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Financial and Commercial Agreements Announcement | | Friday, 8th January 2021 |
Also, when you look at Charter, you should look at their sales organizations as being quite large in these local markets and with them utilizing our information every day to sell with, that also encourages that whole local ecosystem to be using our impression-based measurement along with our advanced audiences. As all of you know, many of our network customers are moving down the road with addressable advertising as ad agencies are too, because in this hyper fractionalized world, you can get a better delivery system with the wired operators like with Comcast and Charter. We have been well-poised to take advantage of the measurement aspect of this, and we think this will only accelerate it. Operator?
Alan Gould (Loop Capital): Thank you. Bill, following up, if the cable operators get into more into the mobile business, will you have any access to any of their mobile data?
Bill Livek: I am not going to comment on that aspect now. However, as we all know, the entire ecosystem is evolving. We felt it was important to align ourselves with the investor base that we now have. In addition to our existing investors, Charter brings something very special because of their footprint and their expertise in the space. Qurate brings something special because of their knowledge in digital and video e-commerce, which is an important aspect of our business and will be on a go-forward basis, and Cerberus because of their experience in working with large loyalty card data sets and credit card and debit card data sets, they understand the importance of where the world is going on outcome-based measurement. That market is still developing, but you have to have a vision and access to data sets and also the infrastructure that we have to be able to take advantage of this.
Alan Gould: Okay. You said you’re preferred partner, is there any exclusivity on this data?
Bill Livek: Yes, I do not think we should get into that aspect. Preferred is the term that we are utilizing.
Alan Gould: Okay. If I can ask a couple of Greg. Greg, can you explain a little bit what this one-time dividend recap is? If the investors asked for the one-time dividend, does their preferred stock then convert into common stock? You no longer pay a preferred dividend?
Greg Fink: Yes, Alan, a lot of that information, the detailed information is going to be filed or has been filed as part of the transaction documents and in the 8-K. I am not going to get specifically into the mechanics but based on certain parameters as outlined in the transaction documents regarding the timing, the amount, based on the leverage ratio that we pointed out in the press release, there can be a one-time dividend. That dividend then would be considered in combination with other dividends that have been issued to date, depending on the timing of such where all those are taken into consideration. You know, that would be a one-time event using, again, the leverage ratio that was outlined in the press release and then the documents. The simple answer is we need to work through the mechanics as outlined in the documents, depending on the timing of when that transaction is initiated.
Alan Gould: Will the liability, potential dividend liability, does that show up on the balance sheet at all?
Greg Fink: We have not been through all of the accounting there, Alan, but we do not know when that may or may not occur or if it will ever occur. Right? It depends on again, the certain parameters as outlined in the documents. At this point, my expectation is that it would not.
Alan Gould: Okay. Thank you.
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