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...From a December press release: Liberty Media Corporation (“Liberty Media” or “Liberty”) (Nasdaq: LSXMA, LSXMB, LSXMK, FWONA, FWONK, LLYVA, LLYVK) and Sirius XM Holdings Inc....
...Now it is targeting Pandora’s music streaming via Sirius XM. Such deals appear designed to go toe to toe with on-demand music platforms....
...Netflix is taking a step into the world of audio entertainment, with a promotional channel on Sirius XM radio to showcase its growing roster of comedians....
...unique opportunity for SiriusXM to create value for its stockholders by investing in the leader in the ad-supported digital radio business, a space where SiriusXM does not play today,” said Jim Meyer, Sirius...
...XM satellite radio, through a strategy of control and influence rather than full ownership....
...Holders of those shares will receive new shares in Liberty Braves (owner of the Atlanta Braves baseball team), Liberty Sirius (owner of satellite radio company Sirius XM) and Liberty Media (the holding company...
Services such as Spotify now account for 27% of all US music revenues
...His largest shareholdings include AIG, Actavis, Citigroup, Navient and Sirius XM, according to most recent regulatory disclosures....
...Shareholders in the satellite radio provider Sirius XM have had a grand five years. Now they must decide if they want to diversify into baseball, bookstores, concerts and cable TV....
...John Malone’s Liberty Media, which has been strengthening its hold over Sirius XM since the depths of the financial crisis, on Friday proposed to make the satellite radio broadcaster a wholly owned subsidiary...
...In January, Liberty proposed to make Sirius XM a wholly owned subsidiary to give it more ammunition in its push to consolidate the cable industry....
...Liberty Media advanced after the company said it had pulled its bid for full control of Sirius XM and would split its media holding company into two separate tracking stocks....
...Liberty Media, which is focused on US media companies, has in the past few years spun off the Starz cable channel, taken control of Sirius XM satellite radio and acquired a 27 per cent of Charter Communications...
...Incumbents such as Clear Channel, Sirius XM and Global Radio have largely survived the rise of digital focused start-ups such as Spotify, Deezer and Pandora....
...XM, the satellite radio group, and Virgin Media, the UK cable TV provider....
...Sirius XM, the home of Howard Stern, is already a feature in almost 25m subscribers’ dashboards....
...Yet a string of recent deals, in which Liberty Media spun off the Starz channel, took control of Sirius XM satellite radio, built a stake in Barnes & Noble and returned to cable distribution by buying 27...
...Liberty gradually took a majority stake in Sirius XM, but Mr Maffei said this reflected the unusual circumstances of its investment, when it rescued the satellite radio company during the 2009 financial...
...An investment by the Denver group behind QVC and Sirius XM would mark a return to the US cable sector for Mr Malone, who turned TCI into the US’s largest cable company by revenues before selling it to AT...
...But the Liberty Global founder has also emerged profitably from partnerships with Barry Diller’s IAC and Mel Karmazin’s Sirius XM in a series of opportunistic deals....
...In 2008, he presided over the merger between Sirius and XM Satellite Radio, which gave the combined companies an enterprise value of $13bn....
...The FCC’s five commissioners meeting in Washington unanimously approved a compromise proposal submitted by AT&T and Sirius XM Radio earlier this year that protects the satellite radio service by instituting...
...In June, AT&T and Sirius XM, the US satellite radio operator, filed a joint proposal with the FCC that the two companies argue would enable the spectrum to be used for mobile internet services while protecting...
...Liberty Media, John Malone’s holding company, plans to spin off its Starz entertainment company, giving Liberty more firepower in its battle for Sirius XM, the satellite radio company....
...Sirius XM is fending off an attempt by Liberty Media to seize control of the satellite radio broadcaster....
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