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EXHIBIT 10.41

 

EXECUTION VERSION

 

 

	
   

  	
  Published CUSIP Number: 

  

 

CREDIT
AGREEMENT

dated as of February 24, 2006

among

CSC HOLDINGS, INC.,

as the Company,

CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES OF THE COMPANY,

as Restricted Subsidiaries,

THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO,

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,

as Administrative
Agent, Collateral Agent and L/C Issuer,

BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC

and

CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.,

as Joint Lead Arrangers,

BANC OF AMERICAS SECURITIES LLC,

CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.

and

JPMORGAN SECURITIES, INC.,

as Book Runners on the Revolving Credit Facility and the Term A Facility,

CITIBANK, N.A.,

as Syndication Agent,

and

CREDIT SUISSE

BEAR STEARNS CORPORATE LENDING INC.,

JPMORGAN SECURITIES, INC.

and

MERRILL LYNCH CAPITAL CORPORATION,

as Co-Documentation Agents

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
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ARTICLE I

 

DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING
MATTERS

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 1.01

  	
   

  	
  Certain Defined Terms

  	
  1

  
	
  Section 1.02

  	
   

  	
  Other
  Interpretive Provisions

  	
  32

  
	
  Section 1.03

  	
   

  	
  Accounting
  Terms

  	
  33

  
	
  Section 1.04

  	
   

  	
  Rounding

  	
  33

  
	
  Section 1.05

  	
   

  	
  Times of Day

  	
  33

  
	
  Section 1.06

  	
   

  	
  Letter of
  Credit Amounts

  	
  33

  
	
  Section 1.07

  	
   

  	
  Currency
  Equivalents Generally

  	
  34

  

 

ARTICLE II

 

THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT
EXTENSIONS

 

	
  Section 2.01

  	
   

  	
  The Loans

  	
  34

  
	
  Section 2.02

  	
   

  	
  Borrowings,
  Conversions and Continuations of Loans

  	
  35

  
	
  Section 2.03

  	
   

  	
  Letters of
  Credit

  	
  37

  
	
  Section 2.04

  	
   

  	
  Prepayments

  	
  45

  
	
  Section 2.05

  	
   

  	
  Termination
  or Reduction of Commitments

  	
  48

  
	
  Section 2.06

  	
   

  	
  Repayment of
  Loans

  	
  48

  
	
  Section 2.07

  	
   

  	
  Interest

  	
  50

  
	
  Section 2.08

  	
   

  	
  Fees

  	
  50

  
	
  Section 2.09

  	
   

  	
  Computation
  of Interest and Fees

  	
  51

  
	
  Section 2.10

  	
   

  	
  Evidence of
  Debt

  	
  51

  
	
  Section 2.11

  	
   

  	
  Payments
  Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback

  	
  52

  
	
  Section 2.12

  	
   

  	
  Sharing of
  Payments by Lenders

  	
  54

  
	
  Section 2.13

  	
   

  	
  Increase in Commitments

  	
  55

  
	
  Section 2.14

  	
   

  	
  Incremental Term Facility

  	
  57

  

 

ARTICLE III

 

TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND
ILLEGALITY

 

	
  Section 3.01

  	
   

  	
  Taxes

  	
  57

  
	
  Section 3.02

  	
   

  	
  Illegality

  	
  59

  
	
  Section 3.03

  	
   

  	
  Inability to
  Determine Rates

  	
  60

  
	
  Section 3.04

  	
   

  	
  Increased
  Costs; Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans

  	
  60

  
	
  Section 3.05

  	
   

  	
  Compensation
  for Losses

  	
  62

  
	
  Section 3.06

  	
   

  	
  Mitigation
  Obligations; Replacement of Lenders

  	
  63

  

 

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ARTICLE IV

 

GUARANTY

 

	
  Section 4.01

  	
   

  	
  Guaranty

  	
  63

  
	
  Section 4.02

  	
   

  	
  Rights of
  Lenders

  	
  64

  
	
  Section 4.03

  	
   

  	
  Certain
  Waivers

  	
  64

  
	
  Section 4.04

  	
   

  	
  Obligations
  Independent

  	
  64

  
	
  Section 4.05

  	
   

  	
  Subrogation

  	
  64

  
	
  Section 4.06

  	
   

  	
  Termination;
  Reinstatement

  	
  65

  
	
  Section 4.07

  	
   

  	
  Subordination

  	
  65

  
	
  Section 4.08

  	
   

  	
  Stay of
  Acceleration

  	
  65

  
	
  Section 4.09

  	
   

  	
  Condition of
  Company

  	
  65

  
	
  Section 4.10

  	
   

  	
  Limitation
  on Guaranty

  	
  66

  

 

ARTICLE V

 

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

 

	
  Section 5.01

  	
   

  	
  Conditions
  of Initial Credit Extension

  	
  66

  
	
  Section 5.02

  	
   

  	
  Conditions
  to all Credit Extensions

  	
  69

  

 

ARTICLE VI

 

REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES

 

	
  Section 6.01

  	
   

  	
  Existence,
  Qualification and Power

  	
  70

  
	
  Section 6.02

  	
   

  	
  Subsidiaries;
  Affiliates; Loan Parties

  	
  70

  
	
  Section 6.03

  	
   

  	
  Authority;
  No Conflict

  	
  71

  
	
  Section 6.04

  	
   

  	
  Financial
  Condition

  	
  71

  
	
  Section 6.05

  	
   

  	
  Litigation,
  Compliance with Laws

  	
  72

  
	
  Section 6.06

  	
   

  	
  Titles and
  Liens

  	
  72

  
	
  Section 6.07

  	
   

  	
  Regulation
  U; Investment Company Act

  	
  73

  
	
  Section 6.08

  	
   

  	
  Taxes

  	
  73

  
	
  Section 6.09

  	
   

  	
  Other Credit
  Agreements

  	
  73

  
	
  Section 6.10

  	
   

  	
  Full
  Disclosure

  	
  73

  
	
  Section 6.11

  	
   

  	
  No Default

  	
  73

  
	
  Section 6.12

  	
   

  	
  Approval of
  Regulatory Authorities

  	
  74

  
	
  Section 6.13

  	
   

  	
  Binding
  Agreements

  	
  74

  
	
  Section 6.14

  	
   

  	
  Franchises

  	
  74

  
	
  Section 6.15

  	
   

  	
  Collective
  Bargaining Agreements

  	
  74

  
	
  Section 6.16

  	
   

  	
  Investments

  	
  74

  

 

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ARTICLE VII

 

COVENANTS OF THE

COMPANY AND THE RESTRICTED SUBSIDIARIES

 

	
  Section 7.01

  	
   

  	
  Financial
  Statements and Other Information

  	
  75

  
	
  Section 7.02

  	
   

  	
  Taxes and
  Claims

  	
  78

  
	
  Section 7.03

  	
   

  	
  Insurance

  	
  78

  
	
  Section 7.04

  	
   

  	
  Maintenance
  of Existence; Conduct of Business

  	
  78

  
	
  Section 7.05

  	
   

  	
  Maintenance
  of and Access to Properties

  	
  78

  
	
  Section 7.06

  	
   

  	
  Compliance
  with Applicable Laws

  	
  78

  
	
  Section 7.07

  	
   

  	
  Litigation

  	
  79

  
	
  Section 7.08

  	
   

  	
  Subsidiaries

  	
  79

  
	
  Section 7.09

  	
   

  	
  Franchises

  	
  80

  
	
  Section 7.10

  	
   

  	
  Use of
  Proceeds

  	
  80

  
	
  Section 7.11

  	
   

  	
  Further
  Assurances

  	
  80

  
	
  Section 7.12

  	
   

  	
  Indebtedness

  	
  80

  
	
  Section 7.13

  	
   

  	
  Contingent
  Liabilities

  	
  81

  
	
  Section 7.14

  	
   

  	
  Liens

  	
  82

  
	
  Section 7.15

  	
   

  	
  Leases

  	
  83

  
	
  Section 7.16

  	
   

  	
  TKR

  	
  83

  
	
  Section 7.17

  	
   

  	
  Investments

  	
  84

  
	
  Section 7.18

  	
   

  	
  Restricted
  Payments

  	
  84

  
	
  Section 7.19

  	
   

  	
  Business

  	
  85

  
	
  Section 7.20

  	
   

  	
  Transactions
  with Affiliates

  	
  85

  
	
  Section 7.21

  	
   

  	
  Amendments
  of Certain Instruments

  	
  85

  
	
  Section 7.22

  	
   

  	
  Issuance of
  Stock

  	
  86

  
	
  Section 7.23

  	
   

  	
  Operating
  Cash Flow

  	
  86

  
	
  Section 7.24

  	
   

  	
  Cash Flow
  Ratio

  	
  86

  
	
  Section 7.25

  	
   

  	
  Senior
  Secured Leverage Ratio

  	
  87

  
	
  Section 7.26

  	
   

  	
  Incremental
  Term Facility Covenants

  	
  87

  

 

ARTICLE VIII

 

EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND
REMEDIES

 

	
  Section 8.01

  	
   

  	
  Events of
  Default

  	
  88

  
	
  Section 8.02

  	
   

  	
  Remedies
  upon Event of Default

  	
  91

  
	
  Section 8.03

  	
   

  	
  Application
  of Funds

  	
  92

  

 

ARTICLE IX

 

THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT

 

	
  Section 9.01

  	
   

  	
  Appointment
  and Authority

  	
  93

  
	
  Section 9.02

  	
   

  	
  Rights as a
  Lender

  	
  94

  
	
  Section 9.03

  	
   

  	
  Exculpatory Provisions

  	
  94

  
	
  Section 9.04

  	
   

  	
  Reliance by
  Administrative Agent

  	
  95

  
	
  Section 9.05

  	
   

  	
  Delegation
  of Duties

  	
  95

  
	
  Section 9.06

  	
   

  	
  Resignation
  of Administrative Agent

  	
  95

  
	
  Section 9.07

  	
   

  	
  Non-Reliance
  on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders

  	
  96

  
	
  Section 9.08

  	
   

  	
  No Other Duties,
  Etc.

  	
  97

  

 

iii

 

	
  Section 9.09

  	
   

  	
  Administrative
  Agent May File Proofs of Claim

  	
  97

  
	
  Section 9.10

  	
   

  	
  Collateral
  and Guaranty Matters

  	
  98

  

 

ARTICLE X

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

	
  Section 10.01

  	
   

  	
  Amendments, Etc.

  	
  98

  
	
  Section 10.02

  	
   

  	
  Notices;
  Effectiveness; Electronic Communications

  	
  100

  
	
  Section 10.03

  	
   

  	
  No Waiver;
  Cumulative Remedies

  	
  102

  
	
  Section 10.04

  	
   

  	
  Expenses;
  Indemnity; Damage Waiver

  	
  103

  
	
  Section 10.05

  	
   

  	
  Payments Set
  Aside

  	
  105

  
	
  Section 10.06

  	
   

  	
  Successors
  and Assigns

  	
  105

  
	
  Section 10.07

  	
   

  	
  Right of
  Setoff

  	
  110

  
	
  Section 10.08

  	
   

  	
  Interest
  Rate Limitation

  	
  111

  
	
  Section 10.09

  	
   

  	
  Counterparts;
  Integration; Effectiveness

  	
  111

  
	
  Section 10.10

  	
   

  	
  Survival of
  Representations and Warranties

  	
  111

  
	
  Section 10.11

  	
   

  	
  Severability

  	
  111

  
	
  Section 10.12

  	
   

  	
  Replacement of
  Lenders

  	
  112

  
	
  Section 10.13

  	
   

  	
  Governing
  Law; Jurisdiction; Etc.

  	
  112

  
	
  Section 10.14

  	
   

  	
  Waiver of
  Jury Trial

  	
  113

  
	
  Section 10.15

  	
   

  	
  No Advisory
  or Fiduciary Responsibility

  	
  114

  
	
  Section 10.16

  	
   

  	
  USA PATRIOT
  Act Notice

  	
  114

  
	
  Section 10.17

  	
   

  	
  Senior
  Indebtedness

  	
  115

  
	
  Section 10.18

  	
   

  	
  Liability of
  General Partners and Other Persons

  	
  115

  
	
  Section 10.19

  	
   

  	
  Authorization
  of Third Parties to Deliver Information and Discuss Affairs

  	
  115

  
	
  Section 10.20

  	
   

  	
  Acknowledgement

  	
  115

  

 

	
  Schedule 1.01(i)

  	
   

  	
  Restricted
  Subsidiaries

  
	
  Schedule 1.01(ii)

  	
   

  	
  Unrestricted
  Subsidiaries

  
	
  Schedule 1.01(iii)

  	
   

  	
  Guarantors

  
	
  Schedule 2.01

  	
   

  	
  Commitments and
  Applicable Percentages

  
	
  Schedule 2.03

  	
   

  	
  Existing Letters
  of Credit

  
	
  Schedule 6.02

  	
   

  	
  Subsidiaries;
  Affiliates; Loan Parties

  
	
  Schedule 6.03

  	
   

  	
  Required
  Consents and Regulatory Approvals

  
	
  Schedule 6.05

  	
   

  	
  Existing
  Litigation

  
	
  Schedule 6.14

  	
   

  	
  Existing
  Franchises

  
	
  Schedule 6.16

  	
   

  	
  Existing
  Investments

  
	
  Schedule 7.12

  	
   

  	
  Existing
  Indebtedness

  
	
  Schedule 7.13

  	
   

  	
  Existing
  Guarantees

  
	
  Schedule 7.14

  	
   

  	
  Existing Liens

  
	
  Schedule 7.20

  	
   

  	
  Transactions
  with Affiliates

  
	
  Schedule 10.02

  	
   

  	
  Administrative
  Agent’s Office, Certain Addresses for Notices

  
	
  Schedule 10.06

  	
   

  	
  Processing and
  Recordation Fees

  

 

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  EXHIBIT A

  	
   

  	
  Form of
  Committed Loan Notice

  
	
  EXHIBIT B-1

  	
   

  	
  Form of
  Term Note

  
	
  EXHIBIT B-2

  	
   

  	
  Form of
  Revolving Credit Note

  
	
  EXHIBIT C

  	
   

  	
  Form of
  Compliance Certificate

  
	
  EXHIBIT D-1

  	
   

  	
  Form of
  Certificate as to Quarterly Financial Statements

  
	
  EXHIBIT D-2

  	
   

  	
  Form of
  Certificate as to Annual Financial Statements

  
	
  EXHIBIT E

  	
   

  	
  Form of
  Opinion of Counsel to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries

  
	
  EXHIBIT F-1

  	
   

  	
  Form of
  Opinion of Special New York Counsel to the Company and the Restricted
  Subsidiaries

  
	
  EXHIBIT F-2

  	
   

  	
  Form of
  Opinion of Special New Jersey Counsel to the Company and the Restricted
  Subsidiaries

  
	
  EXHIBIT F-3

  	
   

  	
  Form of
  Opinion of Special FCC Counsel to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries

  
	
  EXHIBIT G

  	
   

  	
  Form of
  Opinion of Special New York Counsel to the Administrative Agent

  
	
  EXHIBIT H

  	
   

  	
  Form of
  Assignment and Assumption Agreement

  
	
  EXHIBIT J

  	
   

  	
  Form of
  Incremental Term Supplement

  

 

v

 

CREDIT AGREEMENT

 

This CREDIT
AGREEMENT (this “Credit Agreement”) is entered into as of February 24,
2006, among CSC HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”),
the Restricted Subsidiaries identified herein, the banks which are parties
hereto, together with their respective successors and assigns, and BANK OF
AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and L/C Issuer.

 

WHEREAS, on June
26, 2001, the Company, certain of its subsidiaries named therein, the several
banks whose names are set forth on the signature pages thereof, and Toronto
Dominion (Texas), Inc., as arranging agent and as administrative agent, entered
into the Existing Credit Agreement;

 

WHEREAS, the
Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries are engaged in the business of
developing, constructing, owning, acquiring, altering, repairing, financing,
operating, maintaining, publishing, distributing, promoting and otherwise
exploiting cable television systems and related businesses, including, without
limitation, telecommunications services, data transmission and telephony
activities; and

 

WHEREAS, the
Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries have requested that the Lenders provide
revolving credit and term loan facilities for the purposes set forth in Section
7.10, including the repayment in full of all amounts outstanding under the
Existing Credit Agreement and the replacement thereof with these facilities,
and the Lenders are willing to do so on the terms and conditions set forth
herein, and each of the Guarantors expects to derive benefit, directly or
indirectly, from such extensions of credit.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the
receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto
covenant and agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING MATTERS

 

Section 1.01       Certain Defined Terms.  As used herein, the following terms shall have
the following meanings:

 

“Accumulated
Funding Deficiency” shall mean an accumulated funding deficiency as defined
in Section 302 of ERISA.

 

“Administrative
Agent” shall mean Bank of America in its capacity as administrative agent
for the Lenders hereunder and its successors in such capacity.

 

 

“Administrative
Agent’s Office” means the Administrative Agent’s address and, as
appropriate, account as set forth on Schedule 10.02, or such other
address or account as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify to
the Company and the Lenders.

 

“Administrative
Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form
supplied by the Administrative Agent.

 

“Affiliate”
shall mean, as to any Person, any other Person which directly or indirectly controls,
or is under common control with, or is controlled by, such Person.  As used in this definition, “control”
(including, with its correlative meanings, “controlled by” and “under
common control with”) shall mean possession, directly or indirectly, of the
power to direct or cause the direction of management or policies (whether
through ownership of securities or partnership or other ownership interests, by
contract or otherwise), provided that, in any event, any Person which
owns directly or indirectly 10% or more of the securities having ordinary
voting power for the election of directors or other governing body of a
corporation or 10% or more of the partnership or other ownership interests of
any other Person (other than as a limited partner of such other Person) will be
deemed to control such corporation or other Person; and provided  further
that no individual shall be an Affiliate of a corporation or partnership solely
by reason of his or her being an officer, director or partner of such entity,
except in the case of a partner if his or her interests in such partnership
shall qualify him or her as an Affiliate.

 

“Aggregate
Commitments” means the Commitments of all the Lenders.

 

“Agreement
Date” means February 24, 2006.

 

“Annualized
Operating Cash Flow” shall mean, as at any date, an amount equal to the sum
of (i) Operating Cash Flow (excluding any non-recurring cash items of the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in excess of $10,000,000 included in
deriving Operating Cash Flow in such period) for the period of three complete
consecutive calendar months ending on or most recently prior to such date,
multiplied by four, plus (ii) any non-recurring cash items excluded in
clause (i) above.

 

 “Applicable Percentage” means
(a) in respect of the Term A-1 Facility, with respect to any
Term A-1 Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth
decimal place) of the Term A-1
Facility represented by (i) on or
prior to the Closing Date, such Term A-1 Lender’s Term A-1
Commitment at such time and (ii) thereafter, the principal amount of such
Term A-1 Lender’s Term A-1 Loans at such time, (b) in
respect of the Term A-2 Facility, with respect to any Term A-2 Lender
at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the
Term A-2 Facility represented by
(i) on or prior to the Closing
Date, such Term A-2 Lender’s Term A-2 Commitment at such time
and (ii) thereafter, the principal amount of such Term A-2 Lender’s
Term A-2 Loans at such time, (c) in respect of the Incremental
Term Facility, if any, with respect to any Incremental Term Lender at
any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the
Incremental Term Facility represented by (i) on or prior to the Incremental Term Closing Date, such Incremental
Term Lender’s Incremental

 

2

 

Term Commitment at such time and
(ii) thereafter, the principal amount of such Incremental Term Lender’s Incremental Term Loans at such
time and (d) in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, with respect to
any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the
ninth decimal place) of the Revolving Credit Facility represented by such
Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment at such time.  If the commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender to make Revolving Credit Loans and the
obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated
pursuant to Section 8.02, or if the Revolving
Credit Commitments have expired, then the Applicable Percentage of each Revolving Credit Lender in respect of
the Revolving Credit Facility
shall be determined based on the Applicable Percentage of such Revolving Credit Lender in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility most recently in effect,
giving effect to any subsequent assignments. 
The initial Applicable Percentage of each Lender in respect of each
Facility is set forth opposite the name of such Lender on Schedule 2.01
(or, in the case of any Incremental Term Lender, on Schedule I to the
Incremental Term Supplement, if any) or in the Assignment and Assumption
pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable.

 

 “Applicable Rate” means, (a) with respect
to each Term A Facility and the Revolving Credit Facility, the applicable
percentage per annum set forth below determined by reference to the Cash Flow
Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the
Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 7.01(d), provided
that, (i) for
the first six months following the Closing Date, the Applicable Rate in
respect of the Term A-1 Facility and the Revolving Credit Facility shall not be less than 0.25% per annum for Base Rate Loans and 1.25% per
annum for Eurodollar Rate Loans and (ii) from the 91st day
following the Closing Date until the Maturity Date applicable to the Term A-2
Facility, the then Applicable Rate in respect to the Term A-2 Facility shall be
increased by 0.25%:

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Revolving Credit Facility

  and

  Term A-1 Facility

  	
   

  	
  Term A-2 Facility

  	
   

  
	
  Pricing

  Level

  	
   

  	
  Cash
  Flow

  Ratio

  	
   

  	
  Eurodollar

  Rate

  (Letters of

  Credit)

  	
   

  	
  Base

  Rate

  	
   

  	
  Eurodollar

  Rate

  	
   

  	
  Base

  Rate

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  1

  	
   

  	
  <4.00:1

  	
   

  	
  0.75

  	
  %

  	
  0.00

  	
  %

  	
  1.25

  	
  %

  	
  0.25

  	
  %

  
	
  2

  	
   

  	
  >4.00:1
  but <4.75:1

  	
   

  	
  1.00

  	
  %

  	
  0.00

  	
  %

  	
  1.25

  	
  %

  	
  0.25

  	
  %

  
	
  3

  	
   

  	
  >4.75:1
  but <5.50:1

  	
   

  	
  1.25

  	
  %

  	
  0.25

  	
  %

  	
  1.25

  	
  %

  	
  0.25

  	
  %

  
	
  4

  	
   

  	
  >5.50:1
  but <6.50:1

  	
   

  	
  1.50

  	
  %

  	
  0.50

  	
  %

  	
  1.50

  	
  %

  	
  0.50

  	
  %

  
	
  5

  	
   

  	
  >6.50:1

  	
   

  	
  1.75

  	
  %

  	
  0.75

  	
  %

  	
  1.75

  	
  %

  	
  0.75

  	
  %

  

 

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and (b) in
respect of any Incremental Term Facility, the rate specified as such in the
Incremental Term Supplement.

 

Any increase or decrease in the Applicable
Rate resulting from a change in the Cash Flow Ratio shall become effective as
of the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance
Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 7.01(d); provided, however,
that if a Compliance Certificate is not delivered when due in accordance with
such Section, then Pricing Level 5 shall apply in respect of each Term A
Facility and the Revolving Credit Facility as of the first Business Day after
the date on which such Compliance Certificate was required to have been
delivered.

 

“Applicable
Revolving Credit Percentage” means with respect to any Revolving Credit
Lender at any time, such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage in
respect of the Revolving Credit Facility at such time.

 

“Appropriate Lender” means, at
any time, (a) with respect to any of the Term A-1 Facility, the Term
A-2 Facility, the Revolving Credit Facility or the Incremental
Term Facility, if any, a Lender that has a Commitment with respect to such
Facility or holds a Term A-1 Loan, a Term A-2 Loan, a Revolving Credit Loan or
an Incremental Term Loan, if any, respectively, at such time, and (b) with
respect to the Letter of Credit Sublimit, (i) the L/C Issuer and
(ii) if any Letters of Credit have been issued pursuant to Section
2.03(a), the Revolving Credit Lenders.

 

 “Approved Fund” means any Fund that is
administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an
entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.

 

“Assignee
Group” means two or more Eligible Assignees that are Affiliates of one
another or two or more Approved Funds managed by the same investment advisor.

 

“Assignment and
Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a
Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is
required by Section 10.06(b), and accepted by the Administrative Agent,
in substantially the form of Exhibit H or any other form approved by the
Administrative Agent.

 

“Availability
Period” means in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, the
period from and including the Closing Date to the earliest of (i) the Maturity
Date for the Revolving Credit Facility, (ii) the date of termination of the
Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to Section 2.05, and (iii) the
date of termination of the commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender to make
Revolving Credit Loans and of the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C
Credit Extensions pursuant to Section 8.02.

 

“Bank of America”
means Bank of America, N.A. and its successors.

 

“Bank
of America Fee
Letter” means the letter agreement, dated February 24, 2006, among
the Company, the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer.

 

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“Base Rate”
means for any day a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the higher of (a) the
Federal Funds Rate plus 1/2 of 1% and (b) the rate of interest in effect
for such day as publicly announced from time to time by Bank of America as its “prime
rate.”  The “prime rate” is a rate set by
Bank of America based upon various factors including Bank of America’s costs
and desired return, general economic conditions and other factors, and is used
as a reference point for pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above, or
below such announced rate.  Any change in
such rate announced by Bank of America shall take effect at the opening of
business on the day specified in the public announcement of such change.

 

“Base Rate Loan”
means a Revolving Credit Loan, a
Term A Loan or an Incremental Term Loan, if any, that bears interest based
on the Base Rate.

 

 “Borrowing” means a Revolving Credit
Borrowing, a Term A Borrowing or an Incremental Term Borrowing, if
any, as the context may require.

 

“Business Day”
means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial
banks are authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in, the
State of New York and, if such day relates to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, means
any such day on which dealings in Dollar deposits are conducted by and between
banks in the London interbank eurodollar market.

 

 “Capital Lease Obligations” shall mean,
as to any Person, the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts
under a lease of (or other agreement conveying the right to use) real and/or
personal property, which obligations are required to be classified and
accounted for as a capital lease on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP
(including Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 13 of the Financial Accounting
Standards Board) and, for purposes of this Credit Agreement, the amount of such
obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof, determined in accordance
with GAAP (including such Statement No. 13).

 

“Cash Collateral”
has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(g).

 

“Cash Collateralize”
has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(g).

 

“Cash
Flow Ratio” shall mean, as at any date, the ratio of (i) the sum of the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Indebtedness of the Company and
the Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding on such date (determined on a
consolidated basis) plus (but without duplication of Indebtedness
supported by Letters of Credit) the aggregate undrawn face amount of all L/C
Obligations outstanding on such date to (ii) Annualized Operating Cash Flow
determined as at the last day of the quarter covered by the then most recent
Compliance Certificate delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 7.01(d)
hereof, a copy of which has been delivered to the Administrative Agent (and any
change in such ratio as a result of a change in the amount of Indebtedness or
Letters of Credit shall be effective as of the date such change shall occur and
any change in such ratio as a result of a change in the amount of Annualized
Operating Cash Flow shall be effective as of the date of receipt by the
Administrative Agent of the Compliance

 

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Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 7.01(d) hereof,
reflecting such change).  Notwithstanding
the foregoing, for purposes of calculating the Cash Flow Ratio, there shall be
excluded from Indebtedness, to the extent otherwise included as Indebtedness,
(A) any deferred or contingent obligation of the Company to pay the
consideration for an Investment not prohibited by Section 7.17 hereof to
the extent such obligation can be satisfied with the delivery of common stock
of the Parent Corp. or other equity interests of the Parent and the Company
covenants and agrees in a notice to the Administrative Agent that such obligation
shall be satisfied solely by the delivery of such common stock or other equity
interests; (B) any deferred purchase price in connection with any acquisition
not prohibited by Section 7.17 to the extent that the Company’s
obligations in respect of such deferred purchase price consist solely of an
agreement to deliver common stock of the Parent Corp. or other equity interests
of the Parent; (C) all obligations under any interest rate Swap Contract; and
(D)(x) all obligations under any Guarantee permitted under subparagraph (viii)
of Section 7.13 hereof and (y) all obligations under any Guarantee not
prohibited by Section 7.13 hereof so long as the obligations under such
Guarantees referred to in this clause (y) are payable, solely at the option of
the Company, in common stock of the Parent Corp. or other equity interests of
the Parent and the Company covenants and agrees in a notice to the
Administrative Agent that such obligation shall be satisfied solely by the
delivery of such common stock or other equity interests.

 

“Cash
Management Agreement” means any agreement to provide cash management
services, including treasury, depository, overdraft, credit or debit card,
electronic funds transfer and other cash management arrangements.

 

“Cash
Management
Bank”
means any Person that, at the time it enters into a Cash Management Agreement,
is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, in its capacity as a party to such
Cash Management Agreement.

 

 “Change in Law” means the occurrence,
after the date of this Credit Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the
adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any
change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration,
interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the
making or issuance of any request, guideline or directive (whether or not
having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority.

 

“Closing Date”
means the first date all the conditions precedent in Section 5.01 are
satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 10.05.

 

“Code”
shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

“Collateral”
means all of the “Collateral”
referred to in the Collateral Documents and all of the other property that is
or is intended under the terms of the Collateral Documents to be subject to
Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured
Parties.

 

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“Collateral
Agent” shall mean Bank of America in its capacity as collateral agent for the
Lenders under the Pledge Agreement and its successors in such capacity.

 

“Collateral
Documents” means, collectively, the Pledge Agreement, and each of
the other agreements, instruments or documents that creates or purports to
create a Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the
Secured Parties.

 

“Committed Loan
Notice” means a notice of (a) a Term Borrowing, (b) a Revolving
Credit Borrowing, (c) a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or (d)
a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, pursuant to Section 2.02(a),
which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A.

 

“Commitment”
means a Term A Commitment, a Revolving Credit Commitment or an Incremental
Term Commitment, if any, as the context may require.

 

 “Commitment Fee” shall have the meaning
given to such term in Section 2.08(a) hereof.

 

“Commitment
Increase Threshold” means $3,500,000,000.

 

“Company”
shall have the meaning given to such term in the preamble to this Credit
Agreement.

 

“Company
Materials” has the meaning specified in Section 7.01

 

“Compliance
Certificate” shall mean a certificate of a senior financial executive of
the Company in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto.

 

“Consolidated
Cash Taxes” shall mean, for any period, the sum of all federal, state and
local income taxes on operations paid during such period by the Company and the
Restricted Subsidiaries and all tax consolidated Unrestricted Subsidiaries
taken as a whole, net of any actual reimbursements therefor received from any
Unrestricted Subsidiaries.

 

 “Contractual Obligation” means, as to any
Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any
agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or
by which it or any of its property is legally bound.

 

“Control”
means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause
the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the
ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise.  “Controlling” and “Controlled”
have meanings correlative thereto.

 

“Credit Extension”
means each of the following: (a) a Borrowing and (b) an L/C Credit Extension.

 

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“CSC
Technology” shall mean CSC Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

 

“Debenture
Debt” shall mean (i) all debt listed on Schedule 7.12 hereto under
the heading “Subordinated Debentures” or “Senior Debentures” and (ii) all
Permitted Debt.

 

“Debt
Instruments” shall mean, collectively, the respective notes and debentures
evidencing, and indentures and other agreements governing, any Indebtedness.

 

“Debtor Relief Laws”
means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, and all other liquidation,
conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium,
rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor
relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to
time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.

 

“Default”
means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with
the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of
Default.

 

“Default Rate”
means (a) when used with respect to Obligations other than Letter of Credit
Fees, an interest rate equal to (i) the Base Rate plus (ii) the
Applicable Rate, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans plus (iii) 2% per
annum; provided, however, that with respect to a Eurodollar Rate
Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate
(including any Applicable Rate) otherwise applicable to such Loan plus
2% per annum and (b) when used with respect to Letter of Credit Fees, a rate
equal to the Applicable Rate plus 2% per annum.

 

“Defaulting Lender”
means any Lender that (a) has failed to fund any portion of the Term Loans,
Revolving Credit Loans or participations in L/C Obligations required to be
funded by it hereunder within one Business Day of the date required to be
funded by it hereunder, (b) has otherwise failed to pay over to the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid
by it hereunder within one Business Day of the date when due, unless the
subject of a good faith dispute, or (c) has been deemed insolvent or become the
subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.

 

“Disposition”
or “Dispose”
means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any
sale and leaseback transaction) of any property by any Person (or the granting
of any option or other right to do any of the foregoing), including any sale,
assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes
or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith; provided that the term
Disposition specifically excludes (i) dispositions of obsolete or worn
out property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in the ordinary course
of business, (ii) dispositions of inventory in the ordinary course of business;
and (iii) dispositions of property by any Restricted Subsidiary to the Company
or to another Restricted

 

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Subsidiary; provided that if the transferor of such property is
a Guarantor, the transferee thereof must either be the Company or a Guarantor.

 

“Dolan”
shall mean Charles F. Dolan.

 

“Dolan
Family Interests” shall mean (i) any Dolan Family Member, (ii) any trusts
for the benefit of any Dolan Family Members, (iii) any estate or testamentary
trust of any Dolan Family Member for the benefit of any Dolan Family Members,
(iv) any executor, administrator, conservator or legal or personal
representative of any Person or Persons specified in clauses (i), (ii) and
(iii) above to the extent acting in such capacity on behalf of any Dolan Family
Member or Members and not individually and (v) any corporation, partnership,
limited liability company or other similar entity, in each case 80% of which is
owned and controlled by any of the foregoing or combination of the foregoing.

 

“Dolan
Family Members” shall mean Dolan, his spouse, his descendants and any
spouse of any of such descendants.

 

“Dollars”
and “$” shall mean lawful money of the United States of America.

 

“Eligible Assignee”
means (a) with respect to any assignment of any Revolving Credit Commitment or
Revolving Credit Loan, (i) a Revolving Credit Lender, (ii) an Affiliate of a
Revolving Credit Lender, and (iii) any other Person (other than a natural
person) approved by (A) the Administrative Agent, (B) in the case of any
assignment of a Revolving Commitment, the L/C Issuer, and (C) unless an Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company (each such approval not
to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), (b) subject to clause (c) below, with
respect to any assignment of any Term Commitment or Term Loan, (i) a Lender,
(ii) an Affiliate of a Lender, (iii) an Approved Fund, and (iv) any other
Person (other than a natural person) approved by (A) the Administrative Agent,
and (B) in the case of the Term A-1 Facility and unless an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, the Company (each such approval not to be
unreasonably withheld or delayed), and (c) with respect to any assignment of
any Term A-2 Commitment or Term A-2 Loan by any Term A-2 Lender made prior to
June 30, 2006, (i) an Affiliate of such Term A-2 Lender and (ii) any other
Person (other than a natural person) approved by, unless an Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing, the Company; provided that, in each
case, notwithstanding the foregoing, “Eligible Assignee” shall not include the
Company or any of the Company’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries.

 

“Environmental Laws”
means any and all Federal, state, local, and foreign statutes, laws,
regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits,
concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or governmental
restrictions relating to pollution and the protection of the environment or the
release of any materials into the environment, including those related to
hazardous substances or wastes, air emissions and discharges to waste or public
systems.

 

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“Environmental
Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including
any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties
or indemnities), of the Company, any other Loan Party or any of their
respective Subsidiaries directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a)
violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling,
transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c)
exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of
any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or
other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed
with respect to any of the foregoing.

 

“Equity Interests” means,
with respect to any Person, any of the shares of capital stock of (or other
ownership or profit interests in) such Person, any of the warrants, options or
other rights for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of shares of
capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, any
of the securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock
of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrants, rights
or options for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of such shares (or
such other interests), and any of the other ownership or profit interests in
such Person (including partnership, member or trust interests therein), whether
voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants, options, rights
or other interests are outstanding on any date of determination.

 

“ERISA”
shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.

 

“ERISA
Affiliate” shall mean, when used with respect to a Plan, ERISA, the PBGC or
a provision of the Code pertaining to employee benefit plans, any Person that
is a member of any group of organizations within the meaning of Sections
414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code of which the Company is a member.

 

“Eurodollar
Base Rate” has the meaning specified in the definition of Eurodollar Rate.

 

 “Eurodollar Rate” means for any
Interest Period with respect to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, a rate per annum
determined by the Administrative Agent pursuant to the following formula:

 

	
  Eurodollar Rate =

  	
  Eurodollar Base Rate

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  1.00 – Eurodollar Reserve Percentage

  	
   

  

 

Where,

 

“Eurodollar
Base Rate” means, for such Interest Period, the rate per annum equal to the
British Bankers Association LIBOR Rate (“BBA LIBOR”), as published by
Reuters (or other commercially available source providing quotations of BBA
LIBOR as designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) at
approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the
commencement of such Interest Period, for Dollar deposits (for delivery on the
first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest
Period.  If such rate is not available at
such

 

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time for any reason, then the “Eurodollar Base Rate” for such Interest
Period shall be the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be
the rate at which deposits in Dollars for delivery on the first day of such
Interest Period in same day funds in the approximate amount of the Eurodollar
Rate Loan being made, continued or converted by Bank of America and with a term
equivalent to such Interest Period would be offered by Bank of America’s London
Branch to major banks in the London interbank eurodollar market at their request
at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the
commencement of such Interest Period.

 

“Eurodollar Rate
Loan” means a Revolving Credit Loan, a Term A Loan or an
Incremental Term Loan, if any, that bears interest at a rate based on the
Eurodollar Rate.

 

“Eurodollar
Reserve Percentage” means, for any day during any Interest Period, the
reserve percentage (expressed as a decimal, carried out to five decimal places)
in effect on such day, whether or not applicable to any Lender, under
regulations issued from time to time by the FRB for determining the maximum
reserve requirement (including any emergency, supplemental or other marginal
reserve requirement) with respect to Eurocurrency funding (currently referred
to as “Eurocurrency liabilities”).  The
Eurodollar Rate for each outstanding Eurodollar Rate Loan shall be adjusted
automatically as of the effective date of any change in the Eurodollar Reserve
Percentage.

 

“Event
of Default” shall mean any of the events described in Article VIII
hereof.

 

“Event
of Loss” means, with respect to any property, (i) the actual or
constructive total loss of such property or the use thereof, resulting from
destruction, damage beyond repair, or the rendition of such property
permanently unfit for normal use from any casualty or similar occurrence
whatsoever, (ii) the destruction or damage of a material portion of such
property from any casualty or similar occurrence whatsoever under circumstances
in which such damage cannot reasonably be expected to be repaired, or such
property cannot reasonably be expected to be restored to its condition
immediately prior to such destruction or damage, within 180 days after the
occurrence of such destruction or damage, (iii) the condemnation,
confiscation or seizure of, or requisition of title to or use of, any property,
or (iv) in the case of any property located upon a leasehold, the
termination or expiration of such leasehold.

 

“Excluded
Indebtedness” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
8.01(e) hereto.

 

“Excluded
Taxes” means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the L/C
Issuer or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any
obligation of the Company hereunder, (a) taxes imposed on or measured by its
overall net income (however denominated), and franchise taxes imposed on it (in
lieu of net income taxes), by the jurisdiction (or any political subdivision
thereof) under the laws of which such recipient is organized or in which its
principal office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its
applicable Lending Office is located, (b) any branch

 

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profits taxes imposed by the United States or any similar tax imposed
by any other jurisdiction in which the Company is located and (c) in the case
of a Foreign Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the
Company under Section 10.12), any withholding tax that is imposed on
amounts payable to such Foreign Lender at the time such Foreign Lender becomes
a party hereto (or designates a new Lending Office) or is attributable to such
Foreign Lender’s failure or inability (other than as a result of a Change in
Law) to comply with Section 3.01(e), except to the extent that such
Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of
designation of a new Lending Office (or assignment), to receive additional
amounts from the Company with respect to such withholding tax pursuant to Section
3.01(a).

 

“Existing Credit Agreement” means
that certain Seventh Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of June 26,
2001, among the Company, the Restricted Subsidiaries named therein, Toronto
Dominion (Texas), Inc., as agent, and a syndicate of lenders.

 

“Existing
Letters of Credit” means the letters of credit referred to on Schedule
2.03.

 

 “Facility” means the Term A-1 Facility, the
Term A-2 Facility, the Revolving Credit Facility or the Incremental
Term Facility, if any, as the context may require.

 

“Facility
Fee Letter”
means the letter agreement, dated February 24, 2006, among the Company, the
Joint Lead Arrangers and the Initial Lenders.

 

“Federal Funds Rate”
means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the
rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal
Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such
day; provided that (a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal
Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next
preceding Business Day as so published on the next succeeding Business Day, and
(b) if no such rate is so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the
Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate (rounded upward, if
necessary, to a whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) charged to Bank of America on
such day on such transactions as determined by the Administrative Agent.

 

“Fee Letters”
means the Facility Fee Letter and the Bank of America Fee Letter.

 

“Foreign Lender”
means any Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than
that in which the Company is resident for tax purposes.  For purposes of this definition, the United
States, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to
constitute a single jurisdiction.

 

“Franchise”
shall mean a franchise, license or other authorization or right to construct,
own, operate, promote and/or otherwise exploit any cable television system

 

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granted by the Federal Communications Commission (or any successor
agency of the Federal government) or any state, county, city, town, village or
other local governmental authority.

 

“Fund”
means any Person (other than a natural person) that is (or will be) engaged in
making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and
similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business.

 

“GAAP”
means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth
in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and
pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or such other
principles as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting
profession in the United States, that are applicable to the circumstances as of
the date of determination, consistently applied.

 

“Governmental
Authority” means the government of the United States or any other
nation, or of any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and
any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or
other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or
administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including
any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central
Bank).

 

“Granting
Lenders” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 10.06(h).

 

“Guarantee”
shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 7.13 hereof.

 

“Guarantors”
shall mean the Persons set forth on Schedule 1.01(iii) hereto and each
New Restricted Subsidiary required to become a Guarantor pursuant to Section
7.08 hereof.

 

“Guaranty” means the Guaranty made by the Guarantors under Article IV in favor of
the Secured Parties.

 

“Hazardous
Materials” means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes
and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including
petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials,
polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all
other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any
Environmental Law.

 

“Hedge Bank” means any
Person that, at the time it enters into a Secured Hedge Agreement, is a Lender
or an Affiliate of a Lender, in its capacity as a party to such Secured Hedge
Agreement.

 

“Honor
Date” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 2.03(c)(i).

 

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“Increase Effective Date” has the meaning specified in Section
2.13(d).

 

“Incremental
Term
Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Incremental
Term Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, having
the same Interest Period made by each of the Incremental Term Lenders
pursuant to Section 1 of the Incremental Term Supplement.

