THE SUBSIDIARIES OF BELO CORP.
IDENTIFIED HEREIN
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
N.A.,
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SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms
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SECTION 1.02. Other Defined Terms
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SECTION 2.02. Guarantee of Payment; Continuing
Guarantee
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SECTION 2.03. No Limitations
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SECTION 2.04. Reinstatement
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SECTION 2.05. Agreement To Pay;
Subrogation
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SECTION 2.06. Information
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Indemnity, Subrogation and
Subordination
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SECTION 3.01. Indemnity and
Subrogation
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SECTION 3.02. Contribution and
Subrogation
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SECTION 3.03. Subordination
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SECTION 4.02. Waivers; Amendment
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SECTION 4.03. Administrative Agent’s Fees
and Expenses; Indemnification
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SECTION 4.04. Successors and Assigns
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SECTION 4.05. Survival of Agreement
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SECTION 4.06. Counterparts; Effectiveness;
Several Agreement
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SECTION 4.07. Severability
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SECTION 4.08. Right of Set-Off
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SECTION 4.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction;
Consent to Service of Process
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SECTION 4.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
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SECTION 4.12. Guarantee Absolute
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SECTION 4.13. Termination or Release
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SECTION 4.14. Additional Subsidiaries
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Subsidiary Loan
Parties
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Form of
Supplement
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GUARANTEE
AGREEMENT dated as of February [ • ], 2009 (this
“ Agreement ”), among BELO CORP., a Delaware
corporation (the “ Borrower ”), each Subsidiary
of the Borrower from time to time party hereto and JPMORGAN CHASE
BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent.
Reference
is made to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of
February [ • ], 2009 (as amended, restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “
Credit Agreement ”), among the Borrower, the Lenders
party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative
Agent. The Lenders have agreed to extend and maintain credit to the
Borrower subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the
Credit Agreement. The obligations of the Lenders to extend such
credit are conditioned upon, among other things, the execution and
delivery of this Agreement. The Subsidiaries party hereto are
affiliates of the Borrower, will derive substantial benefits from
the extension and maintenance of credit to the Borrower pursuant to
the Credit Agreement and are willing to execute and deliver this
Agreement in order to induce the Lenders to extend such credit.
Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:
SECTION
1.01. Credit Agreement . (a) Capitalized terms used in
this Agreement and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings
specified in the Credit Agreement.
(b) The
rules of construction specified in Section 1.03 of the Credit
Agreement also apply to this Agreement.
SECTION
1.02. Other Defined Terms . As used in this Agreement, the
following terms have the meanings specified below:
“
Agreement ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
the heading of this Agreement.
“
Borrower ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
the heading of this Agreement.
“
Contributing Party ” has the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 3.02.
“
Credit Agreement ” has the meaning assigned to such
term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
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“
Guaranteed Parties ” means (a) the Lenders,
(b) the Administrative Agent, (c) the Issuing Bank,
(d) each provider of treasury, depository or cash management
services the liabilities in respect of which constitute
Obligations, (e) each counterparty to any Hedging Agreement
with a Loan Party the obligations under which constitute
Obligations, (f) the beneficiaries of each indemnification
obligation undertaken by any Loan Party under any Loan Document and
(g) the permitted successors and assigns of each of the
foregoing.
“
Guarantors ” means the Borrower (except in respect of
its own Obligations) and each Subsidiary of the Borrower from time
to time party hereto.
“
Loan Document Obligations ” means (a) the due and
punctual payment by the Borrower of (i) the principal of and
interest (including interest accruing during the pendency of any
bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding,
regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) on
the Loans, when and as due, whether at maturity, by acceleration,
upon one or more dates set for prepayment or otherwise,
(ii) each payment required to be made by the Borrower under
the Credit Agreement in respect of any Letter of Credit, when and
as due, including payments in respect of reimbursement of
disbursements, interest thereon and obligations to provide cash
collateral, and (iii) all other monetary obligations of the
Borrower to any of the Guaranteed Parties under the Credit
Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents, including
obligations to pay fees, expense reimbursement obligations and
indemnification obligations, whether primary, secondary, direct,
contingent, fixed or otherwise (including monetary obligations
incurred during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency,
receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether
allowed or allowable in such proceeding), and (b) the due and
punctual payment of all the obligations of each other Loan Party
under or pursuant to this Agreement and each of the other Loan
Documents (including monetary obligations incurred during the
pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other
similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in
such proceeding).
“
Obligations ” means (a) Loan Document
Obligations, (b) Any obligations of any Loan Party in respect
of overdrafts and related liabilities owed to a Lender or an
Affiliate of a Lender arising from treasury, depository or cash
management services or arising in respect of purchasing card
programs or travel and entertainment card programs and (c) the
due and punctual payment of all obligations of each Loan Party
under each Hedging Agreement that (i) is in effect on the date
hereof with a counterparty that is a Lender or an Affiliate of a
Lender as of the date hereof or (ii) is entered into after the
date hereof with any counterparty that is a Lender or an Affiliate
of a Lender at the time such Hedging Agreement is entered
into.
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SECTION
2.01. Guarantee . Each Guarantor unconditionally guarantees,
jointly with the other Guarantors and severally, as a primary
obligor and not merely as a surety, the due and punctual payment of
the Obligations. Each Guarantor further agrees that the Obligations
may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice to
or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound upon its
guarantee hereunder notwithstanding any such extension or renewal
of any Obligation. Each Guarantor waives presentment to, demand of
payment from and protest to the Borrower or any other Loan Party of
any of the Obligations, and also waives notice of acceptance of its
guarantee and notice of protest for nonpayment.
