Commitments and Contingencies (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Contractual Obligation Payments

The following table summarizes the Company’s payment obligations as of December 31, 2019 for its contractual obligations.

	Total		2020		2021		2022		2023		2024		Thereafter
Programming Minimum Commitments (a)	$	276	$	216	$	37	$	12	$	11	$	—	$	—
Other (b)	12,658		2,536		2,598		436		366		526		6,196
	$	12,934	$	2,752	$	2,635	$	448	$	377	$	526	$	6,196

^(a)  The Company pays programming fees under multi-year contracts ranging from three to ten years, typically based on a flat fee per customer, which may be fixed for the term, or may in some cases escalate over the term. Programming costs included in the statement of operations were 11.3 billion, 11.1 billion and 10.6 billion for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017 respectively. Certain of the Company’s programming agreements are based on a flat fee per month or have guaranteed minimum payments. The table sets forth the aggregate guaranteed minimum commitments under the Company’s programming contracts.

^(b) 

“Other” represents other guaranteed minimum commitments, including rights negotiated directly with content owners for distribution on company-owned channels or networks, commitments related to our role as an advertising and distribution sales agent for third party-owned channels or networks, commitments to our customer premise equipment and device vendors and contractual obligations related to third-party network augmentation.