 

“Incremental
Term Closing Date” means the first date all the conditions precedent set
forth in the Incremental Term Supplement are satisfied or waived in accordance
with Section 10.01.

 

“Incremental
Term
Commitment” means, as to each Incremental Term Lender,
its obligation to make Incremental Term Loans to the Company pursuant to
Section 1 of the Incremental Term Supplement in an aggregate principal amount
at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such
Lender’s name on Schedule I to the Incremental Term Supplement under the
caption “Incremental Term Commitment” or opposite such caption in the
Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Incremental Term Lender
becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time
to time in accordance with this Credit Agreement.

 

“Incremental
Term
Facility” means, at any time, (a) on or prior to
the Incremental Term Closing Date, the aggregate amount of the Incremental
Term Commitments at such time and (b) thereafter, the
aggregate principal amount of the Incremental Term Loans of all
Incremental Term Lenders outstanding at such time.

 

“Incremental
Term Lender” means at any time, (a) on or prior to the Incremental Term
Closing Date, any Lender that has an Incremental Term Commitment at such
time and (b) at any time after the Incremental Term Closing Date, any Lender
that holds Incremental Term Loans at such time.

 

“Incremental
Term Loan”
means an advance made by any Incremental Term Lender under the Incremental Term
Facility.

 

“Incremental
Term Note” means a promissory note made by the Company in favor of an
Incremental Term Lender, evidencing Incremental Term Loans made by
such Incremental Term Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit A
to the Incremental Term Supplement.

 

“Incremental
Term Supplement” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(b).

 

“Indebtedness”
shall mean, as to any Person, Capital Lease Obligations of such Person and
other indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money (whether by loan or the
issuance and sale of debt securities) or for the deferred purchase or
acquisition price of property or services other than accounts payable (other
than for borrowed money) incurred in the ordinary course of business of such
Person.  Without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, such term shall include (a) when applied to the Company
and/or any Restricted Subsidiary, all obligations of the Company and/or any
Restricted

 

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Subsidiary under Swap Contracts and (b) when applied to the Company or
any other Person, all Indebtedness of others Guaranteed by such Person.

 

“Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.

 

“Initial
Lenders” shall mean Bank of America, Citibank, N.A., Bear Stearns Corporate
Lending Inc., Credit Suisse, JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, and
Merrill Lynch Capital Corporation.

 

“Interest Payment
Date” means, (a) as to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, the last day of
each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date of the
Facility under which such Loan was made; provided, however, that
if any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Rate Loan exceeds three months, the
respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such
Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates; and (b) as to any Base Rate Loan, the last
Business Day of each March, June,
September and December and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which
such Loan was made.

 

“Interest Period”
means, as to each Eurodollar Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such
Eurodollar Rate Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurodollar
Rate Loan and ending on the date one, two, three or six months thereafter, as
selected by the Company
in its Committed Loan Notice; provided that:

 

(a)           any Interest Period that would otherwise end
on a day that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding
Business Day unless such Business Day falls in another calendar month,
in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business
Day;

 

(b)           any
Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on
a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month
at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the
calendar month at the end of such Interest Period; and

 

(c)           no
Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date of the Facility under
which such Loan was made.

 

“Investments”
shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 7.17 hereof.

 

“ISP”
shall mean the International Standby Practices (ISP98) International Chamber of
Commerce Publication No. 590, as the same may be amended and as in effect from
time to time.

 

“Issuer
Documents” means with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Letter of Credit
Application, and any other document, agreement and instrument entered into by
the L/C Issuer and the Company or any Subsidiary or in favor the L/C Issuer and
relating to any such Letter of Credit.

 

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“Joint
Lead Arrangers” means Banc of America Securities LLC and Citigroup Global
Markets Inc., in their capacity as exclusive joint lead arrangers.

 

“Laws”
means, collectively, all international, foreign, Federal, state and local
statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and
administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation
or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the
enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable
administrative orders, directives, requests, licenses, authorizations and
permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case
whether or not having the force of law.

 

 “L/C Advance” means, with respect to each
Revolving Credit Lender, such Lender’s funding of its participation in any L/C
Borrowing in accordance with its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage.

 

“L/C Borrowing”
means an extension of credit resulting from a drawing under any Letter of
Credit which has not been reimbursed on the date when made or refinanced as a
Revolving Credit Borrowing.

 

“L/C Credit
Extension” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the issuance
thereof or extension of the expiry date thereof, or the increase of the amount
thereof.

 

“L/C Issuer”
means Bank of America in its capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder,
or any successor issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder or, with respect to
Existing Letters of Credit, The Toronto-Dominion Bank.

 

“L/C Obligations”
means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate amount available to be
drawn under all outstanding Letters of Credit plus the aggregate of all
Unreimbursed Amounts, including all L/C Borrowings.  For purposes of computing the amount
available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of
Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.06.  For all purposes of this Credit Agreement, if
on any date of determination a Letter of Credit has expired by its terms but
any amount may still be drawn thereunder by reason of the operation of Rule
3.14 of the ISP, such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be “outstanding” in
the amount so remaining available to be drawn.

 

“Leases”
shall mean leases and subleases (excluding Capital Lease Obligations), licenses
to use property, easements and pole attachments and conduit or trench
agreements and other rights to use telephone or utility poles, conduits or
trenches.

 

“Lender”
means the banks or other financial institutions which are parties hereto,
including any Incremental Term Lender, together with their respective
successors and assigns.

 

“Lending Office”
means, as to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender described as such
in such Lender’s Administrative Questionnaire, or such other

 

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office or offices as a Lender may from time to time notify the Company
and the Administrative Agent.

 

“Letter of Credit” means any letter of
credit issued hereunder and shall
include the Existing Letters of Credit. 
A Letter of Credit may be a
commercial letter of credit or a
standby letter of credit.

 

“Letter of Credit
Application” means an application and agreement for the issuance or
amendment of a Letter of Credit in the form from time to time in use by the L/C
Issuer.

 

“Letter of Credit
Expiration Date” means the day that is seven days prior to the
Maturity Date then in effect for the Revolving Credit Facility (or, if such day
is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day).

 

“Letter
of Credit Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(a)(i).

 

“Letter of Credit
Sublimit” means an amount equal to $150,000,000.
The Letter of Credit Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Revolving
Credit Facility.

 

“Liens”
shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 7.14 hereof.

 

“Loan”
means an extension of credit by a Lender to the Company under Article II
in the form of a Term Loan or a Revolving Credit Loan.

 

“Loan Documents”
means, collectively, (a) this Credit Agreement, (b) the Notes, (c) the
Collateral Documents, (d) the Fee Letters, (e) each Issuer Document, (f)
each Secured Hedge Agreement, (g) each Secured Cash Management Agreement, and
(h) the Incremental Term Supplement, if any; provided that for purposes
of the definition of “Material Adverse Effect” and Articles V through IX
and Section 10.01, “Loan Documents” shall not include Secured Hedge
Agreements or Secured Cash Management Agreements.

 

 “Loan Parties” means, collectively, the
Company and each Restricted Subsidiary.

 

“Margin
Stock” shall mean “margin stock” as defined in Regulation U.

 

“Materially
Adverse Effect” shall mean a materially adverse effect upon (i) the
business, assets, financial condition or results of operations of the Company
and the Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole on a combined basis in
accordance with GAAP, (ii) the ability of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries taken as a whole to perform the Obligations hereunder or
(iii) the legality, validity, binding nature or enforceability of this
Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document or the validity, perfection,
priority or enforceability of the security interest created, or purported to be
created, by the Pledge Agreement.

 

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“Maturity Date”
means (a) with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility and the Term A
Facilities, February 24, 2012, and (b) with respect to the Incremental Term
Facility, if any, the date specified as such in the Incremental Term
Supplement.

 

“Monetization
Indebtedness” shall mean Indebtedness
of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary under prepaid forward contracts or
similar arrangements that require, inter alia, the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary to deliver, at maturity or upon
termination of such contract or arrangement, the capital stock of any Person
that is not an Affiliate of the Company and which capital stock is owned by the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary prior to entering into such contract or
arrangement  (any such capital stock
being referred to herein as the “Monetized Stock”) or an
aggregate amount of cash determined by reference to the fair market value of such Monetized Stock, and to pledge such
Monetized Stock to secure its delivery obligation.

 

“Moody’s”
means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.

 

“Multiemployer
Plan” shall mean a Plan that is a multiemployer plan as defined in Section
4001(a)(3) of ERISA.

 

“Net
Cash Proceeds” shall mean proceeds received by the Company or any of the
Restricted Subsidiaries in cash from (x) any Disposition or the incurrence,
issuance or sale of Indebtedness or capital stock of the Company or any of the
Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case after deduction of the costs of, and any
income, franchise, transfer or other tax liability arising from, such sale,
disposition, incurrence or issuance, (y) a capital contribution in respect of
the common stock of any class of the Company to the Company by the holder
thereof, or (z) any insurance, condemnation awards or other payment with
respect to an Event of Loss, after deduction of the costs of, and any income,
franchise, transfer or other tax liability arising therefrom.  If any amount payable to the Company or any
such Restricted Subsidiary in respect of any such incurrence or issuance shall
be or become evidenced by any promissory note or other negotiable or
non-negotiable instrument, the cash proceeds received on any such note or
instrument shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds.

 

“New
Common Stock” shall mean (x) any common stock of any class of the Company
issued after the Agreement Date or (y) any capital contribution to the Company
in respect of the common stock of any class of the Company to the Company by
the holder thereof made after the Agreement Date.

 

“New
Preferred Stock” shall mean any preferred stock of the Company issued after
the Agreement Date, provided that pursuant to the terms thereof and of
any provision of the Company’s charter in respect thereof, such preferred stock
is neither (i) redeemable, payable or required to be purchased or otherwise
retired or extinguished in whole or in part (other than with common stock or
other New Preferred Stock of the Company), or convertible into any Indebtedness
of the Company, at a fixed or determinable date (whether by operation of a
sinking fund or otherwise), at the option of any Person other than the Company
or upon the occurrence of a condition not solely

 

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within the control of the Company (such as a redemption required to be
made out of future earnings) nor (ii) convertible into preferred stock of the
Company that may be so retired, extinguished or converted, in the case of
clause (i) or (ii) above, at any time before the date that is one year after
the last Maturity Date applicable to the Facilities as in effect at the time of
the issuance of such preferred stock.

 

“New
Restricted Subsidiary” shall mean any New Subsidiary designated as a
Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 7.08(b) and any Unrestricted
Subsidiary redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section
7.08(c).

 

“New
Subsidiary” shall mean any Person which becomes a Subsidiary of the Company
after the Closing Date.

 

“New
Unrestricted Subsidiary” shall mean any New Subsidiary deemed an
Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 7.08(a).

 

 “Note” means a Term A-1 Note, a Term A-2
Note, a Revolving Credit Note or an Incremental Term Note, if any, as the
context may require.

 

“Obligations”
means all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and
duties of, any Loan Party arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with
respect to any Loan or Letter of Credit, whether direct or indirect (including
those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due,
now existing or hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue
after the commencement by or against any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof of
any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in
such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed
claims in such proceeding.

 

“Operating Cash Flow” shall mean, for any
period, the following for the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such
period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP:  (i) aggregate operating revenues minus
(ii) aggregate operating expenses (including technical, programming,
sales, selling, general administrative expenses and salaries and other
compensation, in each case net of amounts allocated to Affiliates, but
excluding depreciation and amortization and charges and credits relating to
employee stock plans and restructuring charges and credits and, to the extent
otherwise included in operating expenses, any losses resulting from a write-off
or writedown of Investments by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in
Affiliates); provided, however, that for purposes of determining
Operating Cash Flow for any period (A) there shall be excluded all management
fees paid to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary during such period by any
Unrestricted Subsidiary other than any such amounts settled in cash to the
extent not in excess of 5% of Operating Cash Flow for the Company and the
Restricted Subsidiaries as determined without including any such fees and
(B) Operating Cash Flow for such period shall be increased or reduced, as
the case may be, by the Operating Cash Flow of assets or businesses acquired or
disposed of (provided that in each case it has an impact on Annualized
Operating Cash Flow of at least $2 million) (including by means of any
redesignation of any Subsidiary pursuant to Section 7.08(c)) by the
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such period, determined on a pro forma basis
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (it being agreed that it
shall be satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that such pro forma
calculations may be based upon GAAP as applied in the preparation of the
financial statements for the Company, delivered in accordance with Section
7.01 hereof rather than as applied in the financial statements of the
company whose assets were acquired and may include, in the Company’s
discretion, a reasonable estimate of savings under existing contracts resulting
from any such acquisitions), as though the Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary acquired or disposed of such assets on the first day of such period.  For purposes of this definition, operating
revenues and operating expenses shall exclude any non-recurring, non-cash items
in excess of $10,000,000.

 

“Other Taxes”
means all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or
property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made
hereunder or under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or
enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Credit Agreement or any
other Loan Document.

 

“Outstanding Amount”
means (a) with respect to Term Loans and Revolving Credit Loans on any date,
the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any
borrowings and prepayments or repayments of Term Loans and Revolving Credit
Loans, as the case may be, occurring on such date; and (b) with respect to any
L/C Obligations on any date, the amount of such L/C Obligations on such date
after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension occurring on such date and any
other changes in the aggregate amount of the L/C Obligations as of such date,
including as a result of any reimbursements by the Company of Unreimbursed
Amounts.

 

“Parent
Corp.” shall mean Cablevision Systems Corp., a Delaware corporation.

 

“Participant”
shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 10.06(d).

 

“PBGC”
shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any entity succeeding to
any or all of its functions under ERISA.

 

“Permitted
Debt” shall mean any Indebtedness incurred, issued or sold by the Company
after the Agreement Date, provided that:

 

(i)            such
Indebtedness (A) shall be unsecured, (B) shall have a commercially reasonable
interest rate (which rate shall be deemed commercially reasonable if such
Indebtedness is sold by a member of the National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. in an underwritten offering or on a ‘best
efforts’ basis), (C) shall be neither (1) redeemable, payable or required to be
purchased or otherwise retired or extinguished in whole or in part at a fixed
or determinable date (whether by operation of a sinking fund or otherwise), at
the option of any Person other than the Company or upon the occurrence of a
condition not solely

 

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within the control of the Company (such as a
redemption required to be made out of future earnings) nor (2) convertible into
any other Indebtedness or capital stock of the Company that may be so retired,
extinguished or converted, in the case of clause (1) or (2) above, at any time
before the date that is one year after the last Maturity Date applicable to the
Facilities as in effect at the time of the incurrence, issuance or sale of such
Indebtedness and (D) shall have terms and conditions no more restrictive or
burdensome than the terms and conditions of the Company’s Senior Notes due 2012
in an aggregate principal amount of $500,000,000 issued on or about April 6,
2004 (whether or not such Senior Notes are outstanding at the date of such
determination); and

 

(ii)           at
the time of and immediately after giving effect to the incurrence, issuance or
sale of such Indebtedness, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
and the Company shall have so certified to the Administrative Agent;

 

and provided
further, that the Company shall (i) prior to the issuance of any such Indebtedness,
provide notice to the Administrative Agent of the proposed issuance thereof and
of the use of the proceeds thereof and (ii) as soon as available, provide to
the Administrative Agent copies of the Debt Instruments governing such
Indebtedness.

 

“Permitted
Liens” shall mean, with respect to any Person:  (i) pledges or deposits by such Person under
workers’ compensation laws, unemployment insurance laws or similar legislation,
or good faith deposits in connection with bids, tenders, contracts (other than
for the payment of Indebtedness) or Leases to which such Person is a party, or
deposits to secure public or statutory obligations of such Person or deposits
of cash or U.S. Government bonds to secure surety or appeal bonds to which such
Person is a party, or deposits as security for contested taxes or import duties
or for the payment of rent; (ii) Liens imposed by law, such as carriers’,
warehousemen’s and mechanics’ Liens or other Liens arising out of judgments or
awards against such Person with respect to which such Person shall then be
prosecuting appeal or other proceedings for review (and as to which all
foreclosures and other enforcement proceedings shall have been fully bonded or
otherwise effectively stayed); (iii) Liens for property taxes not yet subject
to penalties for non-payment or which are being contested in good faith and by
appropriate proceedings (and as to which all foreclosures and other enforcement
proceedings shall have been fully bonded or otherwise effectively stayed); (iv)
Liens in favor of issuers of performance bonds issued pursuant to the request
of and for the account of such Person in the ordinary course of its business;
(v) minor survey exceptions, minor encumbrances, easements or reservations of,
or rights of others for rights of way, sewers, electric lines, telegraph and
telephone lines and other similar purposes, or zoning or other restrictions as
to the use of real properties or Liens incidental to the conduct of the
business of such Person or to the ownership of its properties which were not
incurred in connection with Indebtedness or other extensions of credit and
which do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value of said
properties or materially impair their use in the operation of the business of
such Person; (vi) any Lien on any Margin Stock; or (vii) Liens created in the
ordinary course of business and customary in the relevant industry with respect
to the creation of content, and the components thereof, securing the
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$10,000,000 in the aggregate of any of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries owing in respect of compensation or other payments owed for
services rendered by creative or other personnel that do not constitute
Indebtedness, provided that any such Lien shall attach solely to the content,
or applicable component thereof, that are the subject to the arrangements
giving rise to the underlying obligation.

 

“Permitted
Restricted Subsidiary Transaction” shall mean any transaction by which any
Restricted Subsidiary shall (i) pay dividends or make any distribution on its
capital stock or other equity securities or pay any of its Indebtedness owed to
any other Restricted Subsidiaries, (ii) make any loans or advances to any other
Restricted Subsidiaries or (iii) transfer any of its properties or assets to,
or merge or consolidate with or into, any other Restricted Subsidiaries.

 

“Person”
means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint
venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other
entity.

 

“Plan”
shall mean, at any time, an employee pension benefit plan which is covered by
Title IV of ERISA or subject to the minimum funding standards under Section 412
of the Code and is either (i) maintained by the Company or an ERISA Affiliate
or (ii) maintained pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement or any other
arrangement under which more than one employer makes contributions and to which
the Company or an ERISA Affiliate is then making or accruing an obligation to
make contributions or has within the preceding six plan years made
contributions.

 

“Platform”
shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 7.01.

 

“Pledge
Agreement” shall mean that certain Pledge Agreement, dated as of February 24,
2006, among certain Loan Parties and the Collateral Agent.

 

“Pledged Equity
Interests” shall have the meaning given to such term in the Pledge
Agreement.

 

“Pledgor”
shall have the meaning given to such term in the Pledge Agreement.

 

“Pole
Rental Leases” shall mean Leases under which the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries have the right to use telephone or utility poles, conduits or
trenches for the purpose of supporting or housing cables of the respective
systems.

 

“Prohibited
Transaction” shall mean a transaction that is prohibited under Section 4975
of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA and not exempt under Section 4975 of the
Code or Section 408 of ERISA.

 

“Public
Lender” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 7.01.

 

“Quarter”
shall mean a fiscal quarterly period of the Company.

 

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“Reduction Amount”
has the meaning set forth in Section 2.04(b)(vii).

 

“Refunding
Proceeds” shall mean, on any date, an amount equal to the aggregate Net
Cash Proceeds of all Permitted Debt, New Preferred Stock and New Common Stock
of the Company received by the Company during the 12 month period ending on
such date to the extent not allocated by the Company to any payment made for the
purchase, acquisition, redemption, retirement, payment or prepayment of
Debenture Debt or preferred stock of the Company during such 12 month period.

 

“Register”
shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 10.06(c).

 

“Registered
Public Accounting Firm” has the meaning specified by the Securities Laws
and shall be independent of the Company as prescribed by the Securities
Laws.

 

 “Regulation U” shall mean Regulation U
of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as the same may be
amended or supplemented from time to time.

 

“Related
Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and
the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such
Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.

 

“Reportable
Event” shall mean (i) any of the events set forth in Section 4043(b) (other
than a Reportable Event as to which the provision of 30 days’ notice to the
PBGC is waived under applicable regulations), 4068(f) or 4063(a) of ERISA or
the regulations thereunder, (ii) an event requiring the Company or any ERISA
Affiliate to provide security to a Plan under Section 401(a)(29) of the Code
and (iii) any failure to make payments required by Section 412(m) of the Code
if such failure continues for 30 days following the due date for any required
installment.

 

“Request for Credit
Extension” means (a) with respect to a Borrowing, conversion or
continuation of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans, a Committed Loan Notice,
and (b) with respect to an L/C Credit Extension, a Letter of Credit
Application.

 

“Required
Incremental Term Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Incremental Term Lenders holding more than 50% of the Incremental Term
Facility, if any, on such date; provided that the portion of the
Incremental Term Facility held by any Defaulting Lender shall be
excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Incremental Term
Lenders.

 

“Required Lenders”
means, as of any date of determination, Lenders holding more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Total Outstandings (with the
aggregate amount of each Revolving Credit Lender’s risk participation and
funded participation in L/C Obligations being deemed “held” by such Revolving
Credit Lender for purposes of this definition) and (b) aggregate unused
Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that the unused Revolving Credit
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held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for
purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders.

 

“Required Revolver/Term A Lenders” means, as of
any date of determination, Lenders (other than Incremental Term Lenders, if
any) holding more than 50% of
the sum of the (a) the Total Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of
each Revolving Credit Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in
L/C Obligations being deemed “held” by such Revolving Credit Lender for
purposes of this definition) less the Outstanding Amount of the
Incremental Term Loans, if any, and (b) aggregate unused Revolving Credit
Commitments; provided that the unused Revolving Credit Commitment of,
and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by, any
Defaulting Lender (other than an Incremental Term Lender, if any) shall be
excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Revolver/Term A
Lenders.

 

“Required Revolving Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Revolving Credit
Lenders holding more than 50% of
the sum of the (a) Total Revolving Credit Outstandings (with the aggregate
amount of each Revolving Credit Lender’s risk participation and funded
participation in L/C Obligations being deemed “held” by such Revolving
Credit Lender for purposes of this definition) and (b) aggregate unused
Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that the unused Revolving Credit
Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings held
or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of
making a determination of Required Revolving Lenders.

 

“Required Term A-1 Lenders” means, as of any
date of determination,
Term A-1 Lenders holding more than 50%
of the Term A-1 Facility on such date; provided that the portion
of the Term A-1 Facility held by any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for
purposes of making a determination of Required Term A-1 Lenders.

 

“Required
Term A-2 Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Term A-2 Lenders holding more than 50% of the Term A-2
Facility on such date; provided that the portion of the Term A-2
Facility held by any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making
a determination of Required Term A-2 Lenders.

 

“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer,
president, chief financial officer, controller, treasurer or assistant
treasurer of a Loan Party.  Any document delivered hereunder that is
signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed
to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other
action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be
conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.

 

“Restricted Payments” shall mean direct or
indirect distributions, dividends or other payments by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary on account of (including, without limitation, sinking
fund or other payments on account of the redemption, retirement, purchase or
acquisition of) any general or limited partnership or joint venture interest
in, or any capital stock of, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the
case may be (whether made in cash, property or other obligations),

 

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other than (i) any such
distributions, dividends and other payments made by a Restricted Subsidiary to
the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary in respect of such interest in or
stock of the former held by the latter, (ii) distributions of any or all
of the stock of RMH or (iii) dividends, distributions and other payments
made by Cablevision of Ossining Limited Partnership to all of the partners
thereof pro rata in respect of their interests therein, provided that no
change (other than a change resulting from the redemption of Dolan’s interests
therein) in (A) the ownership by such partners of Cablevision of Ossining
Limited Partnership or (B) the rights of such partners to receive such
payments shall have occurred since the Closing Date.

 

“Restricted Subsidiaries” shall mean the
Persons set forth on Schedule 1.01(i) hereto and any New
Restricted Subsidiary, provided that any Restricted Subsidiary
redesignated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to and in compliance with Section 7.08(c) shall
cease to be a Restricted Subsidiary.

 

“Revolver/Term A Covenant” means any of the covenants contained in Sections
7.02, 7.05, 7.06, 7.08, 7.09, 7.12, 7.13,
7.14, 7.15, 7.17, 7.18, 7.21, 7.23, 7.24,
and 7.25.

 

“Revolver/Term A Default” means any event or
condition that constitutes a Revolver/Term A Event of Default or that, with the
giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Revolver/Term A
Event of Default.

 

“Revolver/Term A Event of Default” means any
Event of Default contained in clauses (b)(i), (c), (d)(i), (f), (i)(i), (j),
and (k) of Section 8.01.

 

“Revolving Credit Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of
simultaneous Revolving Credit Loans of the same Type and, in the case of
Eurodollar Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the
Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(b).

 

“Revolving Credit Commitment” means, as to each Revolving
Credit Lender, its obligation to (a) make Revolving Credit Loans to the
Company pursuant to Section 2.01(c), and (b) purchase
participations in L/C Obligations, in an aggregate principal amount at any one
time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name
on Schedule 2.01 under the caption “Revolving Credit Commitment” or
opposite such caption in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such
Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted
from time to time in accordance with this Credit Agreement.

 

“Revolving Credit Facility” means, at any time, the aggregate
amount of the Revolving Credit Lenders’ Revolving Credit Commitments at such
time.

 

“Revolving Credit Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that
has a Revolving Credit Commitment at such time.

 

“Revolving Credit Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(c).

 

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“Revolving Credit Note” means a promissory note made by the
Company in favor of a Revolving Credit Lender evidencing Revolving Credit Loans
made by such Revolving Credit Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit B-2.

 

“RMH” shall mean Rainbow Media Holdings LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company.

 

“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services,
a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and any successor thereto.

 

“Sarbanes-Oxley” means the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
of 2002.

 

“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any
Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.

 

“SEC Reports” shall mean the Form 10-K
Annual Report of the Company for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004
and the Form 10-Q Quarterly Report of the Company for the period ended September 30,
2005.

 

“Secured
Cash Management Agreement”
means any Cash Management Agreement that is entered into by and between the
Company and any Cash Management Bank.

 

“Secured
Hedge Agreement” means
any interest rate Swap Contract permitted under Article VII that is
entered into by and between the Company and any Hedge Bank.

 

“Secured Parties” means, collectively, the Administrative
Agent, the Lenders, the L/C Issuer, the Hedge Banks, the Cash Management Banks,
each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to
time pursuant to Section 9.05, and the other Persons the
Obligations owing to which are or are stated to be secured by the Collateral
under the terms of the Collateral Documents.

 

“Securities Laws” means the Securities Act of
1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the applicable
accounting and auditing principles, rules, standards and practices promulgated,
approved or incorporated by the SEC or the Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board.

 

“Senior Secured Leverage Ratio” shall mean, as
at any date, the ratio of (i) the Total Outstandings on such date to (ii) Annualized
Operating Cash Flow determined as at the last day of the month covered by the
then most recent Compliance Certificate delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 7.01(d) hereof,
a copy of which has been delivered to the Administrative Agent (and any change
in such ratio as a result of a change in the amount of Total Outstandings shall
be effective as of the date such change shall occur and any change in such
ratio as a result of a change in the amount of Annualized Operating Cash Flow
shall be effective as of the date of receipt by the Administrative Agent of the
Compliance Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 7.01(d) hereof
reflecting such change).

 

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“Solvent” and “Solvency” mean, with respect to any Person on
any date of determination, that on such date (a) the fair value of the
property of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities,
including contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair
salable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that
will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as
they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend to, and
does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person’s
ability to pay such debts and liabilities as they mature and (d) such
Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage
in business or a transaction, for which such Person’s property would constitute
an unreasonably small capital.  The
amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount
that, in the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time,
represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or
matured liability.

 

“Solvency Certificate” shall mean a certificate
of a senior financial executive of the Company in form and substance
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion.

 

“SPC” has the meaning specified in
Section 10.06(h).

 

“Special
Dividend” mean a one-time special dividend or other distribution made by
the Company to Parent Corp. and funded, in whole or in part, by the incurrence
of any Indebtedness of the Company in an amount in excess of $1,500,000,000.

 

“Subsidiary” of a Person means a corporation, partnership,
joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a
majority of the shares or securities or other interests having ordinary voting
power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than
securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a
contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is
otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person.  Unless otherwise specified, all references
herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a
Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the
Company.

 

“Swap Contract” means (a) any and all rate swap
transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate
transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts,
equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps
or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index
transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap
transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap
transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot
contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the
foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether
or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement,
and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related
confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed
by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and
Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign

 

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Exchange Master Agreement, or
any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any
related schedules, a “Master Agreement”), including any such obligations or
liabilities under any Master Agreement.

 

“Taxes” means all present or future taxes, assessments or
other charges (including withholdings) imposed by any Governmental Authority
with authority to impose the same, including any interest, additions to tax or
penalties applicable thereto.

 

“Term A-1 Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of
simultaneous Term A-1 Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurodollar
Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Term A-1
Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(a).

 

“Term A-1 Commitment” means, as to each Term A-1 Lender,
its obligation to make Term A-1 Loans to the Company pursuant to Section 2.01(a) in
an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the
amount set forth opposite such Term A-1 Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01
under the caption “Term A-1 Commitment” or opposite such caption in the
Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Term A-1 Lender becomes a
party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time
in accordance with this Credit Agreement.

 

“Term A-1 Facility” means, at any
time, (a) on or prior to the
Closing Date, the aggregate amount of the Term A-1 Commitments at such
time and (b) thereafter, the aggregate principal amount of
the Term A-1 Loans of all Term A-1 Lenders outstanding at such time.

 

“Term A-1 Lender” means (a) at any
time on or prior to the Closing Date, any Lender that has a Term A-1
Commitment at such time and (b) at any time after the Closing Date, any
Lender that holds Term A-1 Loans at such time.

 

“Term A-1 Loan” means an advance made by any Term A-1
Lender under the Term A-1 Facility.

 

“Term A-1 Note” means a promissory note
made by the Company in favor of a Term A-1 Lender evidencing Term A-1
Loans made by such Term A-1 Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit B-1.

 

“Term A-2 Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous
Term A-2 Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans,
having the same Interest Period made by each of the Term A-2 Lenders
pursuant to Section 2.01(b).

 

“Term A-2 Commitment” means, as to each Term A-2
Lender, its obligation to make Term A-2 Loans to the Company pursuant to Section 2.01(b) in
an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the
amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 under
the caption “Term A-2 Commitment” or opposite such caption in the Assignment
and Assumption pursuant to which such Term A-2 Lender becomes a party
hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in
accordance with this Credit Agreement.

 

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“Term A-2 Facility” means, at any time, (a) on or prior
to the Closing Date, the aggregate amount of the Term A-2 Commitments at
such time and (b) thereafter,
the aggregate principal amount of the Term A-2 Loans of all Term A-2
Lenders outstanding at such time.

 

“Term A-2 Lender” means at any time, (a) on
or prior to the Closing Date, any Lender that has a Term A-2 Commitment at such
time and (b) at any time after the Closing Date, any Lender that holds
Term A-2 Loans at such time.

 

“Term A-2 Loan” means an advance made by any Term A-2 Lender
under the Term A-2 Facility.

 

“Term A-2 Note” means a promissory note made by
the Company in favor of a Term A-2 Lender, evidencing Term A-2 Loans
made by such Term A-2 Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit B-1.

 

“Term A Borrowing” means either a Term A-1
Borrowing or a Term A-2 Borrowing, as the context may require.

 

“Term A Facility” means either the Term A-1
Facility or the Term A-2 Facility, as the context may require.

 

“Term A Lender” means either a Term A-1 Lender or a Term A-2
Lender, as the context may require.

 

“Term A Loan” means either a Term A-1 Loan or a Term A-2
Loan, as the context may require.

 

“Term Borrowing” means either a Term A-1 Borrowing, a Term A-2
Borrowing or an Incremental Term Borrowing, if any, as the context may require.

 

“Term Commitment” means either a Term A-1 Commitment, a Term
A-2 Commitment or an Incremental Term Commitment, if any, as the context may
require.

 

“Term Facilities” means, at any time, the Term A-1 Facility,
the Term A-2 Facility and, if any, the Incremental Term Facility.

 

“Term Lender” means, at any time, a Term A-1 Lender, a Term A-2
Lender or an Incremental Term Lender, if any, as the context may require.

 

“Term Loan” means a Term A-1 Loan, a Term A-2 Loan or an
Incremental Term Loan, if any, as the context may require.

 

“Termination Event” shall mean (i) a
Reportable Event, (ii) the termination of a Plan, or the filing of a
notice of intent to terminate a Plan, or the treatment of a Plan amendment as a
termination under Section 4041(c) of ERISA, (iii) the
institution of proceedings to terminate a Plan under Section 4042 of ERISA
or (iv) the appointment of a trustee to administer any Plan under Section 4042
of ERISA.

 

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“TKR” shall mean CSC TKR, Inc., a Delaware
corporation.

 

“TKR Agreement” shall mean the First Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of May 28, 1998, among TKR
(formerly Cablevision CMFRI, Inc.), the Company, the Guarantors that are
parties thereto, the Banks that are parties thereto, Toronto Dominion (Texas), Inc.,
as Arranging Agent and as Administrative Agent, and the other agents that are
parties thereto, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from
time to time.

 

“TKR Loans” shall mean “Loans” as such term is
used in the TKR Agreement.

 

“Toronto Dominion Fee Letter” means the letter
between the Company and The Toronto-Dominion Bank related to the Existing
Letters of Credit.

 

“Total Debt Expense” shall mean, for any
period, (A) Total Interest Expense for such period plus (B) an
amount equal to the aggregate amount of all scheduled payments of principal on
Indebtedness of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries (on a consolidated
basis) during such period (including, but not limited to, the principal portion
paid with respect to Capital Lease Obligations, but excluding (i) scheduled
payments of principal on Debenture Debt to the extent that (x) such payments
are made with Refunding Proceeds or (y) the unused Revolving Credit Commitment
available to be borrowed by the Company, in accordance with the terms and
conditions hereunder, on the date any such payment is made exceeds
$500,000,000, (ii) all obligations under any Guarantee permitted under
subparagraph (viii) of Section 7.13 hereof, and (iii) all
obligations under any Guarantee permitted under subparagraph (x) of Section 7.13
hereof to the extent the obligation under any such Guarantee was paid in common
stock of the Parent Corp.) plus (C) (i) all dividends and
other distributions in respect of preferred stock of the Company during such
period (other than to the extent any such dividends and distributions are paid
in New Common Stock or New Preferred Stock) and (ii) all payments on
account of the scheduled redemption, retirement or extinguishment in whole or
in part (whether by operation of a sinking fund or otherwise) of any preferred
stock of the Company, excluding any such payments to the extent made with
Refunding Proceeds to the extent not prohibited by Section 7.18
hereof plus (D) all dividends and other distributions made by the
Company to Parent Corp., the proceeds of which are, or are intended to be, used
by Parent Corp. to make a scheduled payment of principal or interest on any of
Parent Corp.’s Indebtedness (excluding
scheduled payments of principal on any of Parent Corp.’s Indebtedness to the
extent that the unused Revolving Credit Commitment available to be borrowed
by the Company, in accordance with the terms and conditions hereunder, on the
date any such payment is made exceeds $500,000,000); provided that, for
purposes of determining Total Debt Expense for any period, there shall be
included or excluded, as the case may be, all scheduled payments of principal
during such period on Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary
in respect of assets acquired or disposed of (including by means of any
redesignation of any Subsidiary pursuant to Section 7.08(c)) by the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary on or after the first day of such period,
determined on a pro forma basis reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent (it being agreed that it shall be

 

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satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent that such pro forma calculations may be based upon GAAP as
applied in the preparation of the financial statements for the Company,
delivered in accordance with Section 7.01 hereof rather than as
applied in the financial statements of the company whose assets were acquired
and may include, in the Company’s discretion, a reasonable estimate of savings
under existing contracts resulting from any such acquisitions), as though the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary acquired or disposed of such assets on
the first day of such period.

 

“Total Interest Expense” shall mean, for any
period, the sum of (i) the aggregate amount of interest accrued during
such period in respect of Indebtedness (including the interest component of
rentals in respect of Capital Lease Obligations and including, without duplication,
discount in respect of Permitted Debt) of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries (determined on a consolidated basis), other than (x) obligations
under any Guarantee permitted under subparagraph (viii) of Section 7.13
hereof, and (y) obligations under any Guarantee permitted under subparagraph
(x) of Section 7.13 hereof to the extent that such obligation was
paid in common stock of the Parent Corp., (ii) the aggregate amount of
fees accrued in respect of the Letters of Credit hereunder during such period
and (iii) the aggregate amount of Commitment Fees accrued hereunder during
such period.  For purposes hereof, the
amount of interest accrued in respect of Indebtedness for any period (A) shall
be increased (to the extent not already treated as interest expense or income,
as the case may be) by the excess, if any, of amounts payable by the Company
and/or any Restricted Subsidiary arising under any interest rate Swap Contract
during such period over amounts receivable by the Company and/or any Restricted
Subsidiary thereunder (or reduced by the excess, if any, of such amounts
receivable over such amounts payable) and interest on a Capital Lease
Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined
by the Company to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capital Lease
Obligation in accordance with GAAP (including Statement of Financial Accounting
Standards No. 13) and (B) shall be increased or reduced, as the case
may be, by the amount of interest accrued during such period in respect of
Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of assets
acquired or disposed of (including by means of any redesignation of any
Subsidiary pursuant to Section 7.08(c)) by the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary on or after the first day of such period, determined on a
pro forma basis reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (it being
agreed that it shall be satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that such pro
forma calculations may be based upon GAAP as applied in the preparation of the
financial statements for the Company, delivered in accordance with Section 7.01
hereof rather than as applied in the financial statements of the company whose
assets were acquired and may include, in the Company’s discretion, a reasonable
estimate of savings under existing contracts resulting from any such
acquisitions), as though the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary acquired or
disposed of such assets on the first day of such period.

 

“Total Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount
of all Loans and all L/C Obligations.

 

“Total Revolving Credit Outstandings” means the
aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans and L/C Obligations.

 

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“Type” means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base
Rate Loan or a Eurodollar Rate Loan.

 

“UCP” shall mean the Uniform Customs and
Practice for Documentary Credits, 1993 revision, International Chamber of
Commerce Publication No. 500, as the same may be amended and in effect
from time to time.

 

“United States Person” shall mean a
corporation, partnership or other entity created, organized or incorporated
under the laws of the United States of America or a State thereof (including
the District of Columbia).

 

“Unreimbursed Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(c)(i).

 

“Unrestricted Subsidiaries” shall mean the
Persons set forth on Schedule 1.01(ii) hereto and any New
Unrestricted Subsidiaries, provided that any Unrestricted Subsidiary
redesignated by the Company as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to and in
compliance with Section 7.08(c) shall cease to be an
Unrestricted Subsidiary.

 

Section 1.02           Other Interpretive Provisions.  With reference to this Credit Agreement and
each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other
Loan Document:

 

(a)           The definitions of terms herein shall
apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined.  Whenever the context may require, any pronoun
shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms.  The words “include,” “includes”
and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without
limitation.”  The word “will”
shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall.”  Unless the context requires otherwise, (i) any
definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document
(including any organization document) shall be construed as referring to such
agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented
or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments,
supplements or modifications set forth herein or in any other Loan Document), (ii) any
reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s
successors and assigns, (iii) the words “herein,” “hereof”
and “hereunder,” and words of similar import when used in any Loan
Document, shall be construed to refer to such Loan Document in its entirety and
not to any particular provision thereof, (iv) all references in a Loan
Document to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to
refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, the Loan
Document in which such references appear, (v) any reference to any law
shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending,
replacing or interpreting such law and any reference to any law or regulation
shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law or regulation as amended,
modified or supplemented from time to time, and (vi) the words “asset”
and “property” (except when used as accounting terms, in which case GAAP
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meaning and
effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and
properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.

 

(b)           In the computation of periods of time
from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from
and including;” the words “to” and “until” each mean “to
but excluding;” and the word “through” means “to and including.”

 

(c)           Section headings herein and in
the other Loan Documents are included for convenience of reference only and
shall not affect the interpretation of this Credit Agreement or any other Loan
Document.

 

Section 1.03           Accounting Terms.  (a)  Generally.  All accounting terms not specifically or
completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all
financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations)
required to be submitted pursuant to this Credit Agreement shall be prepared in
conformity with, GAAP applied on a consistent basis, as in effect from time to
time, applied in a manner consistent with that used in preparing the audited financial
statements, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.

 

(b)           Changes in GAAP.  If
at any time any change in GAAP would affect the computation of any financial
ratio or requirement set forth in any Loan Document, and either the Company or
(x) in the case of any financial ratio applicable only to a Term A Covenant,
the Required Revolver/Term A Lenders and (y) in the case of any other financial
ratio, the Required Lenders, shall so request, the Administrative Agent, the
applicable Lenders and the Company shall negotiate in good faith to amend such
ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such
change in GAAP (subject to the approval of the Required Lenders or Required
Revolver/Term A Lenders, as applicable); provided that, until so
amended, (i) such ratio or requirement shall continue to be computed in
accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein and (ii) the Company
shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders financial statements
and other documents required under this Credit Agreement or as reasonably
requested hereunder setting forth a reconciliation between calculations of such
ratio or requirement made before and after giving effect to such change in
GAAP.

 

Section 1.04           Rounding.  Any financial ratios required to be
maintained by the Company pursuant to this Credit Agreement shall be calculated
by dividing the appropriate component by the other component, carrying the
result to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio is expressed
herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number (with a
rounding-up if there is no nearest number).

 

Section 1.05           Times of Day.  Unless otherwise specified, all references
herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as applicable).

 

Section 1.06           Letter of Credit Amounts.  Unless otherwise specified herein, the amount
of a Letter of Credit at any time shall be deemed to be the stated amount of
such Letter of Credit in effect at such time; provided, however,
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of Credit that, by its terms or
the terms of any Issuer Document related thereto, provides for one or more
automatic increases in the stated amount thereof, the amount of such Letter of
Credit shall be deemed to be the maximum stated amount of such Letter of Credit
after giving effect to all such increases, whether or not such maximum stated
amount is in effect at such time.

