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Lease and Transponder Service Agreements

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Lease and Transponder Service Agreements
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2020
Leases [Abstract]  
Leases of lessee disclosure Leases
The Company has finance lease agreements with transponder and transmitter network suppliers for the right to transmit its signals in the U.S. and Germany. The Company is also party to a finance lease agreement for data processing hardware and a warehouse.
QVC also leases data processing equipment, facilities, office space and land. These leases are classified as operating leases. Operating lease right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities are recognized based on the present value of the future lease payments using our incremental borrowing rate. Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the balance sheet. Our leases have remaining lease terms of less than 1 year to 14 years, some of which may include the option to extend or terminate the leases.
The components of lease cost for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, were as follows:
Three months ended Six months ended
(in millions) June 30, 2020 June 30, 2019 June 30, 2020 June 30, 2019
Finance lease cost
     Depreciation of leased assets $     10    10   
     Interest on lease liabilities        
Total finance lease cost     14    14   
Operating lease cost 10      20    14   
     Total lease cost $ 17    15    34    28   
The remaining weighted-average lease term and the weighted-average discount rate were as follows:
June 30, 2020
Weighted-average remaining lease term (years):
     Finance leases 8.9
     Operating leases 11.6
Weighted-average discount rate:
     Finance leases 5.1  %
     Operating leases 6.0  %
Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases was as follows:
(in millions) June 30, 2020 December 31, 2019
Operating Leases:
  Operating lease right-of-use assets $ 218    214   
  Accrued liabilities $ 21    28   
  Other long-term liabilities 194    190   
      Total operating lease liabilities $ 215    218   
Finance Leases:
   Property and equipment $ 267    282   
   Accumulated depreciation (123)   (129)  
     Property and equipment, net $ 144    153   
   Current portion of debt and finance lease obligations $ 18    18   
   Long-term portion of debt and finance lease obligations 154    163   
     Total finance lease liabilities $ 172    181   
Supplemental cash flow information related to leases was as follows:
Six months ended
(in millions) June 30, 2020 June 30, 2019
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
     Operating cash flows from operating lease $ 25    12   
     Operating cash flows from finance leases    
     Financing cash flows from finance leases   10   
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations:
      Operating leases 19    72   
      Finance leases $ —    —   
Future payments under noncancelable operating leases and finance leases with initial terms of one year or more as of June 30, 2020 consisted of the following:
(in millions) Finance leases Operating leases Total leases
Remainder of 2020 $ 13    16    29   
2021 25    32    57   
2022 25    28    53   
2023 25    24    49   
2024 23    23    46   
Thereafter 108    183    291   
Total lease payments 219    306    525   
Less: imputed interest (47)   (91)   (138)  
Total lease liabilities $ 172    215    387   
On October 5, 2018, QVC entered into a lease (“ECDC Lease”) for an East Coast distribution center. The 1.7 million square foot rental building is located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and the ECDC Lease has an initial term of 15 years. QVC obtained initial access to a portion of the ECDC Lease during March 2019 and obtained access to the remaining portion during September 2019. In total, QVC recorded a right of use asset of $141 million and an operating lease liability of $131 million relating to the ECDC Lease, with the difference attributable to prepaid rent. QVC is required to pay an initial base rent of $10 million per year, with payments that began in the third quarter of 2019 and increasing to $14 million per year, as well as all real estate taxes and other building operating costs. QVC also has the option to extend the term of the ECDC Lease for up to two consecutive terms of 5 years each and one final term of 4 years.