Exhibit
10.3
Portions of this
Exhibit have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential
treatment filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. The omissions have been indicated by
asterisks (“*****”), and the omitted text has been
filed separately with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
AMENDED AND
RESTATED
AFFILIATION
AND LICENSE AGREEMENT
FOR DTH
SATELLITE EXHIBITION
OF
PROGRAMMING
PLAYBOY TV,
TWO ADULT MOVIE CHANNELS AND PLAYBOY TV EN
ESPAÑOL
DIRECTV,
INC.
and
PLAYBOY
ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, INC. and
SPICE HOT
ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
AMENDED AND
RESTATED
AFFILIATION
AND LICENSE AGREEMENT
FOR
DTH
SATELLITE EXHIBITION
OF
PROGRAMMING
AMEN
DED AND
RESTATED AGREEMENT made as of August 1, 2007 (the “
Effective Date ”), by and between PLAYBOY
ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, INC., and SPICE HOT ENTERTAINMENT,
INC., each of which is a Delaware corporation having an office
located at Media Center Drive., Los Angeles, California 90065
(collectively referred to herein as “ Programmer
”), and DIRECTV, INC., a California corporation, having an
office located at 2230 East Imp erial
Hwy., El Segundo, California 90245 (“
Affiliate ”).
WHEREAS,
Affiliate and Programmer entered into a written agreement entitled
Amended and Restated Affiliation and License Agreement for DTH
Satellite Exhibition of Programming dated September 16, 2006 (the
“ Current Playboy Agreement ”), whereby
Programmer granted Affiliate the right to distribute various
television networks owned and operated by Programmer that feature
adult films, related programming and interstitial material
(individually the “Service,” or collectively the
“Services”, as defined in Section 1(b) below) via the
DTH Distribution System (as defined in Section 1(a)(ii) below) in
the United States (the “Territory”) as restricted
herein;
WHEREAS,
the parties desire to amend various terms of the Agreement and
herein restate the Agreement in its entirety; and
WHEREAS, this
Agreement supersedes all prior understandings and agreements
relating to the subject matter herein, including without
limitation, the Current Playboy Agreement and any amendments or
extensions thereto;
NOW,
THEREFORE, FOR GOOD AND VALUABLE CONSIDERATION, THE RECEIPT AND
ADEQUACY OF WHICH ARE HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGED, IT IS MUTUALLY AGREED AS
FOLLOWS:
(a)
Distribution; Certain
Definitions.
(i)
Programm er hereby grants to
Affiliate, and Affiliate hereby accepts, the non-exclusive right to
distribute the Service in the Territory via the DTH Distribution
System (as defined below ) to DIRECTV
Subscribers during the Term (as
defined in
Section 6(a) below), as follows: (i) with respect to the Playboy TV
Service (as defined in Section 1(b) below), distribution shall
include residential subscribers, hotels, motels, private offices,
multiple dwelling facilities and oil rigs (provided, however, that
Affiliate shall not have the right to distribute the Service in any
common areas to which the public has free access) on a subscription
(a la carte or package) basis (the “ Subscription
Offerings ”) and on a pay-per-view, pay-per-block and
pay-per-night basis (collectively, the “ PPV Offerings
”), in blocks of at least sixty (60)
minutes each (or such period as the parties shall agree) for up to
twenty four (24) hours; provided, however, that any partial
exhibition of the Service which consists only of motion pictures must be no shorter than sixty
(60) minutes (any block of time, a “PPV Program”); and
(ii) with respect to each of Movie Channel 1, Movie Channel
2 and Playboy TV en Español Services (as each is defined in
Section 1(b) below), distribution may include Subscription
Offerings and PPV Offerings to residential subscribers, hotels, motels, private
offices, multiple dwelling facilities and oil rigs (provided,
however, that Affiliate shall not have the right to distribute the
Service in any common areas to which the public has free
access) . Affiliate shall determine in its sole
discretion whether to sell Subscription Offerings on an a la carte
or package basis. Affiliate shall have the non-exclusive
right to use the name of or logo for “Playboy TV,”
“Club Jenna,” “Spice:Xcess,” and
“Playboy TV en Español” as such names or logos
may be changed, altered and amended by Programmer, or the names,
titles or logos of the Service or any of its programs, or the
names, voices, photographs, music, likenesses or biographies of any
individual participant or performer in, or contributor to, any
program or any variations thereof, all of which are being licensed
exclusively for use in connection with the distribution, promotion,
marketing and sale of the Service as provided
herein. Any further use shall require Affiliate’s
notification to Programmer and Programmer’s written approval,
not to be unreasonably withheld.
