RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2015

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

NOTE 15.    RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

The following table summarizes the revenue and charges (credits) related to services provided to or received from AMC Networks, Madison Square Garden and MSG Networks Inc. reflected in continuing operations not discussed elsewhere in the accompanying combined notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2015		2014		2015		2014
Revenues, net	$	1,097	$	1,146	$	3,893	$	4,056
Operating expenses:
Technical expenses, net of credits (a)	$	43,943	$	43,799	$	133,306	$	135,581
Selling, general and administrative expenses, net of credits	479		126		3,909		2,442
Operating expenses, net	44,422		43,925		137,215		138,023
Net charges	$	43,325	$	42,779	$	133,322	$	133,967

(a) Technical expenses include primarily costs incurred by the Company for the carriage of the MSG networks and Fuse program services (2014 period only), as well as for AMC, WE tv, IFC, Sundance Channel and BBC America (2015 period only) on the Company's cable systems.  The Company also purchases certain programming signal transmission and production services from AMC Networks.