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	Liberty Media to purchase QVC from Comcast - July 4, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liberty, owner of 42 percent of the electronic shopping service that reaches more than 85 million U.S. homes, told Comcast in March that it wanted to end the joint ownership and negotiate a sale to one party or the other.
		Liberty was among recent bidders for the Vivendi assets, along with General Electric Co.’s NBC, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., Viacom Inc. and investors led by tycoon Edgar Bronfman Jr.
		The QVC purchase price will be paid in cash, Liberty Media stock and other debt, with the amounts of each to be determined over the next several weeks, and the transaction was expected to close by the end of the year, the companies said.
	www.dailyitem.com /archive/2003/0704/biz/stories/01biz.htm (615 words)

	Liberty Media -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Liberty Media Corporation is an American (Click link for more info and facts about media conglomerate) media conglomerate.
		It originated as part of (Click link for more info and facts about TCI) TCI, the US (Television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver) cable television group founded in the mid 1950s and acquired by (Click link for more info and facts about AT&T) AT&T ('Ma Bell') in 1999 for $54 billion.
		Control is exercised by engineer Dr. (Click link for more info and facts about John Malone) John Malone (described by (Vice president of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)) Al Gore as the "Darth Vader of cable"), with a majority of the voting shares.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/liberty_media.htm (226 words)

	New Obstacle To Liberty Media's Plans - Broadband Week 02/14/2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liberty Media's plan to become Germany's dominant cable TV operator hit a new hurdle Thursday when antitrust regulators warned they may prevent the U.S. company from acquiring "last-mile" connections held by German operator TeleColumbus.
		Liberty Media wants to purchase the TeleColumbus network from Deutsche Bank to complement a 5.5 billion euro (dlrs 4.9 billion) deal under which it would buy six regional cable TV networks from debt-laden Deutsche Telekom, the former German phone monopoly.
		Liberty's deadline to reply to the Cartel Office's warning in the Deutsche Telekom deal expires Friday, and the regulator has until Feb. 28 to make a decision.
	www.broadbandweek.com /news/020211/020214_cable_liberty.htm (327 words)

	Liberty Media is Kupinski's top stock pick - Jan. 24, 2002
		Liberty's biggest play on the table currently is its bid to acquire six regional cable TV networks for an estimated $4.9 billion from Deutsche Telecom, and cable-network operator TeleColumbus from Deutsche Bank.
		Finally, Liberty is a play on the growth of the German cable market, as John Malone, its chairman, looks to be a consolidator in the second-largest cable market outside of the U.S. Liberty is not a typical company, and not really a true operating company.
		Liberty Media should be a core holding for any media industry investor, and is a diversified way to play the sector.
	money.cnn.com /2002/01/24/investing/favorite_stock (784 words)

	Boston.com / Business / Liberty Media pulls out of Vivendi bidding
		The move by Colorado-based Liberty leaves only two serious players in the bidding, sources have said, and comes one day before Vivendi's board was scheduled to narrow the list of contenders for the US-based movie studio, cable TV, and theme park operations for which Vivendi is seeking $14 billion.
		Liberty's withdrawal leaves General Electric Co.'s NBC TV network and an investor group led by Vivendi vice chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr.
		Liberty, which owns a stake in Vivendi, becomes the second high-profile suitor for VUE to balk at the asking price.
	www.boston.com /business/globe/articles/2003/08/26/liberty_media_pulls_out_of_vivendi_bidding (345 words)

	CNN.com - Liberty Media buys Deutsche Telekom units - Jun. 21, 2001
		Liberty Media (LMG.A: Research, Estimates), which is due to be spun off from U.S. telecom service provider ATandT (T: Research, Estimates) in August, will gain access to the world's second largest TV market after the United States.
		Liberty Media, acquired by ATandT as part of its purchase of cable operator Tele-Communications Inc. in 1999, is run by former TCI chairman John Malone.
		Liberty Media class A tracking stock closed up 59 cents to $16.65 in Wednesday trading, while its class B shares gained 57 cents to $17.60.
	europe.cnn.com /2001/BUSINESS/06/21/deutsche.liberty/index.html (608 words)

