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‘King of Cable’ making waves ahead of TWC merger decision

Don’t count out John Malone, the king of cable, just yet. The Liberty boss is making a play to win whether or not Comcast’s $45 billion deal to acquire Time Warner Cable gets a rubber stamp or gets...

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Malone’s Charter rides merger wave with $10.4B Bright House deal

John Malone-backed Charter Communications has agreed to buy a majority stake in billionaire Si Newhouse Jr.’s Bright House Networks for $10.4 billion. The deal will make Charter, which counts Malone’s...

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Comcast CFO to head up $4.5B acquisition arm

Comcast is unleashing its dealmaking Chief Financial Officer Michael Angelakis. The country’s No. 1 cable company on Tuesday said Angelakis would soon leave the company to helm a separate investment...

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Liberty Media ready to pounce after TWC-Comcast deal falls through

John Malone could hardly wait for the heart to stop beating on Comcast’s now-dead deal for Time Warner Cable. Within hours of Comcast pulling the plug on the $45 billion merger, Charter Communications,...

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Equity firms to Liberty Media: We want cable!

The death of the Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger has sparked a private equity scramble to invest in US cable systems, The Post has learned. KKR is engaged in talks with Liberty Media boss John Malone...

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Malone’s on a mission to beat back Netflix

The Cable King is now the Broadband Boss. John Malone is set to become the No. 1 broadband provider on the planet with 46 million subscribers — 27 million in Europe and 19 million in the US — thanks to...

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John Malone blasts cable’s answer to Netflix

Cable pioneer John Malone calls it like he sees it. The chairman of Liberty Media, which is Charter Communication’s biggest shareholder, said Tuesday that TV Everywhere — the cable industry’s answer to...

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John Malone talks TWC pursuit, Evan Spiegel at Sun Valley

SUN VALLEY, Idaho — One of the great reporting traditions at this mogulfest — loitering outside the Sun Valley Lodge bar late at night and listening to cable tycoon John Malone hold court — was...

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QVC buys mommy e-tailer Zulily for $2.4 billion

Zulily, the women’s and kid’s e-tailer that had been known for its runaway growth, has been lassoed by media mogul John Malone. Malone’s Liberty Interactive, which owns QVC, agreed to purchase...

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Potential AMC takeover raises theories for Starz future

John Malone’s premium pay-TV network Starz may go under the AMC Networks umbrella, according to Bloomberg. But there are plenty of theories about what else could happen with the Chris Albrecht-run...

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John Malone is splitting his Liberty Media empire (again)

John Malone just can’t keep it together. In his latest plan for his vast and ever-shifting media assets, Malone said he would effectively split his Liberty Media conglomerate again through the creation...

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John Malone wishes he had gone hostile on Netflix

Even the media world’s best dealmaker misses some great opportunities. Liberty Media’s John Malone said Thursday that one of his biggest mistakes was not going hostile in 2012 to take over Netflix. At...

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Cable mogul fears tech giants will keep stealing eyeballs

Liberty Media Chairman John Malone fears deep-pocketed Silicon Valley tech giants will continue to steal away eyeballs from his cable companies. Malone, who has spent a lifetime building cable...

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Liberty Media’s John Malone shares laughs with media moguls

A who’s who of media moguls got together on Wednesday to fête Liberty Media Chairman John Malone. Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg and IAC/InterActiveCorp’s Barry Diller...

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John Malone says Redstone fight is weighing down Viacom

SUN VALLEY, Idaho — Billionaire John Malone said Viacom’s assets are “substantially undervalued” as a fight rages for control of the media giants. “They’ve got some great assets, and right at the...

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Another media mogul is taking aim at Philippe Dauman

Viacom Chief Executive Philippe Dauman may have to deal with not one but two cantankerous media moguls. Dauman was already feeling the heat from Viacom’s controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone when...

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Liberty Media looks to enter auto racing streaming business

John Malone’s Liberty Media is trying to create a direct-to-consumer streaming service to help grow interest in Formula One auto racing, the company said Tuesday. Liberty is in the process of acquiring...

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John Malone says sports is like ‘a little bit of cocaine’

John Malone, the ol’ Cable Cowboy, is becoming addicted to sports. Where once Malone, when he was just a cable guy, bemoaned the high price of sports channels in basic cable packages, on Thursday he...

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Charter Communications’ stock jumps amid Verizon comments

Shares of Charter Communications are up 3.7 percent over the last two days since Verizon Chief Executive Lowell McAdam told a group of Wall Street analysts that it made “industrial sense” for his...

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Malone approaches Bolloré with Universal in mind

Media mogul John Malone is playing again in the music arena. The chairman of Liberty Media approached Vincent Bolloré, the chairman and biggest shareholder of Vivendi, to gauge the French media and...

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