Exhibit 10.76

CROWN MEDIA HOLDINGS, INC.

DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

AMENDED AND RESTATED EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2008

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLE 1. DEFINITIONS


21.1

Account


21.2

Administrator


21.3

Affiliated Entity


21.4

Applicable Interest Rate


21.5

Applicable Interest Rate Fund


21.6

Base Salary


21.7

Beneficiary


21.8

Change in Control


31.9

Code


31.10

Company


31.11

Compensation


31.12

Director's Fees


31.13

Disability


31.14

Effective Date


31.15

Eligible Employee


31.16

Employer


31.17

Enrollment Period


41.18

409A Change in Control


41.19

Fair Market Value


41.20

Hardship Withdrawal


51.21

Incentive Compensation


51.22

Outside Director


51.23

Participant


51.24

Plan


51.25

Plan Year


51.26

President


51.27

Regulation or Regulations


51.28

RSU Agreement


51.29

RSU Cash Units


51.30

RSU Compensation


51.31

RSU Stock Units


61.32

Scheduled In-Service Withdrawal


61.33

Stock


61.34

Stock Tracking Fund


61.35

Termination


6ARTICLE 2. PARTICIPATION AND DEFERRAL


72.1

Participation


72.2

Deferral of Compensation


72.3

Credit to Participant's Account


9ARTICLE 3. VESTING AND INVESTMENT FUND ALTERNATIVES


103.1

Vesting


103.2

Investment of Base Salary or Incentive Compensation


103.3

Investment of RSU Compensation


10ARTICLE 4. TERMINATION AND DISTRIBUTION


124.1

Termination of Active Participation


124.2

Scheduled In-Service Withdrawals


124.3

Hardship Withdrawals


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4.4

Change in Control


144.5

Distribution of Account Following Termination or Change in Control


144.6

Distribution Upon 409A Income Inclusion


164.7

Distributions in the Event of Incompetence


174.8

Source of Payments


174.9

Withholding


174.10

Distribution of Account in the Event of Disability


174.11

Permitted Acceleration of Payments


18ARTICLE 5. ADMINISTRATION OF PLAN


195.1

Administrator


195.2

Effect of Administrator's Action


19ARTICLE 6. CLAIMS PROCEDURE AND ARBITRATION


216.1

Claims


216.2

Initial Claim


216.3

Administrator Review of Claim Denial


216.4

Arbitration


22ARTICLE 7. MISCELLANEOUS


257.1

Amendment or Termination of Plan


257.2

Construction


257.3

Funding


257.4

Participant's Interest


267.5

Governing Law


267.6

Status Under ERISA and the Code


267.7

Employer's Liability


267.8

Not a Contract of Employment


267.9

Notice


267.10

Successors


277.11

Validity


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CROWN MEDIA HOLDINGS, INC.

DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

(AMENDED AND RESTATED EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2008)

Crown Media Holdings, Inc. hereby amends and restates the Crown Media Holdings, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan (the
"Plan"), effective January 1, 2008. The Plan was originally effective May 1, 2003 and amended and restated effective March 10, 2004. The Plan is maintained as a plan of deferred
compensation for selected directors, members of the management and other highly compensated employees of Crown Media Holdings, Inc. and certain of its subsidiary and affiliated business
entities.

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ARTICLE 1.  DEFINITIONS

When used in this document, capitalized words and phrases will have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires a
different meaning:

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ARTICLE 2.  PARTICIPATION AND DEFERRAL

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ARTICLE 3.  VESTING AND INVESTMENT FUND ALTERNATIVES

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ARTICLE 4.  TERMINATION AND DISTRIBUTION



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ARTICLE 5.  ADMINISTRATION OF PLAN

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ARTICLE 6.  CLAIMS PROCEDURE AND ARBITRATION

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ARTICLE 7.  MISCELLANEOUS

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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, this restated Plan has been executed this        day of                  , 2008.

THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS A BINDING ARBITRATION PROVISION
THAT MAY BE ENFORCED BY THE PARTIES.

|               |  |                            |  |                   
|-------------- |  | -------------------------- |  | ------------------
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|ATTEST:        |  | CROWN MEDIA HOLDINGS, INC.
|Leslie C. Park |  | By:                        |  | /s/ HENRY SCHLEIFF
|               |  | Title:                     |  | President & CEO   

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