supplemented and/or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Facility”). The Credit Facility Amendment extends the grace period before which a default in the payment of interest matures into an Event of Default to 68 calendar days. However, if lenders holding a majority of the outstanding obligations under the Credit Facility (the “Required Lenders”) have not received a substantially final form of agreement with respect to a consensual transaction relating to the Issuer’s funded indebtedness satisfactory to such lenders on or before December 15, 2023, the grace period extension expires after 45 calendar days.
The following Credit Facility interest payments are or will be subject to the grace period extensions under the Credit Facility Amendment:
| • | | approximately $17,000,000 originally due on October 31, 2023; |
| • | | approximately $785,592 originally due on November 8, 2023; and |
| • | | approximately $1,125,000 originally due on December 28, 2023. |
The foregoing summary of the Credit Facility Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete terms of the Credit Facility Amendment, a copy of which is filed with this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 10.1, and is incorporated herein by reference.
Receivables Facility Amendment
On December 8, 2023, Audacy Receivables, LLC (“Audacy Receivables”) and the other parties to the Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated as of July 15, 2021, by and among Audacy Receivables, Autobahn Funding Company LLC, as an investor, DZ Bank AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Frankfurt AM Main, as agent on behalf of the investor parties and Audacy Operations, Inc. as the servicer (as amended, restated, supplemented and/or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Receivables Facility”) entered into Amendment No. 8 to the Receivables Facility (the “Receivables Facility Amendment”), which:
| • | | amends the cross-default that would otherwise occur under the Receivables Facility in respect of certain defaults in the payment of interest under the Credit Facility, with the effect that such interest payment defaults will not result in an event of default under the Receivables Facility until the expiration of the 68 or 45 calendar day grace periods, as applicable, provided for under the Credit Facility Amendment described above; and |
| • | | extends certain related covenant accommodations with respect to the Company’s liquidity position through January 7, 2024. |
The foregoing summary of the Receivables Facility Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete terms of the Receivables Facility Amendment, a copy of which is filed with this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 10.2, and is incorporated herein by reference.