(ii) The
term “DTH Distribution System” shall mean the
distribution system for video and other programming services
whereby the programming satellite signal or feed is received from
Programmer’s delivery source by a DIRECTV
turnaround earth-station facility which compresses and processes
the signal or feed and then uplinks it to a DTH communications
satellite (a “DTH Satellite”) for transmission to
DIRECTV Subscribers. DTH Distribution System shall also
include any other method of distribution that Affiliate currently
and/or subsequently uses to deliver the Service feed(s) to DIRECTV
Subscribers as part of Affiliate’s provision of television
services consisting of multi-channel linear programming (which may
be combined with other services), including, without limitation,
MMDS and territorial-based transmission infrastructures such as
Internet protocol (excluding distribution via the Internet or the
World Wide Web; provided that if at any time Programmer offers the
right to distribute the Service via the Internet or World Wide Web
to any other distributor of the Service, Programmer will offer the
same rights on the same terms and conditions to distribute the
Service on the Internet or the World Wide Web to Affiliate)), fiber
optic, twisted pairs and coaxial cable, provided that in connection
with such delivery methods, Affiliate complies with the
following: (i) the end users to whom Affiliate
distributes the Service are DIRECTV Subscribers; (ii)
the branding and packaging that is received by such DIRECTV
Subscribers is substantially the same as the branding and packaging
received by DIRECTV Subscribers that receive the Service via
Affiliate’s direct to home satellites. During the
Term (as defined in Section 6(a)), the Service (as defined
below)
shall be distributed
via a DTH Satellite at the orbital location which transmits to the
greatest number of DIRECTV Subscribers. “DIRECTV
Subscribers” shall mean those customers (both residential and
non-residential) authorized by Affiliate to receive a DIRECTV
branded DTH service via the DTH Distribution System to a
customer’s Set-Top Box (as defined below), provided that
nothing herein shall prohibit the transfer of Service programming
by a DIRECTV Subscriber from such Subscriber’s Set-Top Box to
a portable viewing device. “Service
Subscribers” shall mean DIRECTV Subscribers authorized by
Affiliate to receive the Subscription
Offerings and/or PPV Offerings . "Internet" shall
mean the electronic communications network that connects computer
networks and organizational computer facilities around the world.
"World Wide Web" means the hypertext transfer protocol-based,
distributed information system that facilitates sharing information
and content via the Internet. A “Set-Top
Box” means a device that connects to, or is integrated as
part of, a television or other video output display device
(“Display Device”) and also connects to the source of
Affiliate’s audio/visual signal, the content of which then is
displayed on the Display Device.
(iv)
Affiliate
shall have the right, but not the obligation, exercisable in its
absolute sole discretion, to distribute the programming service
commonly known as “Playboy en Español” upon
delivery to Programmer of not less than thirty (30) days prior
written notice thereof. References throughout this
Agreement to Playboy en Español shall be applicable only
upon Affiliate’s launch, if any, of Playboy en Español
via the DTH Distribution System.
(v)
Affiliate shall be
permitted to authorize satellite master antenna television system
(“ SMATV ”) operators (including telephone
companies and similar service providers) that serve multiple
dwelling unit buildings or complexes, commercial or business
establishments with multiple television viewing sites or master
planned communities and the like to distribute the Service in the
Territory via such SMATV systems directly to end users within such
buildings or establishments for DTH reception only, provided, however, that: (i) such SMATV
operator shall not have the right to distribute the Service in any
common areas to which the public has free access and (ii)
Affiliate shall be responsible for each such SMATV operator’s
compliance with all the terms and conditions of this Agreement
including but not limited to, the service charge due for each
individual purchase of the Service, whether on a PPV Offering or
Subscription Offering basis.
