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| Related Party Transactions |
In the normal course of business, we enter into transactions with related parties. Our related parties include: Liberty Media Liberty Media has beneficially owned over 50% of our outstanding common stock since January 2013 and has two executives and one of its directors on our board of directors. Gregory B. Maffei, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Media, is the Chairman of our board of directors. On October 9, 2013, we entered into an agreement with Liberty Media to repurchase $500,000 of our common stock from Liberty Media. On April 25, 2014, we completed the final purchase installment under this share repurchase agreement and repurchased $340,000 of our shares of common stock from Liberty Media at a price of $3.66 per share. As there were certain terms in the forward purchase contract that could have caused the obligation to not be fulfilled, the instrument was recorded as a liability and was marked to fair value with $34,485 recorded to Loss on change in value of derivatives within our unaudited consolidated statements of comprehensive income during the nine months ended September 30, 2014. Sirius XM Canada We hold an equity method investment in Sirius XM Canada. We own approximately 47,300 of Sirius XM Canada’s Class A shares on a converted basis, representing an approximate 37% equity interest and an approximate 25% voting interest. We primarily provide programming and content services to Sirius XM Canada and are reimbursed from Sirius XM Canada for certain product development costs, production and distribution of chipset radios, as well as for information technology and streaming support costs. We had the following related party balances associated with Sirius XM Canada:
Our related party current asset balances primarily consist of programming and chipset costs for which we are reimbursed. Our related party long-term asset balances primarily include our investment balance in Sirius XM Canada. Our related party liabilities as of September 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014 included $2,776 for the current portion of deferred revenue and $11,333 and $13,415, respectively, for the long-term portion of deferred revenue recorded as of the Merger date related to agreements with XM Canada, now Sirius XM Canada. These costs are being amortized on a straight line basis through 2020. We recorded the following revenue and other income associated with Sirius XM Canada in our unaudited consolidated statements of comprehensive income:
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