CONTENT RIGHTS

The table below presents the components of content rights (in millions).



	September 30, 2018			December 31, 2017
Produced content rights:
Completed	$	5,359		$	4,355
In-production	727			442
Coproduced content rights:
Completed	717			745
In-production	50			27
Licensed content rights:
Acquired	995			1,070
Prepaid^(a)	155			181
Content rights, at cost	8,003			6,820
Accumulated content rights expense	(4,539		)	(4,197		)
Total content rights, net	3,464			2,623
Current portion	(349		)	(410		)
Noncurrent portion	$	3,115		$	2,213

^(a)Prepaid licensed content rights includes payments for rights to the Olympic games of $67 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 September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively.

Content expense consisted of the following (in millions).



	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2018		2017		2018		2017
Content amortization	$	702	$	485	$	2,178	$	1,386
Other production charges	94		80		366		221
Content impairments	163		2		345		11
Total content expense	$	959	$	567	$	2,889	$	1,618

Content expense is generally a component of costs of revenues on the consolidated statements of operations. Content impairments of $161 million and $338 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018, respectively, were due to the strategic realignment of content following the acquisition of Scripps Networks and are reflected in restructuring and other charges as further described in Note 20. No content impairments were recorded as a component of restructuring and other during the three or nine months ended September 30, 2017.