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50. Accordingly, on April 9, 2020, Viamedia notified WOW!, first by phone and then
via email, that Viamedia intended to defer one month’s payment, i.e. the October 2019 revenue
share payments. Viamedia was unequivocal that it was seeking to defer the payment, based on
the belief that it would receive WOW!’s “support and assistance.” Solomon Dec., ¶ 40, Exhibit
D.
51. On April 13, 2020, WOW! responded with what amounts to the exact opposite of
support and assistance.
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WOW! claimed that Viamedia’s deferral of one month’s revenue share
payment was “nonsensical” because, in WOW!’s mind, Viamedia owed WOW! $2,447,310.
Solomon Dec., ¶ 41, Exhibit E.
52. On April 15, 2020, Viamedia’s Chief Revenue Officer David Solomon and Chief
Financial Officer Frank Connolly of Viamedia spoke with Vice President of Advertising Misty
Jensen of WOW! Ms. Jensen sent an email summarizing that conversation and acknowledged that
the $2,447,310 was inflated, i.e. that WOW! had no basis whatsoever to demand that amount.
Solomon Dec., ¶ 42-42, Exhibit F.
53. Even with that corrected information, WOW! refused to confirm that WOW! was
not asserting a material breach or triggering the notice and cure provision in the Agreement.
Instead, WOW! demanded a payment of a different amount of $1,140,027.70, which WOW!
believed to be due by the next day. Id.
54. On April 16, 2020, Viamedia agreed to a call between Mark Lieberman
(Viamedia’s Chief Executive Officer), David Solomon (Viamedia’s Chief Revenue Officer), and
Frank Connolly (Viamedia’s Chief Financial Officer), and Bill Case, WOW!’s Interim Chief
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Notably, in rejecting Viamedia’s suggestion, WOW! used virtually identical language to the language it now
contends to be evidence of Viamedia’s insolvency: “WOW is also suffering hardship and must take steps to protect
its own customers and employees.”
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