	FindProfit.com Profitmap: Liberty Media Blossoms
		Liberty Media is an unusual animal that's made up of a mishmash of media investments and operating assets run by the legendary dealmaker and once and future cable baron, John Malone.
		While Liberty's stock at $9.50 has climbed nearly 50% from its lows, it's still far from its 52-week high of $15.00 and year 2000 high that was in excess of $25 per share.
		Liberty is a timely and attractive investment idea, and look for us to add it to the Tiger Woods model portfolio in the coming days.
	www.findprofit.com /archive/1161.html (563 words)

	ABC 7 News - Trial Set in Klesch-Liberty Media Dispute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liberty Media says it discussed the possibility of an acquisition with Klesch but did not have a legal obligation to complete it.
		Klesch said it provided Liberty Media with proprietary information on the condition that it would not use the data for two years unless it was in connection with the companies' pursuit.
		Liberty Media said it learned through its own research it needed to acquire more than 75 percent of the networks to obtain the control it wanted.
	www.wjla.com /news/stories/0804/169386.html (969 words)

	Liberty Media Corporation Fourth Quarter Earnings Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liberty expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement contained herein to reflect any change in Liberty's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
		Liberty is not aware, however, of any errors in or possible misstatements of the financial information provided to it by DCI that would have a material effect on Liberty's consolidated financial statements.
		Liberty believes operating cash flow is an important indicator of the operational strength and performance of its businesses, including the ability to service debt and fund capital expenditures.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/03-14-2005/0003194574&EDATE= (3142 words)

	Jury in Klesch Litigation Returns Verdict in Favor of Liberty Media
		Liberty Media Corporation, a civil case pending in the U.S. District Court in Denver, today delivered a verdict on all of Klesch's claims in favor of Liberty Media.
		In rendering that decision, the jury found, among other things, that Liberty Media had no liability with respect to Klesch's claims that Liberty Media had breached various alleged contractual and fiduciary obligations in connection with its unsuccessful effort in 2001 to acquire Deutsche Telekom's cable network in six German regions.
		Liberty Media Corporation (NYSE: L, LMC.B) is a holding company owning interest in a broad range of electronic retailing, media, communications and entertainment business classified in three groups; Interactive, Networks and Tech/Ventures.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-28-2004/0002260771&EDATE= (260 words)

	Liberty Media Plans Spinoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liberty Media (L:NYSE - news - research) intends to spin off its interests in Ascent Media Group and Discovery Communications, as the media company's chairman John Malone continues his maneuvering.
		DHC will be comprised of Liberty Media's 100% ownership interest in Ascent Media as well as its 50% ownership interest in Discovery, best known for the Discovery Channel.
		Holders of Liberty Media series A and B common stock will receive 0.05 of a share of the new DHC common stock for each share of Liberty Media common stock held by them as of the record date -- which has not been set.
	www.thestreet.com /_tsclsii/stocks/media/10213179.html (256 words)

	Cable World: Liberty Media Should Ride Waves of Media Change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liberty always surfs for value, but freed of the sluggish AT&T brand from in front of its name, the waves will likely be much larger.
		The media celebration forecast here has been waiting for an historic coincidence of three necessary elements: the development of enough technology, government approval of companies with significant scale, and proper alignment of the financial planets.
		As for Liberty Media, it first appeared as a separate public company Mar. 21, '91, at $1.40/share, adjusted for three splits and a dividend.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0DIZ/is_28_13/ai_76626585 (637 words)

	Liberty Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liberty Media Corporation is an American media conglomerate.
		It originated as part of TCI the cable television group founded in the mid 1950s acquired by ATandT ('Ma Bell') in 1999 for $54 billion.
		Control is exercised by engineer Dr. John (described by Al Gore as the "Darth Vader of cable") a majority of the voting shares.
	www.freeglossary.com /Liberty_Media (185 words)

