Yes, the alchemy is foggy, but the lesson is clear: Bet on John Malone.
Murdoch is poised to trade his stake in Directv to yet another media mogul, John Malone.
In other words, John Malone can sail off into the sunset, with his Liberty intact.
John Malone made many shareholders rich, but he made himself the richest of all.
Last September, it secured a deal with US cable television pioneer John Malone's Liberty Media.
At one time John Malone controlled cable lines in Sweden, Norway and others in Malta and Israel.
One example is Liberty Global, the international arm of John Malone's media empire.
Minturn Osborne, president of Power Agent Systems, has one: will Liberty Media Chief Executive John Malone make a play?
TCI, a system run as a sideline by Mr Hindery and controlled by John Malone, a famously tough strong-arm.
John Malone who controls Liberty loves nothing more than tax loss carry forwards.
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He might also like to be CEO again completely out of the shadow of a John Malone or Larry Ellison at Oracle (ORCL).
In his spare time John Malone pilots a 24-meter-long yacht, Liberty, outfitted with comforts and technology to let him do whatever he wants.
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.
Their work and innovations make the world more informed and more efficient (Sergey Brin and Larry Page), more connected (Mark Zuckerberg), and more thoroughly entertained (John Malone).
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If John Malone likes books, he should love video games.
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Ascent Media, which provided content and creative services to major motion picture studios, independent producers, and broadcast networks, is 30% owned by Liberty Media Chairman and CEO John Malone.
He's selling chunks of Priceline to Paul Allen, John Malone and Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, and investing the proceeds in a Priceline-like venture that sells groceries and gasoline online.
I've been observing John Malone--owner of 2.34 million Liberty shares--in his various entities for more than 30 years now and I've never known Malone to walk away from significant tax benefits.
For years, whenever the cable guy was late for an installation, John Malone took his share of the blame-he was, after all, running the biggest cable operator in the U.S. No more.
The uncertainty of succession at News Corp, some people believe, is part of the reason why John Malone, boss of Liberty Media, decided to buy more voting shares in the company last year.
But Moses had already signed away 80% of the Web site to two strategic partners--John Malone's Liberty Media, which helped launch the site in 1996, and FHC Health Systems, a behavioral health services provider.
Along the way he outwitted Rupert Murdoch and John Malone for control of TV Guide Inc. and forced or coaxed the giants Microsoft, Motorola and AOL into licensing deals, using his patents as weapons.
The sale of Directv to John Malone gives the family effective control at 38% of News Corp. and clears the way for James, now running the European satellite venture, BSkyB, to step in one day.
John Malone yanked Starz programming.
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In a very public battle with Liberty Media's (nasdaq: LCAPA - news - people ) John Malone, a part owner of IAC whose ownership would be diluted by the new voting structure of the company, Diller called Malone "insane" and Malone brought Diller to court trying to get him thrown off the board.
The new collection is comprised of nine different pairs of socks in various team colors, featuring iconic photos of 10 basketball greats: Larry Bird, Julius Erving, Patrick Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon, Dennis Rodman, Kenny Smith, Bill Walton, James Worthy, and one pair that features both John Sockman Stockton and Karl Malone.
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