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  1. [verwijderd] 15 september 2006 14:21
    Article Last Updated: 09/15/2006 02:09:43 AM MDT

    business
    Liberty may gain DirecTV
    Chairman possibly eyeing swap for News Corp. stake
    By Kimberly S. Johnson
    Denver Post Staff Writer




    Satellite city | The Denver metro area would be home to the nation's two satellite-television giants if Liberty Media gains control of DirecTV.


    News Corp. may be in talks to transfer control of the nation's largest satellite-TV provider to Douglas County-based Liberty Media Corp.

    El Segundo, Calif.-based DirecTV could possibly be exchanged for Liberty's 19 percent voting stake in New York-based News Corp., according to a CNBC report Thursday.

    If such a scenario played itself out, the nation's two biggest satellite-television companies would be controlled out of Douglas County. EchoStar Communications, which operates the Dish Network, also has its headquarters in the suburb south of Denver.

    DirecTV has more than 15 million subscribers, and EchoStar has 12.3 million.

    News Corp. spokesman Robert Mercer said the company "doesn't comment on speculation."

    Liberty Media, which controls premium movie channel Starz and shopping network QVC, declined to comment.

    Liberty and News Corp. have been trying for months to broker a tax-efficient deal that would relinquish some of Liberty chairman John Malone's control at News Corp.

    Rupert Murdoch is reportedly down on his U.S. asset, according to the CNBC report.

    "Rupert saying he's not happy with DirecTV is very telling and maybe is important, long term, to the status of DirecTV," said Jimmy Schaeffler, senior multichannel analyst for The Carmel Group.

    Liberty chief executive Greg Maffei and News Corp. president Peter Chernin were both at a Merrill Lynch media conference in Pasadena, Calif., this week, and have been telling investors that talks between the two companies have been positive, according to the CNBC report.

    News Corp. has a majority 38.3 percent stake in DirecTV valued at about $9 billion. Liberty's stake in News Corp. is valued at $11.2 billion.

    "This would seem to make a lot of sense. Maybe Liberty would transfer a large percent, but not all, of their stock over to DirecTV but still keep an interest in News Corp.," Schaeffler said. "This would take some stress off of News Corp."

    As Liberty's voting power in News Corp. grew from 14 percent to 19 percent in late 2004, fear of a Malone takeover prompted Murdoch to adopt a defensive poison-pill strategy. The poison pill allows the Murdoch family or shareholders other than Malone to acquire News Corp. shares at a discount if someone




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    other than the Murdochs acquire more than 15 percent of News Corp. stock.
    The speculation about offering up DirecTV to Liberty comes weeks before News Corp. shareholders are expected to vote on an extension of the poison pill at an October annual meeting.

    Malone has praised News Corp. and its stock in the past, calling it a "well-run" company.

    DirecTV is an important asset in the News Corp. empire, said Bob Scherman, editor of Satellite Business News, a trade publication. News Corp. also owns Internet social-networking site MySpace and 20th Century Fox.

    "The only way News Corp. would give up DirecTV is to resolve the Liberty situation," he said. "The only thing more important is maintaining control (of News Corp.) for (the Murdoch) family."

    EchoStar and DirecTV were rumored to be considering a merger earlier this summer.

    On Thursday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said any merger attempt by DirecTV and EchoStar is likely to meet regulatory resistance. He said there is too little competition in the pay-TV industry to green-light a possible merger.

    Martin said video offerings from telecommunications companies such as Verizon have yet to offer enough competition to make consolidation in the satellite industry doable from an antitrust perspective.

    Liberty also is in talks with Time Warner Inc. about receiving assets, such as the Atlanta Braves, in exchange for its 4 percent, or $2.7 billion, stake in that company.

    Staff writer Kimberly S. Johnson can be reached at 303-954-1088 or kjohnson@denverpost.com.

  2. [verwijderd] 15 september 2006 17:52
    het zou een grote opsteker zijn als liberty Media,de controle krijgt over Direct TV,de grootste satellieter in de VS.

    de baas van New Corporation,is niet zo tevreden over zijn belang in DirectTV.dat is niet zo vreemd.DirectTV heeft enkele jaren geleden met OpenTV gebroken en sindsdien is het gaan kwakkelen.men ziet dat het bij Dish er wat beter aan toe gaat dankzij de software en applicaties van OpenTV.

    nu blijken Malone en Murdoch,weer eens om de tafel te zitten,nu over DirectTV en ook over wat al langer speelt,het belang van Liberty Media in News Corporation,waar Murdoch zich niet gelukkig bij voelt.de kans is groot dat dit probleem de wereld wordt uitgeholpen wanneer het belang van News Corporation over gaat in handen van Liberty Media.