(b)
The Service . The “ Service ”
shall, individually and collectively, mean and consist of the
national feed (or, if Programmer uses multiple feeds for the
Service for the purpose of serving multiple time zones, such other
of such multiple feeds designated by Affiliate) of the three
programming services described in clauses (i) through (iii) below,
and Playboy TV en Español and the VOD Service at such time,
if any, that Affiliate elects to launch Playboy TV en
Español and/or the VOD Service. Each Service,
except the VOD Service, shall be presented on a 24-hour per day, 7
days a week schedule, as described below and in the
“Descriptions and Limitations of the Service,” attached
hereto as Exhibit A. The
Service shall be
delivered to Affiliate in its entirety, meaning that the
programming (including, without limitation, all other information
related thereto (e.g., data)) on the Service as received by any
Service Subscriber at a given point in time shall be the same as the programming received by
all other subscribers to the Service at such point in time
(excluding insertions by individual video service providers to
permit the customization of a feed with respect to promoting such
video service provider not to exceed four minutes per hour;
provided that the insertions do not change the content of a
Program, and only preempt interstitial programming). In the
event that Programmer grants individual service providers the right
to insert customized insertions as provided hereinabove, Programmer
shall notify Affiliate and Affiliate shall be granted the same such
rights.
(i)
Playboy TV. The
programming service commonly known as “Playboy TV”
(“ Playboy TV ”) shall consist of entertainment
programming for adult audiences as more fully described in the
“Description and Limitation of the Services” Section
attached hereto as Exhibit A. Affiliate shall refer to Playboy TV as “Playboy
TV,” or other name mutually agreed to by the parties, and may
list Playboy TV on the program guide as
“PBTV.” Affiliate shall include a
marketing description of Playboy TV in Affiliate’s
programming guide that is viewed by Subscribers that is mutually
agreed upon by the parties.
(ii)
Movie
Channel 1. The service known as “Movie Channel
1” (“ Movie Channel 1 ”) shall
consist of entertainment programming for adult audiences as more
fully described in the “Description and Limitation of the
Services” Section attached hereto as Exhibit
A. Affiliate shall refer to Movie Channel 1 as
“Club Jenna,” or other name approved by Affiliate, and
may list Movie Channel 1 on the program guide as
“JENNA” or as otherwise
agreed to by the Parties. Affiliate shall
include a marketing description of Movie Channel 1 in the
programming guide that is viewed by Subscribers that is mutually
agreed upon by the parties. Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon thirty (30) days
prior written notice by Affiliate to Programmer, Affiliate shall
have the right to permanently replace the programming currently
distributed on Movie Channel 1 (i.e., “Club Jenna”)
with the Programmer controlled service currently known as
“Fresh!”.
(iii)
Movie Channel 2. The service known as “Movie
Channel 2” (“ Movie Channel 2 ”) shall
consist of entertainment programming for adult audiences as more
fully described in the “Description and Limitation of the
Services” Section attached hereto as Exhibit A.
Affiliate shall refer to Movie
Channel 2 as
“Spice:Xcess” , and may
list Movie Channel 2 on the
program guide as “XCSS” or as otherwise agreed to by
the Parties. Affiliate shall include a marketing
description of Movie Channel 2 in the programming guide that is
viewed by Subscribers that is mutually agreed upon by the parties
. Movie Channel 1 and Movie
Channel 2 may be referred to collectively as the “ Movie
Channels ”.
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(vi) Playboy
TV en Español. Playboy TV en Español shall
consist of native and dubbed Spanish-language entertainment
programming for adult audiences as more fully described in the
“Description and Limitation of the Services” Section
attached hereto as Exhibit A. Affiliate shall refer to
the Service as “Playboy en Español,” or other
name mutually agreed to by the parties, and may list the channel on
the program guide as “PBE” Affiliate shall
include a marketing description of Playboy TV en Español in
the programming guide that is mutually agreed upon by the
parties.
