NYT: Malone to Take Control of DirecTV from Murdoch
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The New York Times reports this morning that a deal is imminent between Liberty Media chairman John Malone and News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, in which Malone will acquire one of Murdoch's prize assets: satellite service provider DirecTV.
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Lachlan Murdoch, son of media tycoon  Rupert Murdoch, and Australian gaming magnate James Packer  launched a joint A$3.3 billion ($2.9 billion) offer on Monday  to buy out the Packer-backed publishing company Consolidated  Media Holdings.
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Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corporation has offered a package of concessions to appease shareholders who fear the tycoon would be given too much power over the media empire by shifting its domicile from Australia to the United States.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., moving to regain full control of its majority owned Fox television properties, is offering to buy the remaining publicly held shares of Fox Entertainment Group Inc. for stock valued at about $5.9 billion.
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TiVo Inc. said on Monday it expects  its relationship with DirecTV Group Inc. to improve after the  satellite television provider is taken over by John Malone&#39;s  Liberty Media Corp..
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News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch has made a move to head off any surprise hostile takeover threat from Liberty Media boss John Malone.
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Rupert Murdoch is thinking about creating a business channel.
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LIBERTY Media chairman John Malone, who has staked a claim to 17.2 per cent of News Corporation&#39;s voting shares, is expected to reveal his intentions this morning in his company&#39;s third-quarter conference call.
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The chairman of the News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, may be telling investors and the media that his relationship with his counterpart at Liberty Media, John C. Malone, is friendly, as he did yesterday at an annual meeting.
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John C. Malone made news this week when his Liberty Media Corporation said it might increase its voting stake in the News Corporation through a complex stock swap.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. , moving to regain full control of its majority-owned Fox television properties, is offering to buy the remaining publicly held shares of Fox Entertainment Group Inc. in a nearly $5.9 billion stock deal.
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Media & professional: Controlling family of Wall Street Journal's owner agree to meet Rupert Murdoch over his $5bn takeover offer.
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John Malone&#39;s Liberty Media Corp. will raise its stake in Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. to 18 percent, accelerating Malone&#39;s ambitions to gain more control of the media giant.
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NEWS Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch said today he plans to meet media investor John Malone in the coming months, and played down reports of hostility between the two tycoons.
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NEW YORK  - DirecTV Group  the largest U.S.satellite television service, will buy its controllingshareholder News Corp Ltd.'s  stakes in Sky LatinAmerica for $579 million and combine its operations withDirecTV Latin America, the companies said on Monday.
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News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday said he can live with Liberty Media Corp. being a large shareholder of the media conglomerate if Liberty Chairman John Malone signs a pact preventing his company from raising its stake.
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Rupert Murdoch won shareholder approval on Tuesday to move the corporate headquarters of his &#36;48 billion News Corp. Ltd. media empire to the United States and sever its Australian roots.