Liberty Media Corporation Announces Second Quarter Earnings Release and Conference Call
July 14 2009 - 10:06PM
PR Newswire (US)
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Liberty Media
Corporation
(NASDAQ:LINTANASDAQ:LINTBNASDAQ:LCAPANASDAQ:LCAPBNASDAQ:LMDIANASDAQ:LMDIB)
will release its second quarter earnings on Friday, August 7. You
are invited to participate in Liberty Media's earnings call, which
will begin at 11:00 a.m. (EST). Greg Maffei, Liberty Media's
President and CEO, will host the call. During the call, Mr. Maffei
may make observations regarding the company's financial
performance, outlook and the pending split-off of a majority of the
assets and liabilities of the Entertainment Group and the related,
proposed business combination with The DIRECTV Group, Inc. Please
call Premiere Conferencing at (866) 431-2037 or (719) 325-2200 at
least 10 minutes prior to the call so that we can begin promptly at
the start time. You will need to be on a touch-tone telephone to
ask questions. The conference administrator will give you
instructions on how to use the polling feature. Questions will be
registered automatically and queued in the proper sequence. Replays
of the conference call can be accessed through 1:00 p.m. (ET) on
August 21, by dialing (719) 457-0820 or (888) 203-1112 plus the
pass code 4857914#. In addition, the second quarter earnings
conference call will be broadcast live via the Internet. All
interested participants should visit the Liberty Media Corporation
website at http://www.libertymedia.com/events to register for the
web cast. Links to the press release and replays of the call will
also be available on the Liberty Media website. The conference call
and related materials will be archived on the website for one year.
Additional Information Nothing in this press release shall
constitute a solicitation to buy or an offer to sell shares of
Liberty Entertainment, Inc. (LEI), the new DIRECTV or any of the
Liberty Media tracking stocks. The offer and sale of shares in the
proposed split-off and the proposed related business combination
with DIRECTV will only be made pursuant to one or more effective
registration statements. Liberty Media stockholders and other
investors are urged to read the registration statements filed (and
the amendments thereto to be filed) with the SEC, including the
proxy statement/prospectuses contained therein, because they
contain important information about these transactions. A copy of
the registration statements and the proxy statement/prospectuses
are available free of charge at the SEC's website
(http://www.sec.gov/). Copies of Liberty Media's filings together
with the materials incorporated by reference therein can also be
obtained, without charge, by directing a request to Liberty Media
Corporation, 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112,
Attention: Investor Relations, Telephone: (720) 875-5408 and copies
of DIRECTV's filing together with the materials incorporated by
reference therein can also be obtained, without charge, by
directing a request to The DIRECTV Group, Inc., 2230 E. Imperial
Highway, El Segundo, CA 90245, Attn: Investor Relations, Telephone
(310) 964-0808. Participants in a Solicitation The directors and
executive officers of Liberty Media and other persons may be deemed
to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in respect of
proposals to approve the transactions. Information regarding the
directors and executive officers of each of Liberty Media, LEI and
the new DIRECTV and other participants in the proxy solicitation
and a description of their respective direct and indirect
interests, by security holdings or otherwise are available in the
proxy materials filed with the SEC. About Liberty Media Corporation
Liberty Media Corporation owns interests in a broad range of
electronic retailing, media, communications and entertainment
businesses. Those interests are attributed to three tracking stock
groups: (1) the Liberty Interactive group
(NASDAQ:LINTANASDAQ:LINTB), which includes Liberty's interests in
QVC, Provide Commerce, Backcountry.com, BUYSEASONS,
Bodybuilding.com, IAC/InterActiveCorp, and Expedia, (2) the Liberty
Entertainment group (NASDAQ: LMDIANASDAQ:LMDIB), which includes
Liberty's interests in The DIRECTV Group, Inc., Starz
Entertainment, FUN Technologies, Inc., GSN, LLC, WildBlue
Communications, Inc., and Liberty Sports Holdings LLC, and (3) the
Liberty Capital group (NASDAQ:LCAPANASDAQ:LCAPB), which includes
all businesses, assets and liabilities not attributed to the
Interactive group or the Entertainment group including its
subsidiaries Starz Media, LLC, Atlanta National League Baseball
Club, Inc., and TruePosition, Inc., and minority equity investments
in Time Warner Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corporation. DATASOURCE:
Liberty Media Corporation CONTACT: Courtnee Ulrich,
+1-720-875-5420, or Heather Oshiro, +1-720-875-5433, both of
Liberty Media Corporation Web Site: http://www.libertymedia.com/
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