The Liberty Media Corporation is an American media conglomerate. Control is exercised by engineer Dr. John Malone, with a majority of the voting shares. It has been suggested that Media Institution be merged into this article or section. ... John C. Malone is the current chairman of Liberty Media. ...

In May 2006, Liberty shareholders approved the creation of two new tracking stocks:[1]

• Liberty Interactive Group (NASDAQ: LINTA,NASDAQ: LINTB)
• Liberty Capital (NASDAQ: LCAPA, NASDAQ: LCAPB)

NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ...

Liberty Interactive Group

Liberty Interactive Group's subsidiaries include:

• QVC, Inc.
• Provide Commerce

Liberty Interactive Group's interests include: This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

• Expedia, Inc.
• IAC/InterActiveCorp
• OpenTV

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Liberty Capital

Liberty Capital includes:

• 20% interest in News Corporation[2]
• 4.1 percent of Time Warner[3]

Liberty's other private and public assets include News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS, NYSE: NWSa, ASX: NWS, LSE: NCRA) is one of the worlds largest media conglomerates. ... Time Warner Inc. ...

• Starz! including Starz Media
• Encore
• GSN (50% stake with Sony Pictures).

On May 2006, Liberty Media bought IDT Entertainment from IDT Corporation and renamed it Starz Media. Starz is a US pay TV network which features mainly first-run motion pictures. ... Starz Media (formerly IDT Entertainment) is the motion picture, animation, television, and home video division of Starz, LLC, a subsidiary of Liberty Media. ... Encore is a US pay TV network which exclusively features mainly first-run motion pictures. ... The Game Show Network (now known as GSN - The Network for Games) is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite channel dedicated to game shows, reality shows, and interactive television games. ... Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is the television and film production unit of Japan-based corporate giant Sony. ... IDT has been known for its telecom services. ...

History

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It originated as part of TCI, an American cable television group, and acquired by AT&T ('Ma Bell') in 1999 for $54 billion. Image File history File links Current_event_marker. ... TCI may refer to the following: Tele-Communications Inc. ... Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house. ... This article describes the present AT&T Inc. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

It was spun-off from AT&T in the second half of 2001, subsequently spending $5 billion on nine German regional cable networks. Apart from television distribution it holds major interests in other groups. For example it is the largest shareholder in News Corporation (though the founding Murdoch family owns more voting shares), and has a 4 % stake in Time Warner. As of December 2003 it has never paid a dividend. This article is about the year 2001. ... News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS, NYSE: NWSa, ASX: NWS, LSE: NCRA) is one of the worlds largest media conglomerates. ... Rupert Keith Murdoch AC, KCSG, (born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born businessman of Scottish ancestry and a naturalized American citizen, based in New York City, who is a global media executive and is the top shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation. ... Voting shares are shares that give the stockholder the right to vote on matters of corporate policy making as well as who will compose the members of the board of directors. ... Time Warner Inc. ...

In May 2006, Time Warner acquired Liberty Media's 50% stake in Court TV for $735 million.[4] To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

On May 16, 2006, IDT sold its IDT Entertainment division to Liberty Media for "for all of Liberty Media's interests in IDT, $186 million in cash and the assumption of existing indebtedness." IDT Entertainment's assets and Starz Entertainment Group's popular line of premium TV channels will combine to produce content for all distribution platforms. [5] The Starz Entertainment Group (formally the Starz Encore Group) is a wholly-owned television programming subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp. ...

Liberty is in the process of considering asset swaps with News Corp. and Time Warner that would give it control of DirecTV and the Atlanta Braves baseball team. [6] A standard DIRECTV satellite dish with 1 LNB on a roof DirecTV is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service based in El Segundo, California, that transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States. ... Major league affiliations National League (1876–present) East Division (1994–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 3,21,35,41,42,44 Name Atlanta Braves (1966–present) Ballpark Turner Field (1997–present) Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (1966-1996) Milwaukee County Stadium (Milwaukee) (1953-1965) Braves Field (Boston) (1915-1952) Fenway Park...

Governance

Members of the board of Liberty Media are: Robert Bennett, Donne Fisher, Paul Gould, Gregory Maffei, John Malone, David Rapley, LaVoy Robison, and Larry Romrell. There are multiple men named Robert Bennett or Bob Bennett, among them: Robert Bennett, mayor of Melbourne (1861-1862) Robert Earl Bennett, 1960 and 1964 Olympics bronze medalist in swimming Robert Foster Bennett, Senator from Utah (1993 to date) Robert Frederick Bennett, Governor of Kansas (1975-1979) Robert Howard Bennett... John C. Malone is the current chairman of Liberty Media. ...

External links

• Official web site
• Ketupa - Liberty Media Corporation in-depth profile
• Yahoo! - Liberty Media Corporation Company Profile