John Malone

John Malone: Comcast-NBC Would Have Too Much Power

AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media


PHILADELPHIA — Media mogul John Malone said Thursday that Comcast Corp.'s plan to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal would give it too muc...

Russian TV, Me and Michael Moore -- Oh, Irony!

Danny Schechter | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media


Danny Schechter

When the CBS suits shuttered WBCN in Boston, the radio station I used to work for, one more institution that at time was known for offering critical a...

John Malone, Barry Diller Skeptical Of Twitter, Economy

WSJ | Julia Angwin | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media


Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley, Idaho, media fest got off to a gloomy start Wednesday, with downbeat panel discussions on the economy (getting worse) and th...

Mel Karmazin: Sirius XM Will Be "Very Profitable"

Fortune | Jon Birger | Posted 04.17.2009 | Media


"I really don't mind everybody second-guessing," Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin tells me, though his tone screams otherwise. Karmazin and I are chattin...

Liberty Media Saves Sirius XM, Will Invest $530 Million

AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media


NEW YORK — Facing a likely bankruptcy, Sirius XM Radio Inc. found a savior in Liberty Media Corp., which will lend $530 million to the satellite...

Sirius XM Creditors "Angry," Warn Mel Karmazin Against Chapter 11

Business Insider | Dan Colarusso | Posted 03.19.2009 | Media


As if being stuck between John Malone and Charlie Ergen wasn't enough, Mel Karmazin now has angry creditors on his tail. The Sirius XM boss is tryi...

Charlie Ergen Assures: I May Let Mel Karmazin Stay At Sirius XM

Business Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media


Echostar's Charlie Ergen and Liberty's John Malone continue to tug at the carcass of Sirius (SIRI). It sounds as though Charlie has the upper hand, p...

Sirius XM, DirecTV In Talks As Karmazin Tries To Fend Off Ergen

New York Times | ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and ZACHERY KOUWE | Posted 03.15.2009 | Media


Sirius XM Radio, the satellite radio giant that is on the brink of bankruptcy, is in preliminary talks with Liberty Media, the conglomerate controlled...

John Malone, Liberty Media Chief, "Hero To Shareholders" For Dumping News Corp

New York Times | ROB COX, LAUREN SILVA and DWIGHT CASS | Posted 01.30.2009 | Media


Media moguls have had a rough year. Sumner Redstone is jettisoning assets to maintain control of Viacom and CBS. Despite a breakup, Barry Diller's emp...

Barry Diller And John Malone Make Up

AP | RACHEL METZ | Posted 05.22.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — Media moguls Barry Diller and John Malone have settled their differences over the breakup of Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, paving the...

Barry Diller Snubbed By Bono

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business


Now that Barry Diller has won his court case against John Malone, he's free to break up IAC (IACI) into 5 pieces. The problem: Convincing investors th...

Diller's "Delicate Psyche" Has Its Day In Court

New York Post | Peter Lauria | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Barry Diller personally took it on the chin again from Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei in court yesterday - but it was Liberty's case that took the hard...

Media Mogul Smackdown: Diller, Malone Head To Court

Reuters | Michele Gershberg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


As a legal battle between Barry Diller and John Malone heads to court on Monday, the biggest surprise may just be that two of the media industry's lar...

Twilight Of The Media Moguls

BusinessWeek | Johnnie L. Roberts | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, as the old chestnut says, then it makes perfect sense that Barry Diller would host a swanky soiree last summer ...

IAC Loses $369.9M on Mortgage Woes

AP | VINNEE TONG | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp lost $369.9 million in the fourth quarter, on a big writedown at its mortgage referral business, t...

FundRace: How The Media Gave (Or Didn't Give) In 2007

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


With campaign finance data for the 4th quarter of 2007 released late last week, Huffington Post's FundRace now gives us information on a year's worth ...

Diller, Malone Tussle Over IAC

NYT Via Yahoo | GERALDINE FABRIKANT, BROOKS BARNES | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Like Hollywood stars stuck in a rut, Barry Diller and John C. Malone are always cast in the same contrasting roles. Mr. Diller, 65, lives a razzle-daz...

Mogul War

New York Post | PETER LAURIA and PAUL THARP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


After weeks of trading jabs in the press and in legal filings, Liberty Media Corp. Chairman John Malone delivered a potential knockout punch late last...

Malone Sues Diller To Stop IAC Break-Up

AP | Michael Learmonth | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


John Malone's Liberty Media sued IAC and chairman Barry Diller (SA 100 #2) to block the planned break-up of the company into five separately-traded pu...