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Represents the impairment value that has been recognized against an investment accounted under the equity and cost method of accounting.

No definition available.

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Represents the number of equity and cost method investments on which impairment is recorded.

No definition available.

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Represents the period of program contract being amortized on straight-line basis.

No definition available.

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Represents the amount of unfunded commitments made by the entity towards private equity investment funds.

No definition available.

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Represents the period of programming contract entered by the entity with distributors.

No definition available.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

No definition available.

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Amount of other miscellaneous assets expected to be realized or consumed after one year or normal operating cycle, if longer.

No definition available.

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Aggregate carrying amount, as of the balance sheet date, of noncurrent assets not separately disclosed in the balance sheet. Noncurrent assets are expected to be realized or consumed after one year (or the normal operating cycle, if longer).

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.17)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6877327&loc=d3e13212-122682

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- References

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The remaining balance of debt issuance expenses that were capitalized and are being amortized against income over the lives of the respective bond issues. This does not include the amounts capitalized as part of the cost of the utility plant or asset.

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