	Liberty-Media-Spinoff, 1st Writethru,.. #####..REUSE STORY ID..!!!!...#### (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Under the transaction, expected to close in the spring, Liberty will transfer the two assets into a new publicly traded group called Discovery Holding Co. Liberty Media shareholders will receive 0.05 share of the new company for each series A and B share they own.
		Liberty has been in talks with Cox Communications and Advance/Newhouse on including their stakes in the spin-off, Liberty executives said on a conference call Tuesday.
		Class A shares of Liberty rose 27 cents, or 2.6 per cent, to close at $10.50 on the New York Stock Exchange.
	www.cp.org /english/online/full/media/050315/X031530AU.html (415 words)

	Liberty Media Forms Interactive Venture
		Liberty will contribute to Liberty Interactive its 86% interest in TCI Music (Nasdaq: TUNE/TUNEP) and Liberty's agreement with TCI regarding development of interactive video services, Liberty also will make available appropriate financing and other resources as needed for the new entity.
		Liberty Interactive intends to work cooperatively with the cable industry to create content that increases the functionality and appeal of the next generation set top box.
		Liberty Media Group Series A and B Common Stock are series of Tele-Communications, Inc. Common Stock and are traded on the National Tier of the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbols LBTYA and LBTYB, respectively.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-16-1999/0000910826&EDATE= (536 words)

	AT&T News Release, 2001-08-10, AT&T Completes Split Off of Liberty Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liberty Media Corporation’s Series A common stock and Series B common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols “LMC.A” and “LMC.B,” respectively.
		ATandT said that the split off is intended to better enable Liberty Media to raise capital on its own and use its stock as currency in acquiring, merging or partnering with other companies and to help the public markets to better value the company.
		As part of the redemption, shares of Liberty Media Corporation’s common stock will be issued only to former holders of Liberty Media Group tracking stock in exchange for their shares of Liberty Media Group tracking stock.
	www.att.com /press/item/0%2C1354%2C3942%2C00.html (576 words)

	Astrolink Attracts Half Billion Liberty Ticket
		Liberty Media Group said Monday it will invest US$425 million in the Astrolink wireless broadband venture scheduled to become the first global, satellite-based broadband service provider in 2003, with the start of service in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East, immediately followed by Asia.
		Giving effect to Liberty's investment, Astrolink's ownership will be as follows: Liberty Media 31.6 percent; Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications 31.2 percent; Telespazio 18.6 percent; and TRW 18.6 percent.
		Liberty Media holds interests in a broad range of video programming, communications, technology, and Internet businesses in the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia.
	www.spacer.com /news/astrolink-99b.html (525 words)

	CNN.com - Liberty Media to buy Casema - August 1, 2002
		Liberty (L), which is already the owner of the Netherlands' largest cable network operator, United Pan-Europe Communications (UPCOY) (UPC), recently ended a bid to control Britain's Telewest (TWT) by terminating its offer to buy up the company's bonds.
		A Liberty spokeswoman told Reuters that Liberty had not yet begun talks with the NMa.
		Liberty said it expected to finance the deal with cash and new bank financing and would likely close in the fourth quarter.
	www.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/08/01/liberty.francetel/index.html (210 words)

	McKenzie's Profile of Liberty Media Corp
		Liberty was a subsidiary of ATandT until 2001 when it spun off Liberty.
		Liberty is planning on separating its international assets into a new company over the next couple of years (Hoovers).
		Liberty is my far a smaller company but it is coming up with new innovations and ideas that will carry them into the future.
	www.bsu.edu /web/MPSMOUTHER/profile.html (718 words)

	Liberty Media Article Archives by KeepMedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liberty Media Corp. said last Monday that it had terminated a forward sale of about 19 million voting shares of News Corp., a deal that one analyst believes is an effort to further simplify the programming giant's complicated structure.
		Liberty Media Corp. chairman John Malone and News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch have joined the bidding for Flextech Television, the programming arm of United Kingdom cable operator Telewest Global Inc.
		As media congloms split up and slim down, John Malone may be the first out of the gate to create a separate public company.
	www.topix.net /com/l/keepmedia (659 words)

