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Caution: Satellite debris ahead (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Somewhere over Siberia we've just had our first big satellite collision.How fitting is it that the crash happened amid a battle on Earth to consolidate nearly bankrupt Sirius XM Radio Inc. into one of the two satellite TV providers? The satellites may not have been aligned, but the stars were.Appropriately,...

Posted on February 12, 2009 10:51 AM

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

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