 

Section 1.07           Currency Equivalents Generally.  Any amount specified in this Credit Agreement
(other than in Articles II, IV and IX) or any of the other
Loan Documents to be in Dollars shall also include the equivalent of such
amount in any currency other than Dollars, such equivalent amount thereof in
the applicable currency to be determined by the Administrative Agent at such
time on the basis of the Spot Rate (as defined below) for the purchase of such
currency with Dollars.  For purposes of
this Section 1.07, the “Spot Rate” for a currency means the
rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the rate quoted by the Person
acting in such capacity as the spot rate for the purchase by such Person of
such currency with another currency through its principal foreign exchange
trading office at approximately 11:00 a.m. on the date two Business Days
prior to the date of such determination; provided that the
Administrative Agent may obtain such spot rate from another financial
institution designated by the Administrative Agent if the Person acting in such
capacity does not have as of the date of determination a spot buying rate for
any such currency.

 

ARTICLE II

 

THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS

 

Section 2.01           The Loans.  (a)  The Term A-1 Borrowing.  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth
herein, each Term A-1 Lender severally agrees to make a single loan to the
Company on the Closing Date in an amount not to exceed such Term A-1 Lender’s
Term A-1 Commitment.  The Term A-1
Borrowing shall consist of Term A-1 Loans made simultaneously by the Term A-1
Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentage of the Term A-1
Facility.  Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(a) and
repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. 
Term A-1 Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans, as
further provided herein.

 

(b)           The
Term A-2 Borrowing.  Subject to the
terms and conditions set forth herein, each Term A-2 Lender severally agrees to
make a single loan to the Company on the Closing Date in an amount not to
exceed such Term A-2 Lender’s Term A-2 Commitment.  The Term A-2 Borrowing shall consist of Term
A-2 Loans made simultaneously by the Term A-2 Lenders in accordance with their
respective Term A-2 Commitments.  Amounts
borrowed under this Section 2.01(b) and repaid or prepaid may
not be reborrowed.  Term A-2 Loans may be
Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans as further provided herein.

 

(c)           The
Revolving Credit Borrowings.  Subject
to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Revolving Credit Lender
severally agrees to make loans (each such loan, a “Revolving Credit Loan”)
to the Company from time to time, on any Business Day during the Availability
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time outstanding the amount of
such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment; provided, however,
that after giving effect to any Revolving Credit Borrowing, (i) the Total
Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the Revolving Credit Facility,
and (ii) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans of
any Lender, plus such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit
Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations shall not exceed
such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment.  Within the limits of each Revolving Credit
Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, and subject to the other terms and
conditions hereof, the Company may borrow under this Section 2.01(c),
prepay under Section 2.04, and reborrow under this Section 2.01(c).  Revolving Credit Loans may be Base Rate Loans
or Eurodollar Rate Loans, as further provided herein.

 

Section 2.02           Borrowings, Conversions and
Continuations of Loans.  (a)  Each
Term Borrowing, each Revolving Credit Borrowing, each conversion of Term Loans
or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of
Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be made upon the Company’s irrevocable notice to
the Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone.  Each such notice must be received by the Administrative
Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (i) three Business Days prior to the
requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar
Rate Loans or of any conversion of Eurodollar Rate Loans to Base Rate Loans,
and (ii) on the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans; provided,
however, that notice of (x) the initial Borrowing of Base Rate Loans may
be received by the Administrative Agent at such time as agreed by the
Administrative Agent on the requested date of Borrowing and (y) any conversion
of such initial Borrowing to Eurodollar Rate Loans may be received by the
Administrative Agent no later than 5:00 p.m. on the third Business Day
prior to the requested date of conversion. 
Each telephonic notice by the Company pursuant to this Section 2.02(a) must
be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a written
Committed Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible
Officer of the Company.  In the case of
any discrepancies between telephonic and written notices received by the
Administrative Agent, the telephonic notice shall be effective as understood in
good faith by the Administrative Agent. 
Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate
Loans shall be in a principal amount of $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of
$1,000,000 in excess thereof.  Except as
provided in Section 2.03(c), each Borrowing of or conversion to
Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple
of $100,000 in excess thereof.  Each
Committed Loan Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify (i) whether
the Company is requesting a Term A-1 Borrowing, a Term A-2 Borrowing, a
Revolving Credit Borrowing, an Incremental Term Borrowing, if available, a
conversion of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other,
or a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, (ii) the requested date of the
Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a
Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed,
converted or continued, (iv) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which
existing Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans are to be converted, and (v) if
applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto.  If the Company fails to specify a Type of
Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or if the Company fails to give a timely notice
requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Term Loans or
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Base Rate Loans.  Any such automatic conversion to Base Rate
Loans shall be effective as of the last day of the Interest Period then in
effect with respect to the applicable Eurodollar Rate Loans.  If the Company requests a Borrowing of,
conversion to, or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans in any such Committed
Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have
specified an Interest Period of one month.

 

(b)           Following
receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly
notify each Lender of the amount of its Applicable Percentage under the
applicable Facility of the applicable Term A-1 Loans, Term A-2 Loans, Revolving
Credit Loans or Incremental Term Loans, if any, and if no timely notice of a
conversion or continuation is provided by the Company, the Administrative Agent
shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base
Rate Loans described in Section 2.02(a).  In the case of a Term Borrowing or a
Revolving Credit Borrowing, each Appropriate Lender shall make the amount of
its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds
at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than (i) one hour after
receipt of notice from the Administrative Agent on the Closing Date in the case
of the initial Borrowing of Base Rate Loans (as long as such notice is received
prior to 1:30 p.m. on such day) or (ii) 1:00 p.m. on the
Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice.  Upon satisfaction of the applicable
conditions set forth in Section 5.02 (and, (x) if such Borrowing is
the initial Credit Extension, Section 5.01 and (y) if such
Borrowing is the Incremental Term Borrowing, the applicable conditions set
forth in the Incremental Term Supplement), the Administrative Agent shall make
all funds so received available to the Company in like funds as received by the
Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of the Company on
the books of Bank of America with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire
transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided
to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the Company; provided,
however, that if, on the date a Committed Loan Notice with respect to a
Revolving Credit Borrowing is given by the Company, there are L/C Borrowings
outstanding, then the proceeds of such Revolving Credit Borrowing, first, shall
be applied to the payment in full of any such L/C Borrowings, and second, shall
be made available to the Company as provided above.

 

(c)           Except
as otherwise provided herein, a Eurodollar Rate Loan may be continued or
converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate
Loan.  During the existence of a Default,
the Administrative Agent may notify the Company that Loans may only be
converted into or continued as Loans of certain specified Types and,
thereafter, until no Default shall continue to exist, Loans may not be
converted into or continued as Loans of any Type other than one or more of such
specified Types.

 

(d)           The
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Company and the Lenders of the
interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurodollar Rate Loans upon
determination of such interest rate.  At
any time that Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall
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change in Bank of America’s
prime rate used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the public
announcement of such change.

 

(e)           After
giving effect to all Term A-1 Borrowings, all conversions of Term A-1 Loans
from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Term A-1 Loans as the same
Type, there shall not be more than ten (10) Interest Periods in effect in
respect of the Term A-1 Facility.  After
giving effect to all Term A-2 Borrowings, all conversions of Term A-2 Loans
from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Term A-2 Loans as the same
Type, there shall not be more than eight (8) Interest Periods in effect in
respect of the Term A-2 Facility.  After
giving effect to all Revolving Credit Borrowings, all conversions of Revolving
Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Revolving Credit
Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than twelve (12) Interest
Periods in effect in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility.

 

Section 2.03           Letters of Credit.  (a)  The Letter of Credit
Commitment.  (i)  Subject
to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (A) the L/C Issuer agrees,
in reliance upon the agreements of the Revolving Credit Lenders set forth in
this Section 2.03,  (1) from
time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Closing Date until
the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, to issue Letters of Credit for the
account of the Company or its Subsidiaries, and to amend Letters of Credit
previously issued by it, in accordance with Section 2.03(b), and (2) to
honor drawings under the Letters of Credit; and (B) the Revolving Credit
Lenders severally agree to participate in Letters of Credit issued for the
account of the Company or its Subsidiaries and any drawings thereunder; provided
that after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension with respect to any Letter
of Credit, (x) the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the
Revolving Credit Facility, (y) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the
Revolving Credit Loans of any Revolving Credit Lender, plus such Lender’s
Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C
Obligations shall not exceed such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, and (z)
the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations shall not exceed the Letter of
Credit Sublimit.  Each request by the
Company for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit shall be deemed to
be a representation by the Company that the L/C Credit Extension so requested
complies with the conditions set forth in the proviso to the preceding
sentence.  Within the foregoing limits,
and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Company’s ability to obtain
Letters of Credit shall be fully revolving, and accordingly the Company may,
during the foregoing period, obtain Letters of Credit to replace Letters of
Credit that have expired or that have been drawn upon and reimbursed.  All Existing Letters of Credit shall be
deemed to have been issued pursuant hereto, and from and after the Closing Date
shall be subject to and governed by the terms and conditions hereof.

 

(ii)           The L/C Issuer shall not issue any
Letter of Credit if:

 

(A)  the expiry date of such requested Letter of
Credit would occur more than twelve months after the date of issuance, unless
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(B)   the expiry date of such requested Letter of
Credit would occur after the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, unless all the
Revolving Credit Lenders have approved such expiry date.

 

(C)   such Letter of Credit is to be denominated in
a currency other than Dollars;

 

(iii)          The L/C Issuer shall not be under any
obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if:

 

(A)  any order, judgment or decree of any
Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or
restrain the L/C Issuer from issuing such Letter of Credit, or any Law
applicable to the L/C Issuer or any request or directive (whether or not having
the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over the
L/C Issuer shall prohibit, or request that the L/C Issuer refrain from, the
issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of Credit in particular
or shall impose upon the L/C Issuer with respect to such Letter of Credit any
restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which the L/C Issuer is not
otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Closing Date, or shall
impose upon the L/C Issuer any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not
applicable on the Closing Date and which the L/C Issuer in good faith deems
material to it;

 

(B)   the issuance of such Letter of Credit would
violate one or more policies of the L/C Issuer generally applicable to the
issuance of letters of credit;

 

(C)   except as otherwise agreed by the
Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer, such Letter of Credit is in an initial
stated amount less than $100,000;

 

(D)  such Letter of Credit contains any provisions
for automatic reinstatement of the stated amount after any drawing
thereunder;  or

 

(E)   a default of any Lender’s obligations to fund
under Section 2.03(c) exists or any Lender is at such time a
Defaulting Lender hereunder, unless the L/C Issuer has entered into
satisfactory arrangements with the Company or such Lender to eliminate the L/C
Issuer’s risk with respect to such Lender.

 

(iv)          The L/C Issuer shall not amend any
Letter of Credit if the L/C Issuer would not be permitted at such time to issue
such Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof.

 

(v)           The L/C Issuer shall be under no
obligation to amend any Letter of Credit if (A) the L/C Issuer would have
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issue such
Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof, or (B) the
beneficiary of such Letter of Credit does not accept the proposed amendment to
such Letter of Credit.

 

(vi)          The L/C Issuer shall act on behalf of
the Revolving Credit Lenders with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it
and the documents associated therewith, and the L/C Issuer shall have all of
the benefits and immunities (A) provided to the Administrative Agent in Article IX
with respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by the L/C Issuer in
connection with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by it
and Issuer Documents pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the
term “Administrative Agent” as used in Article IX included the L/C
Issuer with respect to such acts or omissions, and (B) as additionally
provided herein with respect to the L/C Issuer.

 

(b)           Procedures
for Issuance and Amendment of Letters of Credit.  (i)  Each Letter of Credit shall be
issued or amended, as the case may be, upon the request of the Company
delivered to the L/C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) in the
form of a Letter of Credit Application, appropriately completed and signed by a
Responsible Officer of the Company.  Such
Letter of Credit Application must be received by the L/C Issuer and the
Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. at least two Business Days
(or such later date and time as the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer may
agree in a particular instance in their sole discretion) prior to the proposed
issuance date or date of amendment, as the case may be.  In the case of a request for an initial
issuance of a Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify
in form and detail satisfactory to the L/C Issuer:  (A) the proposed issuance date of the
requested Letter of Credit (which shall be a Business Day); (B) the amount
thereof; (C) the expiry date thereof; (D) the name and address of the
beneficiary thereof; (E) the documents to be presented by such beneficiary
in case of any drawing thereunder; (F) the full text of any certificate to
be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; and (G) such
other matters as the L/C Issuer may require. 
In the case of a request for an amendment of any outstanding Letter of
Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail
satisfactory to the L/C Issuer (1) the Letter of Credit to be amended; (2) the
proposed date of amendment thereof (which shall be a Business Day); (3) the
nature of the proposed amendment; and (4) such other matters as the L/C
Issuer may require.  Additionally, the
Company shall furnish to the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent such other
documents and information pertaining to such requested Letter of Credit
issuance or amendment, including any Issuer Documents, as the L/C Issuer or the
Administrative Agent may require.

 

(ii)           Promptly after receipt of any Letter
of Credit Application, the L/C Issuer will confirm with the Administrative
Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has received a
copy of such Letter of Credit Application from the Company and, if not, the L/C
Issuer will provide the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof.  Unless the L/C Issuer has received written
notice from any Revolving Credit Lender, the Administrative Agent or any Loan
Party, at least one Business Day prior to the requested date of issuance or
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conditions
contained in Article V shall not then be satisfied, then, subject
to the terms and conditions hereof, the L/C Issuer shall, on the requested
date, issue a Letter of Credit for the account of the Company (or the
applicable Subsidiary) or enter into the applicable amendment, as the case may
be, in each case in accordance with the L/C Issuer’s usual and customary
business practices.  Immediately upon the
issuance of each Letter of Credit, each Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed
to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the L/C
Issuer a risk participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount equal to the
product of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit
Percentage times the amount of such Letter of Credit.

 

(iii)          Promptly after its delivery of any
Letter of Credit or any amendment to a Letter of Credit to an advising bank
with respect thereto or to the beneficiary thereof, the L/C Issuer will also
deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent a true and complete copy of
such Letter of Credit or amendment.

 

(c)           Drawings
and Reimbursements; Funding of Participations.  (i)  Upon receipt from the
beneficiary of any Letter of Credit of any notice of a drawing under such
Letter of Credit, the L/C Issuer shall notify the Company and the
Administrative Agent thereof.  Not later
than 11:00 a.m. on the date of any payment by the L/C Issuer under a
Letter of Credit (each such date, an “Honor Date”), the Company shall
reimburse the L/C Issuer through the Administrative Agent in an amount equal to
the amount of such drawing.  If the
Company fails to so reimburse the L/C Issuer by such time, the Administrative
Agent shall promptly notify each Revolving Credit Lender of the Honor Date, the
amount of the unreimbursed drawing (the “Unreimbursed Amount”), and the
amount of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage
thereof.  In such event, the Company
shall be deemed to have requested a Revolving Credit Borrowing of Base Rate
Loans to be disbursed on the Honor Date in an amount equal to the Unreimbursed
Amount, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified in Section 2.02
for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the amount of the
unutilized portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments and the conditions set
forth in Section 5.02 (other than the delivery of a Committed Loan
Notice).  Any notice given by the L/C
Issuer or the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.03(c)(i) may
be given by telephone if immediately confirmed in writing; provided that
the lack of such an immediate confirmation shall not affect the conclusiveness
or binding effect of such notice.

 

(ii)           Each Revolving Credit Lender shall
upon any notice pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) make funds
available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer at the
Administrative Agent’s Office in an amount equal to its Applicable Revolving
Credit Percentage of the Unreimbursed Amount not later than 1:00 p.m. on
the Business Day specified in such notice by the Administrative Agent,
whereupon, subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(c)(iii), each
Revolving Credit Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have
made a Base Rate Loan to the Company in such amount.  The Administrative Agent shall remit the
funds so received to the L/C Issuer.

 

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(iii)          With respect to any Unreimbursed
Amount that is not fully refinanced by a Revolving Credit Borrowing of Base
Rate Loans because the conditions set forth in Section 5.02 cannot
be satisfied or for any other reason, the Company shall be deemed to have
incurred from the L/C Issuer an L/C Borrowing in the amount of the Unreimbursed
Amount that is not so refinanced, which L/C Borrowing shall be due and payable
on demand (together with interest) and shall bear interest at the Default
Rate.  In such event, each Revolving
Credit Lender’s payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C
Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(ii) shall be deemed payment
in respect of its participation in such L/C Borrowing and shall constitute an
L/C Advance from such Lender in satisfaction of its participation obligation
under this Section 2.03.

 

(iv)          Until each Revolving Credit Lender
funds its Revolving Credit Loan or L/C Advance pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) to
reimburse the L/C Issuer for any amount drawn under any Letter of Credit, interest
in respect of such Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of such
amount shall be solely for the account of the L/C Issuer.

 

(v)           Each Revolving Credit Lender’s
obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans to the Company or L/C Advances to
reimburse the L/C Issuer for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit, as
contemplated by this Section 2.03(c), shall be absolute and
unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any
setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may
have against the L/C Issuer, the Company or any other Person for any reason
whatsoever; (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or (C) any
other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the
foregoing; provided, however, that each Revolving Credit Lender’s
obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) is
subject to the conditions set forth in Section 5.02 (other than
delivery by the Company of a Committed Loan Notice ).  No such making of an L/C Advance shall
relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Company to reimburse the L/C
Issuer for the amount of any payment made by the L/C Issuer under any Letter of
Credit, together with interest as provided herein.

 

(vi)          If any Revolving Credit Lender fails
to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer
any amount required to be paid by such Lender pursuant to the foregoing
provisions of this Section 2.03(c) by the time specified in Section 2.03(c)(ii),
the L/C Issuer shall be entitled to recover from such Lender (acting through
the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the
period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment
is immediately available to the L/C Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the
greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the L/C Issuer in
accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.  A certificate of the L/C Issuer submitted to
any Revolving Credit Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to
any amounts owing under this Section 2.03(c)(vi) shall be
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(d)           Repayment
of Participations.  (i)  At
any time after the L/C Issuer has made a payment under any Letter of Credit and
has received from any Revolving Credit Lender such Lender’s L/C Advance in
respect of such payment in accordance with Section 2.03(c), if the
Administrative Agent receives for the account of the L/C Issuer any payment in
respect of the related Unreimbursed Amount or interest thereon (whether
directly from the Company or otherwise, including proceeds of Cash Collateral
applied thereto by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent will
distribute to such Lender its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage thereof
(appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the
period of time during which such Lender’s L/C Advance was outstanding) in the
same funds as those received by the Administrative Agent.

 

(ii)           If any payment received by the
Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) is
required to be returned under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.05
(including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the L/C Issuer in its
discretion), each Revolving Credit Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent
for the account of the L/C Issuer its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage
thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the
date of such demand to the date such amount is returned by such Lender, at a
rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in
effect.  The obligations of the Lenders
under this clause shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the
termination of this Credit Agreement.

 

(e)           Obligations
Absolute.  The obligation of the
Company to reimburse the L/C Issuer for each drawing under each Letter of
Credit and to repay each L/C Borrowing shall be absolute, unconditional and
irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of this
Credit Agreement under all circumstances, including the following:

 

(i)            any lack of validity or
enforceability of such Letter of Credit, this Credit Agreement, or any other
Loan Document;

 

(ii)           the existence of any claim,
counterclaim, setoff, defense or other right that the Company or any Subsidiary
may have at any time against any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter
of Credit (or any Person for whom any such beneficiary or any such transferee
may be acting), the L/C Issuer or any other Person, whether in connection with
this Credit Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereby or by such Letter
of Credit or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, or any unrelated
transaction;

 

(iii)          any draft, demand, certificate or
other document presented under such Letter of Credit proving to be forged,
fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein
being untrue or inaccurate in any respect; or any loss or delay in the
transmission or otherwise of any document required in order to make a drawing
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(iv)          any payment by the L/C Issuer under
such Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or certificate that does
not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit; or any payment
made by the L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit to any Person purporting to
be a trustee in bankruptcy, debtor-in-possession, assignee for the benefit of
creditors, liquidator, receiver or other representative of or successor to any
beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit, including any arising
in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law; or

 

(v)           any other circumstance or happening
whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, including any other
circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a
discharge of, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

The Company shall promptly examine a copy of each
Letter of Credit and each amendment thereto that is delivered to it and, in the
event of any claim of noncompliance with the Company’s instructions or other
irregularity, the Company will immediately notify the L/C Issuer.  The Company shall be conclusively deemed to
have waived any such claim against the L/C Issuer and its correspondents unless
such notice is given as aforesaid.

 

(f)            Role
of L/C Issuer.  Each Lender and the
Company agree that, in paying any drawing under a Letter of Credit, the L/C
Issuer shall not have any responsibility to obtain any document (other than any
sight draft, certificates and documents expressly required by the Letter of
Credit) or to ascertain or inquire as to the validity or accuracy of any such
document or the authority of the Person executing or delivering any such
document.  None of the L/C Issuer, the
Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any
correspondent, participant or assignee of the L/C Issuer shall be liable to any
Lender for (i) any action taken or omitted in connection herewith at the
request or with the approval of the Revolving Credit Lenders or the Required
Revolving Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any action taken or omitted in the
absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct; or (iii) the due
execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any document or
instrument related to any Letter of Credit or Issuer Document.  The Company hereby assumes all risks of the
acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its use of
any Letter of Credit; provided, however, that this assumption is
not intended to, and shall not, preclude the Company’s pursuing such rights and
remedies as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at law or under
any other agreement.  None of the L/C
Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor
any correspondent, participant or assignee of the L/C Issuer shall be liable or
responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (v) of
Section 2.03(e); provided, however, that anything in
such clauses to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company may have a claim
against the L/C Issuer, and the L/C Issuer may be liable to the Company, to the
extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential or
exemplary, damages suffered by the Company which the Company proves were caused
by the L/C Issuer’s willful misconduct or gross negligence or the L/C Issuer’s
willful failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to it
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certificate(s) strictly
complying with the terms and conditions of a Letter of Credit.  In furtherance and not in limitation of the
foregoing, the L/C Issuer may accept documents that appear on their face to be
in order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any
notice or information to the contrary, and the L/C Issuer shall not be
responsible for the validity or sufficiency of any instrument transferring or
assigning or purporting to transfer or assign a Letter of Credit or the rights
or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may
prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason.

 

(g)           Cash
Collateral.  Upon the request of the
Administrative Agent, (i) if the L/C Issuer has honored any full or
partial drawing request under any Letter of Credit and such drawing has resulted
in an L/C Borrowing, or (ii) if, as of the Letter of Credit Expiration
Date, any L/C Obligation for any reason remains outstanding, the Company shall,
in each case, immediately Cash Collateralize the then Outstanding Amount of all
L/C Obligations.  Section 2.04
and Section 8.02 set forth certain additional requirements to
deliver Cash Collateral hereunder.  For
purposes of this Section 2.03, Section 2.04 and Section 8.02,
“Cash Collateralize” means to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the
Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the L/C Issuer and the Lenders, as
collateral for the L/C Obligations, cash or deposit account balances pursuant
to documentation in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent
and the L/C Issuer (which documents are hereby consented to by the
Lenders).  Derivatives of such term have
corresponding meanings.  The Company
hereby grants to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the L/C Issuer
and the Lenders, a security interest in all such cash, deposit accounts and all
balances therein and all proceeds of the foregoing.  Cash Collateral shall be maintained in
blocked, non-interest bearing deposit accounts at Bank of America.  If at any time the Administrative Agent
determines that any funds held as Cash Collateral are subject to any right or
claim of any Person other than the Administrative Agent or that the total
amount of such funds is less than the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all L/C
Obligations, the Company will, forthwith upon demand by the Administrative
Agent, pay to the Administrative Agent, as additional funds to be deposited as
Cash Collateral, an amount equal to the excess of (x) such aggregate
Outstanding Amount over (y) the total amount of funds, if any, then held as
Cash Collateral that the Administrative Agent determines to be free and clear
of any such right and claim.  Upon the
drawing of any Letter of Credit for which funds are on deposit as Cash
Collateral, such funds shall be applied, to the extent permitted under
applicable Laws, to reimburse the L/C Issuer.

 

(h)           Applicability
of ISP and UCP.   Unless otherwise
expressly agreed by the L/C Issuer and the Company when a Letter of Credit is
issued (including any such agreement applicable to an Existing Letter of
Credit), (i) the rules of the ISP shall apply to each standby Letter
of Credit, and (ii) the rules of the UCP, as most recently published
by the International Chamber of Commerce at the time of issuance shall apply to
each commercial Letter of Credit.

 

(i)            Letter
of Credit Fees.  The Company shall
pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender
in accordance with its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage a Letter of
Credit Fee (the “Letter of Credit Fee”) for each Letter of Credit equal to the
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drawn under such Letter of
Credit.  For purposes of computing the
daily amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of
such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.06.  Letter of Credit Fees shall be (A) computed
on a quarterly basis in arrears and (B) due and payable on the first
Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December,
commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter
of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on
demand.  If there is any change in the
Applicable Rate during any quarter, the daily amount available to be drawn under
each Letter of Credit shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate
separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Rate was in
effect.   Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained herein, upon the request of the Required Revolving Lenders,
while any Event of Default exists, all Letter of Credit Fees shall accrue at
the Default Rate.

 

(j)            Fronting
Fee and Documentary and Processing Charges Payable to L/C Issuer.  The Company shall pay directly to the L/C
Issuer for its own account a fronting fee with respect to each Letter of
Credit, at the rate per annum specified in the Bank of America Fee Letter or
Toronto Dominion Fee Letter, computed on the daily amount available to be drawn
under such Letter of Credit on a quarterly basis in arrears.  Such fronting fee shall be due and payable on
the tenth Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December in
respect of the most recently-ended quarterly period (or portion thereof, in the
case of the first payment), commencing with the first such date to occur after
the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date
and thereafter on demand.  For purposes
of computing the daily amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit,
the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.06.  In addition, the Company shall pay directly
to the L/C Issuer for its own account the customary issuance, presentation,
amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of
the L/C Issuer relating to letters of credit as from time to time in
effect.  Such customary fees and standard
costs and charges are due and payable on demand and are nonrefundable.

 

(k)           Conflict
with Issuer Documents.  In the event
of any conflict between the terms hereof and the terms of any Issuer Document,
the terms hereof shall control.

 

(l)            Letters
of Credit Issued for Subsidiaries. 
Notwithstanding that a Letter of Credit issued or outstanding hereunder
is in support of any obligations of, or is for the account of, a Subsidiary,
the Company shall be obligated to reimburse the L/C Issuer hereunder for any
and all drawings under such Letter of Credit. 
The Company hereby acknowledges that the issuance of Letters of Credit
for the account of Subsidiaries inures to the benefit of the Company, and that
the Company’s business derives substantial benefits from the businesses of such
Subsidiaries.

 

Section 2.04           Prepayments.(a)  Optional.  The Company may, upon notice to the Administrative
Agent, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Term Loans and
Revolving Credit Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided
that (i) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not
later than 11:00 a.m. (A) three Business Days prior to any date of
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and (B) on the date of
prepayment of Base Rate Loans; (ii) any prepayment of Eurodollar Rate
Loans shall be in a principal amount of $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of
$1,000,000 in excess thereof; and (iii) any prepayment of Base Rate Loans
shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in
excess thereof or, in each case, if less, the entire principal amount thereof
then outstanding.  Each such notice shall
specify the date and amount of such prepayment, the Type(s) of Loans to be
prepaid and, in the case of a prepayment of Term Loans, the amount of such prepayment
to be applied to each Term Facility.  The
Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Lender of its receipt of each
such notice, and of the amount of such Lender’s ratable portion of such
prepayment (based on such Lender’s Applicable Percentage in respect of the
relevant Facility).  If such notice is
given by the Company, the Company shall make such prepayment and the payment
amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified
therein.  Any prepayment of a Eurodollar
Rate Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest on the amount prepaid,
together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05.  Each prepayment of the outstanding Term Loans
pursuant to this Section 2.04(a) shall be applied (x) as
specified by the Company in the related notice of prepayment and (y) within
each Term Facility to be prepaid, to the principal repayment installments
thereof on a pro-rata basis, and each such prepayment shall be paid to the
Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages in respect
of each of the relevant Facilities.

 

(b)           Mandatory.  (i)  If the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries (A) Disposes of any property (other than any
deemed Disposition referred to in Section 7.08(c)) or (B) suffers
an Event of Loss, in each case, which results in the realization by such Person
of Net Cash Proceeds, the Company shall prepay, immediately upon receipt
thereof by such Person, an aggregate principal amount of Loans equal to 100% of
such Net Cash Proceeds which, in the aggregate with any other Net Cash Proceeds
described in this Section 2.04(b)(i) that have not been used
to prepay the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.04(b)(i) or
reinvested pursuant to the proviso set forth below, exceeds $50,000,000; provided,
however, that, with respect to any Net Cash Proceeds described in this Section 2.04(b)(i),
at the election of the Company (as notified by the Company to the
Administrative Agent on or prior to the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds), and
so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Company or
such Restricted Subsidiary may reinvest all or any portion of such Net Cash
Proceeds in operating assets so long as within 365 days after the receipt of
such Net Cash Proceeds, such reinvestment shall have been consummated (as
certified by the Company in writing to the Administrative Agent); and provided
further, however, that any Net Cash Proceeds not so reinvested
shall be immediately applied to the prepayment of the Loans as set forth in
this Section 2.04(b)(i).

 

(ii)           Upon the incurrence or issuance by
the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of any Indebtedness (other
than any Indebtedness expressly permitted to be incurred or issued pursuant to Section 7.12),
the Company shall prepay an aggregate principal amount of Loans equal to 100%
of all Net Cash Proceeds received therefrom immediately upon receipt thereof by
the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary.

 

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(iii)          Upon an increase of the Revolving
Credit Commitment or Term A-1 Loans, or both, in accordance with Section 2.13
or upon the establishment of the Incremental Term Facility in accordance with Section 2.14,  the Company shall immediately prepay, in
full, the Outstanding Amount of all Term A-2 Loans together with all accrued
but unpaid interest to the date of such prepayment.

 

(iv)          Each prepayment of Loans pursuant to
the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.04(b) (other than
pursuant to clause (iii) of this Section 2.04(b)) shall be
applied, first, ratably to each of the Term Facilities and to the
principal repayment installments thereof on a pro-rata basis and, second,
to the Revolving Credit Facility in the manner set forth in clause (vii) of
this Section 2.04(b).

 

(v)           Notwithstanding any of the other provisions
of clause (i) or (ii) of this Section 2.04(b), so long as
no Default under Section 8.01(b), Section 8.01(g) or
Section 8.01(h), or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, if, on any date on which a prepayment would otherwise be required
to be made pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) of this Section 2.04(b),
the aggregate amount of Net Cash Proceeds required by such clause to be applied
to prepay Loans on such date is less than or equal to $50,000,000, the Company
may defer such prepayment until the first date on which the aggregate amount of
Net Cash Proceeds or other amounts otherwise required under clause (i) or (ii) of
this Section 2.04(b) to be applied to prepay Loans exceeds
$50,000,000.  During such deferral period
the Company may apply all or any part of such aggregate amount to prepay
Revolving Credit Loans and may, subject to the fulfillment of the applicable
conditions set forth in Article V, reborrow such amounts (which
amounts, to the extent originally constituting Net Cash Proceeds, shall be
deemed to retain their original character as Net Cash Proceeds when so
reborrowed) for application as required by this Section 2.04(b).  Upon the occurrence of a Default under Section 8.01(b),
Section 8.01(g) or Section 8.01(h), or an Event of
Default during any such deferral period, the Company shall immediately prepay
the Loans in the amount of all Net Cash Proceeds received by the Company and
other amounts, as applicable, that are required to be applied to prepay Loans
under this Section 2.04(b) (without giving effect to the first
and second sentences of this clause (v)) but which have not previously been so
applied.

 

(vi)          If for any reason the Total Revolving
Credit Outstandings at any time exceed the Revolving Credit Facility at such
time, the Company shall immediately prepay Revolving Credit Loans and L/C
Borrowings and/or Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations (other than the L/C
Borrowings) in an aggregate amount equal to such excess.

 

(vii)         Prepayments of the Revolving Credit
Facility made pursuant to this Section 2.04(b), first, shall
be applied ratably to the L/C Borrowings, second, shall be applied
ratably to the outstanding Revolving Credit Loans, and, third, shall be
used to Cash Collateralize the remaining L/C Obligations; and, in

 

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the case of prepayments of the Revolving Credit
Facility required pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) of this Section 2.04(b),
the amount remaining, if any, after the prepayment in full of all L/C
Borrowings and Revolving Credit Loans outstanding at such time and the Cash
Collateralization of the remaining L/C Obligations in full (the sum of such
prepayment amounts, cash collateralization amounts and remaining amount being,
collectively, the “Reduction Amount”) may be retained by the Company for
use in the ordinary course of its business. 
Upon the drawing of any Letter of Credit that has been Cash
Collateralized, the funds held as Cash Collateral shall be applied (without any
further action by or notice to or from the Company or any other Loan Party) to
reimburse the L/C Issuer or the Revolving Credit Lenders, as applicable.

 

Section 2.05           Termination
or Reduction of Commitments. 
(a)  Optional. 
The Company may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate the
Revolving Credit Facility or the Letter of Credit Sublimit, or from time to
time permanently reduce the Revolving Credit Facility or the Letter of Credit
Sublimit; provided that (i) any such notice shall be received by
the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. five Business Days
prior to the date of termination or reduction, (ii) any such partial
reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of $10,000,000 or any whole multiple
of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (iii) the Company shall not terminate
or reduce (A) the Revolving Credit Facility if, after giving effect
thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Total Revolving Credit
Outstandings would exceed the Revolving Credit Facility, or (B) the Letter
of Credit Sublimit if, after giving effect thereto, the Outstanding Amount of
L/C Obligations not fully Cash Collateralized hereunder would exceed the Letter
of Credit Sublimit.

 

(b)           Mandatory.  (i)  The aggregate Term A-1
Commitments and Term A-2 Commitments shall be automatically and permanently
reduced to zero on the date of the Term A-1 Borrowing and Term A-2 Borrowing,
respectively.

 

(ii)           If after giving effect to any
reduction or termination of Revolving Credit Commitments under this Section 2.05
or the Letter of Credit Sublimit exceeds the Revolving Credit Facility at such
time or the Letter of Credit Sublimit, as the case may be, the Revolving Credit
Facility shall be automatically reduced by the amount of such excess.

 

(c)           Application
of Commitment Reductions; Payment of Fees. 
The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Lenders of any
termination or reduction of the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Revolving
Credit Commitment under this Section 2.05.  Upon any reduction of the Revolving Credit
Commitments, the Revolving Credit Commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender shall
be reduced by such Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of such
reduction amount.  All fees in respect of
the Revolving Credit Facility accrued until the effective date of any
termination of the Revolving Credit Facility shall be paid on the effective
date of such termination.

 

Section 2.06           Repayment
of Loans.  (a)  Term A-1
Loans.  The Company shall repay to
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outstanding on the following dates in the respective amounts set forth
opposite such dates (which amounts shall be reduced as a result of the
application of prepayments in accordance with the order of priority set forth
in Section 2.04):

 

	
  Date

  	
   

  	
  Principal

  Amortization Payment

  (shown as a% of Original

  Principal Amount)

  	
   

  
	
  March 31, 2007

  	
   

  	
  1.25

  	
  %

  
	
  June 30, 2007

  	
   

  	
  1.25

  	
  %

  
	
  Sept.30, 2007

  	
   

  	
  1.25

  	
  %

  
	
  Dec. 31, 2007

  	
   

  	
  1.25

  	
  %

  
	
  March 31, 2008

  	
   

  	
  1.25

  	
  %

  
	
  June 30, 2008

  	
   

  	
  1.25

  	
  %

  
	
  Sept. 30, 2008

  	
   

  	
  1.25

  	
  %

  
	
  Dec. 31, 2008

  	
   

  	
  1.25

  	
  %

  
	
  March 31, 2009

  	
   

  	
  6.25

  	
  %

  
	
  June 30, 2009

  	
   

  	
  6.25

  	
  %

  
	
  Sept. 30, 2009

  	
   

  	
  6.25

  	
  %

  
	
  Dec. 31, 2009

  	
   

  	
  6.25

  	
  %

  
	
  March 31, 2010

  	
   

  	
  6.25

  	
  %

  
	
  June 30, 2010

  	
   

  	
  6.25

  	
  %

  
	
  Sept. 30, 2010

  	
   

  	
  6.25

  	
  %

  
	
  Dec. 31, 2010

  	
   

  	
  6.25

  	
  %

  
	
  March 31, 2011

  	
   

  	
  10.00

  	
  %

  
	
  June 30, 2011

  	
   

  	
  10.00

  	
  %

  
	
  Sept. 30, 2011

  	
   

  	
  10.00

  	
  %

  
	
  Dec. 31, 2011

  	
   

  	
  10.00

  	
  %

  
	
  Feb 24, 2012

  	
   

  	
  Outstanding Principal

  Amount

  	
   

  
	
  Total:

  	
   

  	
  100.00

  	
  %

  

 

provided, however, that the final
principal repayment installment of the Term A-1 Loans shall be repaid on the
Maturity Date for the Term A-1 Facility and in any event shall be in an amount
equal to the aggregate principal amount of all Term A-1 Loans outstanding on
such date.

 

(b)           Term
A-2 Loans.  The Company shall repay
to the Term A-2 Lenders the aggregate principal amount of all Term A-2 Loans
outstanding in twenty-five (25) consecutive quarterly installments which except
for the final installment shall be due on the last day of each March, June, September and
December, beginning with March 31, 2006. 
Subject to adjustment in connection with prepayments made pursuant to Section 2.04,
each of the first twenty-four (24) installments shall be in the principal
amount equal to 0.25% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Term A-2
Loan and the final principal repayment installment of the Term A-2 Loans, due
on the Maturity Date for the Term A-2 Facility, shall be in an amount equal to
the aggregate principal amount of all Term A-2 Loans outstanding on such date.

 

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(c)           Revolving
Credit Loans.  The Company shall
repay to the Revolving Credit Lenders on the Maturity Date for the Revolving
Credit Facility the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Credit Loans
outstanding on such date.

 

Section 2.07           Interest.  (a)  Subject to the provisions of Section 2.07(b),
(i) each Eurodollar Rate Loan under a Facility shall bear interest on the
outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per
annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable
Rate for such Facility; and (ii) each Base Rate Loan under a Facility
shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the
applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the
Applicable Rate for such Facility.

 

(b)           (i)  If
any amount of principal of any Loan is not paid when due (without regard to any
applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or
otherwise, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest
rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent
permitted by applicable Laws.

 

(ii)           If any amount (other than principal
of any Loan) payable by the Company under any Loan Document is not paid when
due (without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated
maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, then upon the request of (x) in the
case of any amount payable only to the Revolving Credit Lenders and/or the Term
A Lenders, the Required Revolver/Term A Lenders and (y) in the case of any
other amount, the Required Lenders, such amount shall thereafter bear interest
at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate
to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.

 

(iii)          Accrued and unpaid interest on past
due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable
upon demand.

 

(c)           Interest
on each Loan shall be due and payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date
applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified herein.  Interest hereunder shall be due and payable
in accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and
after the commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.

 

Section 2.08           Fees.  In addition to certain fees described in Section 2.03(i) and
(j):

 

(a)           Commitment
Fee.  The Company shall pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender in
accordance with its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage, a commitment fee
(the “Commitment Fee”) on the actual daily amount by which the Revolving
Credit Facility exceeds the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings, at the rate
equal to, (i) on any day on which the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings
is less than or equal to the product of one-third (1/3) times the Revolving
Credit Commitment, 0.50% per annum, (ii) on any day on which the Total
Revolving

 

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Credit Outstandings is less than or equal to the product of two-thirds
(2/3) but greater than one-third (1/3) times the Total Revolving Credit
Commitment, 0.375% per annum, and (iii) on any day on which the Total
Revolving Credit Outstandings is greater than the product of two-thirds (2/3)
times the Revolving Credit, 0.25% per annum. 
The commitment fee shall accrue at all times during the Availability
Period, including at any time during which one or more of the conditions in Article V
is not met, and shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on the last
Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing with
the first such date to occur after the Closing Date, and on the last day of the
Availability Period for the Revolving Credit Facility.  The commitment fee shall be calculated
quarterly in arrears.

 

(b)           Other
Fees.  (i)  The Company
shall pay to the Initial Lenders for their own respective accounts fees in the
amounts and at the times specified in the Facility Fee Letter.  Such fees shall not be refundable for any
reason whatsoever.

 

(ii)           The Company shall pay to the
Administrative Agent and the applicable L/C Issuer for their own respective
accounts fees in the amounts and at the times specified in the Bank of America
Fee Letter or Toronto Dominion Fee Letter, as applicable.  Such fees shall not be refundable for any
reason whatsoever.

 

(iii)          The Company shall pay to the Lenders
such fees as shall have been separately agreed upon in writing in the amounts
and at the times so specified.  Such fees
shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.

 

Section 2.09           Computation
of Interest and Fees.  All
computations of interest for Base Rate Loans when the Base Rate is determined
by Bank of America’s “prime rate” shall be made on the basis of a year of 365
or 366 days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed.  All other computations of fees and interest
shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed (which
results in more fees or interest, as applicable, being paid than if computed on
the basis of a 365-day year).  Interest
shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which the Loan is made, and shall not
accrue on a Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such
portion is paid, provided that any Loan that is repaid on the same day
on which it is made shall, subject to Section 2.11(a), bear
interest for one day.  Each determination
by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be
conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

 

Section 2.10           Evidence
of Debt.  (a)  The Credit
Extensions made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or
records maintained by such Lender and by the Administrative Agent in the
ordinary course of business.  The
accounts or records maintained by the Administrative Agent and each Lender
shall be conclusive absent manifest error of the amount of the Credit
Extensions made by the Lenders to the Company and the interest and payments
thereon.  Any failure to so record or any
error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation
of the Company hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the
Obligations.  In the event of any
conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the
accounts

 

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and records of the Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the
accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence
of manifest error.  Upon the request of
any Lender made through the Administrative Agent, the Company shall execute and
deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note, which shall
evidence such Lender’s Loans in addition to such accounts or records.  Each Lender may attach schedules to its Note
and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its
Loans and payments with respect thereto.

 

(b)           In
addition to the accounts and records referred to in Section 2.10(a),
each Lender and the Administrative Agent shall maintain in accordance with its
usual practice accounts or records evidencing the purchases and sales by such
Lender of participations in Letters of Credit. 
In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained
by the Administrative Agent and the accounts and records of any Lender in
respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent
shall control in the absence of manifest error.

 

Section 2.11           Payments
Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback. 
(a)  General. 
All payments to be made by the Company shall be made without condition
or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff.   Except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, all payments by the Company hereunder shall be made to the
Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such
payment is owed, at the Administrative Agent’s Office in Dollars and in
immediately available funds not later than 2:00 p.m. on the date specified
herein.  The Administrative Agent will
promptly distribute to each Lender its Applicable Percentage in respect of the
relevant Facility (or other applicable share as provided herein) of such
payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lender’s Lending
Office.  All payments received by the
Administrative Agent after 2:00 p.m. shall be deemed received on the next
succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to
accrue.  If any payment to be made by the
Company shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be
made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be
reflected on computing interest or fees, as the case may be.

 

(b)           (i)  Funding
by Lenders; Presumption by Administrative Agent.   Unless the Administrative Agent shall have
received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing of
Eurodollar Rate Loans (or, in the case of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans,
prior to 12:00 noon on the date of such Borrowing) that such Lender will not
make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such
Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such
share available on such date in accordance with Section 2.02 (or,
in the case of a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, that such Lender has made such
share available in accordance with and at the time required by Section 2.02)
and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Company a
corresponding amount.  In such event, if
a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available
to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Company
severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such
corresponding amount in immediately available funds with interest thereon, for
each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the
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to the Administrative Agent, at (A) in the case of a payment to be
made by such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate
determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on
interbank compensation and (B) in the case of a payment to be made by the
Company, the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans.  If the Company and such Lender shall pay such
interest to the Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the
Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Company the amount of such
interest paid by the Company for such period. 
If such Lender pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative
Agent, then the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in
such Borrowing.  Any payment by the
Company shall be without prejudice to any claim the Company may have against a
Lender that shall have failed to make such payment to the Administrative Agent.

 

(ii)           Payments by Company; Presumptions
by Administrative Agent.  Unless the
Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Company prior to the
time at which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of
the Lenders or the L/C Issuer hereunder that the Company will not make such
payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Company has made such
payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such
assumption, distribute to the Appropriate Lenders or the L/C Issuer, as the
case may be, the amount due.  In such
event, if the Company has not in fact made such payment, then each of the
Appropriate Lenders or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, severally agrees to
repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed
to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, in immediately available funds with interest
thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to
it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the
greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative
Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.

 

A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or
the Company with respect to any amount owing under this subsection (b) shall
be conclusive, absent manifest error.

 

(c)           Failure
to Satisfy Conditions Precedent.  If
any Lender makes available to the Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be
made by such Lender as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article II,
and such funds are not made available to the Company by the Administrative
Agent because the conditions to the applicable Credit Extension set forth in Article V
are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the
Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from
such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.

 

(d)           Obligations
of Lenders Several.  The obligations
of the Lenders hereunder to make Term Loans and Revolving Credit Loans, to fund
participations in Letters of Credit and to make payments pursuant to Section 10.04(c) are
several and not joint.  The failure of
any Lender to make any Loan, to fund any such participation or to make any
payment under Section 10.04(c) on any date required hereunder
shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on
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Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so
make its Loan, to purchase its participation or to make its payment under Section 10.04(c).

 

(e)           Funding
Source.  Nothing herein shall be
deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any
particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that
it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place
or manner.

 

(f)            Insufficient
Funds.  If at any time insufficient
funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully
all amounts of principal, L/C Borrowings, interest and fees then due hereunder,
such funds shall be applied (i) first, toward payment of interest
and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in
accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties, and (ii) second,
toward payment of principal and L/C Borrowings then due hereunder, ratably
among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal
and L/C Borrowings then due to such parties.

 

Section 2.12           Sharing
of Payments by Lenders.  If any
Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise,
obtain payment in respect of (a) Obligations in respect of any of the
Facilities due and payable to such Lender hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents at such time in excess of its ratable share (according to the
proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations due and payable to such
Lender at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the Obligations in
respect of such Facilities due and payable to all Lenders hereunder and under
the other Loan Documents at such time) of payments on account of the
Obligations in respect of such Facilities due and payable to all Lenders
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time obtained by all the
Lenders at such time or (b) Obligations in respect of any of such
Facilities owing (but not due and payable) to such Lender hereunder and under
the other Loan Documents at such time in excess of its ratable share (according
to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations owing (but not due
and payable) to such Lender at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of
the Obligations in respect of such Facilities owing (but not due and payable)
to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Parties at such time) of
payments on account of the Obligations in respect of the Facilities owing (but
not due and payable) to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents at such time obtained by all of the Lenders at such time then the
Lender receiving such greater proportion shall (a) notify the
Administrative Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase (for cash at face
value) participations in the Loans and subparticipations in L/C Obligations of
the other Lenders, or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so
that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in
accordance with the aggregate amount of Obligations in respect of the
Facilities then due and payable to the Lenders or owing (but not due and
payable) to the Lenders, as the case may be, provided that:

 

(i)            if any such participations or
subparticipations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving
rise thereto is recovered, such participations or subparticipations shall be
rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery,
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(ii)           the provisions of this Section shall
not be construed to apply to (A) any payment made by the Company pursuant
to and in accordance with the express terms of this Credit Agreement or (B) any
payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of
a participation in any of its Loans or subparticipations in L/C Obligations to
any assignee or participant, other than to the Company or any Subsidiary
thereof (as to which the provisions of this Section shall apply).

 

Each Loan Party consents to the foregoing and agrees,
to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender
acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise
against such Loan Party rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such
participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of such Loan
Party in the amount of such participation.

 

Section 2.13           Increase in Commitments.  (a)  Request for Increase.  Provided that no Default shall have occurred
and be continuing at such time or would result therefrom, upon notice to the
Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify the Revolving Credit Lenders
and Term A-1 Lenders, as applicable), the Company may on a one-time basis,
request an increase in the Revolving Credit Facility or Term A-1 Loans, or
both, by an aggregate amount not exceeding $1,000,000,000; provided that
(i) any such request for an increase shall be in a minimum amount of
$400,000,000 and (ii) the amount of such increase, together with the
amount of any Incremental Term Facility established pursuant to Section 2.14,
shall not exceed the Commitment Increase Threshold.  At the time of sending such notice, the
Company (in consultation with the Administrative Agent) shall specify the time
period within which each Revolving Credit Lender and each Term A-1 Lender, as
applicable, is requested to respond (which shall in no event be less than ten (10) Business
Days from the date of delivery of such notice to such Lenders by the
Administrative Agent).

 

(b)           Lender Elections to Increase.  Each Revolving Credit Lender and Term A-1
Lender, as applicable, shall notify the Administrative Agent within such time
period whether or not it agrees to increase its Revolving Credit Commitment or
Term A-1 Commitment, as applicable, and, if so, whether by an amount equal to,
greater than, or less than, (i) in the case of a Revolving Credit Lender, its
Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of such requested increase and (ii) in
the case of a Term A-1 Lender, its ratable portion (based on such Term A-1
Lender’s Applicable Percentage in respect of the Term A-1 Facility) of
such requested increase.  Any Revolving
Credit Lender and Term A-1 Lender, as applicable, not responding within such
time period shall be deemed to have declined to increase its Revolving Credit
Commitment and Term A-1 Loans, as applicable.

 

(c)           Notification by Administrative
Agent; Additional Lenders.  The
Administrative Agent shall notify the Company and each Revolving Credit Lender
and Term A-1 Lender, as applicable, of the Revolving Credit Lenders’ and Term A-1
Lenders’ responses, as applicable, to each request made hereunder.  If the aggregate increase participated in by
the existing Lenders is less than the requested increase, then to achieve the
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Administrative Agent and, in the case of an increase in the Revolving
Credit Facility, the L/C Issuer (which approvals shall not be unreasonably
withheld), the Company may also invite additional Eligible Assignees to become
Revolving Credit Lenders or Term A-1 Lenders, as applicable, pursuant to a
joinder agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent and its counsel.

 

(d)           Effective Date and Allocations.  If the Revolving Credit Facility or Term A-1
Loans, or both, are increased in accordance with this Section, the
Administrative Agent and the Company shall determine the effective date (the “Increase Effective Date”) and the
final allocation of such increase.  The
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Company and the Revolving Credit
Lenders and Term A-1 Lenders, including the proposed new lenders, as
applicable, of the final allocation of such increase and the Increase Effective
Date.  In the event of an increase in the
Term A-1 Loans in accordance with this Section, the amortization schedule for
the Term A-1 Loans set forth in Section 2.06(a) shall be
amended as of the Increase Effective Date to increase the then-remaining unpaid
installments of principal by an aggregate amount equal to the additional Term A-1
Loans being made on such date, such aggregate amount to be applied to increase
such installments ratably in accordance with the amounts in effect immediately
prior to the Increase Effective Date. 
Such amendment may be signed by the Administrative Agent on behalf of
the Lenders.

 

(e)           Conditions to Effectiveness of
Increase.  As a condition precedent
to such increase, the Company shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a
certificate of each Loan Party dated as of the Increase Effective Date (in
sufficient copies for each Lender) signed by a Responsible Officer of such Loan
Party (i) certifying and attaching the resolutions adopted by such Loan
Party approving or consenting to such increase, and (ii) in the case of
the Company, certifying that, before and after giving effect to such increase, (A) the
representations and warranties contained in Article VI and the
other Loan Documents are true and correct on and as of the Increase Effective
Date, except to the extent that such representations and warranties
specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they are true and correct
as of such earlier date, and except that for purposes of this Section 2.13,
the representations and warranties contained in subsections (a) and (b) of
Section 6.04 shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements
furnished pursuant to clauses (b) and (a), respectively, of Section 7.01,
and (B) no Default exists.  In the event of an increase in the Revolving
Credit Commitment in accordance with this Section, the Company shall prepay any
Revolving Credit Loans outstanding on the Increase Effective Date (and pay any
additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05) to the extent
necessary to keep the outstanding Revolving Credit Loans ratable with any
revised Applicable Revolving Credit Percentages arising from any nonratable
increase in the Revolving Credit Commitments under this Section.  In
the event of an increase in the Term A-1 Loans in accordance with this Section,
the additional Term A-1 Loans shall be made by the Term A-1 Lenders participating
therein pursuant to the procedures set forth in Section 2.02.

 

(f)            Conflicting Provisions.  This Section shall supersede any
provisions in Sections 2.12 or 4.01 to the contrary.

 

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Section 2.14           Incremental
Term Facility.  (a)  Request
for Incremental Term Facility. 
Provided that no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at such
time or would result therefrom, at the option of the Company, the Incremental
Term Lenders and the Administrative Agent, and without the consent of any other
Lender, a separate tranche of commitments and loans may be established under
this Credit Agreement in an amount not exceeding the Commitment Increase
Threshold minus the aggregate amount of any increase in the Revolving
Credit Facility and Term A-1 Loans in accordance with Section 2.13;
provided that any such request for an Incremental Term Facility shall be
in a minimum amount of $400,000,000 minus the aggregate amount of any
increase in the Revolving Credit Facility and Term A-1 Loans in accordance with
Section 2.13.

 

(b)           Conditions to Effectiveness of
Incremental Term Facility.  As a
condition precedent to the establishment of such Incremental Term Facility, the
Company, the Administrative Agent and the Incremental Term Lenders shall enter
into a supplement to this Agreement in substantially the form of Exhibit J
hereto (the “Incremental Term Supplement”) duly completed such that the
Incremental Term Supplement shall set forth the terms and conditions relating
to the Incremental Term Facility; provided that, in any event, such
Incremental Term Facility shall not (i) have a final maturity earlier than
the Maturity Date applicable to the Term A-1 Facility, (ii) have any
required amortization prior to the Maturity Date applicable to the Term A-1
Facility unless the average weighted life to maturity of such Incremental Term
Facility is equal to or greater that the average weighted life to maturity of
the Term A-1 Loans immediately prior to the Incremental Term Closing Date and (iii) benefit
from covenants that are less favorable to the Loan Parties than the covenants
contained in Article VII hereto. 
Upon the effective date of the Incremental Term Supplement, each lender
thereunder shall become an Incremental Term Lender hereunder and such
Incremental Term Supplement shall be deemed part of this Credit Agreement for
all purposes thereafter.

 

ARTICLE III

 

TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION
AND ILLEGALITY

 

Section 3.01           Taxes.  (a)  Payments Free of Taxes.  Any and all payments by or on account of any
obligation of the Company hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be
made free and clear of and without reduction or withholding for any Indemnified
Taxes or Other Taxes, provided that if the Company shall be required by
applicable law to deduct any Indemnified Taxes (including any Other Taxes) from
such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so
that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to
additional sums payable under this Section) the Administrative Agent, any
Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, receives an amount equal to the
sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the
Company shall make such deductions and (iii) the Company shall timely pay
the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance
with applicable law.

 

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(b)           Payment
of Other Taxes by the Company. 
Without limiting the provisions of subsection (a) above, the
Company shall timely pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority
in accordance with applicable law.

 

(c)           Indemnification
by the Company.  The Company shall
indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the L/C Issuer, within 10
days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or
Other Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on
or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) paid by the
Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, and
any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with
respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were
correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental
Authority.  A certificate as to the
amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Company by a Lender or the
L/C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative
Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender or the L/C Issuer, shall be
conclusive absent manifest error.

 

(d)           Evidence
of Payments.  As soon as practicable
after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the Company to a
Governmental Authority, the Company shall deliver to the Administrative Agent
the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental
Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment
or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent.

 

(e)           Status
of Lenders.  Any Foreign Lender that
is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding tax under the law
of the jurisdiction in which the Company is resident for tax purposes, or any
treaty to which such jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments
hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall deliver to the Company (with a
copy to the Administrative Agent), at the time or times prescribed by
applicable law or reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative
Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by
applicable law as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or
at a reduced rate of withholding.  In
addition, any Lender, if requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent,
shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or
reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent as will enable
the Company or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender
is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements.

 

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if
the Company is resident for tax purposes in the United States, any Foreign
Lender shall deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent (in such
number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the
date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Credit Agreement
(and from time to time thereafter upon the request of the Company or the
Administrative Agent, but only if such Foreign Lender is legally entitled to do
so), whichever of the following is applicable:

 

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(i)            duly completed copies of Internal
Revenue Service Form W-8BEN claiming eligibility for benefits of an income
tax treaty to which the United States is a party,

 

(ii)           duly completed copies of Internal
Revenue Service Form W-8ECI,

 

(iii)          in the case of a Foreign Lender
claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under section 881(c) of
the Code, (A) a certificate to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not (1) a
“bank” within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (2) a
“10 percent shareholder” of the Company within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(B) of
the Code, or (3) a “controlled foreign corporation” described in section 881(c)(3)(C) of
the Code and (B) duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN,
or

 

(iv)          any other form prescribed by
applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in United
States Federal withholding tax duly completed together with such supplementary
documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit the Company to
determine the withholding or deduction required to be made.

 

(f)            Treatment
of Certain Refunds.  If the
Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer determines, in its sole
discretion, that it has received a refund of any Taxes or Other Taxes as to
which it has been indemnified by the Company or with respect to which the
Company has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section, it shall pay to
the Company an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity
payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Company under this Section with
respect to the Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all
out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C
Issuer, as the case may be, and without interest (other than any interest paid
by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund), provided
that the Company, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, such Lender or
the L/C Issuer, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Company (plus any
penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental
Authority) to the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer if the
Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer is required to repay such
refund to such Governmental Authority. 
This subsection shall not be construed to require the
Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer to make available its tax
returns (or any other information relating to its taxes that it deems
confidential) to the Company or any other Person.

 

Section 3.02           Illegality.  If any Lender determines that any Law has
made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is
unlawful, for any Lender or its applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or
fund Eurodollar Rate Loans, or to determine or charge interest rates based upon
the Eurodollar Rate, or any Governmental Authority has imposed material
restrictions on the authority of such Lender to purchase or sell, or to take
deposits of, Dollars in the London interbank market, then, on notice thereof by
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Agent, any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurodollar
Rate Loans or to convert Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be
suspended until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Company
that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist.  Upon receipt of such notice, the Company
shall, upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent),
prepay or, if applicable, convert all Eurodollar Rate Loans of such Lender to
Base Rate Loans, either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if
such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurodollar Rate Loans to
such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain
such Eurodollar Rate Loans.  Upon any
such prepayment or conversion, the Company shall also pay accrued interest on
the amount so prepaid or converted.

 

Section 3.03           Inability
to Determine Rates.  If the Required
Lenders determine that for any reason in connection with any request for a
Eurodollar Rate Loan or a conversion to or continuation thereof that (a) Dollar
deposits are not being offered to banks in the London interbank eurodollar
market for the applicable amount and Interest Period of such Eurodollar Rate Loan,
(b) adequate and reasonable means do not exist for determining the
Eurodollar Base Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a
proposed Eurodollar Rate Loan, or (c) the Eurodollar Base Rate for any
requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurodollar Rate Loan does
not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding such
Loan, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Company and each
Lender.  Thereafter, the obligation of
the Lenders to make or maintain Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be suspended until
the Administrative Agent (upon the instruction of the Required Lenders) revokes
such notice.  Upon receipt of such
notice, the Company may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of,
conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans or, failing that, will
be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Committed
Borrowing of Base Rate Loans in the amount specified therein.

 

Section 3.04           Increased
Costs; Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans. 
(a)  Increased Costs Generally.  If any Change in Law shall:

 

(i)            impose, modify or deem applicable
any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar
requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit
extended or participated in by, any Lender (except any reserve requirement
reflected in the Eurodollar Rate contemplated by Section 3.04(e))
or the L/C Issuer;

 

(ii)           subject any Lender or the L/C Issuer
to any tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to this Credit Agreement, any
Letter of Credit, any participation in a Letter of Credit or any Eurodollar
Rate Loan made by it, or change the basis of taxation of payments to such
Lender or the L/C Issuer in respect thereof (except for Indemnified Taxes or Other
Taxes covered by Section 3.01 and the imposition of, or any change
in the rate of, any Excluded Tax payable by such Lender or the L/C Issuer); or

 

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(iii)          impose on any Lender or the L/C Issuer
or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense affecting
this Credit Agreement or Eurodollar Rate Loans made by such Lender or any
Letter of Credit or participation therein;

 

and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to
increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Eurodollar Rate
Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan), or to increase
the cost to such Lender or the L/C Issuer of participating in, issuing or
maintaining any Letter of Credit (or of maintaining its obligation to
participate in or to issue any Letter of Credit), or to reduce the amount of
any sum received or receivable by such Lender or the L/C Issuer hereunder
(whether of principal, interest or any other amount) then, upon request of such
Lender or the L/C Issuer, the Company will pay to such Lender or the L/C
Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will
compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, for such
additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.

 

(b)           Capital
Requirements.  If any Lender or the
L/C Issuer determines that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or the L/C
Issuer or any Lending Office of such Lender or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s
holding company, if any, regarding capital requirements has or would have the
effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s
capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company,
if any, as a consequence of this Credit Agreement, the Commitments of such
Lender or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit held by,
such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by the L/C Issuer, to a level
below that which such Lender or the L/C Issuer or such Lender’s or the L/C
Issuer’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking
into consideration such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s policies and the policies
of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company with respect to capital
adequacy), then from time to time the Company will pay to such Lender or the
L/C Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will
compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s
holding company for any such reduction suffered.

 

(c)           Certificates
for Reimbursement.  A certificate of
a Lender or the L/C Issuer setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to
compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer or its holding company, as the case
may be, as specified in subsection (a) or (b) of this Section and
delivered to the Company shall be conclusive absent manifest error.  The Company shall pay such Lender or the L/C
Issuer, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate
within 10 days after receipt thereof.

 

(d)           Delay
in Requests.  Failure or delay on the
part of any Lender or the L/C Issuer to demand compensation pursuant to the
foregoing provisions of this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such
Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s right to demand such compensation, provided
that the Company shall not be required to compensate a Lender or the L/C Issuer
pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section for any increased
costs incurred or reductions suffered more than nine months prior to the date
that such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, notifies the Company of
the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such
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intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the Change in
Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the
nine-month period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of
retroactive effect thereof).

 

(e)           Reserves
on Eurodollar Rate Loans.  The Company
shall pay to each Lender, as long as such Lender shall be required to maintain
reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including
Eurocurrency funds or deposits (currently known as “Eurocurrency liabilities”),
additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Eurodollar Rate Loan
equal to the actual costs of such reserves allocated to such Loan by such
Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall
be conclusive), which shall be due and payable on each date on which interest
is payable on such Loan, provided the Company shall have received at least 10
days’ prior notice (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such additional
interest from such Lender.  If a Lender
fails to give notice 10 days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such
additional interest shall be due and payable 10 days from receipt of such
notice.

 

Section 3.05           Compensation
for Losses.  Upon demand of any
Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) from time to time, the Company
shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from
any loss, cost or expense incurred by it as a result of:

 

(a)           any
continuation, conversion, payment or prepayment of any Loan other than a Base
Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan
(whether voluntary, mandatory, automatic, by reason of acceleration, or
otherwise);

 

(b)           any
failure by the Company (for a reason other than the failure of such Lender to
make a Loan) to prepay, borrow, continue or convert any Loan other than a Base
Rate Loan on the date or in the amount notified by the Company; or

 

(c)           any
assignment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the
Interest Period therefor as a result of a request by the Company pursuant to Section 10.12;

 

including any loss of anticipated profits and any loss
or expense arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it
to maintain such Loan or from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which
such funds were obtained.  The Company
shall also pay any customary administrative fees charged by such Lender in
connection with the foregoing.

 

For purposes of calculating amounts payable by the
Company to the Lenders under this Section 3.05, each Lender shall
be deemed to have funded each Eurodollar Rate Loan made by it at the Eurodollar
Base Rate used in determining the Eurodollar Rate for such Loan by a matching
deposit or other borrowing in the London interbank eurodollar market for a comparable
amount and for a comparable period, whether or not such Eurodollar Rate Loan
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Section 3.06           Mitigation
Obligations; Replacement of Lenders. 
(a)  Designation of a Different Lending Office.  If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04,
or the Company is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any
Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01,
or if any Lender gives a notice pursuant to Section 3.02, then such
Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different Lending Office for
funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations
hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the
judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would
eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.01 or Section 3.04,
as the case may be, in the future, or eliminate the need for the notice
pursuant to Section 3.02, as applicable, and (ii) in each
case, would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and
would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender.  The Company hereby agrees to pay all
reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any
such designation or assignment.

 

(b)           Replacement
of Lenders.  If any Lender requests
compensation under Section 3.04, or if the Company is required to
pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the
account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01, or if any Lender
gives a notice pursuant to Section 3.02, the Company may replace
such Lender in accordance with Section 10.12.

 

Section 3.07           Survival.  All of the Company’s obligations under this Article III
shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments and repayment of all
other Obligations hereunder.

 

ARTICLE IV

 

GUARANTY

 

Section 4.01           Guaranty.  Each of the Guarantors hereby, jointly and
severally, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees, as a guaranty of payment
and performance and not merely as a guaranty of collection, prompt payment when
due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, upon acceleration,
demand or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of any and all of the
Obligations, whether for principal, interest, premiums, fees, indemnities,
damages, costs, expenses or otherwise, of the Company to the Secured Parties,
arising hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (including all renewals,
extensions, amendments, refinancings and other modifications thereof and all
costs, attorneys’ fees and expenses incurred by the Secured Parties in
connection with the collection or enforcement thereof).  The Administrative Agent’s books and records
showing the amount of the Obligations shall be admissible in evidence in any
action or proceeding, and shall be binding upon each Guarantor, and conclusive
for the purpose of establishing the amount of the Obligations, absent manifest
error.  This Guaranty shall not be
affected by the genuineness, validity, regularity or enforceability of the
Obligations or any instrument or agreement evidencing any Obligations, or by
the existence, validity, enforceability, perfection, non-perfection or extent
of any collateral therefor, or by any fact or circumstance relating to the
Obligations which might otherwise constitute a defense to the obligations of
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Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any defenses it may now have or
hereafter acquire in any way relating to any or all of the foregoing.

 

Section 4.02           Rights
of Lenders.  Each Guarantor consents
and agrees that the Secured Parties may, at any time and from time to time,
without notice or demand, and without affecting the enforceability or
continuing effectiveness hereof:  (a) amend,
extend, renew, compromise, discharge, accelerate or otherwise change the time
for payment or the terms of the Obligations or any part thereof; (b) take,
hold, exchange, enforce, waive, release, fail to perfect, sell, or otherwise
dispose of any security for the payment of this Guaranty or any Obligations; (c) apply
such security and direct the order or manner of sale thereof as the
Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders in their sole discretion
may determine; and (d) release or substitute one or more of any endorsers
or other guarantors of any of the Obligations. 
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor
consents to the taking of, or failure to take, any action which might in any
manner or to any extent vary the risks of such Guarantor under this Guaranty or
which, but for this provision, might operate as a discharge of such Guarantor.

 

Section 4.03           Certain
Waivers.  Each Guarantor waives (a) any
defense arising by reason of any disability, change in corporate existence or
structure or other defense of the Company or any other Guarantor, or the
cessation from any cause whatsoever (including any act or omission of any
Secured Party) of the liability of the Company or any other Guarantor; (b) any
defense based on any claim that such Guarantor’s obligations exceed or are more
burdensome than those of the Company or any other Guarantor; (c) the
benefit of any statute of limitations affecting such Guarantor’s liability
hereunder; (d) any right to proceed against the Company, proceed against
or exhaust any security for the Obligations, or pursue any other remedy in the
power of any Secured Party whatsoever; (e) any benefit of and any right to
participate in any security now or hereafter held by any Secured Party; and (f) to
the fullest extent permitted by law, any and all other defenses or benefits
that may be derived from or afforded by applicable law limiting the liability
of or exonerating guarantors or sureties. 
Each Guarantor expressly waives all setoffs and counterclaims and all
presentments, demands for payment or performance, notices of nonpayment or
nonperformance, protests, notices of protest, notices of dishonor and all other
notices or demands of any kind or nature whatsoever with respect to the
Obligations, and all notices of acceptance of this Guaranty or of the
existence, creation or incurrence of new or additional Obligations.

 

Section 4.04           Obligations
Independent.  The obligations of each
Guarantor hereunder are those of primary obligor, and not merely as surety, and
are independent of the Obligations and the obligations of any other Guarantor,
and a separate action may be brought against such Guarantor to enforce this
Guaranty whether or not the Company or any other person or entity is joined as
a party.

 

Section 4.05           Subrogation.  Each Guarantor shall not exercise any right
of subrogation, contribution, indemnity, reimbursement or similar rights with
respect to any payments it makes under this Guaranty until all of the
Obligations and any amounts payable under this Guaranty have been indefeasibly
paid and performed in full and the

 

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Commitments and the Facilities are terminated.  If any amounts are paid to any Guarantor in
violation of the foregoing limitation, then such amounts shall be held in trust
for the benefit of the Secured Parties and shall forthwith be paid to the
Secured Parties to reduce the amount of the Obligations, whether matured or unmatured.

 

Section 4.06           Termination;
Reinstatement.  This Guaranty is a
continuing and irrevocable guaranty of all Obligations now or hereafter
existing and shall remain in full force and effect until all Obligations and
any other amounts payable under this Guaranty are indefeasibly paid in full in
cash and the Commitments and the Facilities with respect to the Obligations are
terminated.  Notwithstanding the
foregoing, this Guaranty shall continue in full force and effect or be revived,
as the case may be, if any payment by or on behalf of the Company or any
Guarantor is made, or any of the Secured Parties exercises its right of setoff,
in respect of the Obligations and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff
or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or
preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement
entered into by any of the Secured Parties in their discretion) to be repaid to
a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any proceeding under
any Debtor Relief Laws or otherwise, all as if such payment had not been made
or such setoff had not occurred and whether or not the Secured Parties are in
possession of or have released this Guaranty and regardless of any prior
revocation, rescission, termination or reduction.  The obligations of each Guarantor under this
paragraph shall survive termination of this Guaranty.

 

Section 4.07           Subordination.  Each Guarantor hereby subordinates the
payment of all obligations and indebtedness of the Company owing to such
Guarantor, whether now existing or hereafter arising, including but not limited
to any obligation of the Company to such Guarantor as subrogee of the Secured
Parties or resulting from such Guarantor’s performance under this Guaranty, to
the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all Obligations.  If the Secured Parties so request, any such
obligation or indebtedness of the Company to any Guarantor shall be enforced
and performance received by such Guarantor as trustee for the Secured Parties
and the proceeds thereof shall be paid over to the Secured Parties on account
of the Obligations, but without reducing or affecting in any manner the
liability of such Guarantor under this Guaranty.

 

Section 4.08           Stay
of Acceleration.  If acceleration of
the time for payment of any of the Obligations is stayed, in connection with
any case commenced by or against any Guarantor or the Company under any Debtor
Relief Laws, or otherwise, all such amounts shall nonetheless be payable by
such Guarantor immediately upon demand by the Secured Parties.

 

Section 4.09           Condition
of Company.  Each Guarantor
acknowledges and agrees that it has the sole responsibility for, and has
adequate means of, obtaining from the Company and any other Guarantor such
information concerning the financial condition, business and operations of the
Company and any such other Guarantor as such Guarantor requires, and that none
of the Secured Parties has any duty, and such Guarantor is not relying on the
Secured Parties at any time, to disclose to such Guarantor any information
relating to the business, operations or financial condition of the Company or
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Guarantor (such Guarantor waiving any duty on the part of the Secured
Parties to disclose such information and any defense relating to the failure to
provide the same).

 

Section 4.10           Limitation
on Guaranty.  It is the intention of
the Guarantors, the Lenders and the Company that the obligations of each
Guarantor hereunder shall be in, but not in excess of, the maximum amount
permitted by applicable law.  To that
end, but only to the extent such obligations would otherwise be avoidable, the
obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall be limited to the maximum amount
that, after giving effect to the incurrence thereof, would not render such
Guarantor insolvent or unable to make payments in respect of any of its
indebtedness as such indebtedness matures or leave such Guarantor with an
unreasonably small capital.  The need for
any such limitation shall be determined, and any such needed limitation shall
be effective, at the time or times that such Guarantor is deemed, under
applicable law, to incur the Obligations hereunder.  Any such limitation shall be apportioned
amongst the Obligations pro rata in accordance with the respective amounts
thereof.  This paragraph is intended
solely to preserve the rights of the Lenders under this Credit Agreement to the
maximum extent permitted by applicable law, and neither the Guarantors, the
Company nor any other Person shall have any right under this paragraph that it
would not otherwise have under applicable law. 
The Company and each Guarantor agree not to commence any proceeding or
action seeking to limit the amount of the obligation of such Guarantor under
this Article IV by reason of this paragraph.  For the purposes of this paragraph, “insolvency”,
“unreasonably small capital” and “unable to make payments in respect of any of
its indebtedness as such indebtedness matures” shall be determined in
accordance with applicable law.

 

ARTICLE V

 

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

 

Section 5.01           Conditions
of Initial Credit Extension.  The
obligation of the L/C Issuer and each Lender to make the initial Credit
Extension hereunder is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions
precedent on or prior to the date of such initial Credit Extension:

 

(a)           Execution
of Loan Documents and Notes.  The
Administrative Agent’s receipt of the following, each of which shall be
originals or telecopies (followed promptly by originals) unless otherwise
specified, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the signing Loan
Party, each dated the Closing Date (or, in the case of certificates of
governmental officials, a recent date before the Closing Date) and each in form
and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders:

 

(i)  this
Credit Agreement duly executed and delivered by each of the Company, the
Restricted Subsidiaries, the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Administrative
Agent;

 

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(ii) a Note
executed by the Company in favor of each Lender requesting a Note; and

 

(iii) the
Pledge Agreement duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party and the
Administrative Agent, together with:

 

(A)          certificates representing the Pledged
Equity Interests referred to therein accompanied by undated stock powers
executed in blank,

 

(B)           proper UCC-1 Financing Statements in
form appropriate for filing under the Uniform Commercial Code of all
jurisdictions that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary in order to
perfect the Liens created under the Pledge Agreement, covering the Collateral
described in the Pledge Agreement, and

 

(C)           evidence that all other action that
the Administrative Agent may deem necessary in order to perfect the Liens
created under the Pledge Agreement has been taken (including receipt of duly
executed payoff letters and UCC-3 termination statements);

 

(b)           Signatures.  Each of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries shall have certified to the Administrative Agent (with copies to
be provided for each Lender) the name and signature of each of the persons
authorized (i) to sign on its respective behalf this Credit Agreement and
each of the other Loan Documents to which it is a party and (ii) in the
case of the Company, to borrow under this Credit Agreement.  The Lenders may conclusively rely on such
certifications until they receive notice in writing from the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, to the contrary.

 

(c)           Proof
of Action.  The Administrative Agent
shall have received certified copies of all necessary action taken by each of
the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries to authorize the execution,
delivery and performance of each Loan Document to which it is a party.

 

(d)           Opinions
of Counsel to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries.  The Lenders shall have received favorable
opinions of:

 

(i)            Victoria D. Salhus, Esq., Senior Vice President, Deputy General
Counsel and Secretary for the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries,
substantially in the form of Exhibit E hereto;

 

(ii)           Sullivan & Cromwell LLP,
special New York counsel to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries,
substantially in the form of Exhibit F-1 hereto; and

 

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(iii)          Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP, special New Jersey
counsel to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries, substantially in the
form of Exhibit F-2 hereto;

 

(iv)          Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and
Popeo P.C., special FCC counsel to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries,
substantially in the form of Exhibit F-3 hereto;

 

and covering such other matters as any Lender or
Lenders or special New York counsel to the Administrative Agent, Pillsbury
Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, may reasonably request (and for purposes of such
opinions such counsel may rely upon opinions of counsel in other jurisdictions,
provided that such other counsel are satisfactory to special counsel to
the Administrative Agent and such other opinions state that the Lenders are
entitled to rely thereon).

 

(e)           Opinion
of Lenders’ Counsel.  Each Lender
shall have received a favorable opinion of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP,
special New York counsel to the Administrative Agent, substantially in the form
of Exhibit G hereto and covering such other matters as any Lender
or Lenders may reasonably request.

 

(f)            Compliance
Certificate.  The Lenders shall have
received a Compliance Certificate showing that, after giving effect to this
Credit Agreement and the Indebtedness contemplated to be incurred by the
Company on the Closing Date and the use of proceeds thereof, the Company is in
compliance with the provisions of this Credit Agreement on a pro forma basis as
of the Closing Date.

 

(g)           Other
Documents.  Such other documents,
filings, instruments and papers relating to the documents referred to herein
and the transactions contemplated hereby as any Lender or special counsel to
the Administrative Agent shall reasonably require shall have been received by
the Administrative Agent.

 

(h)           Certain
Fees.  All fees required to be paid
to the Administrative Agent, the Joint Lead Arrangers, the Initial Lenders and
the other Lenders on or before the Closing Date shall have been paid.  Unless waived by the Administrative Agent,
the Company shall have paid all fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to
the Administrative Agent to the extent properly invoiced prior to or on the
Closing Date, plus such additional amounts of such fees, charges and
disbursements as shall constitute its reasonable estimate of such fees, charges
and disbursements incurred or to be incurred by it through the closing
proceedings (provided that such estimate shall not thereafter preclude a
final settling of accounts between the Company and the Administrative Agent).

 

(i)            Regulatory
Approvals.  The Company shall have
obtained the approvals of any regulatory authority set forth on Schedule 6.03
hereto required with respect to this Credit Agreement (other than as specified
in Schedule 6.03).

 

(j)            Financial
Statements.  The Lenders shall have
received the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries as at

 

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September 30, 2005, and the related consolidated statements of
operations and stockholders’ equity (deficiency) for the three month period
ended on said date.

 

(k)           Debt
Ratings.  The Facilities shall have
received a debt rating from Moody’s and S&P.

 

(l)            Existing Credit Agreement.  The Lenders shall have received satisfactory
evidence that the Existing Credit Agreement has been, or concurrently
with the Closing Date is being, terminated and all Liens securing obligations
under the Existing Credit Agreement have been, or concurrently with the Closing
Date are being, released.

 

(m)          TKR Agreement. 
The Administrative Agent shall have received evidence reasonably
satisfactory to it that all of the unpaid amounts owed in respect of the TKR
Loans have been converted to equity in TKR and that the TKR Agreement has been
cancelled.

 

(n)           Existing
Letters of Credit.  The
Administrative Agent shall have received a copy of each of the Existing Letter
of Credit.

 

Without limiting the generality of the provisions of Section 9.04,
for purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Section 5.01,
each Lender that has signed this Credit Agreement shall be deemed to have
consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or
other matter required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or
acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall
have received notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Closing Date
specifying its objection thereto.

 

Section 5.02           Conditions
to all Credit Extensions.  The
obligation of the L/C Issuer and each Lender to make each Credit Extension
hereunder (which shall not include any conversion or continuation of any
outstanding Loan) is subject to the additional conditions precedent that:

 

(a) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing or would result from such proposed Credit Extension or from
the application of proceeds thereof;

 

(b) the representations and warranties of the
Company and each other Loan Party in Article VI hereof or any other
Loan Document, or which are contained in any document furnished at any time
under or in connection herewith or therewith, shall be true and correct, in all
material respects, on and as of the date of the making of, and after giving
effect to, such Credit Extension with the same force and effect as if made on
and as of such date, except to the extent that such representations and
warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, in which case they shall be
true and correct, in all material respects, as of such earlier date, and except
that for purposes of this Section 5.02, the representations and
warranties contained in Section 6.04(a) and (b) shall
be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to Section 7.01(a) and
(b), respectively;

 

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(c) to the extent requested by the Administrative
Agent or any Lender, a senior executive of the Company shall have certified
compliance with clauses (a) and (b) above to the Administrative
Agent;

 

(d)  the Administrative Agent and, if applicable,
the L/C Issuer shall have received a Request for Credit Extension in accordance
with the requirements hereof; and

 

(e)  the Administrative Agent shall have received
such other approvals, opinions or documents as any Lender through the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request.

 

The Company shall be deemed to have made a
representation and warranty hereunder as of the time of each Credit Extension
hereunder that the conditions specified in such clauses have been fulfilled as
of such time.

 

ARTICLE VI

 

REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES

 

Each Loan Party represents and warrants to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders as follows:

 

Section 6.01           Existence,
Qualification and Power.  Each Loan
Party is a limited or general partnership or corporation duly organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of its jurisdiction of
organization and is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing
in all jurisdictions in which such qualification is necessary in view of the
properties and assets owned and presently intended to be owned and the business
transacted and presently intended to be transacted by it except for
qualifications the lack of which, singly or in the aggregate, have not had and
are not likely to have a Materially Adverse Effect, and each of the Company and
the Restricted Subsidiaries has full power, authority and legal right to
perform its obligations under this Credit Agreement, the Notes and the other
Loan Documents to which it is a party.

 

Section 6.02           Subsidiaries;
Affiliates; Loan Parties.  Schedules 1.01(i) and
1.01(ii) contain a complete and correct list, as at the Agreement
Date and the Closing Date, of all Restricted Subsidiaries and Unrestricted
Subsidiaries of the Company, respectively, and a description of the legal
nature of such Subsidiaries (including, with respect to each Restricted
Subsidiary, the address of its principal place of business and its U.S.
taxpayer identification number), the nature of the ownership interests (shares
of stock or general or limited partnership or other interests) in such
Subsidiaries and the holders of such interests and, except as disclosed to the
Lenders in writing prior to the Agreement Date, the Company and each of its
Subsidiaries owns all of the ownership interests of its Subsidiaries indicated
in such Schedules as being owned by the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case
may be, free and clear of all Liens except those created under the Collateral
Documents, and all such ownership interests are validly issued and, in the case
of shares of stock, fully paid and non-assessable.  Schedule 6.02 hereto contains a
complete and correct list, as at the Agreement Date and the Closing Date, of
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Affiliates of the Company which are not Subsidiaries of the Company,
the nature of the respective ownership interests in each such Affiliate, and
the holder of each such interest.

 

Section 6.03           Authority;
No Conflict.  The execution, delivery
and performance by each of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries of each
Loan Document to which it is a party, and each Credit Extension hereunder, have
been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action
and do not and will not:  (a) subject
to the consummation of the action described in Section 6.12 hereof,
violate any Law currently in effect (other than violations that, singly or in
the aggregate, have not had and are not likely to have a Materially Adverse
Effect), or any provision of any of the Company’s or the Restricted
Subsidiaries’ respective partnership agreements, charters or by-laws presently
in effect; (b) conflict with or result in the breach of, or constitute a
default or require any consent (except for the consents described on Schedule 6.03
hereto, each of which has been duly obtained) under, or require any payment to
be made under (i) any Contractual Obligation to which the Company or any
of the Restricted Subsidiaries is a party or their respective properties may be
bound or affected or (ii) any order, injunction, writ or decree of any
Governmental Authority or any arbitral award to which the Company or any of the
Restricted Subsidiaries or their respective properties are subject (in each
case, other than any conflict, breach, default or required consent that, singly
or in the aggregate, have not had and are not likely to have a Materially
Adverse Effect); or (c) except as provided under any Loan Document, result
in, or require, the creation or imposition of any Lien upon or with respect to
any of the properties or assets now owned or hereafter acquired by the Company
or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries.

 

Section 6.04           Financial
Condition.  The Company has furnished
to each Lender:

 

(a)           The
consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as
at December 31, 2004, and the related consolidated statements of
operations and stockholders’ deficiency for the fiscal year ended on said date,
as included in the Company’s Form 10-K dated December 31, 2004 and as
amended on Form 8-K dated June 3, 2005, said financial statements
having been certified by an independent Registered Public Accounting Firm of
nationally recognized standing reasonably acceptable to the Required Lenders;
and

 

(b)           The
unaudited consolidated balance sheets of the Company and its consolidated
Subsidiaries as at September 30, 2005, and the related consolidated
statements of operations for the quarter and nine months then ended as included
in the Company’s Form 10-Q dated September 30, 2005.

 

All financial statements referred to above (i) are
complete and correct in all material respects (subject, in the case of the
unaudited financial statements referred to above, to year-end and audit
adjustments), (ii) were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied
throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted
therein, and (iii) and fairly present the financial condition of the
respective entity or groups of entities which is or are the subject of such
financial statements (as stated above), on a consolidated basis, as at the
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in such financial statements and the results of operations of such
entity or groups of entities for the respective periods ended on said dates.

 

(c)           The
unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its consolidated
Restricted Subsidiaries as at September 30, 2005, and the related
consolidated statement of operations for the nine months then ended.

 

All financial statements referred to in (c) above
(i) are complete and correct in all material respects (subject to year-end
and audit adjustments) except that said financial statements do not include a
statement of cash flows or the accompanying notes to said consolidated
financial statements, (ii) were prepared in accordance with GAAP
consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise
expressly noted in (i) above, and (iii) fairly present the financial
condition of the respective entity or groups of entities which is or are the
subject of such financial statements (as stated above), on a consolidated
basis, as at the date of the balance sheet included in such financial
statements and the results of operations of such entity or groups of entities
for the period ended on said dates.

 

None of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries
had on any of said dates any material contingent liabilities, liabilities for
Taxes, unusual forward or long-term commitments or unrealized or anticipated
losses from any unfavorable commitments or operations which are substantial in
amount, except as referred to or reflected or provided for in said financial
statements of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at said
respective dates or as disclosed to the Lenders in writing prior to the
Agreement Date.  Except as disclosed to
the Lenders in writing prior to the Agreement Date, since September 30,
2005, there has been no material adverse change in the financial condition
(from that shown by the respective balance sheets as at September 30, 2005
included in said financial statements) or the businesses or operations of the
Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole on a pro forma combined basis (after giving effect to the
Indebtedness contemplated to be incurred on the Closing Date and the use of
proceeds thereof).

 

Section 6.05           Litigation,
Compliance with Laws.  Except as
disclosed to the Lenders on Schedule 6.05, there are no actions,
suits, proceedings, claims or disputes pending, or to the knowledge of the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary threatened, against the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary or any of their respective properties or assets, before
any court or arbitrator or by or before any Governmental Authority that, singly
or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Materially Adverse
Effect.  Neither the Company nor any
Restricted Subsidiary is in default under or in violation of or with respect to
any Laws or any writ, injunction or decree of any court, arbitrator or
Governmental Authority, or any Franchise, except for minor defaults which, if
continued unremedied, are not likely to have a Materially Adverse Effect.

 

Section 6.06           Titles
and Liens.  Except as set forth on Schedule 7.14,
each of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries has good title to its
properties and assets, free and clear of all Liens except those permitted by Section 7.14
hereof.

 

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Section 6.07           Regulation
U; Investment Company Act.  (a) 
None of the proceeds of any of the Credit Extensions shall be used to purchase
or carry, or to reduce or retire or refinance any credit incurred to purchase
or carry, any Margin Stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose of
purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock, except that up to $10,000,000 in the
aggregate of such proceeds may be used for such purposes, provided that
both at the time of such use and thereafter compliance with Regulation U is
maintained.  If requested by any Lender,
the Company will furnish to the Lenders statements in conformity with the
requirements of Regulation U.

 

(b)  None of the Company, any Person Controlling
the Company, or any Subsidiary is or is required to be registered as an “investment
company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

 

Section 6.08           Taxes.  Each of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries has filed all Federal, state and other material tax returns which
are required to be filed under any law applicable thereto except such returns
as to which the failure to file, singly or in the aggregate, has not had and
will not have a Materially Adverse Effect, and has paid, or made provision for
the payment of, all Taxes shown to be due pursuant to said returns or pursuant
to any assessment received by the Company or any of the Restricted
Subsidiaries, except such Taxes, if any, as are being contested in good faith
and as to which adequate reserves have been provided or as to which the failure
to pay, singly or in the aggregate, has not had and is not likely to have a
Materially Adverse Effect.

 

Section 6.09           Other
Credit Agreements.  Schedule 7.12
(Existing Indebtedness), Schedule 7.13 (Existing Guarantees) and Schedule 7.14
(Existing Liens) contain complete and correct lists, as at January 31,
2006, of all credit agreements, indentures, purchase agreements, obligations in
respect of letters of credit, guarantees and other instruments presently in
effect (including Capital Lease Obligations) providing for, evidencing,
securing or otherwise relating to any Indebtedness of the Company and the
Restricted Subsidiaries in a principal or face amount equal to $1,000,000 or
more and such lists correctly set forth the names of the debtor or lessee and
creditor or lessor with respect to the Indebtedness outstanding or to be
outstanding thereunder, the rate of interest or rentals, a description of any
security given or to be given therefor, and the maturity or maturities or
expiration date or dates thereof.

 

Section 6.10           Full
Disclosure.  None of the financial
statements referred to in Section 6.04 hereof, the SEC Reports,
certificates or any other written statements delivered by or on behalf of the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to the Administrative Agent or any Lender
contains, as at the Agreement Date and the Closing Date, any untrue statement
of a material fact nor do such financial statements, the SEC Reports,
certificates and such other written statements, taken as a whole, omit to state
a material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein not
misleading.

 

Section 6.11           No
Default.  None of the Company and the
Restricted Subsidiaries is in default in the payment or performance or
observance of any Contractual Obligation, which default, either alone or in
conjunction with all other such defaults, has had or is likely to have a
Materially Adverse Effect.

 

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Section 6.12           Approval
of Regulatory Authorities.  Except as
set forth on Schedule 6.03 hereto, no approval or consent of, or
filing or registration with, any Governmental Authority is required in
connection with (a) the execution, delivery and performance by, or
enforcement against, the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries of any
Loan Document to which it is a party, (b) the grant by the Company or any
of the Restricted Subsidiaries of the Liens granted by it pursuant to the
Collateral Documents, (c) the perfection or maintenance of the Liens
created under the Collateral Documents (including the first priority nature
thereof) or (d) the exercise by the Administrative Agent or any Lender of
its rights under the Loan Documents or the remedies in respect of the
Collateral pursuant to the Collateral Documents.  All approvals, consents, filings, registrations
or other actions described in Schedule 6.03 have been duly
obtained, taken, given or made and are in full force and effect (other than as
set forth in Schedule 6.03).

 

Section 6.13           Binding
Agreements.  This Credit Agreement
constitutes, and each other Loan Document when executed and delivered will
constitute, the legal, valid and binding obligations of each of the Company and
the Restricted Subsidiaries which is a party thereto, enforceable in accordance
with their respective terms (except for limitations on enforceability under
bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency and other similar laws affecting
creditors’ rights generally and limitations on the availability of the remedy
of specific performance imposed by the application of general equitable
principles).

 

Section 6.14           Franchises.  Schedule 6.14 hereto contains a
complete and correct list, as at the Agreement Date and the Closing Date, of
all of the Franchises granted to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries,
in each case together with the expiration date thereof, or for which applications
have been made, or are planned to be made, by the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary.

 

Section 6.15           Collective
Bargaining Agreements.  Except as
disclosed to the Lenders in writing prior to the Closing Date, there are no
collective bargaining agreements between the Company or the Restricted
Subsidiaries and any trade or labor union or other employee collective
bargaining agent.

 

Section 6.16           Investments.  Schedule 6.16 hereto contains a
complete and correct list, as at December 31, 2005, of all Investments of
the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries (other than any Investments in
other Restricted Subsidiaries) in excess of $50,000,000, showing the respective
amounts of each such Investment and the respective entity (or group thereof) in
which each such Investment has been made.

 

ARTICLE VII

 

COVENANTS OF THE

COMPANY AND THE RESTRICTED SUBSIDIARIES

 

From the Agreement Date and so long as the Commitments
of the Lenders shall be in effect and until the payment in full of all
Obligations hereunder, the expiration or

 

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termination of all Letters of Credit and the performance of all other
Obligations of the Company under the Loan Documents, each of the Company and
the Restricted Subsidiaries agrees that, unless (x) in the case of a
Revolver/Term A Covenant, the Required Revolver/Term A Lenders and (y) in the
case of any other covenant, the Required Lenders, shall otherwise consent in
writing:

 

A.        Informational Covenants:

 

Section 7.01           Financial
Statements and Other Information. 
The Company will deliver to the Administrative Agent and each Lender:

 

(a)           As
soon as available and in any event within 60 days after the end of each of the
first three Quarters of each fiscal year of the Company:  (A) consolidated statements of
operations of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries, taken together,
and of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries, taken together, for such
Quarter and for the period from the beginning of such fiscal year to the end of
such Quarter and (B) the related consolidated balance sheets and
consolidated cash flow statements of the Company and its consolidated
Subsidiaries, taken together, and of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries, taken together, as at the end of such Quarter (which financial
statements (other than statements of cash flows) shall set forth in comparative
form the corresponding figures as at the end of and for the corresponding
Quarter in the preceding fiscal year) all in reasonable detail and accompanied
by a certificate in the form of Exhibit D-1 hereto of a senior
financial executive of the Company certifying such financial statements as
fairly presenting the financial condition and results of operations of the respective
entities covered thereby in accordance with GAAP, excluding accompanying footnotes to the
consolidated financial statements and subject, however, to year-end and audit
adjustments, which certificate shall include a statement that the senior
financial executive signing the same has no knowledge, except as specifically
stated, that any Default has occurred and is continuing.

 

(b)           As
soon as available and in any event within 120 days after the end of each fiscal
year of the Company:  (A) consolidated
statements of operations of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries,
taken together, and of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries, taken
together, for such fiscal year and (B) the related consolidated balance
sheets and cash flow statements of the Company and its consolidated
Subsidiaries, taken together, and of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries, taken together, as at the end of such fiscal year (which
financial statements (other than cash flow statements) shall set forth in
comparative form the corresponding figures as at the end of and for the
preceding fiscal year), all in reasonable detail and prepared in accordance
with GAAP and accompanied by (x) an opinion of a Registered Public Accounting
Firm of nationally recognized standing selected by the Company and reasonably
acceptable to the Required Lenders as to said consolidated financial statements of the Company and its
consolidated Subsidiaries and a certificate of such accountants stating
that, in making the examination necessary for said opinion, they obtained no
knowledge, except as specifically stated, of any failure by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiaries to perform or observe any of its covenants relating to
financial matters in this Credit Agreement, (y) an attestation report of such
Registered

 

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Public Accounting Firm as to the Company’s internal controls
pursuant to Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley, and (z) a certificate in the
form of Exhibit D-2 hereto of a senior financial executive of the
Company stating that such financial statements are correct and complete and
fairly present the financial condition and results of operations of the
respective entities covered thereby as at the end of and for such fiscal year
and that the executive signing the same has no knowledge, except as
specifically stated, that any Default has occurred and is continuing.

 

(c)           Promptly
after their becoming available, copies of all financial statements and reports
which the Parent Corp., the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary shall have
sent its shareholders generally (other than tax returns unless specifically
requested under Section 7.01(g)), copies of financial statements
and reports which the Company shall have sent to the holders of any Permitted
Debt or any Indebtedness specified in Schedule 7.12, to the extent
such statements and reports contain information relating to the designation of
the Company’s Subsidiaries as “restricted subsidiaries” under the Debt
Instruments governing any such Indebtedness, and to the calculation of
financial ratios thereunder and copies of all regular and periodic reports, if
any, which the Parent Corp., the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary shall
have filed with the SEC, or any governmental agency substituted therefor, or
with any national securities exchange.

 

(d)           Concurrently
with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Section 7.01(a) and
(b), a Compliance Certificate, duly completed (including the subscriber
information required to be set forth therein) signed by the chief executive officer, chief financial officer,
treasurer or controller of the Company.

 

(e)           Promptly,
notice of the termination, cancellation, nonrenewal or other loss of any
Franchise for a cable television system or systems that has had or is likely to
have, either alone or in conjunction with all other such losses, a Materially
Adverse Effect.

 

(f)            As
soon as possible and in any event within ten days after any senior executive of
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or of any general partner of any
Restricted Subsidiary shall have obtained knowledge of the occurrence of a
Default, a statement describing such Default and the action which is proposed
to be taken with respect thereto.

 

(g)           From
time to time, with reasonable promptness, such further information regarding
the business, affairs and financial condition of the Company or any of the
Restricted Subsidiaries or any of their respective Affiliates or other
affiliates as the Administrative Agent or any Lender, through the
Administrative Agent, may reasonably request.

 

(h)           Concurrently
with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Section 7.01(a) and
(b), a list of any new, or redesignation with respect to, Restricted
Subsidiaries and Unrestricted Subsidiaries.

 

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(i)            Prior
to the making of any Special Dividend by the Company, a Solvency Certificate
showing that, after giving effect to such Special Dividend, the Company is
Solvent.

 

Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 7.01(a),
(b) or (c) (to the extent any such documents are
included in materials otherwise filed with the SEC) may be delivered
electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on
the date (i) on which the Company posts such documents, or provides a link
thereto on the Company’s website on the Internet at the website address listed
on Schedule 10.02; or (ii) on which such documents are posted
on the Company’s behalf on an Internet or intranet website, if any, to which
each Lender and the Administrative Agent have access (whether a commercial,
third-party website or whether sponsored by the Administrative Agent); provided
that:  (A) the Company shall deliver
paper copies of such documents to the Administrative Agent or any Lender that
requests the Company to deliver such paper copies until a written request to
cease delivering paper copies is given by the Administrative Agent or such
Lender and (B) the Company shall notify the Administrative Agent, each
Lender (by telecopier or electronic mail) of the posting of any such documents
and provide to the Administrative Agent by electronic mail electronic versions
(i.e., soft copies) of such documents. 
Notwithstanding anything contained herein, in every instance the Company
shall be required to provide paper copies of the Compliance Certificates
required by Section 7.01(d) to the Administrative Agent.  Except for such Compliance Certificates, the
Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to request the delivery or to
maintain copies of the documents referred to above, and in any event shall have
no responsibility to monitor compliance by the Company with any such request
for delivery, and each Lender shall be solely responsible for requesting
delivery to it or maintaining its copies of such documents.

 

The Company hereby acknowledges that (a) the
Administrative Agent and/or the Joint Lead Arrangers will make available to the
Lenders and the L/C Issuer materials and/or information provided by or on
behalf of the Company hereunder (collectively, “Company Materials”) by
posting the Company Materials on IntraLinks or another similar electronic
system (the “Platform”) and (b) certain of the Lenders may be “public-side”
Lenders (i.e., Lenders that do not wish to receive material non-public
information with respect to the Company or its securities) (each, a “Public
Lender”).  The Company hereby agrees
that it will use commercially reasonable efforts to identify that portion of
the Company Materials not otherwise publicly filed with the SEC that may be
distributed to the Public Lenders and that (w) all such Company Materials shall
be clearly and conspicuously marked “PUBLIC” which, at a minimum, shall mean
that the word “PUBLIC” shall appear prominently on the first page thereof;
(x) by marking Company Materials “PUBLIC,” the Company shall be deemed to have
authorized the Administrative Agent, the Joint Lead Arrangers, the L/C Issuer
and Lenders to treat such Company Materials as not containing any material
non-public information (although it may be sensitive and proprietary) with
respect to the Company or its securities for purposes of United States Federal
and state securities laws; (y) all Company Materials marked “PUBLIC” are
permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated “Public
Investor”; and (z) the Administrative Agent and the Joint Lead Arrangers shall
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“PUBLIC”
as being suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform not designated “Public
Investor.”

 

B.         Affirmative
Covenants:

 

Section 7.02           Taxes
and Claims.  Each of the Company and
the Restricted Subsidiaries will pay and discharge all Taxes imposed upon it or
upon its income or profits, or upon any properties or assets belonging to it,
and all fees or other charges for Franchises and all other lawful claims which,
if unpaid, could be reasonably expected to become a Lien (other than Permitted
Liens) upon the property of the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries
or result in the loss of a Franchise, provided that none of the Company
and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall be required to pay any such Tax, fee or
other claim as to which the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries have a good
faith basis to believe is not due and owing and, to the extent then
appropriate, the payment thereof is being contested in good faith and by proper
proceed­ings, provided that it maintains adequate reserves in accordance with
GAAP with respect thereto.

 

Section 7.03           Insurance.  Each of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries will maintain insurance issued by financially sound and reputable
insurance companies with respect to its properties and business in such amounts
and against such risks as is usually carried by owners of simi­lar businesses
and properties in the same general areas in which the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary operates.  The
Company will furnish to any Lender, upon the request of such Lender from time
to time, full information as to the insurance maintained in accordance with
this Section 7.03.

 

Section 7.04           Maintenance
of Existence; Conduct of Business. 
Each of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries will preserve, renew
and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence and good standing
under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, and all of its rights,
privileges, licenses and franchises (including Franchises), except (i) where a
failure to do so, singly or in the aggregate, is not likely to have a
Materially Adverse Effect or (ii) pursuant to a Permitted Restricted Subsidiary
Transaction.

 

Section 7.05           Maintenance
of and Access to Properties.  Each of
the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries will maintain, preserve and protect
its properties and assets necessary in its business in good working order and
condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted and except where a failure to do so,
singly or in the aggregate, is not likely to have a Materially Adverse Effect,
and will permit representatives of the respective Revolving Credit Lenders and
Term A Lenders to visit and inspect such properties, and to examine and make
extracts from its books and records, during normal business hours.

 

Section 7.06           Compliance
with Applicable Laws.  Each of the
Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries will comply with the requirements of
all applicable Laws (including but not limited to Environmental Laws) and all
orders, writs, injunctions and decrees of any Governmental Authority a breach
of which is likely to have, singly or in the aggregate, a Materially Adverse
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proper proceedings if it maintains adequate reserves in accordance with
GAAP with respect thereto.

 

Section 7.07           Litigation.  Each of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries will promptly give to the Administrative Agent notice in writing
(and the Administrative Agent will notify each Lender) of all actions, suits,
proceedings, claims or disputes before any courts, arbitrators or Governmental
Authority against it or, to its knowledge, otherwise affecting it or any of its
respective properties or assets, except actions, suits, proceedings, claims or
disputes which are not reasonably likely to, singly or in the aggregate, have a
Materially Adverse Effect.  Following the
initial notice of each such action, suit, proceeding, claim or dispute,
supplementary notices of all material developments in respect thereof shall be
given from time to time in like manner. 
The parties hereby acknowledge that the prompt notice required by this Section
7.07 shall be satisfied by public reporting of such actions, suits,
proceedings, claims or disputes by the Company with the SEC in a filing made
pursuant to Securities Laws.

 

Section 7.08           Subsidiaries.  (a) 
Unless Section 7.08(b) is applicable, any New Subsidiary acquired
or formed by the Company shall be deemed an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

 

(b)           The
Company may designate, so long as no Default shall have occurred and be
continuing both before and after giving effect to such designation, any New
Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary by giving a notice captioned “Designation
of Restricted Subsidiary” to the Administrative Agent promptly upon the
acquisition or formation of such New Subsidiary, such notice to specify whether
such New Subsidiary has been designated as a “restricted subsidiary” for
purposes of any Debt Instruments governing any Permitted Debt or any
Indebtedness specified in Schedule 7.12. 
Promptly upon such designation, the Company will cause (by documentation
satisfactory to the Required Revolver/Term A Lenders) such New Restricted
Subsidiary to undertake all of the obligations of (i) a “Restricted Subsidiary”
under this Credit Agreement, (ii) unless such New Subsidiary is a Subsidiary of
TKR, a “Guarantor” under this Credit Agreement, and (iii) if applicable, a “Pledgor”
under the Pledge Agreement.  Each such
New Restricted Subsidiary shall thereafter be a “Restricted Subsidiary” and, if
applicable, a “Guarantor” for all purposes of this Credit Agreement and a “Pledgor”
for all purposes of the Pledge Agreement.

 

(c)           (i)  The Company may redesignate, so long as no
Default shall have occurred and be continuing both before and after giving
effect to such redesignation, any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted
Subsidiary or any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary by giving
a notice to the Administrative Agent captioned “Redesignation of Restricted
Subsidiary” or “Redesignation of Unrestricted Subsidiary”, as the case may
be.  In the case of any redesignation of
any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, promptly upon such
redesignation, the Company will cause (by documentation satisfactory to the Required
Revolver/Term A Lenders) such New Restricted Subsidiary to undertake all of the
obligations of (A) a “Restricted Subsidiary” under this Credit Agreement, (B)
unless such New Subsidiary is a Subsidiary of TKR, a “Guarantor” under this
Credit Agreement, and (C) if applicable, a “Pledgor” under the

 

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Pledge
Agreement.  Each such New Restricted
Subsidiary shall thereafter be a “Restricted Subsidiary” and, if applicable, a “Guarantor”
for all purposes of this Credit Agreement and a “Pledgor” for all purposes of
the Pledge Agreement.

 

Section 7.09           Franchises.  The Restricted Subsidiaries will comply with
all of their obligations under their respective Franchises, except for failures
to comply which, singly or in the aggregate, are not likely to have a
Materially Adverse Effect.

 

Section 7.10           Use
of Proceeds.  Use the proceeds of the
Credit Extensions to (i) refinance certain existing Indebtedness of the Company
and its Subsidiaries, (ii) pay fees and expenses incurred in connection with
the transactions contemplated herein, (iii) fund any dividend or other
distribution to Parent Corp. permitted under Section 7.18, and (iv) for
general corporate purposes not in contravention of any Law or of any Loan
Document.

 

Section 7.11           Further
Assurances.  Promptly upon request by
the Administrative Agent, or any Lender through the Administrative Agent, (a)
correct any material defect or error that may be discovered in any Loan
Document or in the execution, acknowledgment, filing or recordation thereof,
and (b) do, execute, acknowledge, deliver, record, re-record, file, re-file,
register and re-register any and all such further acts, deeds, certificates,
assurances and other instruments as the Administrative Agent, or any Lender
through the Administrative Agent, may reasonably require from time to time in
order to (i) carry out more effectively the purposes of the Loan Documents,
(ii) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, subject any Loan Party’s
or any of its Subsidiaries’ properties, assets, rights or interests to the
Liens now or hereafter intended to be covered by any of the Collateral
Documents, (iii) perfect and maintain the validity, effectiveness and priority
of any of the Collateral Documents and any of the Liens intended to be created
thereunder and (iv) assure, convey, grant, assign, transfer, preserve, protect
and confirm more effectively unto the Secured Parties the rights granted or now
or hereafter intended to be granted to the Secured Parties under any Loan
Document or under any other instrument executed in connection with any Loan
Document to which any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is or is to be a
party, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to do so.

 

C.  Negative Covenants:

 

Section 7.12           Indebtedness.  Neither the Company nor any Restricted
Subsidiary will create, incur or suffer to exist any Indebtedness except:

 

(i)      Indebtedness
hereunder;

 

(ii)     Permitted
Debt;

 

(iii)    obligations
under or in respect of interest rate Swap Contracts up to an aggregate notional
principal amount not to exceed at any time an amount equal to the Commitments
of all the Lenders in the aggregate at such time;

 

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(iv)    Guarantees
and letters of credit permitted by Section 7.13 hereof;

 

(v)     Indebtedness
of the Company owed to any Restricted Subsidiary and Indebtedness of any
Restricted Subsidiary owed to any other Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(vi)    Indebtedness
issued and outstanding on the Agreement Date to the extent set forth on Schedule
7.12 hereto and any renewals, extensions or refundings thereof in a
principal amount not to exceed the amount so renewed, extended or refunded;

 

(vii)   Indebtedness
incurred as consideration for any acquisition permitted hereunder and consisting
solely of a deferred or contingent obligation to deliver common stock of the
Parent Corp.;

 

(viii)  Monetization
Indebtedness; provided that, the Company shall provide to the
Administrative Agent prompt written notice of any such Monetization Indebtedness
incurred by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary together with a brief
description of the terms thereof; and

 

(ix)    Other
Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, to the extent not
otherwise permitted by clauses (i) through (viii) of this Section 7.12,
so long as the aggregate principal amount of all such Indebtedness outstanding
at any one time pursuant to this clause (ix) shall not exceed the sum of
$400,000,000.

 

Section 7.13           Contingent
Liabilities.  Neither the Company nor
any Restricted Subsidiary will, directly or indirectly (including, without
limitation, by means of causing a bank to open a letter of credit), guarantee,
endorse, contingently agree to purchase or to furnish funds for the payment or
maintenance of, or otherwise be or become contingently liable upon or with
respect to, the Indebtedness, other obligations, net worth, working capital or
earnings of any Person, or guarantee the payment of dividends or other
distributions upon the stock or other ownership interests of any Person, or
agree to purchase, sell or lease (as lessee or lessor) property, products,
materials, supplies or services primarily for the purpose of enabling a debtor
to make payment of its obligations or to assure a creditor against loss (all
such transactions being herein called “Guarantees”), except:

 

(i)      the
Guarantees in Article IV hereof;

 

(ii)     endorsements
of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of
business;

 

(iii)    the
Guarantees described in Schedule 7.13;

 

(iv)    Guarantees
by the Company or one or more of the Restricted Subsidiaries of Indebtedness
of, and other obligations (incurred in the ordinary

 

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course of business) of, another Restricted Subsidiary,
but only if such Indebtedness or obligations are permitted by this Credit
Agreement;

 

(v)     other
Guarantees, including, but not limited to, without duplication, surety bonds,
by the Company, provided that the outstanding aggregate amount of the
obligations guaranteed does not exceed $150,000,000 at any time;

 

(vi)    Capital
Lease Obligations to the extent they constitute Guarantees by reason of having
been assigned by the lessor to a lender to such lessor (provided that
the obligors in respect of such Capital Lease Obligations do not increase their
liability by reason of such assignment);

 

(vii)   the
Letters of Credit;

 

(viii)  any
Guarantee by the Company of the obligations of any Unrestricted Subsidiary so
long as (A) recourse to the Company thereunder is limited solely to shares of
capital stock of such Unrestricted Subsidiary or its Subsidiaries and to no
other assets of the Company or the Restricted Subsidiaries and (B) neither the
Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary agrees, in connection therewith, to any
limitation on the amount of Indebtedness which may be incurred by them, to the
granting of any Liens on assets of the Company or any of the Restricted
Subsidiaries (other than shares of stock of such Unrestricted Subsidiary or its
Subsidiaries), to any acquisition or disposition of any assets of the Company
or the Restricted Subsidiaries (other than shares of capital stock of such
Unrestricted Subsidiary or its Subsidiaries) or to any modification or
supplement of this Credit Agreement or any agreement entered into by the
Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries refinancing any substantial
portion of the Indebtedness outstanding under this Credit Agreement;

 

(ix)    Guarantees
which would constitute Investments which are not prohibited by Section 7.17
hereof; and

 

(x)     Obligations
under contracts providing for the acquisition of or provision of goods or
services (including leases or licenses of property) incurred in the ordinary
course of business for which the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
may be jointly and severally liable with other Subsidiaries of the Company as
to which costs are allocated (as among the Company and its Subsidiaries) based
on cost, usage or other reasonable method of allocation; provided that
the undertaking of such liabilities are not intended as a guaranty or other
credit support of such obligations; and

 

(xi)    any
Guarantee by the Company of any obligation to the extent such obligation can be
satisfied (at the option of the Company) by the delivery of common stock of the
Parent Corp.

 

Section 7.14           Liens.  Neither the Company nor any Restricted
Subsidiary will create or suffer to exist, any mortgage, pledge, security
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title retention agreement, lien, charge or encumbrance upon any of its
assets, now owned or hereafter acquired, securing any Indebtedness or other
obligation (all such security being herein called “Liens”), except:

 

(i)      Liens
on property securing Indebtedness owed to the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary;

 

(ii)     Liens
securing Capital Leases or other Indebtedness for the deferred acquisition
price of property or services to the extent such Liens attach solely to the
property acquired with or subject to such Indebtedness;

 

(iii)    Liens
securing all of the obligations of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries
hereunder;

 

(iv)    Permitted
Liens;

 

(v)     other
Liens on property in effect on the Agreement Date to the extent set forth on Schedule
7.14 hereto;

 

(vi)    Liens
on shares of the capital stock of, or partnership interest in, any Unrestricted
Subsidiary; and

 

(vii)   Liens
on any share of Monetized Stock to the extent such liens secure Monetization
Indebtedness related to such Monetized Stock.

 

In addition, neither the
Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary will enter into or permit to exist any
undertaking by it or affecting any of its properties whereby the Company or
such Restricted Subsidiary shall agree with any Person (other than the Lenders
or the Administrative Agent) not to create or suffer to exist any Liens in
favor of any other Person, provided that the foregoing restriction shall
not apply to any such undertaking contained in any indenture or other agreement
governing any Permitted Debt.

 

Section 7.15           Leases.  Neither the Company nor any Restricted
Subsidiary will incur, assume or have outstanding any obligation to pay rent
under Leases (as lessee, guarantor or otherwise) except:

 

(i)      obligations
under Leases by one Restricted Subsidiary to another Restricted Subsidiary or
the Company, as the case may be; and

 

(ii)     obligations
under Leases of equipment and other real or personal property for use in the
ordinary course of the business (including any subleasing or allocations to
other Subsidiaries of the Company) of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries and CSC Technology, including Pole Rental Leases and Leases of
microwave transmission, reception rights and radio and other frequency
spectrum.

 

Section 7.16           TKR  Neither the Company nor any Restricted
Subsidiary will make any Investment in TKR after the Agreement Date in excess of
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amount of $500,000,000, unless, prior thereto, TKR shall have become a
Guarantor hereunder.

 

Section 7.17           Investments.  Neither
the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary will, directly or indirectly, (a)
make or permit to remain outstanding any advances, loans, accounts receivable
(other than (x) accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business
of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary and (y) accounts receivable owing
to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary from any Unrestricted Subsidiary
for management or other services or other overhead or shared expenses allocated
in the ordinary course of business provided by the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary to such Unrestricted Subsidiary or other extensions of credit
(excluding, however, accrued and unpaid interest in respect of any advance,
loan or other extension of credit) or capital contributions to (by means of
transfers of property to others, or payments for property or services for the
account or use of others, or otherwise) any Person (other than the Company or
any Restricted Subsidiary)), (b) purchase or own any stocks, bonds, notes,
debentures or other securities (including, without limitation, any interests in
any partnership, joint venture or any similar enterprise) of, or any bank
accounts with, or Guarantee any Indebtedness or other obligations of, any
Person (other than the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary), or (c) purchase
or acquire (in one transaction or a series of transactions) assets of another
Person that constitute a business unit or all or a substantial part of the
business of, such Person (other than the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary)
(all such transactions referred to in clauses (a), (b) and (c) being herein
called “Investments”), provided  however, that such
restriction shall not apply so long as no Default shall have occurred and be
continuing both immediately before and immediately after giving effect to the
making of each such Investment, and, provided  further, that the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may convert the form of any outstanding
Investment by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in any Unrestricted
Subsidiary that was permitted under this Section 7.17 when first made by
the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary at all times prior to any Responsible
Officer having knowledge of the occurrence and continuance of a Default.

 

Section 7.18           Restricted
Payments.  Neither the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary will, directly or
indirectly, make or declare any Restricted Payment (other than any Restricted
Payment payable (and paid) in common stock of the Parent Corp.) at any time,
except that, so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the
time such Restricted Payment is made or would result from the making or
declaration of such Restricted Payment, this Section 7.18 shall not
apply to (i) any Restricted Payment made by the Company to Parent Corp. and used
by Parent Corp. to make a scheduled payment of principal or interest on any of
Parent Corp.’s Indebtedness or to pay any management fees, and (ii) any other
Restricted Payment by the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, provided
that during any Limitation Period the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments
made shall not exceed $200,000,000 plus an amount equal to the aggregate
proceeds received by the Company or the Restricted Subsidiaries from any
capital contribution or any issue of new Equity Interests following the Closing
Date not previously utilized to increase the available amount of Restricted
Payments during any Limitation Period.   “Limitation
Period” shall mean one or more consecutive Certification Periods in which
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applicable to such Certification Period
exceeds (x) from the Closing Date to, and including, September 30, 2006, 6.75
to 1 and (y) thereafter, 6.00 to 1, either at the beginning of such
Certification Period or at any time during such period after giving effect to
any Indebtedness incurred to fund a Restricted Payment made during such period;
and “Certification Period” shall mean the period from the date of the
delivery of a Compliance Certificate to the date immediately preceding the
delivery of the immediately succeeding Compliance Certificate.

 

Section 7.19           Business.  (a)  The Company and
the Restricted Subsidiaries shall not permit the portion of consolidated gross
revenues of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries derived from the
business of developing, constructing, owning, acquiring, altering, repairing,
financing, operating, maintaining, publishing, distributing, promoting and
otherwise exploiting cable television systems and related businesses,
including, without limitation, telecommunications services, data transmission
and telephony activities, for any Quarter to be less than 90% of the total
consolidated gross revenues of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries for
such Quarter.

 

(b)           Neither the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary will effect any
Disposition or redesignate a Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted
Subsidiary under Section 7.08, unless, both before and after giving effect to
such Disposition or redesignation, no Default shall have occurred and be
continuing. In determining the absence of a Default after giving effect to any
transaction limited by the foregoing, or by any other covenant contained
herein, compliance with Section 7.23, Section 7.24 and Section 7.25 shall be
determined on a pro forma basis giving effect to the subject transaction.

 

Section 7.20           Transactions
with Affiliates.  Other than as set
forth on Schedule 7.20, neither the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary
will effect any transaction with any of its Affiliates that is not a Restricted
Subsidiary on a basis less favorable to the Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary than would at the time be obtainable for a comparable transaction in
arms-length dealing with an unrelated third party (other than overhead and
other ordinary course allocations of costs and services on a reasonable basis).

 

Section 7.21           Amendments of
Certain Instruments.  Neither the
Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary will modify or supplement, or consent to
any waiver of any of the provisions of, any Debt Instrument governing any
Permitted Debt or any Indebtedness specified in Schedule 7.12 except to
the extent, after giving effect thereto, that such Permitted Debt or other
Indebtedness could be incurred on such modified or supplemented terms by the
Company or a Restricted Subsidiary on the effective date of the modification,
supplement or consent.  In addition, the
Company will not amend, modify or supplement any of the provisions of its charter
in respect of preferred stock of the Company, except that the Company may (a)
file any amendment or modification thereto or supplement thereof to permit the
issuance of New Preferred Stock of the Company and (b) file a certificate of
retirement thereto in respect of any series of preferred stock of the Company
the purchase, acquisition, redemption or retirement of which is permitted by
this Credit Agreement.

 

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Section 7.22           Issuance
of Stock.  The Company will not
permit any Restricted Subsidiary to issue any shares of stock or other
ownership interests in such Restricted Subsidiary if, after giving effect
thereto, the percentage of the ownership interests in such Restricted
Subsidiary held by the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries immediately
prior to such issuance would be decreased.

 

D.  Financial Covenants:

 

Section 7.23           Operating
Cash Flow.  (a)  Operating Cash Flow to Total Interest
Expense. The Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries will cause, for each
Quarter, the ratio of Operating Cash Flow for the period of four Quarters
ending with such Quarter to Total Interest Expense for such period of four
Quarters ending with such Quarter to be at
least the following respective amounts at all times during the following
respective periods; provided that, in the event that the Company shall
not have made a Special Dividend to Parent Corp. on or prior to September 30,
2006, the “Adjusted Ratio” set forth below shall apply from October 1, 2006:

 

	
  Period

  	
   

  	
  Ratio

  	
   

  	
  Adjusted Ratio

  	
   

  
	
  From and
  including the Closing Date to and including the Quarter ended December 31,
  2006

  	
   

  	
  1.75 to 1

  	
   

  	
  1.75 to 1

  	
   

  
	
  From and
  including January 1, 2007 to and including the Quarter ended June 30, 2007

  	
   

  	
  1.85 to 1

  	
   

  	
  2.00 to 1

  	
   

  
	
  On and after
  July 1, 2007

  	
   

  	
  2.00 to 1

  	
   

  	
  2.25 to 1

  	
   

  

 

(b)           Operating Cash Flow less
Consolidated Cash Taxes to Total Debt Expense.  The Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries
will cause, for each Quarter, the ratio of (i) Operating Cash Flow for the
period of four Quarters ending with such Quarter less Consolidated Cash Taxes
paid during such period of four Quarters to (ii) Total Debt Expense for
such period of four Quarters ending with such Quarter to be at least equal to
1.50 to 1.

 

Section 7.24           Cash
Flow Ratio.  The Company and the
Guarantors will not permit the Cash Flow Ratio to exceed the following
respective amounts at any time during the following respective periods; provided that, in the event that the Company
shall not have made a Special Dividend to Parent Corp. on or prior to September
30, 2006, the “Adjusted Ratio” set forth below shall apply from October 1, 2006:

 

	
  Period

  	
   

  	
  Ratio

  	
   

  	
  Adjusted Ratio

  	
   

  
	
  From and
  including the Closing Date to and including September 30, 2006

  	
   

  	
  7.50 to 1

  	
   

  	
  —

  	
   

  
	
  From and
  including October 1, 2006 to and including December 31, 2006

  	
   

  	
  7.25 to 1

  	
   

  	
  6.25 to 1

  	
   

  
	
  From and
  including January 1, 2007 to and including March 31, 2007

  	
   

  	
  7.00 to 1

  	
   

  	
  6.00 to 1

  	
   

  
	
  From and
  including April 1, 2007 to and including September 30, 2007

  	
   

  	
  6.50 to 1

  	
   

  	
  5.50 to 1

  	
   

  
	
  From and
  including October 1, 2007 to and including December 31, 2007

  	
   

  	
  6.00 to 1

  	
   

  	
  5.00 to 1

  	
   

  
	
  From and
  including January 1, 2008 to and including December 31, 2008

  	
   

  	
  5.50 to 1

  	
   

  	
  4.50 to 1

  	
   

  
	
  From and
  including January 1, 2009 to and including December 31, 2009

  	
   

  	
  5.00 to 1

  	
   

  	
  4.00 to 1

  	
   

  
	
  On and after
  January 1, 2010

  	
   

  	
  4.50 to 1

  	
   

  	
  3.50 to 1

  	
   

  

 

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Section 7.25           Senior
Secured Leverage Ratio.  The Company
and the Guarantors will not permit the Senior Secured Leverage Ratio to exceed
the following respective amounts at any time during the following respective
periods; provided that, in the event
that the Company shall not have made a Special Dividend to Parent Corp. on or
prior to September 30, 2006, the “Adjusted Ratio” set forth below shall apply
from October 1, 2006:

 

	
  Period

  	
   

  	
  Ratio

  	
   

  	
  Adjusted Ratio

  	
   

  
	
  From and
  including the Closing Date to and including September 30, 2006

  	
   

  	
  4.00 to 1

  	
   

  	
  —

  	
   

  
	
  From and
  including October 1, 2006 to and including December 31, 2006

  	
   

  	
  4.00 to 1

  	
   

  	
  3.50 to 1

  	
   

  
	
  From and
  including January 1, 2007 to and including December 31, 2007

  	
   

  	
  3.75 to 1

  	
   

  	
  3.25 to 1

  	
   

  
	
  From and
  including January 1, 2008 to and including December 31, 2008

  	
   

  	
  3.50 to 1

  	
   

  	
  3.00 to 1

  	
   

  
	
  From and
  including January 1, 2009 to and including December 31, 2009

  	
   

  	
  3.25 to 1

  	
   

  	
  2.75 to 1

  	
   

  
	
  On and after
  January 1, 2010

  	
   

  	
  3.00 to 1

  	
   

  	
  2.50 to 1

  	
   

  

 

Section 7.26           Incremental
Term Facility Covenants.  The Company
and each of the Restricted Subsidiaries shall comply with each covenant contained
in any Incremental Term Facility, subject to any applicable grace periods and
notice requirements.

 

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ARTICLE VIII

EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

 

Section 8.01           Events
of Default.  Each of the following
shall constitute an “Event of Default”:

 

(a)           Any
representation or warranty in this Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document
or in any certificate, statement or other document furnished to the Lenders or
the Administrative Agent pursuant hereto (including, without limitation, any
amendment thereto), or any certification made or deemed to have been made by
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to any Lender or the Administrative
Agent hereunder, shall prove to have been incorrect, or shall be breached, in
any material respect when made or deemed made; provided that any
representation made pursuant to Section 5.02 in respect of the absence of any
Default shall not constitute an Event of Default if (i) at the time of such
representation, such Default was not known to a Responsible Officer and (ii)
prior to such Default, the absence of which is the subject of such
representation, becoming an Event of Default, such Default has been cured or
waived in accordance with this Credit Agreement; or

 

(b)           (i)
Default in the payment when due of any principal of any Revolving Credit Loan,
Term A Loan or any L/C Obligation, default in the deposit when due of funds as
Cash Collateral in respect of L/C Obligations or default in the payment when
due of interest on any Revolving Credit Loan, Term A Loan or on any L/C
Obligation, or any fee due hereunder or any other amount payable to any
Revolving Credit Lender or Term A Lender hereunder, and the failure to pay such
interest, fee or such other amount within two Business Days after the same
becomes due or (ii) Default in the payment when due of any principal of any
Incremental Term Loan or default in the payment when due of interest on any
Incremental Term Loan, or any fee due hereunder or any other amount payable to
any Incremental Term Lender or the Administrative Agent hereunder, and the
failure to pay such interest or such other amount within two Business Days
after the same becomes due; or

 

(c)           Default
by the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in the performance or
observance of any of its agreements in Article VII hereof (other than Section
7.01, Section 7.02, Section 7.03, Section 7.05, Section
7.06, Section 7.07, Section 7.08, Section 7.10, Section
7.17 and Section 7.20 hereof but including Section 7.01(f) hereof);
or

 

(d)           (i)
Default by the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in the performance
or observance of any of its other agreements herein (other than those specified
in Section 8.01(c)) or in any other Loan Document, which shall remain
unremedied for 30 days after notice thereof shall have been given to the
Company by any Lender (other than any Incremental Term Lender) or the
Administrative Agent (provided that such period shall be five days in
the case of a default under Section 7.17 hereof and provided  further
that such period shall be fifteen days and no such notice shall be required in
the case of a default under Section 7.01(d) hereof) or (ii) Default by
the

 

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Company or any of
the Restricted Subsidiaries in the performance or observance of any of its
other agreements herein or in any other Loan Document (other than any
Revolver/Term A Covenant), which shall remain unremedied for 60 days after
notice thereof shall have been given to the Company by Incremental Term Lenders
holding at least 25% of the Incremental Term Facility on the date such notice
is given or the Administrative Agent; or

 

(e)           Any
Indebtedness of the Company (including any Indebtedness hereunder) or any of
the Restricted Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount of $10,000,000 or
more, excluding (i) any Indebtedness owing solely to the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary and (ii) any Indebtedness for the deferred purchase price
of property or services owed to the Person providing such property or services
as to which the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary has a good faith basis to
believe is not due and owing and, to the extent then appropriate, is contesting
its obligation to pay the same in good faith and by proper proceedings and for
which the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary has established appropriate
reserves (such Indebtedness under clauses (i) and (ii) above herein called “Excluded
Indebtedness”), shall (i) become due before stated maturity by the
acceleration of the maturity thereof by reason of default or (ii) become due by
its terms and shall not be promptly paid or extended; or

 

(f)            Any
default under any indenture, credit agreement or loan agreement or other
agreement or instrument under which Indebtedness of the Company or any of the
Restricted Subsidiaries constituting indebtedness for borrowed money in an
aggregate principal amount of $10,000,000 or more is outstanding (other than
Excluded Indebtedness), or by which any such Indebtedness is evidenced, shall
have occurred and shall continue for a period of time sufficient to permit the
holder or holders of any such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on its or
their behalf) to accelerate the maturity thereof or to enforce any Lien
provided for by any such indenture, agreement or instrument, as the case may
be, unless such default shall have been permanently waived by the respective
holder of such Indebtedness; or

 

(g)           The
Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries shall (i) apply for or consent to
the appointment of, or the taking of possession by, a receiver, custodian,
trustee or liquidator of itself or of all or a substantial part of its
property, (ii) admit in writing its inability, or be generally unable, to pay
its debts as they become due, (iii) make a general assignment for the benefit
of creditors, (iv) be adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent, (v) commence a
voluntary case under any Debtor Relief Law (as now or hereafter in effect),
(vi) file a petition seeking to take advantage of any Debtor Relief Law, (vii)
acquiesce in writing to, or fail to controvert in a timely and appropriate
manner, any petition filed against the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in
any involuntary case under any such Debtor Relief Law, or (viii) take any
action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing; or

 

(h)           A
case or other proceeding shall be commenced, without the application, approval
or consent of the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, in any court
of competent jurisdiction, seeking the liquidation, reorganization,
dissolution, winding up, or composition or readjustment or debts of the Company
or any Restricted

 

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Subsidiary, the
appointment of a trustee, receiver, custodian, liquidator or the like of the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary or of all or any substantial part of its
assets, or any other similar action with respect to the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary under any Debtor Relief Law, and such case or proceeding
shall continue undismissed, or unstayed and in effect, for any period of 30
consecutive days, or an order for relief against the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary shall be entered in an involuntary case under any Debtor Relief Law
(as now or hereafter in effect); or

 

(i)            (i)
A judgment for the payment of money in excess of $10,000,000 shall be rendered
against the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and such judgment shall remain
unsatisfied and in effect for any period of 30 consecutive days without a stay
of execution or (if a stay is not provided for by applicable law) without
having been fully bonded or (ii) a final judgment or final judgments for the
payment of money are entered by a court or courts of competent jurisdiction
against the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and either (x) an enforcement
proceeding shall have been commenced by any creditor upon such judgment or (y)
such judgment remains undischarged and unbonded for a period (during which
execution shall not be effectively stayed) of 60 days, provided that,
the aggregate of all judgments exceeds $20,000,000; or

 

(j)            Any
Franchise issued to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary shall be revoked
or canceled or expire by its terms and not be renewed, or shall be modified in
a manner adverse to the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary utilizing such
Franchise, if such revocation, cancellation, expiration or non-renewal is
likely to have a Materially Adverse Effect (after giving effect to any
temporary operating authority); or

 

(k)           (i)  Any
Termination Event shall occur; (ii) any Accumulated Funding Deficiency, whether
or not waived, shall exist with respect to any Plan; (iii) any Person shall
engage in any Prohibited Transaction involving any Plan; (iv) the Company or
any ERISA Affiliate is in “default” (as defined in Section 4219(c)(5) of ERISA)
with respect to payments to a Multiemployer Plan resulting from the Company’s
or any ERISA Affiliate’s complete or partial withdrawal (as described in
Section 4203 or 4205 of ERISA) from such Plan; (v) the conditions for
imposition of a lien under Section 302(f) of ERISA shall have been met with
respect to a Plan; (vi) the adoption of an amendment to a Plan requiring the
provision of security to such Plan pursuant to Section 307 of ERISA; (vii) the
Company or any ERISA Affiliate shall fail to pay when due an amount which is
payable by it to the PBGC or to a Plan under Title IV of ERISA and which, when
aggregated with all other such amounts with respect to the payment of which the
Company and its ERISA Affiliates are at the time in default, exceeds $500,000;
(viii) a proceeding shall be instituted by a fiduciary of any Plan against the
Company or any ERISA Affiliate to enforce Section 515 of ERISA and such
proceeding shall not have been dismissed within 30 days thereafter; (ix) the
assumption of, or any material increase in, the contingent liability of the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary with respect to any post-retirement
welfare liability and such assumption or material increase has had, or could
reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect; and by reason of any
or all of such events described in clauses (i) through (ix) as applicable there
shall or could result in actual or potential liability of the Company and any
ERISA Affiliate in excess of $500,000 in the aggregate; or

 

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(l)            (i)  Dolan
Family Interests shall cease at any time to have beneficial ownership (within
the meaning of Rule 13d-3 (as in effect on the Agreement Date) promulgated
under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) of shares of the
capital stock of Parent Corp. having sufficient votes to elect (or otherwise
designate) at such time a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of
Parent Corp., (ii) Parent Corp. shall cease to own (free
and clear of all Liens) directly 100% of the common stock of the Company, or
any Person (other than Parent Corp.) shall obtain the legal or contractual
right to own, or to cause the transfer of the ownership of, any of the common
stock of the Company, without regard to any required approval of any other
Person, or (iii) the Company shall cease to own, directly or indirectly, 100%
of the common stock of TKR, or any Person (other than the Company or any direct
Subsidiary of the Company holding all of the common stock of TKR) shall obtain
the legal or contractual right to own, or to cause the transfer of the
ownership of, any of the common stock of TKR, without regard to any required
approval of any other Person; or

 

(m)          The
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary asserts or any Affiliate institutes any
proceedings seeking to establish or any Person obtains a judgment establishing
that (i) any provision of the Loan Documents is invalid, not binding or
unenforceable or (ii) the Lien created, or purported to be created, by the Loan
Documents is not a valid and perfected first priority security interest in the
property in which such Lien is created, or purported to be created, pursuant to
the Loan Documents.

 

Section 8.02           Remedies
upon Event of Default.  (a)  Revolver/Term A Event of Default.  If any Revolver/Term A Event of Default
occurs and is continuing, the Administrative Agent shall, at the request of, or
may, with the consent of, the Required Revolver/Term A Lenders, take any or all
of the following actions:

 

(i)            declare
the commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender and each Term A Lender to make
Loans and any obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions to be
terminated, whereupon such commitments and obligation shall be terminated;

 

(ii)           declare
the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Revolving Credit Loans and Term
A Loans, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other amounts owing
or payable to any Revolver Credit Lender or Term A Lender hereunder or under
any other Loan Document to be immediately due and payable, without presentment,
demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly
waived by the Company;

 

(iii)          require
that the Company Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations (in an amount equal to
the then Outstanding Amount thereof); and

 

(iv)          exercise
on behalf of itself, the Revolving Credit Lenders, Term A Lenders and the L/C
Issuer all rights and remedies available to it and such Lenders under the Loan
Documents.

 

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(b)           Other Event of Default.  If any Event of Default (other than a
Revolver/Term A Event of Default) occurs and is continuing, the Administrative
Agent shall, at the request of, or may, with the consent of, the Required
Lenders, take any or all of the following actions:

 

(i)            declare
the commitment of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of the L/C
Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions to be terminated, whereupon such
commitments and obligation shall be terminated;

 

(ii)           declare
the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans, all interest accrued and
unpaid thereon, and all other amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any
other Loan Document to be immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand,
protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived
by the Company;

 

(iii)          require
that the Company Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations (in an amount equal to
the then Outstanding Amount thereof); and

 

(iv)          exercise
on behalf of itself, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer all rights and remedies
available to it and such Lenders under the Loan Documents;

 

provided,
however, that upon the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an
order for relief with respect to the Company under the Bankruptcy Code of the
United States, the obligation of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation
of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions shall automatically terminate,
the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and other
amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become due and payable, and the
obligation of the Company to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations as
aforesaid shall automatically become effective, in each case without further
act of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.

 

Section 8.03           Application
of Funds.  After the exercise of
remedies provided for in Section 8.02 (or after the Loans have
automatically become immediately due and payable and the L/C Obligations have
automatically been required to be Cash Collateralized as set forth in the
proviso to Section 8.02), any amounts received on account of the
Obligations shall be applied by the Administrative Agent in the following
order:

 

First,
to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities,
expenses and other amounts (including fees, charges and disbursements of
counsel to the Administrative Agent and amounts payable under Article III)
payable to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such;

 

Second, to
payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities and
other amounts (other than principal, interest and Letter of Credit Fees)
payable to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer (including fees, charges and
disbursements of counsel to the respective Lenders and the L/C Issuer and amounts payable under Article III),
ratably among them in proportion to the respective amounts described in this
clause Second payable to them;

 

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Third, to
payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid
Letter of Credit Fees and interest on the Loans, L/C Borrowings and other
Obligations, to the extent due and payable, ratably among the Lenders and the
L/C Issuer in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Third
payable to them;

 

Fourth, to
payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the
Loans, L/C Borrowings and amounts owing under Secured Hedge Agreements and
Secured Cash Management Agreements, and which have become due and owing,
ratably among the Lenders, the L/C Issuer, the Hedge Banks and the Cash
Management Banks in proportion to the respective amounts described in this
clause Fourth held by them;

 

Fifth, to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer, to Cash Collateralize
that portion of L/C Obligations comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of
Letters of Credit; and

 

Last, the
balance, if any, after all of the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in
full, to the Company or as otherwise required by Law.

 

Subject to Section
2.03(c), amounts used to Cash Collateralize the aggregate undrawn amount of
Letters of Credit pursuant to clause Fifth above shall be applied to
satisfy drawings under such Letters of Credit as they occur.  If any amount remains on deposit as Cash
Collateral after all Letters of Credit have either been fully drawn or expired,
such remaining amount shall be applied to the other Obligations, if any, in the
order set forth above.

 

ARTICLE IX

THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT

 

Section 9.01           Appointment
and Authority.  (a)  Each of the Lenders and the L/C Issuer hereby
irrevocably appoints Bank of America to act on its behalf as the Administrative
Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes the Administrative
Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are
delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together
with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.  The provisions of this Article are solely for
the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer, and
neither the Company nor any other Loan Party shall have rights as a third party
beneficiary of any of such provisions.

 

(b)           The
Administrative Agent shall also act as the “collateral agent” under the Loan Documents, and each of the
Lenders (in its capacities as a Lender, potential Hedge Bank and potential Cash
Management Bank) and the L/C Issuer hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes
the Administrative Agent to act as the agent of such Lender and the L/C Issuer
for purposes of acquiring, holding and enforcing any and all Liens on
Collateral granted by any of the Loan Parties to secure any of the Obligations,
together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental
thereto.  In this connection, the
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and attorneys-in-fact
appointed by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.05 for
purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion
thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents, or for exercising any rights
and remedies thereunder at the direction of the Administrative Agent), shall be
entitled to the benefits of all provisions of this Article IX and Article
X (including Section 10.04(c), as though such co-agents, sub-agents
and attorneys-in-fact were the “collateral agent” under the Loan Documents) as
if set forth in full herein with respect thereto.

 

Section 9.02           Rights
as a Lender.  The Person serving as
the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its
capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it
were not the Administrative Agent and the term “Lender” or “Lenders” shall,
unless otherwise expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise requires,
include the Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder in its
individual capacity.  Such Person and its
Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, act as the financial
advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind
of business with the Company or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if
such Person were not the Administrative Agent hereunder and without any duty to
account therefor to the Lenders.

 

Section 9.03           Exculpatory
Provisions.  The Administrative Agent
shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth
herein and in the other Loan Documents. 
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative
Agent:

 

(a)           shall
not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether
a Default has occurred and is continuing;

 

(b)           shall
not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any
discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly
contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents that the Administrative
Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders
(or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly
provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents), provided that the
Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its
opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose the Administrative Agent to
liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable law; and

 

(c)           shall
not, except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, have
any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any
information relating to the Company or any of its Affiliates that is
communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as the Administrative Agent
or any of its Affiliates in any capacity.

 

The Administrative
Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it (i) with the
consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or
percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent
shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the circumstances as
provided in Section 10.01 and Section 8.02) or (ii) in the
absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct.  The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not
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Default
unless and until notice describing such Default is given to the Administrative
Agent by the Company, a Lender or the L/C Issuer.

 

The Administrative
Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire
into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection
with this Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any
certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or thereunder or in
connection herewith or therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of
any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein
or therein or the occurrence of any Default, (iv) the validity, enforceability,
effectiveness or genuineness of this Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document
or any other agreement, instrument or document, or the creation, perfection or
priority of any Lien purported to be created by the Collateral Documents, (v)
the value or the sufficiency of any Collateral, or (v) the satisfaction of any
condition set forth in Article V or elsewhere herein, other than to
confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the
Administrative Agent.

 

Section 9.04           Reliance
by Administrative Agent.  The
Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any
liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent,
statement, instrument, document or other writing (including any electronic
message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) believed by
it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by
the proper Person.  The Administrative
Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and
believed by it to have been made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any
liability for relying thereon.  In
determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan, or
the issuance of a Letter of Credit, that by its terms must be fulfilled to the
satisfaction of a Lender or the L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent may
presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender or the L/C Issuer
unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from
such Lender or the L/C Issuer prior to the making of such Loan or the issuance
of such Letter of Credit.  The
Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the
Company), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall
not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the
advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.

 

Section 9.05           Delegation
of Duties.  The Administrative Agent
may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers
hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any one or more
sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent.  The Administrative Agent and any such
sub-agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and
powers by or through their respective Related Parties.  The exculpatory provisions of this Article
shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the
Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their
respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit
facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent.

 

Section 9.06           Resignation
of Administrative Agent.  The
Administrative Agent may at any time give notice of its resignation to the
Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Company. 
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have
the right, in consultation with the Company, to appoint a successor, which
shall be a bank with an office in the United States, or an Affiliate of any
such bank with an office in the United States. 
If no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required
Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the
retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the
retiring Administrative Agent may on behalf of the Lenders and the L/C Issuer,
appoint a successor Administrative Agent meeting the qualifications set forth
above; provided that if the Administrative Agent shall notify the
Company and the Lenders that no qualifying Person has accepted such
appointment, then such resignation shall nonetheless become effective in
accordance with such notice and (a) the retiring Administrative Agent
shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the
other Loan Documents (except that in
the case of any collateral security held by the Administrative Agent on behalf
of the Lenders or the L/C Issuer under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring
Administrative Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such
time as a successor Administrative Agent is appointed) and (b) all
payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or
through the Administrative Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender and
the L/C Issuer directly, until such time as the Required Lenders appoint a
successor Administrative Agent as provided for above in this Section.  Upon the acceptance of a successor’s
appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder, such successor shall succeed to
and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the
retiring (or retired) Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative
Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations hereunder or
under the other Loan Documents (if not already discharged therefrom as provided
above in this Section).  The fees payable
by the Company to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those
payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Company and such
successor.  After the retiring
Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents, the provisions of this Article and Section 10.03 shall
continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its
sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken
or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring Administrative Agent
was acting as
Administrative Agent.

 

Any resignation by Bank of America as Administrative Agent pursuant to
this Section shall also constitute its resignation as L/C Issuer.  Upon the acceptance of a successor’s
appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder, (i) such successor shall succeed
to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of
the retiring L/C Issuer, (ii) the retiring L/C Issuer shall be discharged from
all of their respective duties and obligations hereunder or under the other
Loan Documents, and (iii) the successor L/C Issuer shall issue letters of
credit in substitution for the Letters of Credit, if any, outstanding at the
time of such succession or make other arrangements satisfactory to the retiring
L/C Issuer to effectively assume the obligations of the retiring L/C Issuer
with respect to such Letters of Credit.

 

Section 9.07           Non-Reliance
on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders. 
Each Lender and the L/C Issuer acknowledges that it has, independently
and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any
of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it has
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credit
analysis and decision to enter into this Credit Agreement.  Each Lender and the L/C Issuer also
acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and
based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem
appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action
under or based upon this Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document or any
related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder.

 

Section 9.08           No
Other Duties, Etc.  Anything herein
to the contrary notwithstanding, none of the Book Runners, Joint Lead
Arrangers, Syndication Agent or Co-Documentation Agents listed on the cover
page hereof shall have any powers, duties or responsibilities under this Credit
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, except in its capacity, as applicable,
as the Administrative Agent, a Lender or the L/C Issuer hereunder.

 

Section 9.09           Administrative
Agent May File Proofs of Claim.  In
case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial
proceeding relative to any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective
of whether the principal of any Loan or L/C Obligation shall then be due and
payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of
whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on the Company)
shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise

 

(a)           to
file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing
and unpaid in respect of the Loans, L/C Obligations and all other Obligations
that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary
or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the
Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the
Administrative Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other
amounts due the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent under Section
2.03(i) and (j), Section 2.08 allowed in such judicial
proceeding; and

 

(b)           to
collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any
such claims and to distribute the same;

 

and any custodian,
receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official
in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender and the L/C
Issuer to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, if the
Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to
the Lenders and the L/C Issuer, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount
due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of
the Administrative Agent and its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due
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Nothing contained
herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or
consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender or the L/C Issuer any
plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the
Obligations or the rights of any Lender or the L/C Issuer or to authorize the
Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender the L/C
Issuer or in any such proceeding.

 

Section 9.10           Collateral
and Guaranty Matters.  The Lenders
and the L/C Issuer irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at its
option and in its discretion,

 

(a)           to
release any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent
under any Loan Document (i) upon termination of the Aggregate Commitments and
payment in full of all Obligations (other than contingent indemnification
obligations) and the expiration or termination of all Letters of Credit, (ii)
that is sold or to be sold as part of or in connection with any sale permitted
hereunder or under any other Loan Document, or (iii)  if approved, authorized or ratified in
writing in accordance with Section 10.01;

 

(b)           to
release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty if such Person
ceases to be a Subsidiary as a result of a transaction permitted hereunder; and

 

(c)           to
subordinate any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative
Agent under any Loan Document to the holder of any Lien on such property that
is permitted by Section 7.14(ii).

 

Upon request by
the Administrative Agent at any time, the Required Lenders will confirm in
writing the Administrative Agent’s authority to release or subordinate its interest
in particular types or items of property, or to release any Guarantor from its
obligations under the Guaranty pursuant to this Section 9.10.  In each case as specified in this Section
9.10, the Administrative Agent will, at the Company’s expense, execute and
deliver to the applicable Loan Party such documents as such Loan Party may
reasonably request to evidence the release of such item of Collateral from the
assignment and security interest granted under the Collateral Documents or to
subordinate its interest in such item, or to release such Guarantor from its
obligations under the Guaranty, in each case in accordance with the terms of
the Loan Documents and this Section 9.10.

 

ARTICLE X

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 10.01         Amendments,
Etc.  No amendment or waiver of any
provision of this Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent
to any departure by the Company or any other Loan Party therefrom, shall be
effective unless in writing signed by the Company or the applicable Loan Party,
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waiver
of any Revolver/Term A Covenant or Revolver/Term A Default, the Required
Revolver/Term A Lenders and (ii) in the case of an amendment or waiver of any
other provision or Event of Default, the Required Lenders, and acknowledged by
the Administrative Agent, and each such waiver or consent shall be effective
only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided,
however, that no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:

 

(a)           (i) waive any condition
set forth in Section 5.01 (other than Section 5.01(h)), or, in the case
of the initial Credit Extension, Section 5.02, without the written
consent of each Lender or (ii) waive any condition set forth in Section 6 of the Incremental Term
Supplement (other than Section 6(h) thereof), or, in the case of the
making of the Incremental Term Loans, Section 5.02, without the written
consent of each Incremental Term Lender;

 

(b)           without limiting
the generality of clause (a) above, waive any condition set forth in Section
5.02 as
to any Credit Extension under a particular Facility without the written consent
of the Required Revolving Lenders, the Required Term A-1 Lenders, the Required
Term A-2 Lenders or the Required Incremental Term Lenders, if any, as the case
may be;

 

(c)           extend
or increase the Commitment of any Lender (or reinstate any Commitment
terminated pursuant to Section 8.02) without the written consent of such
Lender;

 

(d)           postpone
any date fixed by this Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document for any
payment (excluding mandatory prepayments) of
principal, interest, fees or other amounts due to the Lenders (or any of them)
hereunder or under such other Loan Document without the written consent of each
Lender entitled to such payment;

 

(e)           reduce
the principal of, or the rate of interest specified herein on, any Loan or L/C
Borrowing, or (subject to clause (iv) of the second proviso to this Section
10.01) any fees or other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document, or change the manner of computation of any financial ratio (including
any change in any applicable defined term) used in determining the Applicable
Rate that would result in a reduction of any interest rate on any Loan or any
fee payable hereunder without the written consent of each Lender
entitled to such amount; provided, however, that only the consent
of the Required Lenders shall be necessary to amend the definition of “Default
Rate” or to waive any obligation of the Company to pay interest or Letter of
Credit Fees at the Default Rate;

 

(f)            change
(i) Section 2.12 in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of
payments required thereby without the written consent of each Lender or (ii)
the order of application of any reduction in the Commitments or any prepayment
of Loans among the Facilities from the application thereof set forth in the
applicable provisions of Section 2.04(b) or Section 2.05(b),
respectively, in any manner that materially and adversely affects the Lenders
under a Facility without the written consent of (A) if such from following
facility is the Term A-1 Facility, the Required Term A-1 Lenders, (B) if
such Facility is the Term A-2 Facility, the Required Term A-2 Lenders,
(C) if such Facility is the Revolving Credit Facility, the Required
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Facility is the
Incremental Term Facility, if any, the Required Incremental Term Lenders or
(iii) Section 8.03, without the written consent of each Lender;

 

(g)           change
(i) any provision of this Section 10.01 or the definition of “Required
Lenders” or any other provision hereof specifying the number or percentage of
Lenders required to amend, waive or otherwise modify any rights hereunder or
make any determination or grant any consent hereunder (other than the
definitions specified in clause (ii) of this Section 10.01(g)), without
the written consent of each Lender or (ii) the definition of “Required
Revolving Lenders,” “Required Term A-1 Lenders,” “Required Term A-2 Lenders,” “Required
Incremental Term Lenders” or “Required Revolver/Term A Lenders” without the
written consent of each Lender under the applicable Facility or Facilities;

 

(h)           release
all or a significant portion of the Collateral in any transaction or series of
related transactions, without the written consent of each Lender;

 

(i)            release
or remove all or a significant portion of the Guarantors, without the written
consent of each Lender; or

 

(j)            impose
any greater restriction on the ability of any Lender under a Facility to assign
any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the written consent of (i)
if such Facility is the Term A-1 Facility, the Required Term A-1 Lenders, (ii)
if such Facility is the Term A-2 Facility, the Required Term A-2 Lenders, (iii)
if such Facility is the Revolving Credit Facility, the Required Revolving
Lenders, and (iv) if such Facility is the Incremental Term Facility, the
Required Incremental Term Lenders, if any;

 

and provided,
further, that (i) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in
writing and signed by the L/C Issuer in addition to the Lenders required above,
affect the rights or duties of the L/C Issuer under this Credit Agreement or
any Issuer Document relating to any Letter of Credit issued or to be issued by
it; (ii) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by
the Administrative Agent
in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the
Administrative Agent under this Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document;
(iii) Section 10.06(h) may not be amended, waived or otherwise
modified without the consent of each Granting Lender all or any part of whose
Loans are being funded by an SPC at the time of such amendment, waiver or other
modification; (iv) the Fee Letters may be amended, or rights or
privileges thereunder waived, in a writing executed only by the parties
thereto, and (v) the rate of interest applicable to the Term A-2 Facility may
be amended in a writing executed only by the Company and the Initial
Lenders.  Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary herein, no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or
disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder, except that the
Commitment of such Lender may not be increased or extended without the consent
of such Lender.

 

Section 10.02         Notices;
Effectiveness; Electronic Communications. 
(a)  Notices Generally.  Except in the case of notices and other
communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and except as
provided in subsection (b) below), all notices and other communications
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hand or
overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by
telecopier as follows, and all notices and other communications expressly
permitted hereunder to be given by telephone shall be made to the applicable
telephone number, as follows:

 

(i)      if
to the Company, the Guarantors, the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, to
the address, telecopier number, electronic mail address or telephone number
specified for such Person on Schedule 10.02; and

 

(ii)     if
to any other Lender, to the address, telecopier number, electronic mail address
or telephone number specified in its Administrative Questionnaire.

 

Notices sent by
hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail,
shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices sent by telecopier
shall be deemed to have been given when sent (except that, if not given during
normal business hours for the recipient, shall be deemed to have been given at
the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient).  Notices delivered through electronic
communications to the extent provided in subsection (b) below shall be
effective as provided in such subsection (b).

 

(b)           Electronic
Communications.  Notices and other
communications to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer hereunder may be delivered or
furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail and Internet or
intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent,
provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender or
the L/C Issuer pursuant to Article II if such Lender or the L/C Issuer,
as applicable, has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of
receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication.  The Administrative Agent or the Company may,
in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it
hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it, provided
that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or
communications.

 

Unless the
Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other
communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the
sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by
the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other
written acknowledgement), provided that if such notice or other
communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient,
such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening
of business on the next business day for the recipient, and (ii) notices
or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed
received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail
address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such
notice or communication is available and identifying the website address
therefor.

 

(c)           The
Platform.  THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS
IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.”  THE AGENT PARTIES
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WARRANT THE
ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE COMPANY MATERIALS OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE
PLATFORM, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS FROM THE
COMPANY MATERIALS.  NO WARRANTY OF ANY
KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR
FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY ANY AGENT PARTY IN
CONNECTION WITH THE COMPANY MATERIALS OR THE PLATFORM.  In no event shall the Administrative Agent or
any of its Related Parties (collectively, the “Agent Parties”) have any
liability to the Company, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any other Person for
losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses of any kind (whether in tort,
contract or otherwise) arising out of the Company’s or the Administrative Agent’s
transmission of Company Materials through the Internet, except to the extent
that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses are determined by a
court of competent jurisdiction by a final and nonappealable judgment to have
resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Agent Party; provided,
however, that in no event shall any Agent Party have any liability to
the Company, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any other Person for indirect,
special, incidental, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or
actual damages).

 

(d)           Change of Address,
Etc.  Each of the Company, the
Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer may change its address, telecopier or
telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to
the other parties hereto.  Each other
Lender may change its address, telecopier or telephone number for notices and
other communications hereunder by notice to the Company, the Administrative
Agent and the L/C Issuer.  In addition,
each Lender agrees to notify the Administrative Agent from time to time to
ensure that the Administrative Agent has on record (i) an effective address,
contact name, telephone number, telecopier number and electronic mail address
to which notices and other communications may be sent and (ii) accurate wire
instructions for such Lender.

 

(e)           Reliance
by Administrative Agent, L/C Issuer and Lenders.  The Administrative Agent, the L/C
Issuer and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely and act upon any notices
(including telephonic Committed Loan Notices) purportedly given by or on behalf
of the Company even if (i) such notices were not made in a manner specified
herein, were incomplete or were not preceded or followed by any other form of
notice specified herein, or (ii) the terms thereof, as understood by the
recipient, varied from any confirmation thereof.  The Company shall indemnify the
Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, each Lender and the Related Parties of
each of them from all losses, costs, expenses and liabilities resulting from
the reliance by such Person on each notice purportedly given by or on behalf of
the Company.  All telephonic notices to
and other telephonic communications with the Administrative Agent may be
recorded by the Administrative Agent, and each of the parties hereto hereby
consents to such recording.

 

Section 10.03         No
Waiver; Cumulative Remedies.  No
failure on the part of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender
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Person in exercising, and no course of dealing with respect to, any
right, remedy, power or privilege under this Credit Agreement or any other Loan
Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial
exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege under this Credit Agreement
or any other Loan Document preclude any other or further exercise thereof or
the exercise of any other right, power or privilege.  The right, remedy, power or privilege
provided herein, and provided under any other Loan Document, are cumulative and
not exclusive of any right, remedy, power or privilege provided by law.

 

Section 10.04         Expenses;
Indemnity; Damage Waiver.  (a)  Costs and Expenses.  The Company shall pay (i) all reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates
(including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel for the
Administrative Agent), in connection with the syndication of the credit
facilities provided for herein, the preparation, negotiation, execution,
delivery and administration of this Credit Agreement and the other Loan
Documents or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof
or thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby
shall be consummated), (ii) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred
by the L/C Issuer in connection with the issuance, amendment, renewal or
extension of any Letter of Credit or any demand for payment thereunder and
(iii) all expenses incurred by the
Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer (including the fees, charges
and disbursements of any counsel for the Administrative Agent, any Lender or
the L/C Issuer) in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights
(A) in connection with this Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents,
including its rights under this Section, or (B) in connection with Loans made
or Letters of Credit issued hereunder, including all such out-of-pocket
expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect
of such Loans or Letters of Credit.

 

(b)           Indemnification by
the Company.  The Company shall
indemnify the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof), each Lender and
each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being
called an “Indemnitee”) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from,
any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses
(including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any
Indemnitee), and shall indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnitee from all
fees and time charges and disbursements for attorneys who may be employees of
any Indemnitee, incurred by any
Indemnitee or asserted against any Indemnitee by any third party or by
the Company or any other Loan Party arising out of, in connection with, or as a
result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Credit Agreement, any
other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or
thereby, the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations
hereunder or thereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby or thereby, or, in the case of the Administrative Agent (and any
sub-agent thereof) and its Related Parties only, the administration of this
Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (ii) any Loan or Letter of
Credit or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal
by the L/C Issuer to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the
documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with
the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) any actual or alleged presence
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Hazardous
Materials on or from any property owned or operated by the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or (iv) any actual or prospective
claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the
foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory, whether brought
by a third party or by the Company or any other Loan Party or any of the Company’s
or such Loan Party’s directors, shareholders or creditors, and regardless of
whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto, in all cases, whether or not caused by or arising, in whole or in
part, out of the comparative, contributory or sole negligence of the Indemnitee;
provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be
available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or
related expenses (x) are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction
by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence
or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or (y) result from a claim
brought by the Company or any other Loan Party against an Indemnitee for breach
in bad faith of such Indemnitee’s obligations hereunder or under any other Loan
Document, if the Company or such Loan Party has obtained a final and
nonappealable judgment in its favor on such claim as determined by a court of
competent jurisdiction.

 

(c)           Reimbursement by
Lenders.  To the extent that the
Company for any reason fails to indefeasibly pay any amount required under
subsection (a) or (b) of this Section to be paid by it to the
Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof), the L/C Issuer or any Related
Party of any of the foregoing, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the
Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent), the L/C Issuer or such Related
Party, as the case may be, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage (determined as
of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is
sought) of such unpaid amount, provided that the unreimbursed expense or
indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may
be, was incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent (or any such
sub-agent) or the L/C Issuer in its capacity as such, or against any Related
Party of any of the foregoing acting for the Administrative Agent (or any such
sub-agent) or L/C Issuer in connection with such capacity.  The obligations of the Lenders under this
subsection (c) are subject to the provisions of Section 2.11(d).

 

(d)           Waiver of
Consequential Damages, Etc.  To the
fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Company shall not assert, and
hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability,
for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct
or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this
Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument
contemplated hereby, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any Loan
or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof.  No Indemnitee referred to in subsection (b)
above shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended
recipients of any information or other materials distributed by it through
telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems in
connection with this Credit Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the
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(e)           Payments.  All amounts due under this Section shall be
payable not later than ten Business Days after demand therefor.

 

(f)            Survival.  The agreements in this Section shall survive
the resignation of the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer, the replacement
of any Lender, the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment,
satisfaction or discharge of all the other Obligations.

 

Section 10.05         Payments
Set Aside.  To the extent that any
payment by or on behalf of the Company is made to the Administrative Agent, the
L/C Issuer or any Lender, or the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any
Lender exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such
setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be
fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any
settlement entered into by the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or such
Lender in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other
party, in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or
otherwise, then (a) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part
thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in
full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had
not occurred, and (b) each Lender and the L/C Issuer severally agrees to pay to
the Administrative Agent upon demand its applicable share (without duplication)
of any amount so recovered from or repaid by the Administrative Agent, plus
interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made
at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in
effect.  The obligations of the Lenders
and the L/C Issuer under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall survive the
payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Credit
Agreement.

 

Section 10.06         Successors
and Assigns.  (a)  Successors and Assigns Generally.  The provisions of this Credit Agreement shall
be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their
respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that neither the Company
nor any other Loan Party may assign or otherwise transfer any of its
rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the
Administrative Agent and each Lender and no Lender may assign or otherwise
transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i) to an Eligible
Assignee in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.06(b), (ii) by
way of participation in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.06(d),
(iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the
restrictions of Section 10.06(f), or (iv) to an SPC in accordance with
the provisions of Section 10.06(h) (and any
other attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and
void).  Nothing in this Credit Agreement,
expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than
the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby,
Participants to the extent provided in subsection (d) of this Section and, to
the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the
Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders) any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Credit Agreement.

 

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(b)           Assignments by
Lenders.  Any Lender may at any time
assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and
obligations under this Credit Agreement (including all or a portion of its
Commitment and the Loans (including for purposes of this Section 10.06(b),
participations in L/C Obligations) at the time owing to it); provided
that any such assignment shall be subject to the following conditions:

 

(i)            Minimum
Amounts.

 

(A)          in the case
of an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s
Commitment under any Facility and the Loans at the time owing to it under such
Facility or in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender
or an Approved Fund, no minimum amount need be assigned; and

 

(B)           in any
case not described in subsection (b)(i)(A) of this Section, the aggregate
amount of the Commitment (which for this purpose includes Loans outstanding
thereunder) or, if the Commitment is not then in effect, the principal
outstanding balance of the Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such
assignment, determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect
to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent or, if “Trade Date”
is specified in the Assignment and Assumption, as of the Trade Date, shall not
be less than $5,000,000, in the case
of any assignment in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, or $1,000,000,
in the case of any assignment in respect of a Term Facility, unless each of the
Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Company otherwise consents (each such consent not to be unreasonably
withheld or delayed); provided, however, that concurrent
assignments to members of an Assignee Group and concurrent assignments from
members of an Assignee Group to a single Eligible Assignee (or to an Eligible
Assignee and members of its Assignee Group) will be treated as a single
assignment for purposes of determining whether such minimum amount has been
met;

 

(ii)           Proportionate
Amounts.   Each partial assignment
shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning
Lender’s rights and obligations under this Credit Agreement with respect to the
Loans or the Commitment assigned, except that this clause (ii) shall not
prohibit any Lender from assigning all or a portion of its rights and
obligations among separate Facilities on a non-pro rata basis;

 

(iii)          Required
Consents.  No consent shall be
required for any assignment except to the extent required by subsection
(b)(i)(B) of this Section and, in addition:

 

(A) the consent of
the Company (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be
required unless (1) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the
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assignment or (2) such
assignment is to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund;

 

(B)  the consent of the Administrative Agent (such
consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required for
assignments in respect of (i) any Term Commitment or Revolving Credit
Commitment if such assignment is to a Person that is not a Lender with a
Commitment in respect of the applicable Facility, an Affiliate of such Lender
or an Approved Fund with respect to such Lender or (ii) any Term Loan to a
Person that is not a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund; and

 

(C)  the consent of the L/C Issuer (such consent
not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required for any
assignment that increases the obligation of the assignee to participate in
exposure under one or more Letters of Credit (whether or not then outstanding).

 

(iv)  Assignment and
Assumption.  The parties to each
assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption,
together with a processing and recordation fee in the amount, if any, required
as set forth in Schedule 10.06; provided, however, that
the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to waive such
processing and recordation fee in the case of any assignment.  The assignee, if it shall not be a Lender,
shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire.

 

(v)   No Assignment
to Company.  No such assignment shall
be made to the Company or any of the Company’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries.

 

(vi)  No Assignment to
Natural Persons.  No such assignment
shall be made to a natural person.

 

Subject to
acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to
subsection (c) of this Section, from and after the effective date
specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the Eligible Assignee thereunder
shall be a party to this Credit Agreement and, to the extent of the interest
assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of
a Lender under this Credit Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder
shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and
Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Credit Agreement (and,
in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning
Lender’s rights and obligations under this Credit Agreement, such Lender shall
cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of
Section 3.01, Section 3.04, Section 3.05 and Section
10.04 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the
effective date of such assignment).  Upon
request, the Company (at its expense) shall execute and deliver a Note to the
assignee Lender.  Any assignment or
transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Credit Agreement that
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comply
with this subsection shall be treated for purposes of this Credit Agreement as
a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in
accordance with Section 10.06(d).

 

(c)           Register.  The Administrative Agent, acting solely for
this purpose as an agent of the Company, shall maintain at the Administrative
Agent’s Office a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a
register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the
Commitments of, and principal amounts of the Loans and L/C Obligations owing
to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”).  The entries in the Register shall be
conclusive, and the Company, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat
each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof
as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Credit Agreement,
notwithstanding notice to the contrary. 
The Register shall be available for inspection by the Company and any
Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior
notice.

 

(d)           Participations.  Any Lender may at any time, without the
consent of, or notice to, the Company or the Administrative Agent, sell
participations to any Person (other than a natural person or the Company or any
of the Company’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries) (each, a “Participant”)
in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and/or obligations under this
Credit Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and/or the Loans
(including such Lender’s participations in L/C Obligations) owing to it); provided
that (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Credit Agreement shall
remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the
other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the
Company, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer shall
continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such
Lender’s rights and obligations under this Credit Agreement.  Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which
a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain
the sole right to enforce this Credit Agreement and to approve any amendment,
modification or waiver of any provision of this Credit Agreement; provided
that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not,
without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other
modification described in the first proviso to Section 10.01 that
affects such Participant.  Subject to subsection
(e) of this Section, the Company agrees that each Participant shall be
entitled to the benefits of Section 3.01, Section 3.04 and Section
3.05 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its
interest by assignment pursuant to Section 10.06(b).  To the extent permitted by law, each
Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.07 as though it were a Lender, provided such
Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.12 as though it were a
Lender.

 

(e)           Limitations upon
Participant Rights.  A Participant
shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 3.01
or Section 3.04 than the
applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the
participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation to
such Participant is made with the Company’s prior written consent.  A Participant that would be a Foreign Lender
if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 3.01
unless the Company is notified of the participation sold to such Participant
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agrees, for the
benefit of the Company, to comply with Section 3.01(e) as though it were
a Lender.

 

(f)            Certain Pledges.  Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a
security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Credit
Agreement (including under its Note, if any) to secure obligations of such
Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal
Reserve Bank; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release
such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such
pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

 

(g)           Electronic Execution
of Assignments.  The words “execution,”
“signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in any Assignment and
Assumption shall be deemed to include electronic signatures or the keeping of
records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect,
validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a
paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as
provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures
in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures
and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform
Electronic Transactions Act.

 

(h)           Special Purpose
Funding Vehicles.  Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained herein, any Lender (a “Granting Lender”) may grant to a special purpose funding
vehicle identified as such in writing from time to time by the Granting Lender
to the Administrative Agent and the Company (an “SPC”) the option to provide all or any part of any Loan that
such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make pursuant to this
Credit Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a
commitment by any SPC to fund any Loan, and (ii) if an SPC elects not to
exercise such option or otherwise fails to make all or any part of such Loan,
the Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Loan pursuant to the terms
hereof or, if it fails to do so, to make such payment to the Administrative
Agent as is required under Section 2.11(b)(ii).  Each party hereto hereby agrees that (i)
neither the grant to any SPC nor the exercise by any SPC of such option shall
increase the costs or expenses or otherwise increase or change the obligations
of the Company under this Credit Agreement (including its obligations under Section
3.04), (ii) no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment
obligation under this Credit Agreement for which a Lender would be liable, and
(iii) the Granting Lender shall for all purposes, including the approval of any
amendment, waiver or other modification of any provision of any Loan Document,
remain the lender of record hereunder. 
The making of a Loan by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of
the Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Loan were made by such
Granting Lender.  In furtherance of the
foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the
termination of this Credit Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year
and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or
other senior debt of any SPC, it will not institute against, or join any other
Person in instituting against, such SPC any bankruptcy, reorganization,
arrangement, insolvency, or liquidation proceeding under the laws of the United
States or any State thereof. 
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any SPC may
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Administrative Agent and with the payment of
a processing fee in the amount of $2,500, assign all or any portion of its
right to receive payment with respect to any Loan to the Granting Lender and
(ii) disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information relating to
its funding of Loans to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider
of any surety or Guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC.

 

(i)            Resignation as L/C Issuer after Assignment. 
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if at
any time Bank of America assigns all of its Revolving Credit Commitments and
Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to Section 10.06(b), Bank of America may
upon 30 days’ notice to the Company and the Lenders,
resign as L/C Issuer.  In the event of
any such resignation as L/C Issuer, the Company shall be entitled to
appoint from among the Lenders a successor L/C Issuer hereunder; provided,
however, that no failure by the Company to appoint any such successor
shall affect the resignation of Bank of America as L/C Issuer.  If Bank of America resigns as L/C Issuer, it
shall retain all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the L/C Issuer
hereunder with respect to all Letters of Credit outstanding as of the effective
date of its resignation as L/C Issuer and all L/C Obligations with respect
thereto (including the right to require the Lenders to make Base Rate Loans or
fund risk participations in Unreimbursed Amounts pursuant to Section 2.03(c)).  Upon the appointment and acceptance of a
successor L/C Issuer, (a) such successor shall succeed to and become vested
with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring L/C
Issuer, and (b) the successor L/C Issuer shall issue letters of credit in
substitution for the Letters of Credit, if any, outstanding at the time of such
succession or make other arrangements satisfactory to Bank of America to
effectively assume the obligations of Bank of America with respect to such
Letters of Credit.

