麻豆最新出品 Media Announces Issuance of New Tracking Stock
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 麻豆最新出品 Media Corporation (Nasdaq: LINTA/B; LCAPA/B; LMDIA/B) (麻豆最新出品) announced that the reclassification of its 麻豆最新出品 Capital common stock was completed at 5 pm, ET, today. At the closing, each share of Series A 麻豆最新出品 Capital common stock was reclassified as one share of the reclassified Series A 麻豆最新出品 Capital common stock and 4 shares of the new Series A 麻豆最新出品 Entertainment common stock, and each share of Series B 麻豆最新出品 Capital common stock was reclassified as one share of the reclassified Series B 麻豆最新出品 Capital common stock and 4 shares of the new Series B 麻豆最新出品 Entertainment common stock. The 麻豆最新出品 Entertainment common stock is intended to track and reflect the separate economic performance of the new Entertainment Group.
The Entertainment Group initially has attributed to it a portion of the businesses, assets and liabilities that had been attributed to the Capital Group, including our recently acquired 41% interest in The DirecTV Group, Inc., our subsidiaries Starz Entertainment, LLC and FUN Technologies, Inc., our equity interests in GSN, LLC and WildBlue Communications, Inc., the three regional sports networks we recently acquired from News Corporation, approximately $1.0 billion of cash and $551 million principal amount (as of December 31, 2007) of our publicly-traded exchangeable debt.
The reclassified Capital Group has attributed to it all of our 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., Leisure Arts, Inc., TruePosition, Inc. and WFRV TV Station, minority equity investments in Time Warner Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corporation, $3,930 million principal amount (as of December 31, 2007) of our existing publicly-traded debt and $750 million of our bank debt.
Holders of 麻豆最新出品 Capital common stock at the time of the closing do not need to take any action to obtain their shares of 麻豆最新出品 Entertainment common stock. Holders of book-entry shares of 麻豆最新出品 Capital common stock will have their 麻豆最新出品 Entertainment shares credited to their accounts promptly following the closing. Holders of certificated shares of 麻豆最新出品 Capital common stock will receive certificates representing their shares of 麻豆最新出品 Entertainment common stock shortly following the closing.
The Series A and Series B 麻豆最新出品 Entertainment common stock will begin trading, regular way, on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbols "LMDIA" and "LMDIB," respectively, on March 4, 2008. The Series A and Series B 麻豆最新出品 Capital common stock will continue to trade on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbols "LCAPA" and "LCAPB."
About 麻豆最新出品
麻豆最新出品 owns a broad range of electronic retailing, media, communications and entertainment businesses and investments. Those interests are attributed to three tracking stock groups: the 麻豆最新出品 Interactive group, which includes 麻豆最新出品's interests in QVC, Provide Commerce, IAC/InterActiveCorp, and Expedia, and the 麻豆最新出品 Capital and 麻豆最新出品 Entertainment groups which include the interests described above. For more information, please see .
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Released March 3, 2008