    dat zou zomaar kunnen betekenen dat OpenTV ,bij 15 miljoen nieuwe klanten hun software en applicaties kan gaan uitrollen.
  3. [verwijderd] 15 september 2006 18:12
    Ligt hier de reden dat de opentv-tjes niet hard mogen stijgen ofwel dat de koers wordt gecontroleerd? Mallone 'krijgt' iets van Murdoch en Murdoch 'krijgt' een belang in Opentv van Malone????? Wie het weet mag het zeggen, maar als die 2 zakelijke vriendjes worden dan kan het ook met Opentv weleens heel hard gaan.
  4. Sanderman 15 september 2006 18:26
    Nee, in mijn ogen kan dat nooit. De regels staan zoiets niet toe. Als er een deal is, móet die openbaar gemaakt worden. Ik neem aan dat de autoriteiten hierop toezien. Helemaal na het moment dat er iets groots naar buiten komt waardoor de koers stijgt. Dan gaan ze zéker na of er voorkennis in het spel in. Denk niet dat deze 2 grote jongens zichzelf hiermee op het spel willen zetten.
  5. [verwijderd] 15 september 2006 18:38
    DirectTV draait op NDS,een dochteronderneming van NewsCorporation.en dat is de concurrent van OpenTV.

    nu las ik enkele maanden terug dat DirectTV plannen had om Dish over te nemen.daar hoor je niets meer over.

    voor de beleggers in OpenTV was dat geen goed bericht.maar nu lijken de zaken omgekeerd.ik denk dat Liberty Media even een fax gestuurd heeft naar News Corporation,met de mededeling, Dish niet te laten over te nemen door Direct TV.

    op dit moment gezien het persbericht hierboven,staan de zaken er anders voor en wordt er onderhandeld over zeggeschap van Liberty Media over DirectTV!
  6. [verwijderd] 15 september 2006 19:12
    er wordt ook op het EBF druk gespeculeerd over dat persbericht dat als muziek in onze oren klinkt.

    het belang van News Corporation in DirectTV wordt mogelijk overgeheveld naar Liberty Media.daaromheen zou er nog wat geschoven kunnen worden ivb met NDS.

  7. [verwijderd] 15 september 2006 19:40
    dat de koers van OpenTV wordt gecontroleerd of gemanipuleerd geloof ik zeker,gezien de blokken van 50 a 100000 stuks deze week.ook vandaag weer en de koers reageert er nauwelijks op.het vreemde is dat je zulke grote blokken niet ziet staan bij de bied en de laat?
  8. [verwijderd] 15 september 2006 20:14
    Weken en zelfs maanden voordat grote deals zijn gesloten zijn er bij verschillende aandelen rare koersontwikkelingen en omzetten waargenomen. Dit heeft onderzoek aangetoond, maar handelen met voorkennis moeten ze dan nog maar bewijzen! Malone en Murdoch zijn slim zat om zelf daar niet direct bij betrokken te zijn, maar tot nu toe heeft niemand nog een duidelijke verklaring kunnen geven van het rare koersverloop (en omzetten) bij opentv. Gisteren bijv. zijn vrij grote transacties vooral uitgevoerd op 3 dollar en iets daarboven, de koers werd vervolgens met enkele honderden aandelen weer naar beneden gebracht, vervolgens weer omhoog en de grootste omzetten wederom op de 3 dollar of iets daarboven. In mijn ogen zijn er partijen die iets met elkaar hebben afgesproken, en de 3 dollar is daar een belangrijk onderdeel van. Gelet op de ontwikkelingen bij opentv van het afgelopen half jaar hadden we allang ergens tussen de 4 en 5 dollar moeten staan, om vandaaruit te wachten op de grote deals (o.a. CC) om daarna eens serieus de weg naar de 10 dollar in te slaan. Maar niets nog dat daarop wijst: blijkbaar moet iedereen wachten rond de 3 dollar. Velen willen best omhoog, maar telkens wordt dat ontmoedigd door enkele grote jongens. We gaan pas echt omhoog als zij (die grote jongens dus) daar klaar voor zijn!@!!!
  9. [verwijderd] 15 september 2006 21:23
    News Corp. May Swap DirecTV for Liberty's Shares (Update2)

    By Cecile Daurat

    Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Rupert Murdoch may give control of satellite broadcaster DirecTV Group Inc. to cable television pioneer John Malone in exchange for Malone's $11 billion stake in News Corp.

    Swapping News Corp.'s 38.5 percent of DirecTV for Liberty Media Corp.'s 18 percent holding is one of many options being considered, according to people familiar with the negotiations. The companies have also discussed trading Liberty's shares for some News Corp. television stations, they said.

    ``We believe Liberty has a wide variety of options including an outright swap for an operating asset or a cash-rich transaction featuring a large cash component,'' Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst Jessica Reif Cohen said.

    A transaction would allow Murdoch and Malone, Liberty's chairman, to part company after almost two years of on-again, off-again talks. Murdoch has been seeking ways to wrest back the 18 percent stake Englewood, Colorado-based Liberty Media amassed in his company. An exchange of assets will make the deal tax free for Liberty, a condition of any agreement, the people said.

    News Corp., the third-largest media company, would need to contribute a business owned for at least five years to avoid tax, Reif Cohen said in a note yesterday.

    News Corp. spokesman Andrew Butcher, John Orr, Liberty Media's head of investor relations, and DirecTV spokesman Robert Mercer all declined to comment.

    Shareholder Meeting

    Shares of Liberty Capital tracking stock fell $2.25, or 2.6 percent, to $84.21 at 12:56 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market composite trading. El Segundo, California-based DirecTV fell 56 cents to $18.63 on the New York Stock Exchange. Class A shares of New York-based News Corp. gained 32 cents to $19.18.

    Liberty Chief Executive Officer Greg Maffei said he is optimistic that a deal with News Corp. can be worked out.

    Any potential transaction involving DirecTV would have to include other assets because News Corp. has owned DirecTV for less than five years, Maffei said yesterday at a Merrill Lynch investor conference in Pasadena, California. ``DirecTV would qualify as a good operating asset but would have to be combined with others,'' he said.

    Malone, 65, hired Maffei, 46, last November in part to take charge of unwinding Liberty's stakes in companies including News Corp. and build a group of operating businesses.

    Murdoch, 75, would like to resolve the matter before the company's Oct. 20 shareholder meeting when shareholders vote on an extension to the company's poison pill takeover defense plan, CNBC's David Faber reported yesterday. That would avoid a potentially contentious vote, he said.

    News Corp. installed the poison pill in 2004 to prevent Liberty Media from increasing its stake more than 18 percent.

    `Makes Sense'

    The sale of News Corp.'s controlling interest in DirecTV, worth about $9 billion, would reverse Murdoch's entry into the U.S. satellite-TV business three years ago.

    ``It makes sense for Liberty because it's involved in aspects of multichannel video distribution,'' Steve Mather, a Los Angeles-based analyst with Sanders Morris Harris, said in an interview.

    Liberty Media in May separated its stock into Liberty Interactive, with the QVC channel and its Web shopping business, and Liberty Capital, with investments including the Starz Entertainment channels.

    DirecTV, the largest satellite-TV company with 15.5 million customers, provides a platform for News Corp.'s TV networks, including Fox News and FX. Profit at DirecTV almost tripled in the second quarter as the service increased prices.

    Subscriber Growth

    No agreement is imminent, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are confidential. News Corp. is seeking programming agreements for its Fox television networks, a demand that may make the transaction too expensive for Liberty, one person said.

    Subscriber growth trailed the company's expectations, DirecTV Chief Executive Officer Chase Carey said on Aug. 8. Cable providers including Philadelphia-based Comcast Corp., the biggest in the U.S., are attracting customers with packages of services including Internet and digital phone.

    When News Corp. extended its poison pill last year, investors led by Australian pension fund UniSuper Ltd. sued, accusing Murdoch and other directors of breaking a promise to let shareholders vote on whether to lengthen the company's takeover defense.

    In June, a Delaware Chancery Court judge approved a settlement that allows News Corp. shareholders to vote on such plans for the next 20 years if they approve a two-year extension of the current one in October. A swap of assets would eliminate the need for the poison pill.

    To contact the reporter on this story: Cecile Daurat in New York at cdaurat@bloomberg.net

  10. [verwijderd] 15 september 2006 21:47
    dit vreemde spel draait volgens volgens mij op een overname,25% op de koers mr mal weet wel wat het beste voor HEM is.(je kunt niet alles wegkopen)
  11. [verwijderd] 15 september 2006 22:06
    Malone heeft opentv-tjes voor 6 dollar gekocht, die doet ze onder die prijs echt niet van de hand. Hij is eerder bezig met deals te sluiten waarvan opentv goed zou kunnen profiteren: ofwel Malone is bezig Opentv nog 'sterker' te maken. Nee, die verkoopt zijn opentv-tjes de komende jaren nog niet!
  12. [verwijderd] 15 september 2006 22:25
    deals, zeer zeker en ook goede berichten ,geen slapende wakker maken.daarom blijf ik ook zitten. maar dat het vreemd is,zo als het loopt met de koers kan niemand ontkennen
  13. [verwijderd] 16 september 2006 09:05
    Shares climb amid speculation of swap involving DirecTV

    By SANDY SHORE

    DENVER - Shares of News Corp. and Liberty Media Corp. inched up Friday amid speculation the companies were in talks about a complicated swap that would send News Corp.'s interest in DirecTV to Liberty for its voting stake in News Corp.

    But the nation's top two satellite TV providers saw their stock fall, most likely because the reported swap would mean a merger between No. 1 DirecTV and No. 2 EchoStar Communications Corp. would be out of the question.

    CNBC and the Wall Street Journal reported the potential swap Thursday based on information from unidentified people close to the situation. Representatives of News Corp., Liberty Media and DirecTV all declined comment Friday.


    The rumor is the latest involving talks that date back nearly two years to when John Malone's Liberty, a media holding company based in suburban Englewood, purchased what today is equal to a 19 percent voting stake in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., a global media conglomerate. The Murdoch family owns about 30 percent of the company.

    The speculation may have been bolstered Thursday when Liberty Chief Executive Officer Greg Maffei said the companies are continuing negotiations but nothing had been decided. He was speaking at the Merrill Lynch Media and Entertainment Conference in New York.

    Liberty's goal is to make any transaction involving equity positions in News Corp. and other firms in the most tax-efficient manner possible. Under current law, that would allow Liberty to exchange its stake for a combination of News Corp. assets and as much as 75 percent in cash.

    Liberty has considered a number of scenarios involving News Corp.'s holdings, including television stations and its 38 percent stake in DirecTV, Maffei said.

    The DirectTV interest would have to be included along with a combination of other assets to qualify under the tax strategy, he said.

    "What we'll end up with in News, I honestly don't know. There is a full range and, again, what will we want to own that Rupert will want to sell and agree on price is quite a lot of potential for negotiation," Maffei said.

    Analysts had mixed views about the potential swap.

    "We would view an exchange of News Corp.'s DirecTV stake as a positive resolution to Liberty's ownership position for News Corp.," UBS analyst Aryeh Bourkoff wrote in a research note.

    But while the swap would make sense for News Corp., it would not necessarily benefit Liberty other than helping the company avoid hefty taxes as it gets out of News Corp., said Cathay Financial Inc. analyst Andrew Baker.

    For DirecTV, the change in control from one media mogul to another for DirecTV does not have "tremendous rationale," he said.

    In a research note, Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen noted that the Liberty stake in News Corp. is worth about $10 billion while News Corp.'s interest in DirecTV is worth about $9 billion.

    "We believe Liberty has a wide variety of options, including an outright swap for an operating asset or a cash-rich transaction featuring a large cash component," she said.

    Two deadlines could play a role: There is an Oct. 20 shareholder vote on News Corp.'s "poison pill" measure intended to thwart a hostile takeover attempt and a May change in IRS guidelines that would drop the maximum cash component in such transactions from 75 percent to 67 percent, Cohen said.

    Bourkoff, the UBS analyst, said any merger between DirecTV and EchoStar would be "an arduous and time-consuming regulator approval process at best and rejection at worst."

    News Corp. stock rose 40 cents, or 2 percent, to $20 a share in early afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange. In the past year, it has traded between $14.76 a share and $20.57 a share.

    Shares of Liberty Media rose 12 cents, or 0.6 percent, to $19.96 a share on the New York exchange. It has traded between $15.84 a share and $21 a share in the past year.

    DirecTV's stock dropped 49 cents, or 2.6 percent, to $18.70 a share on the New York exchange. In the past year, its price has ranged from $13.17 a share to $19.93 a share.

    Englewood, Colo.-based EchoStar Communications Corp., which owns the No. 2 satellite television service the Dish Network, declined 65 cents a share, or 2 percent, to $32.08 a share on the Nasdaq Stock Market. In the past year, it has traded between $24.44 and $35.95 a share.

  14. [verwijderd] 16 september 2006 14:42
    in mijn papieren heb ik nog even gekeken wanneer DirectTV en OpenTV uit elkaar zijn gegaan,kan het niet vinden.zou 2002 of 2003,mogelijk zijn geweest.

    wat ik mij herinner dat de koers onderuit ging op dat bericht.in die tijd stagneerde digitale tv/itv.de opbrengsten waren laag wat DirectTV toenertijd bijdroeg op jaarbasis.maar het weggaan van z on grote klant maakte toen wel indruk op de beleggers gezien de koersreaktie.
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