	USATODAY.com - Liberty Media to split global, U.S. operations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Seeking to simplify its corporate structure, Liberty Media (L) plans to spin off its international cable TV holdings into a new company dubbed Liberty Media International (LMI).
		The announcement of the $9 billion spinoff fueled speculation that Chairman John Malone is preparing to sell parts of the company to another media giant, such as Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWS) Malone embraced the possibility of deals with News Corp. in a conference call with analysts Monday.
		Also Monday, Liberty reported a fourth-quarter loss of $931 million, or 32 cents a share, partly due to write-downs of assets such as the Starz Encore cable networks.
	www.usatoday.com /money/media/2004-03-15-liberty_x.htm (500 words)

	Liberty Looks to AOL Holdings to Fuel DirecTV Bid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liberty Media announced late yesterday it intends to raise up to $1.75 bil.
		Liberty management has publicly said it does not see its AOL stake as a core asset so some sort of valuation event for the strategy is likely.
		Liberty announced last month that it was setting off the process for valuing QVC.
	www.kagan.com /archive/kagan/2003/03/21/20030321liberty.shtml (243 words)

	Liberty Media strengthens international focus
		Liberty joined with Klesch & Co. to buy 55% of six of Deutsche Telekom 's cable TV businesses, giving them control of half of Germany's 20 million cable subscribers, in a deal estimated to be worth $2.6 billion.
		Liberty is expected to blend the UPC programming capabilities with the Deutsche Telekom properties as a way to encourage Germans to pay more for extra cable channels, phone service and interactive online services such as e-mail and shopping.
		Brumfield said it was difficult to determine how the investments would affect Liberty's financial outlook, although her general prognosis was favorable.
	telephonyonline.com /news/telecom_liberty_media_strengthens/index.html (539 words)

	Finance in the News: AT&T Frees Liberty Media
		The spinoff will be accomplished by exchanging the current Liberty Media class A and class B tracking stock for asset-based common stock class A and class B shares in what will become a publicly traded firm.
		Currently Liberty Media Corp. is a tracking stock of AT&T from the acquisition by AT&T of Tele-Communications Inc. in 1999.
		Liberty Media was allowed complete autonomy from AT&T even in pursuing business counter to AT&T's operations.
	www.swlearning.com /finance/finance_news/att_frees_liberty.html (235 words)

	FT.com / By industry / Media & internet - Malone considers splitting Liberty Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Malone, chairman and controlling shareholder of Liberty Media, has raised the prospect of splitting the US cable and media investment group in two as part of a far-reaching ?simplification?
		The move follows Liberty Media's decision last autumn to increase its voting stake in News Corp, the global media group led by Rupert Murdoch, to 18 per cent.
		A split could separate Liberty's operating cable TV assets such as QVC, Starz Encore and a near 50 per cent stake in the Discovery network into a new operating business, which might also include some channel assets from News Corp.
	news.ft.com /cms/s/116a75a4-6a57-11d9-858c-00000e2511c8.html (132 words)

	Home / Headlines / Did Israeli General Moshe Dayan Order the Attack on the USS Liberty? - Media Monitors Network (MMN) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Liberty was one of the most sophisticated electronic intelligence ships in the world at the time it was murderously attacked.
		Cristol has acknowledged that the Israelis had properly identified the Liberty on the morning of the attack, but he alleges that “an error cycle” kicked in leading to its marking on the plotting table in Tel Aviv to be moved.
		Keep in mind that the Liberty had been under constant surveillance for over two days and was subject to at least 12 over flights by the Israelis and “six hours of close surveillance.” They knew it was physically incapable of such action and only had machine guns on it for its defense.
	usa.mediamonitors.net /content/view/full/3725 (1341 words)

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