SBG Announces Proposed Private Placement Offer of Sr. Unsecured Notes
03.18.2013
News Release
Contact: David Amy, EVP & CFO
Lucy Rutishauser, VP Corporate Finance & Treasurer
(410) 568-1500
Sinclair Announces Proposed Private Offering of Senior Unsecured Notes of Sinclair Television Group
BALTIMORE (March 18, 2013) Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. ( Sinclair or the Company ) (Nasdaq: SBGI) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sinclair Television Group, Inc. ( STG ), intends to offer, subject to market conditions and other factors, $600.0 million aggregate principal amount of Senior Unsecured Notes (the Notes ). The Notes are expected to mature in 2021 and to be guaranteed by Sinclair and certain of Sinclair s subsidiaries.
The net proceeds from the private placement of Notes are intended to pay down outstanding indebtedness under STG s bank credit facility. This private placement of Notes is conditioned on customary closing conditions.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the Notes, nor shall there be any offer or sale of the Notes in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
The Notes will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act ) or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements. Accordingly, the Notes are being offered and sold only (a) to qualified institutional buyers (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) and (b) outside the United States, to non-U.S. persons in compliance with Regulation S under the Securities Act.
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., one of the largest and most diversified television broadcasting companies, currently owns and operates, programs or provides sales services to 112 television stations in 61 markets, after pending transactions. Sinclair’s television group reaches approximately 30% of U.S. television households and includes FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC, MNT, CW and an Azetca affiliate. The Company regularly uses its website as a key source of Company information and can be accessed at www.sbgi.net.
Forward-Looking Statements:
The matters discussed in this press release include forward-looking statements regarding, among other things, future operating results. When used, the words outlook, intends to, believes, anticipates, expects, achieves, and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements and information. Such forward-looking information is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results in the future could differ materially and adversely from those set forth in the forward-looking information as a result of various important factors, including and in addition to the assumptions set forth therein, but not limited to, STG s ability to consummate the offering of the Notes, obtain the necessary approvals to close on pending acquisitions, the impact of changes in national and regional economies, the volatility in the U.S. and global economies and financial credit markets which impact our ability to forecast or refinance our indebtedness as its comes due, successful execution of outsourcing agreements, pricing and demand fluctuations in local and national advertising, volatility in programming costs, the market acceptance of new programming, the CW Television and MyNetworkTV programming, our news share strategy, our local sales initiatives, the execution of retransmission consent agreements, our ability to identify and consummate investments in attractive non-television assets and to achieve anticipated returns on those investments once consummated, and any risk factors set forth in the Company s recent reports on Form 8-K, Form 10-Q and/or Form 10-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. There can be no assurance that the assumptions and other factors referred to will occur. The Company undertakes no obligation to update such forward-looking information in the future except as required by law.
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