(vii)
VOD Service. The collection of VOD Packages (as defined
herein) offered to distributors of the Service for use in the
distributors’ Video-On-Demand service, wherein each Package
is offered in its entirety to a subscriber’s premises by
means of the DTH Distribution System for use in an
“On-Demand” environment where the subscriber can start
and stop video programming at any time and the content is delivered
to subscribers as part of the same service that the subscriber
receives his or her linear television service (specifically
excluding delivery via the Internet/World Wide Web.) A
VOD Package is defined as those bundles of adult programs
consisting of adult content offered to multi-channel video
distributors of television in the Territory (for example any cable
operator, satellite television provider, or other facilities-based
provider such as Verizon, Bell South or AT&T, in connection
with such other provider’s multi-channel video distribution
business, but not such other provider’s cellular phone, World
Wide Web, Internet or wireless businesses (an “ MCVP
”)) for distribution on a VOD basis to subscribers with
specific distribution requirements including requirements with
respect to the user interface. Notwithstanding the terms
of this paragraph, upon Affiliate’s election and written
request, Programmer agrees to provide customized VOD Packages for
use by Affiliate in its VOD service offered to Subscribers to the
extent that use of Programmer’s VOD Packages as set forth
above is commercially unreasonable given the technology deployed by
Affiliate for so long as Affiliate’s use of
Programmer’s VOD Packages remains commercially
unreasonable.
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(ix) Programmer
represents and warrants that (A) it reviews all programming
contained in the Service for c ompliance
with the restrictions and limitations set forth in Exhibit A, and
(B) the Service shall reflect adult content subject to the
restrictions and limitations set forth in Exhibit A, and shall not
contain or depict any acts otherwise prohibited by Exhibit
A.
(x) All
right, title and interest in and to the entire contents of the
Service, including, but not limited to, films and recordings
thereof, title or titles, names, trademarks, concepts, stories,
plots, incidents, ideas, formulas, formats, general content and any
other literary, musical, artistic, or other creative material
included therein shall, as between Programmer and Affiliate, remain
vested in Programmer.
(xi) Each
of the Playboy TV, Movie Channel 1, Movie Channel 2 and Playboy TV
en Español (if applicable) shall be offered on a
simultaneous basis
and distributed by
Affiliate to its Subscribers a minimum of 24 hours per day, seven
days per week, on a separate and distinct channel.
(xii) At
any time during the Term and in any portion of the Territory,
Affiliate shall be permitted to offer other “branded”
or “unbranded” adult programming competitive to the
Service, it being acknowledged and agreed by the parties that
Affiliate’s offering of such other adult programming shall
not constitute a breach of this Agreement.
(xiii) Programmer
shall not propose or impose upon Affiliate, nor shall Affiliate be
obligated to pay, any surcharge or other cost (other than the
License Fees provided for in Section 2 hereof) for receipt and
distribution of the Service.
(c)
Other Distribution Rights and
Obligations . In
addition, the parties agree as follows:
(i)
Subject to Programmer’s obligations
hereunder and Affiliate’s rights under Section 17, Affiliate
shall distribute the Service as transmitted by Programmer, in its
entirety, in the order and at the time transmitted by Programmer
without any intentional and willful editing, delays, alterations,
interruptions, deletions or additions (“
Alterations ”), excepting: (A) Affiliate’s
commercial or other announcements, only if permitted under Section
3 hereof, (B) Affiliate’s electronic guides (including
without limitation, any mosaic or similar guides), (C) news
bulletins and other public announcements as may be required by
emergencies or applicable law; and (D) the use of digital video
recorders at the DIRECTV Subscriber’s premises for playback
either on a television display or a mobile device (“
DVRs ”), videocassette recorders (“ VCRs
”), or other similar devices by DIRECTV
Subscribers. Programmer acknowledges that the DTH System
requires and applies digital compression and encryption processes
prior to transmission and decryption and decompression processes
upon reception and agrees that such processing does not constitute
an Alteration of the Service. Programmer shall fully
encrypt the satellite signal of the Service utilizing encryption
technology commonly used in the satellite distribution
industry. Affiliate shall at all times provide Affiliate
with two operational receivers and decoders per Service as
necessary to receive and decode the Service.
(ii) Subject
to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the terms and
conditions upon which Affiliate distributes the Service to Service
Subscribers, including, without limitation , the packaging of the Service and
retail price charged, shall be determined by Affiliate in its sole
discretion. Affiliate shall use reasonable efforts to
provide Programmer with sixty (60) days’ prior written notice
of any retail price change.
