Liberty Media last week lifted its stake in Sirius to 48.1%, inching closer to majority control.
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It's a fitting link-for Malone can do just about whatever he wants with Liberty Media, too.
Last September, it secured a deal with US cable television pioneer John Malone's Liberty Media.
Sirius XM added 0.3%, after Liberty Media said it would soon take control.
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Both Weitz funds have big positions in Berkshire Hathaway, Caesars Entertainment, Comcast and Liberty Media.
Malone, the 71-year-old chairman of Liberty Media, represents the other end of the spectrum.
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It's a fitting link, for Malone can do just about whatever he wants with Liberty Media, too.
He has another 13% in media stocks--Viacom, Time Warner, Clear Channel, Comcast, Reuters, Liberty Media and McGraw-Hill.
These include chronic distractions related to Liberty Media and its fight for control of the company.
It seems he had no desire to lead the company if Liberty Media were to gain control.
Minturn Osborne, president of Power Agent Systems, has one: will Liberty Media Chief Executive John Malone make a play?
Thus Liberty Media was born in March 1991, to hold TCI's content properties.
Coming from behind was Telemundo, which was about to be acquired by content heavyweights Sony Corp. and Liberty Media.
Conversely, although Sirius has stagnated recently, the long-term potential is still there, given the strong support provided by Liberty Media.
You start with Time Warner and work your way through the content companies like Liberty Media, and to Murdoch's News Corp.
Armstrong has talked about adding other kinds of tracking shares but so far has carved out only Liberty Media for separate trading.
Malone and his deputy at Liberty Media, Robert Bennett, got together with Gene Schneider and his son Mark, who runs UPC from Amsterdam.
Leavitt would be surprised if either Sony or Liberty Media would want to sell access to the emerging strength of the Hispanic market.
Liberty Media's CEO, Greg Maffei, said Nov. 12, 2009, that it would be logical to spin out Liberty's stake in Sirius at some stage.
Malone fully exercised his right to trade in TCI shares, reducing his TCI holdings by one-third to get just a 1% stake in Liberty Media.
Liberty Media did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Start with the Atlanta Braves, who are owned by Liberty Media.
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But Viacom, Liberty Media and even Microsoft may fancy the firm.
Liberty Media plans to exclude some assets from the merger, including its Starz movie channel, which will be transferred to a new unit called Liberty Starz.
This has led to speculation that Liberty Media is buying up the rest of the Sirius shares it needs to acquire full control of the company.
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Diller took over and the two uber-moguls crafted an agreement giving Diller the proxy rights to vote Liberty Media's controlling shares until Diller quit or died.
Convincing wine-drinkers is harder than his day job as chairman of the central Europe group for United Pan-Europe Communications, an arm of John Malone's U.S-based Liberty Media.
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