New DirecTv Emerges From Combo With Liberty Entertainment
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It’s taken years to unravel the tracking stocks and ownerships stemming from Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA), but the new, more-than-a satellite-company DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) is ready for its debut following shareholder votes combining it with Liberty Entertainment. The fine points of a deal involving John Malone are, as usual, complex but leave him as a key shareholder and chairman of DirecTV—and leave the company, which now includes three regional sports nets, the Game Show Network, and FUN Technologies. (Liberty’s release; DirecTV release.) It’s also more protected from unwanted third-party acquisitions—and in better shape to mesh with the right company, AT&T (NYSE: T) or Verizon (NYSE: VZ), for instance. Full story...
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