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Dish Network, EchoStar and Ergen's options (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Dish Network Corp.'s (NASDAQ:DISH) first-quarter gains weren't enough to boost EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ:SATS). The companies are both owned by Charles Ergen, who in December 2007 split the businesses in two. Despite losing subscribers in the first quarter of 2009, Dish Network posted a 21% jump in profit for the period...

Posted on May 11, 2009 3:43 PM

Liberty Entertainment: Why track when you can spin? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Think three tracking stocks are a little much for a single parent company? Then you and John Malone (pictured) have something in common. Liberty Media Corp. said Wednesday that it will split off Liberty Entertainment Group, one of its three trackers, to increase the company's maneuverability and strengthen its stock...

Posted on September 4, 2008 8:34 AM

The big swap (from Corporate Dealmaker)

News Corp. and Liberty come up with a structure to spin off DirecTV in the most tax-advantaged way possible.

Posted on March 12, 2008 10:31 AM

As court fight with Malone looms, Diller shakes up his deal team (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Just a couple of weeks after unveiling a spinoff plan that infuriated major shareholder John Malone and set off a battle for control of IAC/InterActiveCorp, IAC's Barry Diller is reorganizing the M&A team at the New York media shop. Senior VP for business strategy Kimberly Gorsuch-Bradbury will "work on specific...

Posted on February 8, 2008 9:30 AM

Deconstructing the Diller-Malone donnybrook (from Corporate Dealmaker)

For good reason, much of the coverage of the court battle between John Malone's Liberty Media Corp. and Barry Diller of  IAC/InteractiveCorp has focused on the outsize personalities involved and the bitterness of the dispute between the two erstwhile allies. But this is also a case of two hyper-clever corporate...

Posted on January 30, 2008 9:46 AM