John Malone: Comcast-NBC Would Have Too Much Power
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...
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...
Danny Schechter | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media