Related Party Disclosures

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

Related Party Transactions

23. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Members of the Scripps family who are parties to the Scripps Family Agreement hold a controlling interest in EWS. Therefore, EWS is a related party of the Company. The Scripps Family Agreement governs the transfer and voting of all Common Voting Shares held by certain descendants of Robert P. Scripps, descendants of John P. Scripps, certain trusts of which descendants of John P. Scripps or Robert P. Scripps are trustees or beneficiaries and an estate of a descendent of Robert P. Scripps, who are signatories to such agreement.

SNI made payments to EWS totaling $2.4 million, $2.2 million and $4.8 million, in 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively. These payments were made pursuant to a 2008 agreement for certain rights granted by a subsidiary of EWS with varying durations. These amounts are included within selling, general and administrative in the consolidated statements of operations.

The Company had transactions with, nC+, an equity method investment of TVN, resulting in $12.1 million, $13.4 million and $5.1 million of revenues in, 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively. 

Historically, the Company surrendered a portion of its taxable losses incurred in the UK to UKTV as consortium relief in accordance with the UK tax law. UKTV compensated the Company for the use of the taxable losses at a rate of 83.3 percent. The Company recognized no tax benefit related to the surrender of UK losses in 2017 and a benefit of approximately $4.9 million and $7.9 million at December 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively. There was no net receivable related to the tax benefit as of December 31, 2017 and the net receivable related to the tax benefit was approximately $1.6 million and $4.5 million as of December 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively.