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Leases
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Leases [Abstract]  
Leases

Note 8: Leases

The Company as a Lessee

The Company has operating leases for office spaces, tower facilities, antenna sites, studios and other real estate properties and equipment. The operating leases have remaining lease terms of one month to 89 years, some of which may include options to extend the leases from two years to 99 years, and some of which may include options to terminate the leases within one year. Lease contracts that the Company has executed but which have not yet commenced as of March 31, 2025 were not material.

Supplemental balance sheet information related to operating leases was as follows ($ in millions):

 

 

Balance Sheet Classification

 

March 31, 2025

 

 

December 31, 2024

 

Operating lease right-of-use assets, net

 

Other noncurrent assets, net

 

$

275

 

 

$

276

 

Current operating lease liabilities

 

Operating lease liabilities

 

$

41

 

 

$

37

 

Noncurrent operating lease liabilities

 

Other noncurrent liabilities

 

$

254

 

 

$

253

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted Average Remaining Lease Term of Operating leases

 

8 years

 

 

8 years

 

Weighted Average Discount Rate of Operating leases

 

 

4.8

%

 

 

4.9

%

 

Operating lease expense for the three months ended March 31, 2025 was $16 million, of which $7 million and $9 million were included in Direct operating and Selling, general and administrative expenses, respectively, excluding depreciation and amortization, in the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Operating lease expense for the three months ended March 31, 2024 was $16 million, of which $7 million and $9 million were included in Direct operating and Selling, general and administrative expenses, respectively, excluding depreciation and amortization, in the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Cash paid for operating leases included in the operating cash flows was $15 million and $16 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable leases as of March 31, 2025 were as follows (in millions):

 

 

Operating Leases

 

Remainder of 2025

 

$

41

 

2026

 

 

50

 

2027

 

 

45

 

2028

 

 

41

 

2029

 

 

39

 

2030

 

 

36

 

Thereafter

 

 

109

 

   Total future minimum lease payments

 

 

361

 

Less: imputed interest

 

 

(66

)

Total

 

$

295