SECTION
2.02. Guarantee of Payment; Continuing Guarantee . Each
Guarantor further agrees that its guarantee hereunder constitutes a
guarantee of payment when due (whether or not any bankruptcy or
similar proceeding shall have stayed the accrual or collection of
any of the Obligations or operated as a discharge thereof) and not
merely of collection, and waives any right to require that any
resort be had by the Administrative Agent or any other Guaranteed
Party to any security held for the payment of the Obligations or to
any balance of any deposit account or credit on the books of the
Administrative Agent or any other Guaranteed Party in favor of the
Borrower, any other party, or any other Person. Each Guarantor
agrees that its guarantee hereunder is continuing in nature and
applies to all Obligations, whether currently existing or hereafter
incurred.
SECTION
2.03. No Limitations . (a) Except for termination of a
Guarantor’s obligations hereunder as expressly provided in
Section 4.13, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder
shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or
termination for any reason, including any claim of waiver, release,
surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to
any defense or set-off, counterclaim, recoupment or termination
whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality or
unenforceability of the Obligations, any impossibility in the
performance of the Obligations, or otherwise. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the obligations of each Guarantor
hereunder shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected
by (i) the failure of the Administrative Agent or any other
Guaranteed Party to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any
right or remedy under the provisions of any Loan Document or
otherwise; (ii) any rescission, waiver, amendment or
modification of, or any release from any of the terms or provisions
of, any Loan Document or any other agreement, including with
respect to any other Guarantor under this Agreement; (iii) the
release of any security held by the Administrative Agent or any
other Guaranteed Party for the Obligations or any of them;
(iv) any default, failure or delay, wilful or otherwise, in
the performance of the Obligations; or (v) any other act or
omission that may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the
risk of any Guarantor or otherwise operate as a discharge of any
Guarantor as a matter of law or equity (other than the indefeasible
payment in full in cash of all the Obligations).
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(b) To
the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Guarantor
waives any defense based on or arising out of any defense of the
Borrower or any other Loan Party or the unenforceability of the
Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the cessation
from any cause of the liability of the Borrower or any other Loan
Party, other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all
the Obligations. The Administrative Agent and the other Guaranteed
Parties may, at their election, foreclose on any security held by
one or more of them by one or more judicial or nonjudicial sales,
accept an assignment of any such security in lieu of foreclosure,
compromise or adjust any part of the Obligations, make any other
accommodation with the Borrower or any other Loan Party or exercise
any other right or remedy available to them against the Borrower or
any other Loan Party, without affecting or impairing in any way the
liability of any Guarantor hereunder except to the extent the
Obligations have been fully and indefeasibly paid in full in cash.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Guarantor
waives any defense arising out of any such election even though
such election may operate, pursuant to applicable law, to impair or
to extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other
right or remedy of such Guarantor against the Borrower or any other
Loan Party, as the case may be, or any security.
SECTION
2.04. Reinstatement . Each of the Guarantors agrees that its
guarantee hereunder shall continue to be effective or be
reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part
thereof, of any Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be
restored by the Administrative Agent or any other Guaranteed Party
upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Borrower, any other
Loan Party or otherwise.
SECTION
2.05. Agreement To Pay; Subrogation . In furtherance of the
foregoing and not in limitation of any other right that the
Administrative Agent or any other Guaranteed Party has at law or in
equity against any Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of
the Borrower or any other Loan Party to pay any Obligation when and
as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration,
after notice of prepayment or otherwise, each Guarantor hereby
promises to and will forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, to the
Administrative Agent for distribution to the applicable Guaranteed
Parties in cash the amount of such unpaid Obligation. Upon payment
by any Guarantor of any sums to the Administrative Agent as
provided above, all rights of such Guarantor against the Borrower
or any other Loan Party arising as a result thereof by way of right
of subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or otherwise
shall in all respects be subject to Article III.
SECTION
2.06. Information . Each Guarantor (a) assumes all
responsibility for being and keeping itself informed of the
Borrower’s and each other Loan Party’s financial
condition and assets, and of all other circumstances bearing upon
the risk of nonpayment of the Obligations and the nature, scope and
extent of the risks that such Guarantor assumes and incurs
hereunder, and (b) agrees that none of the Administrative
Agent or the other Guaranteed Parties will have any duty to advise
such Guarantor of information known to it or any of them regarding
such circumstances or risks.
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Indemnity, Subrogation and
Subordination
SECTION
3.01. Indemnity and Subrogation . In addition to all such
rights of indemnity and subrogation as the Guarantors may have
under applicable law (but subject to Section 3.03), the
Borrower agrees that in the event a payment in respect of any
Obligation shall be made by any Guarantor under this Agreement, the
Borrower shall indemnify such Guarantor for the full amount of such
payment.
SECTION
3.02. Contribution and Subrogation . Each Guarantor (a
“ Contributing Party ”) agrees (subject to
Section 3.03) that, in the event a payment shall be made by
any other Guarantor hereunder in respect of any Obligation and such
other Guarantor (the “ Claiming Party ”) shall
not have been fully indemnified by the Borrower as provided in
Section 3.01, the Contributing Party shall indemnify the
Claiming Party in an amount equal to the amount of such payment
multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the net
worth of the Contributing Party on the date hereof (or, in the case
of any Guarantor becoming a party hereto pursuant to
Section 4.14, the date of the supplement hereto executed and
delivered by such Guarantor) and the denominator shall be the
aggregate net worth of all the Guarantors on the date hereof (or,
in the case of any Guarantor becoming a party hereto pursuant to
Section 4.14, the date of the supplement hereto executed and
delivered by such Guarantor). Any Contributing Party making any
payment to a Claiming Party pursuant to this Section 3.02
shall (subject to S
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