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Related Party Transactions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Related Party Transactions  
Related Party Transactions

Note 4. Related Party Transactions

The Company has various agreements with MVS, a Mexican media and television conglomerate, which has directors and stockholders in common with the Company as follows:

MVS provides Cinelatino with satellite and support services including origination, uplinking and satellite delivery of two feeds of Cinelatino’s channel (for U.S. and Latin America), master control and monitoring, dubbing, subtitling and closed captioning, and other support services. Expenses incurred under this agreement are included in cost of revenues in the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations. Total expenses incurred were $2.6 million for each of the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020. Amounts due to MVS pursuant to the agreements noted above amounted to $0.4 million and $0.6 million as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
Dish Mexico (d/b/a Comercializadora de Frecuencias Satelitales, S. de R.L. de C.V.), an MVS affiliate that operates a subscription satellite television service throughout Mexico and distributes Cinelatino as part of its service. Total revenues recognized were $0.8 million and $1.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Amounts due from Dish Mexico amounted to $0.1 million and $0.3 million as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
MVS has the non-exclusive right to duplicate, distribute and exhibit Cinelatino’s service via cable, satellite or by any other means in Mexico. Cinelatino receives revenues net of MVS’s distribution fee, which is equal to 13.5% of all license fees collected from third party distributors managed but not owned by MVS. Total revenues recognized were $0.7 million and $0.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Amounts due from MVS pursuant to the agreements noted above amounted to $0.0 million and $0.4 million as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

As of January 31, 2021, Univision Holdings II, Inc., together with its wholly-owned subsidiary, Univision Communications, Inc. and Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. ("Televisa") completed a merger to establish a new combined company named TelevisaUnivision, Inc. ("TelevisaUnivision"). The Company has various agreements with TelevisaUnivision (including its various divisions and affiliates), which has directors in common with the Company (who may hold a material financial interest in TelevisaUnivision).

Pantaya has an agreement for the purchase of advertising on TelevisaUnivision’s television and radio properties. Expenses under this agreement are included in selling, general and administrative expenses in the accompanying Consolidated Statement of Operations. Total expenses incurred were $1.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. Amounts due to TelevisaUnivision pursuant to this agreement totaled $0.1 million as of December 31, 2021. At December 31, 2021, the Company has a remaining commitment of $4.1 million, which is included in Note 15, “Commitments” of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
Pantaya has various content output agreements with Videocine, S.A. de C.V. (“Videocine”), a division of TelevisaUnivision pursuant to which Pantaya licenses content from Videocine or licenses content to Videocine. There were no revenues earned or expenses incurred under these agreements for the year ended December 31, 2021. Deferred revenue related to the agreements was $2.5 million as of December 31, 2021, and is included in other accrued expenses in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheet. Amounts due from Videocine pursuant to the agreements noted above amounted to $0.6 million as of December 31, 2021. Amounts due to Videocine pursuant to the agreements noted above amounted to $1.1 million as of December 31, 2021.
The Company has various licensing agreements with TelevisaUnivision (including its various divisions and affiliates) pursuant to which the Company licenses content from TelevisaUnivision or licenses content to TelevisaUnivision. Total revenues recognized were $0.1 million for each of the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020. Total expenses incurred were $0.2 million and $0 million for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Amount due from TelevisaUnivision amounted to $0 and $0.0 million as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. No amounts were due to TelevisaUnivision as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

The Company entered into an amended and restated consulting agreement with James M. McNamara, a member of the Company’s board of directors, on August 13, 2019, to provide the development, production and maintenance of programming, affiliate relations, identification and negotiation of carriage opportunities, and the development, identification and negotiation of new business initiatives including sponsorship, new channels, direct-to-consumer programs and other interactive initiatives. Total expenses incurred under these agreements are included in selling, general and administrative expenses in the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations and amounted to $0.5 million for each of the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020. No amounts were due to this related party as of December 31, 2021 and 2020.

For the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company received $3.3 million from Searchlight Capital Partners LLC ("Searchlight"), two principals of which are directors of the Company, as reimbursement of expenses incurred in connection with the pursuit of a strategic transaction during the year. The reimbursement was recorded in gain from insurance proceeds and other, net in the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations.