Â鶹×îгöÆ· Media Board Approves Share Repurchase Authorization
Approves up to $1 billion of Â鶹×îгöÆ· Entertainment and $300 million of Â鶹×îгöÆ· Capital Repurchases
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., March 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Â鶹×îгöÆ· Media Corporation (Nasdaq: LCAPA/B and LMDIA/B) announced today that its board of directors has authorized the repurchase of up to $1 billion of Â鶹×îгöÆ· Entertainment common stock and up to $300 million of Â鶹×îгöÆ· Capital common stock. This authorization replaces the prior repurchase authorization of Â鶹×îгöÆ· Capital common stock. The existing Â鶹×îгöÆ· Interactive repurchase authorization remains in effect and was not affected by this action.
The specific timing and amount of actual future share repurchases will vary based on market conditions, securities law limitations and other factors. The repurchases will be made using Â鶹×îгöÆ·'s cash resources, and the buyback program may be suspended or discontinued at any time without prior notice.
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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, which includes Â鶹×îгöÆ·'s interests in QVC.com, Provide Commerce, Backcountry.com, BUYSEASONS, Bodybuilding.com, IAC/InterActiveCorp, and Expedia, (2) the Â鶹×îгöÆ· Entertainment Group, 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, which includes all businesses, assets and liabilities not attributed to the Interactive Group or the Entertainment Group including our 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. For more information, please see .
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Released March 10, 2008