| |
|
| Description |
12/31/2009 |
12/31/2008 |
01/01/2008 |
| Related parties |
|
|
|
| Net Brasil S.A. |
60,903 |
87,669 |
72,166 |
| Globosat Programadora Ltda. |
8,796 |
10,463 |
6,389 |
|
69,699 |
98,132 |
78,555 |
| Third parties |
54,903 |
50,287 |
43,040 |
| |
|
|
|
|
124,602 |
148,419 |
121,595 |
The table below shows programming and related costs incurred:
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Net Brasil S.A., a related party, serves as the agent and negotiates with producers and audiovisual programming suppliers for the acquisition of Brazilian content in its own name. The contract establishes that all rights and obligations provided for in the acquisition of Brazilian program content that have been agreed upon between Net Brasil S.A. and the respective programming suppliers continue in full force until the end of their term of validity on November 2015. Additionally, the contracts for the acquisition of existing international program content are negotiated by the Company directly and remain valid until November 2015.
The Company has obtained non exclusive rights from Brasil Distribution LLC to transmit HBO channel programming services throughout Brazil, on both analog (Basic) and
digital (Premium) networks. These agreements are valid until January 31, 2010, and May 31, 2011, respectively, and the price level will be annually restated based on the IGP-M price index.