(iii) Subject
to the limitations contained in Section 17 below, and Exhibit B, as
applicable, with respect to the PPV Offerings, Affiliate may offer
a multiple channel offering, such that for a single payment
a purchasing Subscriber is permitted to
view Movie Channel 1 and Movie Channel 2 and/or Playboy TV together
with other adult
channels
as determined by Affiliate (as restricted by Section 17 herein)
(the “Cascade”), all for one fee (the “Cascade
Fee”).
Notwithstanding Affiliate’s current intention, Affiliate
shall not be obligated to offer the Service using the purchasing
mechanism set forth in this Section 1(c)(iii).
(iv)
Programmer shall make the Service
available via satellite signal from a domestic communications
satellite commonly used for the delivery of television programming
which must be viewable with existing equipment from
Affiliate’s broadcast center in Los Angeles, California (the
“Broadcast Center”). As of the Effective
Date, the feeds of the Service are or will be available on Intelsat
Americas 13 (“ Programmer’s U.S. Satellite
”). Programmer may, from time to time, in its sole
discretion, change the satellite being used for delivery of the
Service to Affiliate; provided , however , that any
satellite used by Programmer to transmit the Service shall be a
domestic communications satellite commonly used for the delivery of
television programming which must be viewable with existing
equipment from the Broadcast Center without Affiliate incurring
additional costs or requiring Affiliate to enter into any
third-party arrangements (e.g., HITS) for receipt of the
signals. In the event Programmer either (i) changes
Programmer’s U.S. Satellite to a satellite or other
transmission medium not susceptible to viewing or utilization by
Affiliate’s then-existing earth station equipment without
affecting the receipt of the signals of any other programming or
other services then received (or committed to be received) by
such Affiliate, (ii) changes the technology used by
Programmer to encrypt the Service to a technology not compatible
with Affiliate’s then-existing descrambling equipment, or
(iii) compresses, digitizes or otherwise modifies the signal of the
Service in such a manner that it cannot be received or utilized by
Affiliate, then Affiliate shall have the right to discontinue
carriage of the Service, immediately; provided that this right of
discontinuance and deletion shall not apply to Affiliate if
Programmer agrees to: (I) provide Affiliate with the necessary
additional equipment required to receive the Service from the new
satellite; and (II) promptly reimburse Affiliate for the actual out
of pocket cost to acquire and install equipment necessary for
Affiliate to descramble, receive and/or utilize the signal of the
Service from such new satellite or other transmission medium,
and/or the actual out of pocket cost to acquire and install
equipment necessary for Affiliate to descramble, receive and/or
utilize the signal of the Service. Programmer agrees to
use commercially reasonable efforts to provide Affiliate with at
least one hundred twenty (120) days’ prior written notice of
any satellite or technology change. Programmer, or its
designee, shall maintain appropriate back-up satellite protection
arrangements in accordance with customary industry
standards. Programmer and Affiliate shall use their
respective commercially reasonable efforts to maintain for the
Service a high quality of signal transmission in accordance with
their respective technical standards and procedures.
(v)
The parties hereby acknowledge and
understand that the overall terms and conditions of this Agreement,
including without limitation,
*****, are expressly
conditioned upon Affiliate’s distribution of each of
the
***** to all residential
DIRECTV Subscribers, excluding DIRECTV Subscribers restricted from
receiving the
applicable Services as
set forth in
***** and/or those
Subscribers who have elected not to have the option of purchasing
adult programming and/or have been excluded from the purchase of
transactional programming.
(d)
Rights with Respect to Channel
Capacity . Affiliate shall have the right, in its
sole discretion and for Affiliate’s sole benefit as between
Programmer and Affiliate, to utilize the channel capacity used to
transmit the Service during any hours which (i) the Service, or any
significant portion thereof, is not being transmitted to Affiliate
for any reason; or (ii) the transmission of the Service, or any
significant portion thereof, has been suspended or terminated by
Affiliate pursuant to Section 17. Programmer
acknowledges that it has no ownership rights in, or right to use,
any channel or any amount of capacity on any DTH
Satellite.
2.
Compensation; Most Favored Nation;
Programming Account .
(a)
Compensation . As full and complete compensation for
Affiliate’s right to distribute the Service, Affiliate shall
pay to Programmer the applicable percentage of Gross Receipts (as
defined below) for each month, as such percentage is calculated as
set forth on Exhibit B.
