Charter Communications Inc.

08/26/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 08/26/2026 04:05

Material Agreement (Form 8-K)

ITEM 1.01. ENTRY INTO A MATERIAL DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT.

As previously reported, on August 19, 2026, Charter Communications, Inc. ("Charter") and its subsidiaries completed the transactions (the "Transaction") contemplated by the Transaction Agreement, dated as of May 16, 2025, by and among Charter, Charter Communications Holdings, LLC and Cox Enterprises, Inc. ("Cox Enterprises"), pursuant to which Charter acquired the commercial fiber and managed IT and cloud services businesses of Cox Communications, LLC (formerly known as Cox Communications, Inc., "Cox Communications") and Cox Enterprises contributed the residential cable business of Cox Communications to Charter Communications Operating, LLC ("CCO"). In connection with the closing of the Transaction, Charter and its subsidiaries entered into the following supplemental indentures to add certain subsidiaries of Cox Enterprises and Charter as additional guarantors and grant security interests in collateral.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 18, 1999, as amended and restated as of April 26, 2019 (as amended by Amendment No. 1, dated as of October 24, 2019, as further amended by Amendment No. 2, dated as of May 26, 2022, as further amended by Amendment No. 3, dated as of February 10, 2023, as further amended by Amendment No. 4, dated as of March 23, 2023, as further amended by Amendment No. 5, dated as of December 7, 2023, as further amended by Amendment No. 6, dated as of December 3, 2024, as further amended by Amendment No. 7, dated as of May 6, 2026 and as may be further amended, amended and restated, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the "Charter Credit Agreement"), by and among CCO Holdings, LLC, as holdings, CCO, as borrower, the lenders party thereto and Bank of America, N.A. ("BofA"), as administrative agent, on August 24, 2026, certain Cox entities became guarantors of and granted liens on substantially all of the assets and pledges of equity interest directly owned by them as collateral to secure the obligations under the Charter Credit Agreement by executing, among other things, an assumption agreement with BofA. Such Cox entities have also become guarantors under each of the indentures described below and have granted liens on such assets as collateral to secure the obligations under such indentures. With respect to the Cox Indenture (as defined below), the current guarantors of Charter's secured debt, including the Charter Credit Agreement, the CCO Indenture (as defined below), the TWC Indenture (as defined below) and the TWCE Indenture (as defined below), have become guarantors of the Cox Indenture and have granted liens on such assets that constitute collateral under Charter's secured debt to secure the obligations under the Cox Indenture.

As a result, each series of secured notes across the combined Charter and Cox capital structure benefits from the same collateral and obligors, such that the obligations under the notes issued under the CCO Indenture, the TWC Indenture, the TWCE Indenture and the Cox Indenture and the obligations under the Charter Credit Agreement are guaranteed and secured on a pari passu basis.

CCO Thirtieth Supplemental Indenture.

CCO, Charter Communications Operating Capital Corp. (together with CCO, the "Issuers"), the new guarantors party thereto and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee and collateral agent, entered into a Thirtieth Supplemental Indenture, entered into and dated as of August 24, 2026, to the Indenture, dated as of July 23, 2015, as previously supplemented (the "CCO Indenture"), to, among other things, add certain Cox entities as note guarantors. The foregoing description does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to Exhibit 4.1 hereto.

Cox Twenty-Third Supplemental Indenture.

Cox Communications, the new guarantors party thereto and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee and collateral agent, entered into a Twenty-Third Supplemental Indenture, entered into and dated as of August 24, 2026, to the Indenture, entered into and dated as of June 27, 1995, as previously supplemented (the "Cox Indenture"), to add certain Charter subsidiaries and Cox entities as note guarantors. The foregoing description does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to Exhibit 4.2 hereto. The Cox Indenture, including supplements thereto, is filed as Exhibits 4.7 through 4.19.

TWC Eleventh Supplemental Indenture.

Time Warner Cable, LLC ("TWC"), the new guarantors party thereto and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, entered into an Eleventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 24, 2026, to the Indenture, entered into and dated as of April 9, 2007, as previously supplemented (the "TWC Indenture"), to, among other things, add certain Cox entities as note guarantors. The foregoing description does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to Exhibit 4.3 hereto.

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