Â鶹×îгöÆ· Announces Second Quarter Earnings Release and Conference Call
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Â鶹×îгöÆ· (Nasdaq: LINTA, LINTB, LCAPA, LCAPB, LMDIA, LMDIB) will release its second quarter earnings on Friday, August 7. You are invited to participate in Â鶹×îгöÆ· Media's earnings call, which will begin at 11:00 a.m. (EST). Greg Maffei, Â鶹×îгöÆ· 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 Â鶹×îгöÆ· website at to register for the web cast. Links to the press release and replays of the call will also be available on the Â鶹×îгöÆ· 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 Â鶹×îгöÆ· Entertainment, Inc. (LEI), the new DIRECTV or any of the Â鶹×îгöÆ· 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. Â鶹×îгöÆ· 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 (). Copies of Â鶹×îгöÆ· Media's filings together with the materials incorporated by reference therein can also be obtained, without charge, by directing a request to Â鶹×îгöÆ·, 12300 Â鶹×îгöÆ· 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 Â鶹×îгöÆ· 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 Â鶹×îгöÆ· 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 Â鶹×îгöÆ·
Â鶹×îгöÆ· 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 Â鶹×îгöÆ· Interactive group (Nasdaq: LINTA, LINTB), which includes Â鶹×îгöÆ·'s interests in QVC, Provide Commerce, Backcountry.com, BUYSEASONS, Bodybuilding.com, IAC/InterActiveCorp, and Expedia, (2) the Â鶹×îгöÆ· Entertainment group (Nasdaq: LMDIA, LMDIB), which includes Â鶹×îгöÆ·'s interests in The DIRECTV Group, Inc., Starz Entertainment, FUN Technologies, Inc., GSN, LLC, WildBlue Communications, Inc., and Â鶹×îгöÆ· Sports Holdings LLC, and (3) the Â鶹×îгöÆ· Capital group (Nasdaq: LCAPA, 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.
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Released July 14, 2009