 

Section 10.07         Right
of Setoff.  If an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender, the L/C Issuer and each of
their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to
time, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to set off and apply
any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final,
in whatever currency) at any time held and other obligations (in whatever
currency) at any time owing by such Lender, the L/C Issuer or any such
Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Company or any other Loan Party against any
and all of the obligations of the Company or such Loan Party now or hereafter existing under this Credit
Agreement or any other Loan Document to such Lender or the L/C Issuer,
irrespective of whether or not such Lender or the L/C Issuer shall have made
any demand under this Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document and although
such obligations of the Company or
such Loan Party may be contingent or unmatured or are owed to a branch or
office of such Lender or the L/C Issuer different from the branch or office
holding such deposit or obligated on such indebtedness.  The rights of each Lender, the L/C Issuer and
their respective Affiliates under this Section are in addition to other rights
and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender, the L/C
Issuer or their respective Affiliates may have. 
Each Lender and the L/C Issuer agrees to notify the Company and the
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such setoff
and application, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not
affect the validity of such setoff and application.

 

Section 10.08         Interest
Rate Limitation.  Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in any Loan Document, the interest paid or
agreed to be paid under the Loan Documents shall not exceed the maximum rate of
non-usurious interest permitted by applicable Law (the “Maximum Rate”).  If the Administrative Agent or any Lender
shall receive interest in an amount that exceeds the Maximum Rate, the excess
interest shall be applied to the principal of the Loans or, if it exceeds such
unpaid principal, refunded to the Company. 
In determining whether the interest contracted for, charged, or received
by the Administrative Agent or a Lender exceeds the Maximum Rate, such Person
may, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, (a) characterize any payment
that is not principal as an expense, fee, or premium rather than interest, (b)
exclude voluntary prepayments and the effects thereof, and (c) amortize,
prorate, allocate, and spread in equal or unequal parts the total amount of
interest throughout the contemplated term of the Obligations hereunder.

 

Section
10.09   Counterparts; Integration;
Effectiveness.   This Credit
Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in
different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of
which when taken together shall constitute a single contract.  This Credit Agreement and the other Loan
Documents constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the
subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and
understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof.  Except as provided in Section 5.01,
this Credit Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed
by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have
received counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the signatures of
each of the other parties hereto.  Delivery
of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Credit Agreement by
telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of
this Credit Agreement.

 

Section 10.10         Survival
of Representations and Warranties. 
All representations and warranties made hereunder and in any other Loan
Document or other document delivered pursuant hereto or thereto or in
connection herewith or therewith shall survive the execution and delivery
hereof and thereof.  Such representations
and warranties have been or will be relied upon by the Administrative Agent and
each Lender, regardless of any investigation made by the Administrative Agent
or any Lender or on their behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative
Agent or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default at the time
of any Credit Extension, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as
any Loan or any other Obligation hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied
or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding.

 

Section 10.11         Severability.  If any provision of this Credit Agreement or
the other Loan Documents is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a)
the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this
Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not be affected or impaired
thereby and (b) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to
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provisions
with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible
to that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions.  The invalidity of a provision in a particular
jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any
other jurisdiction.

 

Section 10.12         Replacement
of Lenders.  If any Lender requests
compensation under Section 3.04, or if the Company is required to pay
any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the
account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01, or if any Lender gives a
notice pursuant to Section 3.02, or
if any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, then the Company may, at its sole
expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent,
require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance
with and subject to the restrictions contained in, and consents required by, Section
10.05), all of its interests, rights and obligations under this Credit
Agreement and the related Loan Documents to an assignee that shall assume such
obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such
assignment), provided that:

 

(a)           the
Company shall have paid to the Administrative Agent the assignment fee
specified in Section 10.06(b);

 

(b)           such
Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding
principal of its Loans and L/C Advances, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees
and all other amounts payable to it hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents (including any amounts under Section 3.05) from the assignee
(to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or
the Company (in the case of all other amounts);

 

(c)           in the
case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section
3.04 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 3.01, such
assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments
thereafter; and

 

(d)           such
assignment does not conflict with applicable Laws.

 

A Lender shall not
be required to make any such assignment or delegation if, prior thereto, as a
result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the
Company to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.

 

Section 10.13         Governing
Law; Jurisdiction; Etc.  (a)  GOVERNING
LAW.  THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE
GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK.

 

(b)           SUBMISSION TO
JURISDICTION.  THE COMPANY AND EACH OTHER LOAN PARTY IRREVOCABLY
AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS, FOR ITSELF AND ITS PROPERTY, TO THE NONEXCLUSIVE
JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND OF THE FEDERAL COURTS
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SITTING IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, AND ANY
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THEREOF, IN ANY
ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER
LOAN DOCUMENT, OR FOR RECOGNITION OR ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT, AND EACH OF
THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN
RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN SUCH
NEW YORK STATE COURT OR, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN
SUCH FEDERAL COURT.  EACH OF THE PARTIES
HERETO AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE
CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT
OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW. 
NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY
RIGHT THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, ANY LENDER OR THE L/C ISSUER MAY OTHERWISE
HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER
LOAN DOCUMENT AGAINST THE COMPANY OR
ANY OTHER LOAN PARTY OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY
JURISDICTION.

 

(c)           WAIVER OF VENUE.  THE COMPANY AND EACH OTHER LOAN PARTY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES,
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY
NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING
ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT IN ANY
COURT REFERRED TO IN PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS SECTION.  EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY
WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN
INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH
COURT.

 

(d)           SERVICE OF PROCESS.  EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO
SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 10.02.  NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE
RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY
APPLICABLE LAW.

 

Section 10.14         Waiver
of Jury Trial.  EACH PARTY HERETO
HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW,
ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN
DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON
CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). 
EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR
ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH
OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE
FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO
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THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE
MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.

 

Section 10.15         No
Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility.  In connection with all aspects of each transaction contemplated hereby,
the Company acknowledges and agrees that: (i) the credit facilities provided for hereunder and
any related arranging or other services in connection therewith (including in
connection with any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any
other Loan Document) are an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the
Company and its Affiliates, on
the one hand, and the Administrative Agent and joint Lead Arrangers, on the other hand, and the Company is
capable of evaluating and understanding and understands and accepts the terms,
risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other
Loan Documents (including any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or
thereof); (ii) in connection with the process leading to such transaction, the
Administrative Agent and the
Joint Lead Arrangers each is and
has been acting solely as a principal and is not the financial advisor, agent
or fiduciary, for the Company or any of its
Affiliates, stockholders, creditors or employees or any other Person; (iii)
neither the Administrative Agent nor
any Joint Lead Arranger has assumed or will assume an advisory, agency
or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company with respect to any of the
transactions contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto, including with
respect to any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any other
Loan Document (irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent or any Joint Lead Arranger has advised
or is currently advising the Company or any of its Affiliates on other matters) and neither the Administrative
Agent nor any Joint Lead Arranger
has any obligation to the Company or any of its Affiliates with respect to the transactions contemplated
hereby except those obligations expressly set forth herein and in the other
Loan Documents; (iv) the Administrative Agent and the Joint Lead Arrangers and their respective Affiliates may
be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ
from those of the Company and its
Affiliates, and neither the Administrative Agent nor any Joint Lead Arranger has any obligation to disclose any of
such interests by virtue of any advisory, agency or fiduciary relationship; and
(v) the Administrative Agent and the
Joint Lead Arrangers have not provided and will not provide any legal,
accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to any of the transactions
contemplated hereby (including any amendment, waiver or other modification
hereof or of any other Loan Document) and the Company has consulted its own
legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it has deemed
appropriate.  The Company hereby waives and releases, to the fullest extent
permitted by law, any claims that it may have against the Administrative Agent and the Joint Lead Arrangers with
respect to any breach or alleged breach of agency or fiduciary duty.

 

Section 10.16         USA
PATRIOT Act Notice.  Each Lender that
is subject to the Act (as hereinafter defined) and the Administrative Agent
(for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies the Company that
pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L.
107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “Act”), it is required
to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each Loan Party, which
information includes the name and address of each Loan Party and other

 

114

 

information
that will allow such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, to
identify each Loan Party in accordance with the Act.

 

Section 10.17         Senior
Indebtedness.  The Obligations shall
constitute “Senior Indebtedness” as such term is defined in all debt
instruments to which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary is a party and
which contains such a definition.

 

Section 10.18         Liability
of General Partners and Other Persons. 
No general partner of any Restricted Subsidiary that is a partnership,
joint venture or joint adventure shall have any personal liability in respect
of such Restricted Subsidiary’s obligation under this Credit Agreement or the
Notes by reason of his, her or its status as such general partner.  In addition, no limited partner, officer,
employee, director, stockholder or other holder of an ownership interest of or
in the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or any partnership, corporation or
other entity which is a stockholder or other holder of an ownership interest of
or in the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary shall have any personal
liability in respect of such obligations by reason of his, her or its status as
such limited partner, officer, employee, director, stockholder or holder.

 

Section 10.19         Authorization
of Third Parties to Deliver Information and Discuss Affairs.  The Company hereby confirms that it has
authorized and directed each Person whose preparation or delivery to the
Administrative Agent or the Lenders of any opinion, report or other information
is a condition or covenant under this Credit Agreement (including under Article
V and Article VII) to so prepare or deliver such opinions, reports
or other information for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders.  The Company agrees to confirm
such authorizations and directions provided for in this Section 10.19 from
time to time as may be requested by the Administrative Agent.

 

Section 10.20         Acknowledgement.  The Company hereby acknowledges that neither
the Administrative Agent nor any Lender has any fiduciary relationship with or
fiduciary duty to the Company arising out of or in connection with this Credit
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, and the relationship between the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders, on the one hand, and the Company, on the
other hand, in connection herewith or therewith is solely that of debtor and
creditor.

 

115

 

IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Credit Agreement to be duly
executed as of the day and year first above written.

 

	
   

  	
  CSC HOLDINGS, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  By

  	
  /s/ John Bier

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
  John Bier

  
	
   

  	
  Title: Sr. 

  	
  Vice President &
  Treasurer

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  1047
  E 46TH STREET CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  151 S. FULTON STREET
  CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2234
  FULTON STREET CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  A-R CABLE SERVICES - NY,
  INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  ARSENAL MSUB 2, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION AREA 9
  CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION DIGITAL
  DEVELOPMENT, LLC

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION FAIRFIELD
  CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION LIGHTPATH - CT,
  INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION LIGHTPATH - NJ,
  INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION LIGHTPATH - NY,
  INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF BROOKHAVEN,
  INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF BROOKLINE,
  INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF CLEVELAND
  G.P., INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF CLEVELAND
  L.P., INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF CONNECTICUT CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF HUDSON
  COUNTY, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF LITCHFIELD,
  INC.

  
					

 

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CSC HOLDINGS CREDIT
AVREEMENT (2006)

 

 

	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF
  MONMOUTH, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF NEW
  JERSEY, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF OAKLAND,
  LLC

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF
  PATERSON, LLC

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF ROCKLAND/RAMAPO,
  LLC

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF WARWICK,
  LLC

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF SOUTHERN
  WESTCHESTER, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF THE MIDWEST
  HOLDING CO., INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF WAPPINGERS
  FALLS, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION VOIP, LLC

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION SYSTEMS
  BROOKLINE CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION SYSTEMS
  DUTCHESS CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION SYSTEMS EAST
  HAMPTON CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION SYSTEMS GREAT
  NECK CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION SYSTEMS
  HUNTINGTON CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION SYSTEMS ISLIP
  CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION SYSTEMS LONG
  ISLAND CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION SYSTEMS NEW YORK CITY CORPORATION

  

 

S-2

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION SYSTEMS SUFFOLK
  CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION SYSTEMS
  WESTCHESTER CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  COMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  CSC ACQUISITION - MA, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  CSC ACQUISITION - NY, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  CSC ACQUISITION CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  CSC GATEWAY
  CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  CSC OPTIMUM HOLDINGS, LLC

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  CSC TKR I, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  CSC TKR, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  LIGHTPATH VOIP, LLC

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  PETRA CABLEVISION CORP.

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  SAMSON CABLEVISION CORP.

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  SUFFOLK CABLE CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  SUFFOLK CABLE OF SHELTER
  ISLAND, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  SUFFOLK CABLE OF SMITHTOWN,
  INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  TELERAMA, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By:

  	
  /s/ John Bier

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
  John Bier

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
  Authorized
  Signatory of each of the

  above-named entities

  	
   

  

 

S-3

 

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION LIGHTPATH,
  INC., effective

  after receipt of the regulatory approval specified on

  Schedule 6.03

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By:

  	
  /s/ John Bier

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
  John Bier

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
  Authorized
  Signatory

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  CSC GATEWAY
  CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF
  NEW JERSEY, INC.

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  each a General
  Partner of

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF
  NEWARK

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION
  SYSTEMS BROOKLINE CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Managing General
  Partner of

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF
  OSSINING LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION AREA
  9 CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Managing General
  Partner of

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF
  CONNECTICUT, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF
  CLEVELAND G.P., INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  GENERAL PARTNER
  OF CABLEVISION OF CLEVELAND, L.P.

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION
  FAIRFIELD CORPORATION

  General Partner of CABLEVISION SYSTEMS

  OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT, LIMITED

  PARTNERSHIP

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  CSC TKR, INC.
  AND CSC TKR I, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  each a general
  partner of KRC/CCC

  INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By:

  	
  /s/ John Bier

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
  John Bier

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
  Authorized
  Signatory

  of each of the above corporate

  general partners

  	
   

  

 

S-4

 

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  as
  Administrative Agent

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-5

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as L/C Issuer
  and Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-6

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  CITIBANK, N.A.,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-7

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  BEAR
  STEARNS CORPORATE LENDING

  INC.,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-8

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  JPMORGAN
  CHASE BANK, NATIONAL

  ASSOCIATION,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-9

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  MERRILL
  LYNCH CAPITAL

  CORPORATION,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-10

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  CREDIT
  SUISSE, CAYMAN ISLANDS

  BRANCH,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
								

 

S-11

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  TORONTO
  DOMINION (TEXAS) LLC,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

 

S-12

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  THE
  BANK OF NEW YORK,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-13

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  WACHOVIA
  BANK N.A.,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-14

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  HARRIS
  NESBITT FINANCING, INC.,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-15

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  BNP PARIBAS,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

 

S-16

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  SOCIETE
  GENERALE,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-17

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  THE
  BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-18

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  CALYON
  NEW YORK BRANCH,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-19

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  THE
  ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-20

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  SUNTRUST
  BANK,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-21

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  FORTIS
  CAPITAL CORP.,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-22

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  DEUTSCHE
  BANK TRUST COMPANY

  AMERICAS,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-23

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  ING
  CAPITAL LLC,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

 

S-24

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  CIT
  LENDING SERVICES CORPORATION,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-25

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  COMMERCE
  BANK, N.A.,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  as Lender

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
   

  
							

 

S-26Exhibit 10.42

 

EXECUTION VERSION

 

 

PLEDGE AGREEMENT

dated as of February 24, 2006

Among

CSC HOLDINGS, INC.

and

CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES OF CSC HOLDINGS, INC.,

as Pledgors

and

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,

as Secured Party

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Page

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE 1

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECURITY INTEREST

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 1.01.

  	
   

  	
  Grant of Security Interest

  	
   

  	
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  Section 1.02.

  	
   

  	
  Validity and Priority of Security Interest

  	
   

  	
  1

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 1.03.

  	
   

  	
  Maintenance of Status of Security Interest,
  Collateral and Rights

  	
   

  	
  1

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 1.04.

  	
   

  	
  Evidence of Status of Security Interest

  	
   

  	
  1

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 1.05.

  	
   

  	
  Pledgors Remain Obligated; Secured Party Not
  Obligated

  	
   

  	
  2

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE 2

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS
  AND WARRANTIES

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 2.01.

  	
   

  	
  Required Taxes

  	
   

  	
  2

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 2.02.

  	
   

  	
  Status of Collateral.

  	
   

  	
  2

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE 3

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  CERTAIN COVENANTS

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 3.01.

  	
   

  	
  Certain Matters Relating to Preservation of Status
  of Security Interest

  	
   

  	
  2

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 3.02.

  	
   

  	
  Preservation of Enforceability

  	
   

  	
  3

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 3.03.

  	
   

  	
  Ownership and Defense of Collateral

  	
   

  	
  3

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 3.04.

  	
   

  	
  Certain Rights of Secured Party and Pledgors

  	
   

  	
  3

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 3.05.

  	
   

  	
  Distributions

  	
   

  	
  3

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 3.06.

  	
   

  	
  No Amendments, Etc., of Collateral

  	
   

  	
  3

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 3.07.

  	
   

  	
  No Disposition of Collateral

  	
   

  	
  4

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE 4

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  EVENT OF DEFAULT

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  A.

  	
   

  	
  Proceeds

  	
   

  	
  4

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 4.01.

  	
   

  	
  Application of Proceeds

  	
   

  	
  4

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  B.

  	
   

  	
  Remedies

  	
   

  	
  4

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 4.02.

  	
   

  	
  General

  	
   

  	
  4

  

 

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  Section 4.03.

  	
   

  	
  Secured Party’s Rights with Respect to Proceeds and
  Other Collateral

  	
   

  	
  5

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 4.04.

  	
   

  	
  Restricted Offering Dispositions of Pledged Equity
  Interest Collateral

  	
   

  	
  5

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 4.05.

  	
   

  	
  Notice of Disposition of Collateral

  	
   

  	
  6

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 4.06.

  	
   

  	
  Regulatory Approvals

  	
   

  	
  6

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE 5

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  MISCELLANEOUS

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.01.

  	
   

  	
  Expenses of Each Pledgor’s Agreements and Duties

  	
   

  	
  6

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.02.

  	
   

  	
  Secured Party’s Right to Perform on Pledgors’ Behalf

  	
   

  	
  6

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.03.

  	
   

  	
  No Interference; Compensation or Expense

  	
   

  	
  6

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.04.

  	
   

  	
  Secured Party’s Right to Use Agents and to Act in
  Name of Pledgors

  	
   

  	
  7

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.05.

  	
   

  	
  Limitation of Secured Party’s Obligations with
  Respect to Collateral

  	
   

  	
  7

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.06.

  	
   

  	
  Rights of Secured Party Under Uniform Commercial
  Code and Applicable Law

  	
   

  	
  7

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.07.

  	
   

  	
  Waivers of Rights Inhibiting Enforcement

  	
   

  	
  7

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.08.

  	
   

  	
  Power of Attorney

  	
   

  	
  7

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.09.

  	
   

  	
  Nature of Pledgors’ Obligations

  	
   

  	
  8

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.10.

  	
   

  	
  No Release of Pledgor

  	
   

  	
  8

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.11.

  	
   

  	
  Certain Other Waivers

  	
   

  	
  9

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.12.

  	
   

  	
  Continuance and Acceleration of Secured Obligations
  Upon Certain Events

  	
   

  	
  10

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.13.

  	
   

  	
  Recovered Payments

  	
   

  	
  10

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.14.

  	
   

  	
  Evidence of Secured Obligations

  	
   

  	
  11

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.15.

  	
   

  	
  Binding Nature of Certain Adjudications

  	
   

  	
  11

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.16.

  	
   

  	
  Subordination of Rights

  	
   

  	
  11

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.17.

  	
   

  	
  Termination of Security Interest

  	
   

  	
  11

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.18.

  	
   

  	
  Notices

  	
   

  	
  12

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.19.

  	
   

  	
  Interest

  	
   

  	
  12

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.20.

  	
   

  	
  Payments by the Pledgors

  	
   

  	
  12

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.21.

  	
   

  	
  Remedies of the Essence

  	
   

  	
  12

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.22.

  	
   

  	
  Rights Cumulative

  	
   

  	
  13

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.23.

  	
   

  	
  Amendments; Waivers; Additional Pledgors

  	
   

  	
  13

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.24.

  	
   

  	
  Assignments and Participations

  	
   

  	
  13

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.25.

  	
   

  	
  Successor Secured Parties

  	
   

  	
  14

  

 

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  Section 5.26.

  	
   

  	
  Governing Law

  	
   

  	
  14

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.27.

  	
   

  	
  LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

  	
   

  	
  14

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.28.

  	
   

  	
  Severability of Provisions

  	
   

  	
  15

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.29.

  	
   

  	
  Counterparts

  	
   

  	
  15

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.30.

  	
   

  	
  Survival of Obligations

  	
   

  	
  15

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.31.

  	
   

  	
  Entire Agreement

  	
   

  	
  15

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 5.32.

  	
   

  	
  Successors and Assigns

  	
   

  	
  15

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  ARTICLE 6

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  INTERPRETATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 6.01.

  	
   

  	
  Definitional Provisions

  	
   

  	
  15

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 6.02.

  	
   

  	
  Other Interpretative Provisions

  	
   

  	
  18

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Section 6.03.

  	
   

  	
  Captions

  	
   

  	
  19

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Schedule 1.03

  	
  Schedule of Required Action

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Schedule 2.01

  	
  Schedule of Required Recording and Other Taxes
  and Recording, Filing and Other Fees and Charges

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Schedule 2.02

  	
  Pledged Equity Interests

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Schedule 3.06

  	
  Schedule of Restrictions on Securities

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Exhibit A

  	
  Form of Pledge Agreement Joinder

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Exhibit B

  	
  Form of Notice of Disposition of Collateral

  	
   

  	
   

  
						

 

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PLEDGE AGREEMENT

Dated as of February     , 2006

 

In consideration of the
execution and delivery of the Credit Agreement by the Lenders listed on the
signature pages thereof and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative
Agent, L/C Issuer and Collateral Agent, CSC Holdings, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the “Company”), and each of the undersigned subsidiaries of
the Company (each, together with the Company and each Additional Pledgor
(defined below) that becomes a party hereto pursuant to Section 5.23,
collectively, the “Pledgors” and, individually, each a “Pledgor”)
hereby agree with Bank of America, N.A., acting in its capacity as Collateral
Agent, as Secured Party, as follows (with certain terms used herein being
defined in Article 6):

 

ARTICLE 1

SECURITY INTEREST

 

Section 1.01.          Grant
of Security Interest.  To secure the
payment and performance of the Secured Obligations, each Pledgor hereby
mortgages, pledges and assigns the Collateral to the Secured Party, and grants
to the Secured Party for the benefit of the Principals, a continuing security
interest in, and a continuing lien upon, the Collateral.

 

Section 1.02.          Validity
and Priority of Security Interest. 
Each Pledgor agrees that (a) the Security Interest shall at all
times be valid, perfected and enforceable against such Pledgor and all third
parties, in accordance with the terms hereof, as security for the Secured
Obligations, and (b) the Collateral shall not at any time be subject to
any Lien, other than a Permitted Lien, that is prior to, on a parity with or junior
to such Security Interest.

 

Section 1.03.          Maintenance
of Status of Security Interest, Collateral and Rights.  (a)  Required Action.  Each Pledgor shall take all action, including
the actions specified on Schedule 1.03, that may be necessary, or
that the Secured Party may reasonably request, so as at all times (i) to
maintain the validity, perfection, enforceability and priority of the Security
Interest in the Collateral in conformity with the requirements of Section 1.02,
(ii) to protect and preserve the Collateral and (iii) to protect and
preserve, and to enable the exercise or enforcement of, the rights of the
Secured Party therein and hereunder and under the other Collateral Documents.

 

(b)           Authorized Action. 
The Secured Party is hereby authorized to file one or
more financing or continuation statements or amendments
thereto in the name of any Pledgor.  A
carbon, photographic or other reproduction of this Agreement or of any
financing statement filed in connection with this Agreement shall be sufficient
as a financing statement. The Secured Party shall provide such Pledgor with a
copy of each financing or continuation statement or amendment thereto.

 

Section 1.04.          Evidence
of Status of Security Interest.  The
Secured Party may, from time to time at the expense of the Pledgors, obtain (a) such
file search reports from such Uniform Commercial Code and other filing and
recording offices and (b) such opinions of

 

 

counsel relating to the Collateral, the attachment and perfection of
the Security Interest and otherwise to this Agreement, as the Secured Party may
reasonably require.

 

Section 1.05.          Pledgors
Remain Obligated; Secured Party Not Obligated.  The grant by each Pledgor to the Secured
Party of the Security Interest shall not (a) relieve such Pledgor of any
Liability to any Person under or in respect of any of the Collateral or (b) impose
on the Secured Party any such Liability or any Liability for any act or
omission on the part of such Pledgor relative thereto.

 

ARTICLE 2

CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

Each Pledgor represents
and warrants as follows:

 

Section 2.01.          Required
Taxes.  Except for those specified on
Schedule 2.01, no recording or other Taxes or recording, filing or
other fees or charges are payable in connection with, arise out of, or are in
any way related to, the execution, delivery, performance, filing or recordation
of any of the Collateral Documents or the creation or perfection of the
Security Interest

 

Section 2.02.          Status
of Collateral.  (a) None of the
Pledged Equity Interest of such Pledgor has been issued or transferred in
violation of the securities registration, securities disclosure or similar laws
of any jurisdiction to which such issuance or transfer may be subject;

 

(b)           Each Pledgor represents and warrants
that (i) so long as any Pledged Equity Interests are Collateral, such
Collateral is and shall be (A) duly authorized and validly issued and
fully paid and non-assessable and (B) freely saleable without limit, or
registration or qualification under applicable Law and (ii) as of the date
hereof, Schedule 2.02 is a true and correct list of all of the
Pledged Equity Interests owned by such Pledgor in a Restricted Subsidiary.

 

ARTICLE 3

CERTAIN COVENANTS

 

Section 3.01.          Certain
Matters Relating to Preservation of Status of Security Interest.

 

(a)           Change
of Name, Identity, Etc.  Each Pledgor
shall not change its name, identity, jurisdiction of organization, corporate
structure or, in the case of any Pledgor which is not a registered organization
organized under state law, its chief executive office specified therefor in Schedule 1.01(vii) to
the Credit Agreement, without giving the Secured Party 30 days’ prior notice
thereof or such other notice period that is acceptable to the Secured Party.

 

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(b)           Other
Financing Statements.  Except with
respect to Permitted Liens, no Pledgor shall file, or suffer to be on file, or
authorize or permit to be filed or to be on file, in any jurisdiction, any
financing statement or like instrument with respect to the Collateral in which
the Secured Party is not named as the sole secured party except to the extent
such filing relates to a Permitted Lien.

 

Section 3.02.          Preservation
of Enforceability.  Each Pledgor
shall take all action and obtain all consents and Government Approvals required
so that its obligations under the Collateral Documents will at all times be
legal, valid and binding and enforceable in accordance with their respective
terms.

 

Section 3.03.          Ownership
and Defense of Collateral.  Each
Pledgor shall at all times (a) have good title to, and be the sole owner
of, each asset that is Collateral, free of any Liens other than Permitted
Liens, and free of (i) in the case of any Collateral that is a financial
asset, any adverse claim (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(1) of the
Uniform Commercial Code), and (ii) in the case of any Collateral that is
an instrument, any claim referred to in Section 3-305(1) of the
Uniform Commercial Code and (b) defend
the Collateral against the claims and demands of all third Persons, except that
this Section 3.03 shall not apply to (x) but for only so long as
such Lien is a Permitted Lien, the interest in the Collateral and the claims
and demands of a holder of a Permitted Lien or (y) Collateral to which Section 1.02
does not apply.

 

Section 3.04.          Certain
Rights of Secured Party and Pledgors. 
(a)  During an Event of Default, the Secured Party may, and is
hereby authorized to, transfer into or register in its name or the name of its
nominee any or all of the Collateral. 
The Secured Party, after a notice to each applicable Pledgor that it
intends to exercise its rights under this Section 3.04, may, from
time to time, in its own or such Pledgor’s name, exercise any and all rights,
powers and privileges with respect to the Collateral, and with the same force
and effect, as could such Pledgor.

 

(b)           Unless
and until the Secured Party exercises its rights under Section 3.04(a),
such Pledgor may, with respect to any of the Pledged Equity Interests, vote and
give consents, ratifications and waivers with respect thereto, except to the
extent that any such would (A) be for a purpose that would constitute or
result in a Default or (B) in the sole judgment of the Secured Party,
detract from the value thereof as Collateral.

 

Section 3.05.          Distributions.
 Each Pledgor may, unless an Event of
Default is continuing and if permitted under the terms of the Credit Agreement,
receive and retain all Distributions in respect of Equity Interests owned by
such Pledgor. During an Event of Default, the Secured Party shall be entitled
to receive and retain such Distributions and the Secured Party may notify, or
request such Pledgor to notify, each applicable Restricted Subsidiary to make
such Distributions directly to the Secured Party.

 

Section 3.06.          No
Amendments, Etc., of Collateral. 
Each Pledgor shall not enter into or permit to exist any restriction
with respect to the transferability of or any rights under or in respect of the
Collateral other than restrictions arising under the Loan Documents or set
forth on Schedule 3.06.

 

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Section 3.07.          No
Disposition of Collateral.  Each
Pledgor shall not, sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any
Collateral, or any interest therein, except as permitted under the Credit
Agreement.

 

ARTICLE 4

EVENT OF DEFAULT

 

During an Event of
Default, and in each such case:

 

A.            Proceeds

 

Section 4.01.          Application
of Proceeds.  All cash proceeds
received by the Secured Party upon any sale of, collection of, or other
realization upon, all or any part of the Collateral and all cash held by the
Secured Party as Collateral shall, subject to the Secured Party’s right to
continue to hold the same as cash Collateral, be applied as follows:

 

First:       To
the payment of all out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with
the sale of or other realization upon the Collateral, including attorneys’ fees
and disbursements;

 

Second:  To
the payment of the Secured Obligations owing to the Secured Party in such order
as the Secured Party may elect (with the Pledgors remaining liable for any
deficiency);

 

Third:     To
the payment of the Secured Obligations as set forth in Section 8.03
to the Credit Agreement; and

 

Fourth:   To
the extent of the balance (if any) of such proceeds, to the payment to the
Pledgors, subject to applicable Law and to any duty to pay such balance to the
holder of any subordinate Lien in the Collateral.

 

B.            Remedies

 

Section 4.02.          General.  (a)  Power of Sale.  The Secured Party (i) may sell the
Collateral in one or more parcels at public or private sale, at any of its
offices or elsewhere, for cash, on credit or for future delivery, and at such
price or prices and upon such other terms as it may deem commercially
reasonable, (ii) shall not be obligated to make any sale of Collateral
regardless of notice of sale having been given, and (iii) may adjourn any
public or private sale from time to time by announcement at the time and place
fixed therefor, and such sale may, without further notice, be made at the time
and place to which it was so adjourned.

 

(b)           Foreclosure.  The Secured Party, instead of exercising the
power of sale conferred upon it by Section 4.02(a) and
applicable Law, may proceed by a suit or suits at law or in equity to foreclose
the Security Interest and sell the Collateral, or any portion thereof, under a
judgment or a decree of a court or courts of competent jurisdiction.

 

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(c)           Receiver.  The Secured Party may obtain the appointment
of a receiver of the Collateral and each Pledgor consents to and waives any
right to notice of such appointment.

 

Section 4.03.          Secured
Party’s Rights with Respect to Proceeds and Other Collateral.  (a)             All payments and
other deliveries received by or for the account of the Secured Party from time
to time pursuant to Section 3.05, together with the proceeds of all
other Collateral from time to time held by or for the account of the Secured
Party (whether as a result of the exercise by the Secured Party of its rights
under Section 4.02(a) or (b) or otherwise) may, at
the election of the Secured Party, (i) be held by the Secured Party, or
any Person designated by the Secured Party to receive or hold the same, as
Collateral, (ii) be or continue to be applied as provided in Section 4.01
or (iii) be disposed of as provided in Section 4.02(a) or
(b) and Section 4.04.

 

(b)           Enforcement
by Secured Party.  The Secured Party
may, without notice to the Pledgors (to the extent permitted by law) and at
such time or times as the Secured Party in its sole discretion may determine,
exercise any or all of the Pledgors’ rights in, to and under, or in any way
connected with or related to, any or all of the Collateral, including (i) demanding
and enforcing payment and performance of, and exercising any or all of the
Pledgors’ rights and remedies with respect to the collection, enforcement or
prosecution of, any or all of the Collateral Obligations, in each case by legal
proceedings or otherwise, (ii) settling, adjusting, compromising,
extending, renewing, discharging and releasing any or all of, and any legal
proceedings brought to collect or enforce any or all of, the Collateral
Obligations and (iii) preparing, filing and signing the name of any
Pledgor on (A) any proof of claim or similar document to be filed in any
bankruptcy or similar proceeding involving any Collateral Debtor and (B) any
notice of lien, assignment or satisfaction of lien, or similar document in
connection with any Collateral Obligation.

 

(c)           Adjustments.  The Secured Party may settle or adjust
disputes and claims directly with Collateral Debtors for amounts and on terms
that the Secured Party considers advisable and in all such cases only the net
amounts received by the Secured Party in payment of such amounts, after
deduction of out-of-pocket costs and expenses of collection, including
reasonable attorneys’ fees, shall be subject to the other provisions of this
Agreement.

 

Section 4.04.          Restricted
Offering Dispositions of Pledged Equity Interest Collateral.  The Secured Party may, at its election,
comply with any limitation or restriction (including any restriction on the
number of prospective bidders and purchasers or any requirement that they have
certain qualifications or that they represent and agree that they are
purchasing for their own account for investment and not with a view to the
distribution or resale of such Pledged Equity Interests) as it may be advised
by counsel is necessary in order to avoid any violation of applicable Law or to
obtain any Governmental Approval, and such compliance shall not result in such
sale being considered or deemed not to have been made in a commercially
reasonable manner, nor shall the Secured Party be liable nor accountable to
such Pledgor for any discount allowed by reason of the fact that such Pledged
Equity Interests are sold in compliance with any such limitation or
restriction.  A private sale of which
notice shall have

 

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been published in accordance with applicable “no action” letters
published by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and that otherwise
complies with such letters, shall be deemed to constitute a “public disposition”
within the meaning of Section 9-610(c)(1) of the Uniform
Commercial Code.

 

Section 4.05.          Notice
of Disposition of Collateral.  Any
notice to a Pledgor of disposition of Collateral may be in the form of Exhibit B.

 

Section 4.06.          Regulatory
Approvals.  Any provision contained
herein to the contrary notwithstanding, no action shall be taken hereunder by
the Secured Party with respect to any item of Collateral unless and until all
applicable requirements (if any) of any federal or state laws, rules and
regulations of other regulatory or governmental bodies applicable to or having
jurisdiction over the Pledgors have been satisfied with respect to such action
and there shall have been obtained such consents, approvals and authorizations
(if any) as may be required to be obtained from any operating municipality and
any other governmental authority under the terms of any franchise, license or
similar operating right held by any Pledgor that purports to restrict a change
of ownership or control of such Collateral. 
It is the intention of the parties hereto that any enforcement of the
Liens in favor of the Secured Party on the Collateral shall in all relevant
respects be subject to and governed by said statutes, rules and
regulations and franchise, license or similar rights and that nothing in this
Agreement shall be construed to diminish the control exercised by the Pledgors
except in accordance with the provisions of such statutory requirements, rules and
regulations, franchise, license, or similar right.  Each of the Pledgors agrees that upon request
from time to time by the Secured Party it will use its reasonable best efforts
to obtain any governmental, regulatory or third party consents to enforcement
referred to in this Section 4.06.

 

ARTICLE 5

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 5.01.          Expenses
of Each Pledgor’s Agreements and Duties. 
The terms, conditions, covenants and agreements to be observed or
performed by any Pledgor under the Collateral Documents shall be observed or
performed by such Pledgor at its sole cost and expense.

 

Section 5.02.          Secured
Party’s Right to Perform on Pledgors’ Behalf.  If any Pledgor shall fail to observe or
perform any of the terms, conditions, covenants and agreements to be observed
or performed by it under the Collateral Documents, the Secured Party may (but
shall not be obligated to) do the same or cause it to be done or performed or
observed, either in its name or in the name and on behalf of such Pledgor, and
such Pledgor hereby authorizes the Secured Party so to do.

 

Section 5.03.          No
Interference; Compensation or Expense. 
The Secured Party may exercise its rights and remedies under the
Collateral Documents (a) without resistance or interference by any
Pledgor, (b) without payment of any kind to any Pledgor and (c) for
the account, and at the expense, of any Pledgor.

 

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Section 5.04.          Secured
Party’s Right to Use Agents and to Act in Name of Pledgors.  The Secured Party may exercise its rights and
remedies under the Collateral Documents through an agent or other designee and,
in the exercise thereof, the Secured Party or any such other Person may act in
its own name or in the name and on behalf of any Pledgor.

 

Section 5.05.          Limitation
of Secured Party’s Obligations with Respect to Collateral.  (a)  The Secured Party shall have no
obligation to protect or preserve any Collateral or to preserve rights
pertaining thereto other than the obligation to use reasonable care in the
custody and preservation of any Collateral in its possession.  The Secured Party shall be deemed to have
exercised reasonable care in the custody and preservation of any Collateral in
its possession if such Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equal to
that which the Secured Party accords its own property.  The Secured Party shall be relieved of all
responsibility for any Collateral in its possession upon surrendering it, or
tendering surrender of it, to each applicable Pledgor.

 

(b)           Nothing contained in the Collateral
Documents shall be construed as requiring or obligating the Secured Party, and
the Secured Party shall not be required or obligated, to (i) make any
demand, or to make any inquiry as to the nature or sufficiency of any payment
received by it, or to present or file any claim or notice or take any action,
with respect to any Collateral Obligation or any other Collateral or the monies
due or to become due thereunder or in connection therewith, (ii) ascertain
or take action with respect to calls, conversions, exchanges, maturities,
tenders, offers or other matters relating to any Collateral, whether or not the
Secured Party has or is deemed to have knowledge or notice thereof, (iii) take
any necessary steps to preserve rights against any prior parties with respect
to any Collateral or (iv) notify any Pledgor of any decline in the value
of any Collateral.

 

Section 5.06.          Rights
of Secured Party Under Uniform Commercial Code and Applicable Law.  The Secured Party shall have, with respect to
the Collateral, in addition to all of its rights and remedies under the
Collateral Documents, (a) the rights and remedies of a secured party under
the Uniform Commercial Code, whether or not the Uniform Commercial Code would
otherwise apply to the Collateral in question, and (b) the rights and
remedies of a secured party under all other applicable Law.

 

Section 5.07.          Waivers
of Rights Inhibiting Enforcement. 
Each Pledgor waives (a) the right to assert in any action or
proceeding between it and the Secured Party any offsets or counterclaims that
it may have, (b) all rights (i) of redemption, appraisement,
valuation, stay and extension or moratorium and (ii) to the marshalling of
assets and (c) all other rights the exercise of which would, directly or
indirectly, prevent, delay or inhibit the enforcement of any of the rights or
remedies under the Collateral Documents or the absolute sale of the Collateral,
now or hereafter in force under any applicable Law, and such Pledgor, for
itself and all who may claim under it, insofar as it or they now or hereafter
lawfully may, hereby waive the benefit of all such laws and rights.

 

Section 5.08.          Power
of Attorney.  (a)  In addition
to the other powers granted the Secured Party by each Pledgor under the
Collateral Documents, each Pledgor hereby appoints the Secured Party, and any
other Person that the Secured Party may designate, as such Pledgor’s

 

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attorney-in-fact to act, during the continuance of an Event of Default,
in the name, place and stead of such Pledgor in any way in which such Pledgor
itself could do, with respect to each of the following:  (i) endorsing such Pledgor’s name on (A) any
checks, notes, acceptances, money orders, drafts or other forms of payment, (B) any
securities, instruments, documents, notices, or other documents or agreements
relating to the Collateral, (C) schedules and assignments of Collateral
Obligations and (D) notices of assignment, financing statements and other
public records; (ii) taking any actions or exercising any rights, powers
or privileges that such Pledgor is entitled to take or exercise and that, under
the terms of any of the Collateral Documents, the Secured Party is expressly
authorized to take or exercise; and (iii) doing or causing to be done any
or all things necessary or, in the determination of the Secured Party,
desirable to observe or perform the terms, conditions, covenants and agreements
to be observed or performed by such Pledgor under the Collateral Documents and
otherwise to carry out the provisions of the Collateral Documents.  Each Pledgor hereby ratifies and approves all
acts of the attorney.

 

(b)           To induce any third Person to act
under this Section 5.08, each Pledgor hereby agrees that any third
Person receiving a duly executed copy or facsimile of this Agreement may act
under this Section 5.08, and that the termination of this Section 5.08
shall be ineffective as to such third Person unless and until actual notice or
knowledge of such termination shall have been received by such third Person,
and each Pledgor, on behalf of itself and its successors and assigns, hereby
agrees to indemnify and hold harmless any such third Person from and against
any and all claims that may arise against such third Person by reason of such
third Person having relied on the provisions of this Section 5.08.

 

Section 5.09.          Nature
of Pledgors’ Obligations.  Each
Pledgor’s grant of the Security Interest as security for the Secured
Obligations (a) is absolute and unconditional, (b) is unlimited in
amount, (c) shall be a continuing security interest securing all present
and future Secured Obligations and all promissory notes and other documentation
given in extension or renewal or substitution for any of the Secured
Obligations and (d) shall be irrevocable.