(i)
“
Gross Receipts ” are defined as the sum of all monies
billed to Subscribers by Affiliate during any month (not including
amounts owed by Affiliate due to taxes other than income or
franchise taxes) for receiving any part of the Service;
provided, however , that Gross Receipts shall in no event
include (i) any charge specifically made for access to programming
other than for the Service or any general access charge, hardware
licensing charge or other charge made on a “blanket”
basis (which shall mean that such
charge will relate to access to all program services available from
Affiliate by means of the DTH Distribution System); or (ii) any
charges made for ordering the Service via telephone as a PPV
Offering, which charges are additional to the charges f
or ordering the Service without using the
telephone. Affiliate shall have the right to offer Movie
Channel 1, Movie Channel 2 and/or Playboy TV as part of the
Cascade, as set forth above, in which case each such
Service’s Allocable Cascade Gross Receipts shall equal
Programmer’s *****. For purposes hereof, “
Allocable Cascade Gross Receipts ” per Service
included in the Cascade shall be equal to *****. Other
than as set forth above, Affiliate shall notify Programmer prior to
packaging the Subscription Offerings with any other programming
services. If, however, Affiliate packages the
Subscription Offerings with other non-adult premium subscription
programming services, then Affiliate shall determine the
Service’s allocable share of revenues from such package by
application of the following formula:
For the
avoidance of doubt, an example of such calculation is as
follows: Affiliate packages the Subscription Offerings
with programming service X and programming service Y and
each
of the
foregoing has an a la carte retail price of
*****. The retail
price for the entire package is
***** . Programmer’s
allocable share of the revenues from such package would be
*****.
(ii)
To the extent that a Subscriber prepays
any portion of monies solely in connection with
Affiliate’s distribution of the Service, then the amount
prepaid shall be included in Gross Receipts for the month in which
such payment was received; provided that, Affiliate’s billing
system has the capability to account for such
prepayments. Affiliate shall deduct the amount of any
Credit Transaction (as defined below in Section 2(a)(ii)), as such
amount is reasonably determined by Affiliate, from the Gross
Receipts of the month in which such Credit Transaction
occurs.
(iii)
“ Credit Transaction ”
shall mean any refund (or other payment or credit) to a
DIRECTV Subscriber in connection with (A) prepayments for the
Service, (B) Programmer’s inability to transmit the Service
to Affiliate for distribution via the DTH Distribution System for
any reason other than Affiliate’s non-performance of an
obligation hereunder, (C) a Force Majeure Event or (D) credits
(excluding Discounted Previews of the Service not authorized by
Programmer) allowed by Affiliate in its commercially reasonable
judgment consistent with Affiliate’s policies and procedures
applied consistently to Programmer and Affiliate’s other
sources of programming services.
(iv) Affiliate
shall be responsible for the accounting for all Gross Receipts and
shall account to Programmer with regard to the Gross Receipts for
the Service on a monthly basis, not later than ***** after the last day of the month in which
the Gross Receipts are accrued by Affiliate. Affiliate
shall provide a separate accounting for the Playboy TV, Movie
Channel 1, Movie Channel 2 and Playboy TV en Español (if
applicable) Services. Each such accounting shall
include:
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the origin
(categorized separately by residential subscribers (which includes
multiple dwelling facilities, private offices and oil rigs) and
hotels/motels, if any) of all Gross Receipts for Subscription
Offerings for such month;
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the number
of residential DIRECTV Subscribers as of approximately the
fifteenth calendar day of such calendar month;
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applicable Programmer Share from Exhibit B;
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the dollar
amount of Programmer’s share of Gross Receipts for such
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the number
of Service Subscribers as of approximately the 15
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calendar month; and
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for each
PPV Offering, the number of Service Subscribers purchasing such PPV
Offering on each calendar day of such month; and
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Hotel/Motel
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(v)
Programmer and Affiliate shall accord
confidential treatment to any information contained in the
aforementioned statement in accordance with Section
15. At Programmer’s request and at reasonable
times, upon reasonable advance written notice and during normal
business hours at Affiliate’s offices, Affiliate
shall permit Programmer’s representatives to review, one time
per each year of the Term and one time during the year immediately
