Posts for Ticker ‘LCAPB’

DIRECTV & Liberty Media: Complicating An Enigma (DTV, LINTA, LINTB, LMDIA, LMDIB, LCAPA, LCAPB)

DIRECTV Group, Inc. (NYSE: DTV) has announced that it is going to combine with Liberty Entertainment, Inc., and then the company will be split off from Liberty Media.  This supposedly puts the control of DIRECTV in the hands of the shareholders.  While Liberty’s structure was complicated before, this “simpler” structure is one which may also leave shareholders scratching their heads.
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Posted on: May 4, 2009 – 7:48 am in Entertainment, Media, Mergers and Buy Outs, Satellite, , , , , , ,

Sirius XM Holders Get To Live Longer (SIRI, LINTA, LINTB, LCAPA, LCAPB, LMDIA)

sirius-logoSirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) and Liberty Media Corporation (NASDAQ: LINTA, LINTB, LCAPA, LCAPB, LMDIA) have announced the closing of the second and final phase of the John Malone rescue package.

Under terms of the deal,  Malone’s Liberty will invest in Sirius XM.  The satellite radio provider and its lenders have also agreed to extend its outstanding loans which are due in May.
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Posted on: March 6, 2009 – 1:09 pm in Media, Mergers and Buy Outs, Satellite, , , , , ,

Is Liberty Exiting IAC/InteractiveCorp Entirely? (IACI, LINTA, LINTB, LMDIB, LCAPA, LCAPB)

Money_stack_pic_3John Malone and Barry Diller had their full round of the boxing match last year.  But now it seems another fight may be under way.  Liberty Media Corp. has been unloading shares of IAC/InteractiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI). There have been steady reports and filings over the last week (and even in prior weeks) showingthat Liberty was unloading those shares. But a new filing shows that sales are continuing into 2009, and you have to wonder if Liberty is on its way to just calling it a day.

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Posted on: January 6, 2009 – 3:08 pm in Insider Activity, Internet, Media, , , , , ,