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Content Rights (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Intangible Assets, Net (Excluding Goodwill) [Abstract]  
Schedule of Content Rights
The table below presents the components of content rights (in millions). 
 
 
March 31, 2018
 
December 31, 2017
Produced content rights:
 
 
 
 
Completed
 
$
5,299

 
$
4,355

In-production
 
690

 
442

Coproduced content rights:
 
 
 
 
Completed
 
757

 
745

In-production
 
65

 
27

Licensed content rights:
 
 
 
 
Acquired
 
1,078

 
1,070

Prepaid(a)
 
187

 
181

Content rights, at cost
 
8,076

 
6,820

Accumulated content rights expense
 
(4,334
)
 
(4,197
)
Total content rights, net
 
3,742

 
2,623

Current portion
 
(419
)
 
(410
)
Noncurrent portion
 
$
3,323

 
$
2,213


(a) Prepaid licensed content rights includes payments for rights to the Olympic games of $61 million that are reflected as noncurrent content rights and $83 million that are reflected as current content rights assets on the consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively.