Staci D. Kramer
Nov 18, 2009 1:40 PM
Five months after Chase Carey returned to News Corp (NYSE: NWS). as deputy chairman and COO, DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) finally has a successor as CEO: Michael White, now CEO of PepsiCo International and vice chairman of PepsiCo. The announcement comes on the eve of a special shareholder meeting to approve…
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David Kaplan
Dec 17, 2008 11:28 AM
Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) CEO Greg Maffei said a proposed split-off of DirecTV and other assets should be completed by May, pending regulatory approval in a discussion with Deutsche Bank’s Doug Mitchelson. As we said on Friday, the board approved a split-off that will give holders of the new Liberty…
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Staci D. Kramer
Dec 12, 2008 7:48 PM
In typical Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) fashion, the company founded by John Malone has just filed a complicated business plan with the SEC on a Friday night. It’s also a relatively rare move—a split-off that will give holders of the Liberty Entertainment group tracking stock shares in a new subsidiary…
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