Note 12. Commitments

We have entered into certain rental property contracts with third parties, which are accounted for as operating leases. Rental expense was $0.2 million for each of the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, and $0.6 million and $0.5 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively.

We have certain commitments including various operating leases and funding obligations for certain equity investments.

Future minimum payments for these commitments and other commitments, primarily programming, are as follows (amounts in thousands):

Nine months Ending September 30,	Operating Leases		Other Commitments		Total
Remainder of 2017	$	235	$	4,734	$	4,969
2018	503		9,325		9,828
2019	449		5,833		6,282
2020	358		2,118		2,476
2021 and thereafter	997		1,242		2,239

Total	$	2,542	$	23,252	$	25,794