after the termination or expiration of this Agreement, those books
and records maintained according to Affiliate’s standard
accounting practices which are generally in accordance with GAAP
required to verify License Fees and reports made
hereunder. Programmer shall audit each calendar year of
the Term, if at all, within one (1) year following the end of such
calendar year, with such review limited to those records for those
months of the prior calendar year which have not been previously
reviewed and those past months of the current calendar year for
which records are available. Programmer shall report
promptly (but no later than 30 days following completion) to
Affiliate the results of such audit, including any deficiency in
payment of License Fees that Programmer believes were revealed by
such audit, and shall make any claim against Affiliate with respect
to the results of such audit within one (1) year after reporting
such results to Affiliate. From and after
Programmer’s audit of a particular period of the Term, such
period shall be deemed closed by the parties and, except as may be
demonstrated by such audit, Affiliate shall have no further
liability in respect of License Fees for such
period. Programmer may not commence a new audit until
all prior audits have been closed and the results have been
presented to Affiliate. Any such review shall be at
Programmer’s sole cost and expense; provided, however, if
such review discloses an underpayment greater than
***** of the actual amount
due (which amount is not subject to a bona fide dispute by
Affiliate), Affiliate shall reimburse Programmer for its reasonable
out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred to discover such
underpayment. The information derived from and the
process of such review shall be subject
to the confidentiality provisions of Section 15.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any audit
conducted pursuant to this Section 2(a)(v) shall be conducted by a
reputable, industry recognized third party auditor or another firm
approved in advance by Affiliate, which shall have first entered
into a confidentiality agreement with Affiliate.
(b)
License Fee . As full and complete compensation for
the rights granted Affiliate hereunder, Affiliate shall pay to
Programmer, on a monthly basis, the “ License Fees
,” calculated pursuant to Programmer’s Cable Rate Card
in Exhibit B, subject to reduction and offset for any credits,
discounts, and reimbursements set forth in Exhibit B, annexed
hereto, and a
*****. As
used in this Section 2 and elsewhere in this Agreement (including
Exhibit “B”) when referring to the payment of License
Fees or the provision of subscriber reports by Affiliate to
Programmer, unless expressly modified by “calendar,”
the term “month” shall refer to Affiliate’s
accounting month, which is the
approximately thirty
(30) day period
commencing on approximately the middle of each month and ending on
approximately the middle of the next succeedin g month. Affiliate acknowledges that it is
being extended the License Fees herein in exchange for
offering
***** to all
residential DIRECTV Subscribers , excluding DIRECTV
Subscribers restricted from receiving the applicable Services as
set forth in
***** and/or those
Subscribers who have elected not to have the option of purchasing
adult programming and/or have been excluded from the purchase of
transactional programming .
(c)
Hotel/Motel License Fee
. The parties understand and
agree that the terms of this Section 2(c), and not Section 2(a),
shall govern the case of monies received from the distribution of
the Service to hotels or motels. In no event shall
Affiliate pay any fees or other charges on any Gross Receipts
pursuant to both this Section 2(c) and any other section of this
Agreement. Affiliate shall pay to Programmer a license
fee (the “ Hotel/Motel License Fee ”)
simultaneously with the accounting rendered to Programmer as set
forth in Section 2(a)(iv). The Hotel/Motel License Fee
shall be equal to the license fee set forth on Exhibit D attached
to this Agreement.
(d)
Late or Non-Payments
. Any amounts not paid
hereunder by the date payment is due, and which are not paid within
ten Business Days after receipt of a notice from the obligee
thereof stating that such amounts have not been paid and are
overdue, shall, at Programmer’s option, accrue interest at
the rate of
***** or at the
highest lawful rate, whichever shall be the lesser, from the date
notice was given that such amounts were overdue until they are
paid. “Business Day” shall mean a day that
is not a Saturday, Sunday or day on which banks are generally
closed for business in the State of California.
(iii)
Intentionally Omitted .
(vi) Programmer
hereby grants to Affiliate, and Affiliate hereby accepts from
Programmer, the non-exclusive right to distribute the VOD Services
that Programmer makes available for distribution on a Video On
Demand basis (whereby a consumer selects the viewing of a program
on an unscheduled real time basis (as opposed to selection of a
viewing time by such consumer from a pre-determined schedule of
viewing times) (“ VOD ”)) at such time that
Affiliate has the capability to distribute programming services via
VOD to DIRECTV Subscribers.