 

Section 5.10.          No
Release of Pledgor.  THE SECURITY
INTEREST SHALL NOT BE LIMITED OR TERMINATED, NOR SHALL THE SECURED OBLIGATIONS
SECURED THEREBY BE REDUCED OR LIMITED, NOR SHALL ANY PLEDGOR BE DISCHARGED OF
ANY OF ITS OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS, FOR ANY REASON
WHATSOEVER (other than, subject to Section 5.13 and Section 5.15,
the payment, observance and performance of the Secured Obligations), including
(and whether or not the same shall have occurred or failed to occur once or
more than once and whether or not each applicable Pledgor shall have received
notice thereof):

 

(a)           (i) any increase in the
principal amount of, or interest rate applicable to, (ii) any extension of
the time of payment, observance or performance of, (iii) any other
amendment or modification of any of the other terms and provisions of, (iv) any
release, composition or settlement (whether by way of acceptance of a plan of
reorganization or otherwise) of, (v) any subordination (whether present or
future or contractual or otherwise) of, or (vi) any discharge,
disallowance, invalidity, illegality, voidness or other unenforceability of,
the Secured Obligations;

 

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(b)           (i) any failure to obtain, (ii) any
release, composition or settlement of, (iii) any amendment or modification
of any of the terms and provisions of, (iv) any subordination of, or (v) any
discharge, disallowance, invalidity, illegality, voidness or other
unenforceability of, any guaranties of the Secured Obligations;

 

(c)           (i) any failure to obtain or
any release of, (ii) any failure to protect or preserve, (iii) any
release, compromise, settlement or extension of the time of payment of any
obligations constituting, (iv) any failure to perfect or maintain the
perfection or priority of any Lien upon, (v) any subordination of any Lien
upon, or (vi) any discharge, disallowance, invalidity, illegality,
voidness or other unenforceability of any Lien or intended Lien upon, any
collateral now or hereafter securing the Secured Obligations or any guaranties
thereof;

 

(d)           any exercise of, or any election not
or failure to exercise, delay in the exercise of, waiver of, or forbearance or
other indulgence with respect to, any right, remedy or power available to the
Secured Party, including (i) any election not or failure to exercise any
right of setoff, recoupment or counterclaim, (ii) any election of remedies
effected by the Secured Party, including the foreclosure upon any real estate
constituting collateral, whether or not such election affects the right to
obtain a deficiency judgment, and (iii) any election by the Secured Party
in any proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code of the application of Section 1111(b)(2) of
such Code; and

 

(e)           Any other act or failure to act or
any other event or circumstance that (i) varies the risk of such Pledgor
hereunder or (ii) but for the provisions hereof, would, as a matter of
statute or rule of law or equity, operate to limit or terminate the
security interest or to reduce or limit the Secured Obligations secured thereby
or to discharge such Pledgor from any of its obligations under the Collateral
Documents.

 

Section 5.11.          Certain
Other Waivers.  Each Pledgor waives:

 

(a)           any requirement, and any right to
require, that any right or power be exercised or any action be taken against
the Company, any other Pledgor, any guarantor or any collateral for the Secured
Obligations;

 

(b)           all defenses to, and all setoffs,
counterclaims and claims of recoupment against, the Secured Obligations that
may at any time be available to the Company, any other Pledgor, or any
guarantor;

 

(c)           (i)  notice of acceptance of
and intention to rely on the Collateral Documents, (ii) notice of the
making or renewal of any Loans or other Credit Extension under the Credit
Agreement and of the incurrence or renewal of any other Secured Obligations, (iii) notice
of any of the matters referred to in Section 5.10 and (iv) all
other notices that may be required by applicable Law or otherwise to preserve
any rights against such Pledgor under the Collateral Documents, including any
notice of default, demand, dishonor, presentment and protest;

 

(d)           diligence;

 

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(e)           any defense based upon, arising out
of or in any way related to (i) any claim that any election of remedies by
the Secured Party, including the exercise by the Secured Party of any rights
against any collateral, impaired, reduced, released or otherwise extinguished
any right that such Pledgor might otherwise have had against the Company, any
other Pledgor, or any guarantor or against any collateral, including any right
of subrogation, exoneration, reimbursement or contribution or right to obtain a
deficiency judgment, (ii) any claim based upon, arising out of or in any
way related to any of the matters referred to in Section 5.10 and (iii) any
claim that the Collateral Documents should be strictly construed against the
Secured Party; and

 

(f)            ALL OTHER DEFENSES UNDER APPLICABLE
LAW THAT WOULD, BUT FOR THIS CLAUSE (f), BE AVAILABLE TO SUCH PLEDGOR AS (i) A
DEFENSE AGAINST THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE SECURITY INTEREST, (ii) A REDUCTION
OR LIMITATION OF THE SECURED OBLIGATIONS SECURED THEREBY OR (iii) A
DEFENSE AGAINST ITS OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS.

 

Section 5.12.          Continuance
and Acceleration of Secured Obligations Upon Certain Events.  If:

 

(a)           any Event of Default that the Credit
Agreement states is to result in the automatic acceleration of any Secured
Obligations shall occur;

 

(b)           any injunction, stay or the like
that enjoins any acceleration, or demand for the payment, observance or
performance, of any Secured Obligations that would otherwise be required or
permitted under the Credit Agreement shall become effective; or

 

(c)           any Secured Obligations shall be or
be determined to be or become discharged, disallowed, invalid, illegal, void or
otherwise unenforceable (whether by operation of any present or future law or by
order of any court or governmental agency);

 

then (i) such
Secured Obligations shall, for all purposes of the Collateral Documents, be
deemed (A) in the case of clause (c), to continue to be outstanding and in
full force and effect notwithstanding the unenforceability thereof and (B) if
such is not already the case, to have thereupon become immediately due and
payable and to have commenced bearing interest at the Default Rate and (ii) the
Secured Party may, with respect to such Secured Obligations, exercise all of
the rights and remedies under the Collateral Documents that would be available
to it during an Event of Default.

 

Section 5.13.          Recovered
Payments.  The Secured Obligations
shall be deemed not to have been paid, observed or performed, and each Pledgor’s
obligations under the Collateral Documents in respect thereof shall continue
and not be discharged, to the extent that any payment, observance or
performance thereof by any guarantor, or out of the proceeds of any other
collateral, is recovered from or paid over by or for the account of the Secured
Party for any reason, including as a preference or fraudulent transfer or by
virtue of any subordination (whether present or future or contractual or
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recovery or payment over is effected by any judgment, decree or order
of any court or governmental agency, by any plan of reorganization or by
settlement or compromise by the Secured Party (whether or not consented to by
any Pledgor or any guarantor) of any claim for any such recovery or payment
over.  Each Pledgor hereby expressly
waives the benefit of any applicable statute of limitations and agrees that it
shall be obligated hereunder with respect to any Secured Obligations whenever
such a recovery or payment over occurs.

 

Section 5.14.          Evidence
of Secured Obligations.  The records
of the Secured Party shall be conclusive evidence of the Secured Obligations
and of all payments, observances and performances in respect thereof.

 

Section 5.15.          Binding
Nature of Certain Adjudications. 
Each Pledgor shall be conclusively bound by the adjudication in any
action or proceeding, legal or otherwise, involving any controversy arising
under, in connection with, or in any way related to, any of the Secured
Obligations, and by a judgment, award or decree entered therein.

 

Section 5.16.          Subordination
of Rights.  All rights that any
Pledgor may at any time have against any other Pledgor, any guarantor or any
other collateral for the Secured Obligations (including rights of subrogation,
exoneration, reimbursement and contribution and whether arising under
applicable Law or otherwise) in any way arising out of, related to, or
connected with, (i) such Pledgor’s grant of a security interest in the
Collateral or its other obligations under the Collateral Documents, (ii) any
obligation of contribution such Pledgor may have, or (iii) any sale or
other disposition of the Collateral by the Secured Party or the payment or
performance by such Pledgor of any obligation referred to in clause (i) or
(ii), are hereby expressly subordinated to the prior payment, observance and
performance in full of the Secured Obligations. 
Each Pledgor shall not enforce any of the rights, or attempt to obtain
payment or performance of any of the obligations, subordinated pursuant to this
Section 5.16 until the Secured Obligations have been paid, observed
and performed in full, except that such prohibition shall not apply to routine
acts, such as the giving of notices and the filing of continuation statements,
necessary to preserve any such rights. 
If any amount shall be paid to or recovered by any Pledgor (whether
directly or by way of setoff, recoupment or counterclaim) on account of any
right or obligation subordinated pursuant to this Section 5.16,
such amount shall be held in trust by such Pledgor for the benefit of the
Secured Party, not commingled with any of such Pledgor’s other funds and
forthwith paid over to the Secured Party, in the exact form received, together
with any necessary endorsements, to be applied and credited against, or held as
security for, the Secured Obligations.

 

Section 5.17.          Termination
of Security Interest.  The Security
Interest and all of the Pledgors’ obligations under Articles 1, 3 and 4 shall
terminate upon the latest of (a) the repayment, to the extent due, and, to
the extent not due, the satisfaction or securing, in a manner acceptable to the
Secured Party, of the Secured Obligations, (b) the termination of the
Commitments, and (c) the discharge, dismissal with prejudice, settlement,
release or other termination of any other claims relating to the Credit
Agreement or the Collateral Documents that may be pending or threatened against
such Indemnified Persons.  Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary above, in the event that any Pledgor is re-designated
by the Company as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance with Section 7.08
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Security Interest and obligations under Articles 1, 3 and 4 shall
terminate on the date of such re-designation.

 

Section 5.18.          Notices.  (a)  Manner of Delivery.  All notices, communications and materials to
be given or delivered pursuant to the Collateral Documents shall be given or
delivered in the manner and at the address, telephone numbers and telecopier
numbers specified in Section 10.02 of the Credit Agreement.  In the event of a discrepancy between any
telephonic notice and any written confirmation thereof, such written
confirmation shall be deemed the effective notice except to the extent the
Secured Party has acted in reliance on such telephonic notice.

 

(b)           Reasonable
Notice.  Any requirement under
applicable Law of reasonable notice by the Secured Party or the other
Principals to any Pledgor of any event in connection with, or in any way
related to, the Collateral Documents or the exercise by the Secured Party or
the other Principals of any of its rights thereunder shall be met if notice of
such event is given to such Pledgor in the manner prescribed above at least 10
days before (i) the date of such event or (ii) the date after which
such event will occur.

 

Section 5.19.          Interest.  All amounts due and payable under the
Collateral Documents shall bear interest in accordance with Section 2.07(b) and
Section 2.09 of the Credit Agreement.

 

Section 5.20.          Payments
by the Pledgors.  (a)  Time,
Place and Manner.  All payments due
to the Secured Party under the Collateral Documents shall be made in accordance
with Section 2.11 of the Credit Agreement, with all references to
the “Administrative Agent” therein meaning the Secured Party for purposes
hereof.

 

(b)           No
Reductions.  All payments due to any
Principal under the Collateral Documents, and all other terms, conditions,
covenants and agreements to be observed and performed by any Pledgor
thereunder, shall be made, observed or performed by such Pledgor without any
reduction or deduction whatsoever, including any reduction or deduction for any
set-off, recoupment, counterclaim (whether, in any case, in respect of an
obligation owed by such Principal to any Pledgor or any guarantor and, in the
case of a counterclaim, whether sounding in tort, contract or otherwise) or
Tax, except, subject to Section 3.01 of the Credit Agreement, for
any withholding or deduction for Taxes required to be withheld or deducted
under applicable Law.

 

(c)           Taxes.  All of the terms and provisions of Section 3.01
of the Credit Agreement are hereby incorporated by reference in this Agreement to
the same extent as if fully set forth herein, with all references therein to (i) the
“Company” meaning each Pledgor for purposes hereof, (ii) the “Administrative
Agent” meaning the Secured Party for purposes hereof and (iii) this “Credit
Agreement” meaning this Agreement for purposes hereof.

 

Section 5.21.          Remedies
of the Essence.  The various rights
and remedies of the Principals under the Collateral Documents are of the
essence of those agreements, and the

 

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Principals shall be entitled to obtain a decree requiring specific
performance of each such right and remedy.

 

Section 5.22.          Rights
Cumulative.  Each of the Principals’
rights and remedies under the Collateral Documents shall be in addition to all
of their other rights and remedies under the Collateral Documents and
applicable Law, and nothing in the Collateral Documents shall be construed as
limiting any such rights or remedies.

 

Section 5.23.          Amendments;
Waivers; Additional Pledgors.  Any
term, covenant, agreement or condition of the Collateral Documents may be
amended, and any right under the Collateral Documents may be waived, if, but
only if, such amendment or waiver is in writing and is signed by the Secured
Party and, in the case of an amendment, by the applicable Pledgor or Pledgors,
as the case may be.  Unless otherwise
specified in such waiver, a waiver of any right under the Collateral Documents
shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose
for which given.  No election not to
exercise, failure to exercise or delay in exercising any right, nor any course
of dealing or performance, shall operate as a waiver of any right of the
Secured Party or the other Principals under the Collateral Documents or
applicable Law, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right
preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other
right of the Secured Party or the other Principals under the Collateral
Documents or applicable Law.  In the
event that any Guarantor (including any New Restricted Subsidiary that becomes
a Guarantor pursuant to Section 7.08 of the Credit Agreement) that
is not a party under this Agreement, hereafter owns or acquires any right,
title or interest in any Restricted Subsidiary (including any New Restricted
Subsidiary), the Company shall cause such Guarantor to execute and deliver a
Pledge Agreement Joinder, at which time (a) such Guarantor shall be
referred to as an “Additional Pledgor” and shall become and be a Pledgor
hereunder, and each reference in this Agreement to a “Pledgor” shall also mean
and be a reference to such Additional Pledgor, and each reference in any other
Loan Document to a “Pledgor” shall also mean and be a reference to such
Additional Pledgor, and (b) each reference herein to “this Agreement,” “hereunder,”
“hereof” or words of like import referring to this Agreement, and each
reference in any other Loan Document to the “Pledge Agreement,” “thereunder,” “thereof”
or words of like import referring to this Agreement, shall mean and be a
reference to this Agreement as supplemented by such Pledge Agreement Joinder.

 

Section 5.24.          Assignments
and Participations.  (a)  Assignments.  (i)  Each Pledgor may not assign any of
its rights or obligations under the Collateral Documents without the prior
written consent of the Secured Party, and no assignment of any such obligation
shall release such Pledgor therefrom unless the Secured Party shall have
consented to such release in a writing specifically referring to the obligation
from which such Pledgor is to be released.

 

(ii)           Each Lender may, in connection with any assignment to
any Person of any or all of the Secured Obligations or the Commitment, assign
to such Person any or all of its rights and obligations under the Collateral
Documents and with respect to the Collateral without any consent of the
Pledgor, the Secured Party or any other Principal, other than as required by
the Credit Agreement.  Any such
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(b)           Participations.  Each Lender may, in connection with any grant
to any Person of a participation in any or all of the Secured Obligations or
the Commitment, grant to such Person a participation in any or all of its
rights and obligations under the Collateral Documents and with respect to the
Collateral without the consent of any Pledgor, the Secured Party or any other
Principal, other than as required by the Credit Agreement.

 

Section 5.25.          Successor
Secured Parties.  Upon the acceptance
by any Person of its appointment as a successor Collateral Agent, (a) such
Person shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights,
powers, privileges, duties and obligations of the Secured Party under the
Collateral Documents and the retiring Collateral Agent shall be discharged from
its duties and obligations as Secured Party thereunder and (b) the
retiring Collateral Agent shall promptly transfer all Collateral within its
possession or control to the possession or control of the successor Collateral
Agent and shall execute and deliver such notices, instructions and assignments
as may be necessary or desirable to transfer the rights of the Secured Party
with respect to the Collateral to the successor Collateral Agent.

 

Section 5.26.          Governing
Law.  The rights and duties of each
Pledgor, the Secured Party and the other Principals under the Collateral
Documents shall, pursuant to New York General Obligations Law Section 5-1401,
be governed by the law of the State of New York.

 

Section 5.27.          LIMITATION
OF LIABILITY.  NEITHER THE SECURED
PARTY NOR ANY OTHER PRINCIPAL SHALL HAVE ANY LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO, AND
EACH PLEDGOR HEREBY WAIVES, RELEASES AND AGREES NOT TO SUE FOR:

 

(a)           ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE SUSTAINED BY SUCH
PLEDGOR, OR ANY LOSS, DAMAGE, DEPRECIATION OR OTHER DIMINUTION IN THE VALUE OF
ANY COLLATERAL, THAT MAY OCCUR AS A RESULT OF, IN CONNECTION WITH, OR THAT
IS IN ANY WAY RELATED TO, (i) ANY ACT OR FAILURE TO ACT REFERRED TO IN SECTION 5.10
OR (ii) ANY EXERCISE OF ANY RIGHT OR REMEDY UNDER THE COLLATERAL
DOCUMENTS, EXCEPT, IN THE CASE OF CLAUSE (ii), FOR ANY SUCH LOSS, DAMAGE,
DEPRECIATION OR DIMINUTION TO THE EXTENT THAT THE SAME IS DETERMINED BY A
JUDGMENT OF A COURT THAT IS BINDING ON THE PLEDGOR AND SUCH PRINCIPAL, FINAL
AND NOT SUBJECT TO REVIEW ON APPEAL, TO BE THE RESULT OF ACTS OR OMISSIONS ON
THE PART OF SUCH PRINCIPAL CONSTITUTING (x) WILLFUL MISCONDUCT, (y) GROSS
NEGLIGENCE; OR

 

(b)           ANY
SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL, AND, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER
APPLICABLE LAW, PUNITIVE DAMAGES SUFFERED BY SUCH PLEDGOR IN CONNECTION WITH
ANY COLLATERAL DOCUMENT RELATED CLAIM.

 

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Section 5.28.          Severability
of Provisions.  Any provision of the
Collateral Documents that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction
shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such
prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions
thereof in that jurisdiction or affecting the validity or enforceability of
such provision in any other jurisdiction.

 

Section 5.29.          Counterparts.  Each Collateral Document may be signed in any
number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same
effect as if the signatures thereto were upon the same instrument.

 

Section 5.30.          Survival
of Obligations.  Except as otherwise
expressly provided therein, the rights and obligations of each Pledgor, the
Secured Party and the other Indemnified Persons under the Collateral Documents
shall survive last Maturity Date applicable to the Facilities and the
termination of the Security Interest.

 

Section 5.31.          Entire
Agreement.  This Agreement embodies
the entire agreement among each Pledgor and the Secured Party relating to the
subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements, representations and
understandings, if any, relating to the subject matter hereof.

 

Section 5.32.          Successors
and Assigns.  All of the provisions
of each Collateral Document shall be binding on and inure to the benefit of the
parties thereto and their respective successors and assigns.

 

ARTICLE 6

INTERPRETATION

 

Section 6.01.          Definitional
Provisions.  (a)  Certain
Terms Defined by Reference.  (i) 
Except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning, all terms
defined in Article 1, 8 or 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect
on the date hereof, are used herein with the meanings therein ascribed to
them.  In addition, the terms “collateral”
and “security interest”, when capitalized, have the meanings specified in subsection (b) below.

 

(ii)           Except in the case of “Collateral” and “Permitted Lien”
and as otherwise specified herein, all terms defined in the Credit Agreement
are used herein with the meanings therein ascribed to them.

 

(b)           Other
Defined Terms.  For purposes of this
Agreement:

 

“Additional Pledgor”
shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.23
hereto.

 

“Agreement” means
this Agreement, including all schedules, annexes and exhibits hereto.

 

“Collateral”
means, with respect to each Pledgor, such Pledgor’s interest (WHATEVER IT MAY BE)
in each of the following, IN EACH CASE WHETHER NOW OR

 

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HEREAFTER EXISTING
OR NOW OWNED OR HEREAFTER ACQUIRED BY SUCH PLEDGOR AND WHETHER OR NOT THE SAME
IS NOW CONTEMPLATED, ANTICIPATED OR FORESEEABLE, and whether or not the same is subject to Article 8 or 9
of the Uniform Commercial Code or is Collateral by reason of one or more than
one of the following clauses:

 

(i)            the
Pledged Equity Interests;

 

(ii)           all rights (contractual and otherwise and whether
constituting accounts, general intangibles or investment property or financial
assets) constituting, arising under, connected with, or in any way related to,
any or all Collateral;

 

(iii)          all claims (including the right to sue or otherwise
recover on such claims) (A) to items referred to in the definition of
Collateral, (B) under warranties relating to any of the Collateral, and (C) against
third parties that in any way arise under or out of or are related to or
connected with any or all of the Collateral; and

 

(iv)          all products and proceeds of Collateral in whatever
form.

 

“Collateral Debtor”
means a Person (including the maker or drawer of any instrument) obligated on,
bound by, or subject to, a Collateral Obligation.

 

“Collateral Document
Related Claim” means any claim (whether civil, criminal or administrative
and whether arising under any applicable Law, including any “environmental” or
similar law, or sounding in tort, contract or otherwise) in any way arising out
of, related to, or connected with, (i) the Collateral Documents, (ii) the
relationships established thereunder (iii) the exercise of any right or
remedy available thereunder or under applicable Law or (iv) the
Collateral, whether such claim arises or is asserted before or after the date
hereof or before or after the release of the Security Interest.

 

“Collateral Documents”
means (i) this Agreement and (ii) any other agreement, document or
instrument entered into pursuant to or as contemplated by this Agreement,
whether now or hereafter executed.

 

“Collateral Obligation”
means a Liability that is Collateral and includes any such constituting or
arising under any instrument.

 

 “Contract” means (a) any agreement
(whether bilateral or unilateral or executory or non-executory and whether a
Person entitled to rights thereunder is so entitled directly or as a
third-party beneficiary), including an indenture, lease or license, (b) any
deed or other instrument of conveyance, (c) any certificate of
incorporation or charter and (d) any by-law.

 

“Credit Agreement”
means that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of February 24, 2006 among CSC
Holdings, Inc., certain subsidiaries of CSC Holdings, Inc. party
thereto, the lenders which are parties thereto and Bank of America, N.A., as
Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and L/C Issuer.

 

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“Distributions”
means all (i) dividends (whether or not payable in cash), interest,
principal payments and other distributions (including cash and securities
payable in connection with calls, conversions, redemptions and the like), on,
and all rights, contractual and otherwise, (whether such dividends, interest,
principal payments, other distributions and rights constitute accounts,
contract rights, investment property and or general intangibles), arising
under, connected with or in any way relating to any Equity Interests, and (ii) proceeds
thereof (including cash and securities receivable in connection with tender or
other offers).

 

 “Governmental Approval” means any
authority, consent, approval, license (or the like) or exemption (or the like)
of any governmental unit.

 

“Governmental
Registration” means any registration or filing (or the like) with, or
report or notice (or the like) to, any governmental unit.

 

 “Indemnified Person” means any Person
that is, or at any time was, the Collateral Agent, a Lender, an Affiliate of
the Collateral Agent or a Lender or a director, officer, employee or agent of
any such Person.

 

 “Liability” of any Person means (in
each case, whether with full or limited recourse) any indebtedness, liability,
obligation, covenant or duty of or binding upon, or any term or condition to be
observed by or binding upon, such Person or any of its assets, of any kind,
nature or description, direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or not
due, liquidated or unliquidated, whether arising under Contract, applicable
Law, or otherwise, whether sounding in contract or in tort, whether now
existing or hereafter arising, and whether for the payment of money or the
performance or non-performance of any act.

 

“Permitted Lien”
means (i) a Lien consented to in writing by the Secured Party but only if
the Secured Party shall not have requested the discharge thereof and (ii) a
Lien created in favor of the Secured Party under the Credit Agreement or the
Collateral Documents.

 

“Pledge
Agreement Joinder” means a Pledge Agreement Joinder, substantially in the
form of Exhibit A, or otherwise in form and substance acceptable to
the Collateral Agent.

 

 “Pledged Equity Interests” means, with
respect to each Pledgor, all of the Equity Interests now owned or hereafter
acquired by such Pledgor, and all of such Pledgor’s other rights, title and
interests in, or in any way related to, each Restricted Subsidiary to which any
of such Equity Interests relate, including, without limitation: (i) all
additional Equity Interests hereafter from time to time acquired by such
Pledgor in any manner, together with all dividends, cash, instruments and other
property hereafter from time to time received, receivable or otherwise
distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of such Equity
Interests and in all profits, losses and other distributions to which such
Pledgor shall at any time be entitled in respect of any such Equity Interest; (ii) all
other payments due or to become due to such Pledgor in respect of any such
Equity Interest, whether under any partnership agreement, limited liability
company agreement, other agreement or otherwise, whether as contractual
obligations, damages, insurance proceeds or otherwise; (iii) all of such
Pledgor’s claims, rights, powers, privileges, authority, puts, calls, options,
security interests, liens and remedies, if any, under any partnership agreement,
limited liability company agreement, other agreement or at law or otherwise in

 

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respect of any
such Equity Interest; (iv) all present and future claims, if any, of such
Pledgor against any such Restricted Subsidiary for moneys loaned or advanced,
for services rendered or otherwise; (v) all of such Pledgor’s rights under
any partnership agreement, limited liability company agreement, other agreement
or at law to exercise and enforce every right, power, remedy, authority, option
and privilege of such Pledgor relating to any such Equity Interest; (vi) all
other property hereafter delivered in substitution for or in addition to any of
the foregoing; (vii) all certificates and instruments representing or
evidencing any of the foregoing; and (viii) all cash, securities,
interest, distributions, dividends, rights, other property and other
Distributions at any time and from time to time received, receivable or
otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all thereof.

 

“Pledgor” shall
have the meaning given in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.

 

“Principals”
means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the L/C Issuer, the
Hedge Banks, the Cash Management Banks, each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by
the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 7.05
of the Credit Agreement, and the other Persons the Obligations owing to which
are or are purported to be secured by the Collateral under the terms of the
Collateral Documents.

 

“Secured Obligations”
means all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and
duties of, any Loan Party arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with
respect to any Loan or Letter of Credit, whether direct or indirect (including
those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due,
now existing or hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue
after the commencement by or against any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof of
any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in
such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed
claims in such proceeding.

 

“Secured Party”
means the Collateral Agent, acting both on its own behalf as Collateral Agent
and as the agent for and representative (within the meaning of Section 9-105(m)
of the Uniform Commercial Code) of the other Principals.

 

“Security Interest”
means the mortgages, pledges and assignments to the Secured Party of, the continuing
security interest of the Secured Party in, and the continuing lien of the
Secured Party upon, the Collateral intended to be effected by the terms of this
Agreement or any of the other Collateral Documents.

 

“Uniform Commercial
Code” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New
York.

 

Section 6.02.          Other
Interpretative Provisions.  (a) 
Each power of attorney, license and other authorization in favor of the Secured
Party or any other Person granted by or pursuant to this Agreement shall be
deemed to be irrevocable and coupled with an interest.

 

(b)           Except as otherwise indicated, any
reference herein to the “Collateral”, the “Secured Obligations”, the “Collateral
Documents”, the “Principals” or any other collective or plural term shall be
deemed a reference to each and every item

 

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included within the category described by such collective or
plural term, so that (i) a reference to the “Collateral”, the “Secured
Obligations” or the “Principals” shall be deemed a reference to any or all of
the Collateral, the Secured Obligations or the “Principals”, as the case may
be, and (ii) a reference to the “obligations” of a Pledgor under the “Collateral
Documents” shall be deemed a reference to each and every obligation under each
and every Collateral Document, as the case may be, whether any such obligation
is incurred under one, some or all of the Collateral Documents, as the case may
be.

 

(c)           Except where the context clearly
indicates a different meaning, references in this Agreement to instruments and
other types of property, means the same to the extent they are Collateral.

 

(d)           Except as otherwise specified
therein, all terms defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings herein
ascribed to them when used in the other Collateral Documents or any
certificate, opinion or other document delivered pursuant hereto or thereto.

 

Section 6.03.          Captions.  Captions to Articles, Sections and
subsections of, and Annexes, Schedules and Exhibits to, the Collateral
Documents are included for convenience of reference only and shall not
constitute a part of the Collateral Documents for any other purpose or in any
way affect the meaning or construction of any provision of the Collateral
Documents.

 

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Left Blank]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by their duly
authorized officers all as of the date hereof.

 

	
   

  	
  CSC HOLDINGS,
  INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  By

  	
  /s/ John Bier

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name: John Bier

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title: Sr. Vice
  President & Treasurer

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF CONNECTICUT

  CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  COMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT

  CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION SYSTEMS LONG ISLAND

  CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION SYSTEMS SUFFOLK

  CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF
  CLEVELAND G.P., INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF
  CLEVELAND L.P., INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CSC ACQUISITION CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CSC ACQUISITION - MA, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF
  BROOKLINE, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION SYSTEMS BROOKLINE

  CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  ARSENAL MSUB 2, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  PETRA
  CABLEVISION CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION OF
  WAPPINGERS FALLS, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CSC OPTIMUM HOLDINGS, LLC

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION AREA 9 CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION FAIRFIELD CORPORATION

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  By

  	
  /s/ John Bier

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name: John Bier

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:
  Authorized Signatory

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  of each of the
  above-named entities

  

 

s-1

 

	
   

  	
  CABLEVISION LIGHTPATH, INC., effective
  after

  receipt of the regulatory approval specified on Schedule

  6.03

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  By

  	
  /s/ John Bier

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name: John Bier

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:
  Authorized Signatory

  

 

s-2

 

	
   

  	
  BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,

  acting in its capacity as Collateral Agent,

  as Secured Party

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  By

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  

 

s-3

 

Schedule 1.03

 

SCHEDULE OF REQUIRED ACTION

 

Pursuant to, and without
thereby limiting, its obligations under Section 1.03, each Pledgor
hereby agrees that it will:

 

In the case of Collateral
that consists of Securities:

 

(i)            Certificated:  Deliver to the Secured Party certificates
evidencing such Securities either (1) in bearer form (UCC Section 8-106(a))
or (2) if such Security is in registered form, either (x) registered in
the name of the Secured Party (UCC Section 8-106(b)(2)), (y) indorsed to
the Secured Party or in blank by an effective indorsement (UCC Sections 8-106(b)(1) 8-107,
8-401 and 8-402) or (z) accompanied by blank stock powers (UCC Sections 8-106(b)(1),
8-401 and 8-402);

 

 (ii)          Uncertificated:  Deliver to the Secured Party written confirmation
from the issuer of such Securities that such issuer has registered the Secured
Party as the registered owner of such Securities (UCC Section 8-106(c)(1) and
UCC Section 8-301(b)(1)); and

 

(iii)          Filing
of completed UCC-1 Financing Statements, each in form satisfactory and
acceptable to the Secured Party.

 

 

Schedule 2.01

 

SCHEDULE OF REQUIRED RECORDING AND OTHER TAXES
AND RECORDING,

FILING AND OTHER FEES AND CHARGES

 

1.             Filing
fees in connection with Uniform Commercial Code financing statements.

 

 

Schedule 2.02

 

SCHEDULE OF PLEDGED EQUITY INTERESTS

 

	
  Pledged Equity Interests

  	
   

  
	
  Issuer

  	
   

  	
  Owner

  	
   

  	
  Class

  Or Series

  	
   

  	
  Share

  Certificate

  No.

  	
   

  	
  Percent of Equity

  Interest Owned

  	
   

  	
  Percent of Equity

  Interest Pledged

  	
   

  
	
  1047 E 46TH Street Corporation

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  151 S. Fulton Street Corporation

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  2234 Fulton Street Corporation

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  A-R Cable Services - NY, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  CSC

  Acquisition-

  MA, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Arsenal Msub 2, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  6

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision Area 9 Corporation

  	
   

  	
  Cablevision of

  Connecticut

  Corporation

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  2

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision Digital Development, LLC

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  LLC

  Membership

  Interests

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision Fairfield Corporation

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision Lightpath - CT, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  Cablevision

  Lightpath, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision Lightpath - NJ, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  Cablevision

  Lightpath, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision Lightpath - NY, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  Cablevision

  Lightpath, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision Lightpath, Inc. (1)

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision of Brookhaven, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  2

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision of Brookline, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision of Cleveland G.P., Inc.

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  2

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision of Cleveland L.P., Inc.

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  2

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision of Connecticut Corporation

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision of Litchfield, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision of Southern Westchester, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  7

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision of the Midwest Holding Co., Inc.

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  2

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision of Wappingers Falls, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  

 

 

	
  Cablevision VOIP, LLC

  	
   

  	
  CSC Optimum

  Holdings, LLC

  	
   

  	
  LLC

  Membership

  Interests

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision Systems Brookline Corporation

  	
   

  	
  Cablevision of

  Brookline, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  2

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision Systems Dutchess Corporation

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  2

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision Systems East Hampton Corporation

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  2

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision Systems Great Neck Corporation

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  2

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision Systems Huntington Corporation

  	
   

  	
  Cablevision

  Systems Suffolk

  Corporation.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision Systems Islip Corporation

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  2

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision Systems Long Island Corporation

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  3

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision Systems New York City Corporation

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  3

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision Systems Suffolk Corporation

  	
   

  	
  Cablevision

  Systems Long

  Island

  Corporation.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  4

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision Systems Westchester Corporation

  	
   

  	
  Cablevision

  Systems Long

  Island

  Corporation

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Communications Development Corporation

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  2

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  CSC Acquisition - MA, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  CSC Acquisition

  Corporation

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  CSC Acquisition - NY, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  CSC Acquisition

  Corporation

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  CSC Acquisition Corporation

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  2

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  CSC Optimum Holdings, LLC

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  LLC

  Membership

  Interests

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  CSC
  TKR, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  2

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Lightpath VOIP, LLC

  	
   

  	
  Cablevision

  Lightpath, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  LLC

  Membership

  Interests

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Petra Cablevision Corp.

  	
   

  	
  Arsenal Msub 2,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  133

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Samson Cablevision Corp.

  	
   

  	
  Petra

  Cablevision

  Corp.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  2

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Suffolk Cable Corporation

  	
   

  	
  Petra

  Cablevision

  Corp.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Suffolk Cable of Shelter Island, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  Petra

  Cablevision

  Corp.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  

 

2

 

	
  Suffolk Cable of Smithtown, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  Petra

  Cablevision

  Corp.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  1

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Telerama, Inc.

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  common

  stock

  	
   

  	
  58

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  	
  100%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision of
  Ossining Limited Partnership

  	
   

  	
  Cablevision

  Systems

  Brookline

  Corporation

  	
   

  	
  General

  Partnership

  Interest

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  .5%

  	
   

  	
  .5%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision of
  Ossining Limited Partnership

  	
   

  	
  Cablevision of

  Wappingers

  Falls, Inc

  	
   

  	
  Limited

  Partnership

  Interest

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  99%

  	
   

  	
  99%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision
  Systems of Southern Connecticut Limited Partnership

  	
   

  	
  Cablevision

  Fairfield

  Corporation

  	
   

  	
  General

  Partnership

  Interest

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  92%

  	
   

  	
  92%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision
  Systems of Southern Connecticut Limited Partnership

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc

  	
   

  	
  Limited

  Partnership

  Interest

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  8%

  	
   

  	
  8%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision of
  Connecticut Limited Partnership

  	
   

  	
  CSC Holdings,

  Inc

  	
   

  	
  Limited

  Partnership

  Interest

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  4.81912%

  	
   

  	
  4.81912%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision of
  Connecticut Limited Partnership

  	
   

  	
  Cablevision Area

  9 Corporation

  	
   

  	
  Limited

  Partnership

  Interest

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  .57677%

  	
   

  	
  .57677%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision of
  Connecticut Limited Partnership

  	
   

  	
  Communications

  Development

  Corporation

  	
   

  	
  General

  Partnership

  Interest

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  .00990%

  	
   

  	
  .00990%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision of
  Connecticut Limited Partnership

  	
   

  	
  Cablevision Area

  9 Corporation

  	
   

  	
  General

  Partnership

  Interest

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  94.59421%

  	
   

  	
  94.59421%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision of
  Cleveland, L.P.

  	
   

  	
  Cablevision of

  Cleveland GP,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  General

  Partnership

  Interest

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  90%

  	
   

  	
  90%

  	
   

  
	
  Cablevision of
  Cleveland, L.P.

  	
   

  	
  Cablevision of

  Cleveland LP,

  Inc.

  	
   

  	
  Limited

  Partnership

  Interest

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  10%

  	
   

  	
  10%

  	
   

  

 

(1)          The
undersigned hereby agrees that it shall become a party to, and be fully bound
by, the terms of this Agreement immediately upon issuance of the regulatory
approval referred to in Schedule 6.03 of the Credit Agreement.

 

3

 

Schedule 3.06

 

SCHEDULE OF
RESTRICTIONS ON SECURITIES

 

1.  None, other than possible requirements of
consent of transfer from the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary.

 

 

Exhibit A

 

FORM OF

PLEDGE AGREEMENT JOINDER

 

This PLEDGE AGREEMENT
JOINDER, dated as of                   ,
          (this “Agreement”),
is made by [Insert Name of New Pledgor], a [Insert State of Organization]
[corporation, limited partnership or limited liability company] (the “New
Pledgor”), in favor of Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent (the “Collateral
Agent”) for the benefit of the Principals (as defined in the Pledge
Agreement referred to below).

 

RECITALS:

 

(1)           CSC
Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), the
Restricted Subsidiaries party thereto, the Lenders party thereto, and the
Collateral Agent are parties to a Credit Agreement dated as of February     ,
2006 (as the same may from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise
modified, the “Credit Agreement”).

 

(2)           In
connection with the Credit Agreement, the Company and certain other pledgors
(each, together with the Company, collectively, the “Pledgors” and
individually, each a “Pledgor”) entered into a Pledge Agreement (as the
same may from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise modified, the “Pledge
Agreement”), pursuant to which the Pledgors granted to the Collateral Agent
for the benefit of the Principals a security interest in and pledge of the
Collateral described in the Pledge Agreement.

 

(3)           The
New Pledgor is a Restricted Subsidiary (as defined in the Credit Agreement) and
desires to become a party to the Pledge Agreement pursuant to Section 5.23
of the Pledge Agreement and to become a “Pledgor” thereunder.

 

(4)           Capitalized
terms used but not defined herein have the meanings given to such terms in the
Pledge Agreement.

 

AGREEMENT:

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the premises and other good and valuable consideration, the
receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the New Pledgor hereby agrees as
follows:

 

Section 1.               Assumption
and Joinder.

 

(a)           The
New Pledgor hereby expressly assumes, and hereby agrees to perform and observe,
each and every one of the covenants, rights, promises, agreements, terms,
conditions, obligations, appointments, duties and liabilities of a “Pledgor”
under the Pledge Agreement and all of the other Loan Documents (as defined in
the Credit Agreement) applicable to it as a Pledgor under the Pledge
Agreement.  By virtue of the foregoing,
the New Pledgor hereby accepts and assumes any liability of a Pledgor related
to each representation, warranty, covenant or obligation made by a Pledgor in
the Pledge Agreement, and hereby expressly affirms, as of the

 

 

date hereof, each
of such representations, warranties, covenants and obligations.  In connection with the foregoing, the New
Pledgor hereby mortgages, pledges and assigns to the Collateral Agent, and
grants to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Principal, a continuing
security interest in, and a continuing lien upon, all of the Collateral of the
New Pledgor on the terms and conditions set forth in the Pledge Agreement.

 

(b)           All
references to the term Pledgor in the Pledge Agreement or in any document or
instrument executed and delivered or furnished, or to be executed and delivered
or furnished, in connection therewith shall be deemed to be a reference to, and
shall include, the New Pledgor.

 

Section 2.               Representations
and Warranties.  The New Pledgor
hereby represents and warrants to the Collateral Agent and the Secured
Creditors as follows:

 

(a)           The
New Pledgor has the requisite [corporate, partnership or company] power and
authority to enter into this Agreement and to perform its obligations hereunder
and under the Pledge Agreement and any other Loan Document to which it is a
party.  The execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement by the New Pledgor and the performance of its
obligations under this Agreement, the Pledge Agreement, and any other Loan
Document have been duly authorized by the [Board of Directors of the New
Pledgor] and no other [corporate, partnership or company] proceedings on the
part of the New Pledgor are necessary to authorize the execution, delivery or
performance of this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereby or the
performance of its obligations under this Agreement, the Pledge Agreement or
any other Loan Document.  This Agreement
has been duly executed and delivered by the New Pledgor.  This Agreement, the Pledge Agreement and each
Loan Document constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the New
Pledgor enforceable against it in accordance with its respective terms, except
as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by
general principles of equity, whether such enforceability is considered in a
proceeding at law or in equity.

 

(b)           The
representations and warranties set forth in the Pledge Agreement are true and
correct in all material respects on and as of the date hereof as such
representations and warranties apply to the New Pledgor (except to the extent
that any such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier
date) with the same force and effect as if made on the date hereof.

 

Section 3.               Further
Assurances.  At any time and from
time to time, upon the Collateral Agent’s request and at the sole expense of
the New Pledgor, the New Pledgor will promptly and duly execute and deliver any
and all further instruments and documents and take such further action as the
Collateral Agent reasonably deems necessary to effect the purposes of this
Agreement.

 

Section 4.               Binding
Effect.  This Agreement shall be
binding upon the New Pledgor and shall inure to the benefit of the Collateral
Agent and the other Principals and their respective successors and assigns.

 

Section 5.               Governing
Law.  This Agreement and the rights
and duties of the parties hereunder shall, pursuant to New York General
Obligations Law Section 5-1401, be governed by the law of the State of New
York.

 

2

 

Section 6.               JURY
TRIAL WAIVER.  THE NEW PLEDGOR HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHTS TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR
COUNTERCLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER LOAN
DOCUMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY.

 

Section 7.               Miscellaneous.  Delivery of an executed signature page to
this Agreement by facsimile shall be effective as delivery of a manually
executed copy of this Agreement.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
undersigned has caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by its
duly authorized officer as of the date first above written.

 

 

	
   

  	
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  By:

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  

 

3

 

Exhibit B

 

NOTIFICATION OF DISPOSITION OF

COLLATERAL

 

To:          [Name
of debtor, obligor, or other person to which the notification is sent]

 

From:      [Name,
address, and telephone number of secured party]

 

Name of Debtor(s):  [Include only if debtor(s) are not an
addressee]

 

[For a public
disposition:]

 

We
will sell the [describe collateral] to [the highest qualified bidder] in public
as follows:

 

Day and Date:

 

Time:

 

Place:

 

[For a private
disposition:]

 

We
will sell the [describe collateral] privately sometime after [day and date].

 

You
are entitled to an accounting of the unpaid indebtedness secured by the
property that we intend to sell [or lease or license, as applicable] [for a
charge of $      ].  You may request an accounting by calling us
at [telephone number].

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