DEBT (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2014

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

Credit Facility Debt

The following table provides details of the Company's outstanding credit facility debt:

		Interest Rate at	Amounts Payable on or prior to		Carrying Value at
	Maturity Date	December 31, 2014	December 31, 2015		December 31, 2014		December 31, 2013
Restricted Group:
Revolving loan facility (a)	April 17, 2018	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Term A loan facility	April 17, 2018	1.92%	47,926		934,547		958,510
Term B loan facility (b)	April 17, 2020	2.67%	13,923		1,366,102		2,327,635
Restricted Group credit facility debt			61,849		2,300,649		3,286,145
Newsday:
Floating rate term loan facility	October 12, 2016	3.67%	—		480,000		480,000
Total credit facility debt			$	61,849	$	2,780,649	$	3,766,145

(a) At December 31, 2014, $71,661 of the revolving loan facility was restricted for certain letters of credit issued on behalf of CSC Holdings and $1,428,339 of the revolving loan facility was undrawn and available, subject to covenant limitations, to be drawn to meet the net funding and investment requirements of the Restricted Group.

(b) The unamortized discount related to the Term B loan facility amounted to $5,326 and $10,615 at December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

Senior Notes and Debentures

The following table summarizes the Company's senior notes and debentures:

	Date	Maturity	Interest		Issue	Carrying Amount at December 31,
Issuer	Issued	Date	Rate		Amount	2014		2013
CSC Holdings (a)(c)	February 6, 1998	February 15, 2018	7.875	%	300,000	$	299,464	$	299,293
CSC Holdings (a)(c)	July 21, 1998	July 15, 2018	7.625	%	500,000	499,912		499,887
CSC Holdings (b)(c)	February 12, 2009	February 15, 2019	8.625	%	526,000	512,750		510,223
CSC Holdings (b)	November 15, 2011	November 15, 2021	6.750	%	1,000,000	1,000,000		1,000,000
CSC Holdings (b)	May 23, 2014	June 1, 2024	5.250	%	750,000	750,000		—
						3,062,126		2,309,403
Cablevision (b)(c)	September 23, 2009	September 15, 2017	8.625	%	900,000	894,717		893,057
Cablevision (b)	April 15, 2010	April 15, 2018	7.750	%	750,000	750,000		750,000
Cablevision (b)	April 15, 2010	April 15, 2020	8.000	%	500,000	500,000		500,000
Cablevision (b)	September 27, 2012	September 15, 2022	5.875	%	750,000	649,024		686,055
						$	5,855,867	$	5,138,515

(a) The debentures are not redeemable by the Company prior to maturity.

(b) The Company may redeem some or all of the notes at any time at a specified "make-whole" price plus accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date.

(c) The carrying amount of the senior notes is net of the unamortized original issue discount.

Summary of Debt Maturities

Total amounts payable by the Company under its various debt obligations outstanding as of December 31, 2014, including notes payable, collateralized indebtedness (see Note 10), and capital leases, during the next five years and thereafter, are as follows:

Years Ending December 31,	Cablevision (a)		CSC Holdings
2015	$	558,368	$	558,368
2016	1,007,576		1,007,576
2017	1,120,556		220,556
2018	2,286,755		1,536,755
2019	542,099		542,099
Thereafter	4,202,151		3,053,127

(a) Excludes the Cablevision senior notes held by Newsday Holdings.