*****
(f)
Titanium Subscribers . Notwithstanding any other
provisions of this Agreement, Affiliate may offer the Service as
part of Affiliate’s planned premium programming package
offering subscribers the right to receive all or substantially all
of Affiliate’s programming (including premium and
pay-per-view programming) *****,
which package is tentatively branded as the “Titanium
Package” (the subscribers to which package shall be referred
to as “Titanium Subscribers”), and Affiliate shall
***** for the distribution of such
package so long as the total number of Titanium Subscribers does
not exceed *****.
In the event that
Affiliate obtains more than *****
Titanium Subscribers, Affiliate and Programmer ***** to be paid to Programmer by Affiliate
for those subscribers in excess of *****. Affiliate will provide
Titanium Subscribers with the opportunity to opt out of receiving
the Service at any time.
(g)
Programming Account/Marketing Fund .
(i)
The parties hereby acknowledge that pursuant to all
predecessor agreements (including, without limitation, the Current
Playboy Agreement), and notwithstanding any previous accounting of
the amounts in question, all amounts set aside by Affiliate for
marketing and promotion of channels provided to Affiliate by
Programmer are ***** (the “
Programming Account ”) and that the following shall
constitute full satisfaction of the parties’ respective
obligations with respect to such Programming Account: Affiliate may
spend the Programming Account funds on any marketing campaigns or
initiatives related to the Services or Programmer *****; provided, however, that the parties
agree that if any Programming Account funds are not utilized by the
end of the Term, then such amounts will be paid to
Programmer.
(ii) Commencing
as of ***** and continuing
throughout the Term of this Agreement, Programmer shall contribute
***** to a specific special
purpose marketing support account (the “ Marketing
Account ”); provided that Programmer shall contribute
***** to the Marketing Account for
the period from the Effective Date through ***** . Affiliate may spend up to
***** of the Marketing Account
funds on any marketing campaigns or initiatives related to the
Services or Programmer as determined *****. Affiliate agrees that all
other funds in this account *****
will be used on campaigns designed to drive DIRECTV Subscribers to
Playboy TV or the Movie Channels as mutually agreed to by the
Parties. In addition, Programmer agrees to *****.
(iii)
Affiliate shall provide a quarterly accounting of amounts
spent pursuant to the above Sections 2(g)(i) and (ii).
3.
Commercial Announcements and Other
Advertising .
(a)
Commercial Announcements
. Programmer hereby represents
and warrants that it does not make available to any Other
Distributor of any Service commercial announcements of any nature
in the schedule of such Service(s). If at any time
during the Term, Programmer provides to any Other Distributor the
right to make commercial announcements within any Service, then
Programmer shall offer such right to Affiliate on terms and
conditions no less favorable than those offered to such Other
Distributor of the Service(s). In any event, the rights
with respect to commercial or promotional announcements provided by
Programmer to Affiliate shall be no less favorable, in terms of the
nature, use, scheduling, availability, length of the announcements
and so forth (including, without limitation, the right to cover
Programmer’s commercial or promotional announcements), than
those provided to any Other Distributor.
(b)
Advertising . If Programmer offers any Other
Distributor the opportunity to advertise, or includes any Other
Distributor in any advertisement(s), whether or not in connection
with the Service, in any publication, recording, service, visual
work or audiovisual work, whether or not Programmer controls it,
then Programmer shall provide Affiliate with the opportunity to
elect to be included in such advertisement, if such advertisement
is in connection with advertising the Service, or an opportunity to
elect to be included in a similar advertisement, if such
advertisement is not in connection with advertising the Service, on
at least as favorable terms as such Other
Distributor. Programmer shall not include Affiliate, or
advertise Affiliate, by any means without Affiliate’s prior
written consent, which may be given or withheld by Affiliate in its
sole discretion.
4.
Marketing and Promotion of the
Service .
(a)
Affiliate
shall market and promote the Service in a similar manner as
Affiliate markets and promotes other similar premium programming
services; provided, however, that Affiliate may market and promote
any other such premium programming service differently and/or more
frequently, if such service provider provides Affiliate with
material consideration or compensation therefore. In
connection therewith, Programmer shall provide Affiliate, upon
Affiliate’s request,
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