Liberty Media Names Clasen to Head Starz
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Liberty Media Corp. on Monday said it named Robert B. Clasen president and chief executive of Starz Entertainment Group LLC, effective Dec. 1. Clasen had been president and chief operating officer and replaces Mark Bauman, who is retiring as interim CEO.
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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK  - Liberty Media Corp is seeking the ouster of IAC/InterActiveCorp  Chairman Barry Diller from its board of directors in a quickly escalating dispute over how to restructure the Internet conglomerate, according to legal filings on Monday.
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Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc., the inventor of VCR technology for recording TV programs, said Friday that it named Rich Battista as chief executive officer to replace Jeff Shell, who has resigned his positions with the company.
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Bleach and household products maker  Clorox Co.  on Wednesday named Donald Knauss, the  departing president of Coca-Cola Co.'s  North American  operations, as chairman and chief executive, effective October.
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Switching channels. Jeff Shell is out and Rich Battista is in as chief executive at Gemstar-TV Guide International (nasdaq: GMST - news - people ). According to the Los Angeles Times, Shell is resigning to
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Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. said on Friday it replaced Chief Executive Jeff Shell, credited with steering the company through a patch of legal woes, with a Fox
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The race to succeed Disney chief Michael Eisner took an intriguing turn yesterday when it emerged that a highranking Murdoch employee has signed a new contract making it easy for him to leave ... but only if he goes to Disney.
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Rental chain replaces chief executive who was a frequent target of criticism from Carl Icahn.
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News Corp.  has held talks to  swap its controlling stake in DirecTV Group Inc.  for  Liberty Media's  stake in News Corp.,  according to a CNBC report on Thursday.
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Cantor Fitzgerald said its chairman and chief executive, Howard W. Lutnick, would take over the firmâs fixed-income trading and sales business, succeeding Irvin Goldman.
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Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. named Rich Battista chief executive to replace Jeff Shell, who has resigned from the media and technology company.
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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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Cable mogul John Malone moved to  consolidate his holdings on Tuesday, announcing that Liberty  Media International agreed to buy the rest of cable provider  UnitedGlobalCom Inc. for about $3.5 billion.
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The video rental chain on Monday named James Keyes as its new chairman and chief executive to replace current CEO John Antioco.
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News Corp.  could finalize a deal "as early as next week" to swap its controlling interest in DirecTV Group Inc.  and other assets for Liberty Media's  $11 billion stake in News Corp., a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
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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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John Malone, the chairman of Liberty Media, which has almost doubled its voting stake in News Corp, yesterday described the poison pill Rupert Murdoch&#39;s