Liberty
[under development]
What's
going to happen to Liberty, the cable, satellite and investment giant
that's substantially owned by Ma Bell but operates autonomously. Most
analysts suspect that it will sail away.
Liberty originated as part of
TCI, the cable television giant acquired by AT&T in the 80s. Apart
from television distribution it holds major interests in other groups
(eg is the second largest owner of News and the largest in AOL Time
Warner). It also has substantial online service operations of its own.
Studies
Stephen Keating's Cutthroat:
High Stakes and Killer Moves on the Electronic Frontier (Boulder,
Johnson 99) is an account of restructuring the US cable and satellite
television industry, with moves by Ma Bell, Rupert Murdoch and Charlie
Ergen.
L J Davis' The Billionaire Shell
Game: How Cable Baron John Malone and Assorted Corporate Titans Invented
A Future Nobody Wanted (New York, Doubleday 98) is better than its
title. Davis provides an entertaining and at times perceptive
account of the characters and corporate manoeuvring about interactive
television - the portrait of guru Nicholas Negroponte is decidedly
unflattering - and convergence.
There's a
perspective on the 'carriage' game - and its regulation - in
Gerald Brock's Telecommunication Policy for the Information Age: From
Monopoly to Competition (Cambridge, Harvard Uni Press 94) and Peter
Temin's The Fall of the Bell System (Cambridge, Cambridge Uni
Press 88). The rise, fall, rise and fall again of Ma Bell may be a model
for Microsoft in its war with the consumer and the US government.
Jonhn Brooks' Telephone, The First Hundred Years
(New York, Harper & Row 76) is an elegant corporate
history. Sonny Kleinfeld's The Biggest Company on
Earth: A profile of AT&T (New York, Holt Rinehart
81) is a thinner study immediately before the
break-up.
holdings
[Under Development]
Satellite & Broadcasting Networks:
Liberty Media
BET Holdings (35%)
BET Cable Network
BET Action Pay-Per-View
BET on Jazz
Canales (100%)
Court TV (50%)
Discovery Communications, Inc. (49%)
Discovery Channel
The Learning Channel
Animal Planet
Discovery People
Travel Channel
Discovery Digital Services
Discovery Civilization
Discovery Health
Discovery Home & Leisure
Discovery Kids
Discovery Wings
Discovery en Espanol
Discovery Communications, Inc. (49%)
Animal Planet Asia (25%)
Animal Planet Europe
Animal Planet Latin America (25%)
Discovery Asia
Discovery India
Discovery Japan
Discovery Europe
Discovery Turkey
Discovery Germany (25%)
Discovery Italy/Africa
Discovery Latin America
Discovery Latin America Kids Network
People & Arts (Latin America)
(25%)
Discovery Channel Online
Encore Media Group
Encore
MOVIEplex
Thematic Multiplex (aggregate units)
Love Stories
Westerns
Mystery
Action
True Stories
WAM! America's Kidz Network
STARZ!
STARZ! Multiplex (aggregate units)
STARZ! Theater
BET Movies/STARZ! (88%)
STARZ! Family
STARZ! cinama
E! Entertainment Television (10%)
Style
Flextech p.l.c.(UK) (37%)
Bravo (37%)
Challenge TV (37%)
HSN Direct (42%)
KinderNet (12%)
Living (37%)
SMG (7%)
Trouble (37%)
TV Travel Shop (37%)
UK Arena (UKTV) (18%)
UK Gold (UKTV) (18%)
UK Gold Classics (UKTV) (18%)
UK Horizons (UKTV) (18%)
UK Style (UKTV) (18%)
UK Play (UKTV) 18%)
Fox Kids Worldwide, Inc.
International Channel (90%)
Jupiter Programming Co., Ltd. (Japan)
(50%)
Cable Soft Network (50%)
CNBC Asia/Business News Japan (10%)
Golf Network (44%)
Discovery Japan (49%)
J-Sports (66%)
The Shop Channel (41%)
MacNeil/Lehrer Productions (67%)
MultiThematiques, S.A. (30%)
Canal Jimmy (France)
Canal Jimmy (Italy)
Cine Cinemas (France)
Cine Cinemas (Italy)
Cine Classics (France)
Cine Classics (Spain) (15%)
Cine Classics (Italy)
Forum Planete (France)
Planete (France)
Planete (Poland)
Planete (Germany)
Planete (Italy)
Seasons (France)
Seasons (Spain)
Seasons (Germany)
Seasons (Italy)
Pramer S.C.A. (Argentina) (100%)
America Sports
Big Channel
Canal a
Cineplaneta
CV SAT
Ideas
Magic Kids
P&E
Content & Carriage investments
News Corporation (8%)
Odyssey (33%)
The Premium Movie Partnership
(Australia) (20%)
Time Warner Inc. (9%)
Torneos y Competencias (Argentina)
(40%)
Gemstar - TV Guide (20%)
TV Guide Channel
TV Guide Interactive,
TV Guide Sneak Prevue (32%)
UVTV
Superstar (35%)
TV Guide Magazine
TV Guide Online
The Television Games Network (43%)
USA Networks, Inc. (21%)
HSN
America's Store
ISN
HSN en Espanol (11%)
HOT (Germany) (9%)
Shop Channel (Japan)
SciFi Channel
USA Network
USA Broadcasting
Ticket Master
Studios USA
USA Films
Hotel Reservations Network
TicketMaster City Search (11%)
QVC Inc. (43%)
QVC Network
QVC The Shopping Network (UK)
QVC Germany
iQVC
Telemundo Network (50%)
Telemundo Station Group (25%)
Programming ownership through AT&T-MediaOne
merger:
HBO (partial with AOL Time Warner)
Cinemax (partial - with AOL Time
Warner)
Court TV (partial - with AOL Time
Warner)
TV Food Network (partial - with
Tribune Co.)
E! Entertainment (partial - with
Disney and Comcast)
Speedvision Network (partial - with
Comcast and Cox)
Outdoor Life Network (partial - with
Comcast and Cox)
New England Cable News (50% - with
Hearst)
Time Warner Entertainment (25%)
Time Warner (9%)
Internet/Interactive Television
Services:
AT&T Access Agreement (100% -
Rights to provide interactive networks to AT&T cable systems)
Academic Systems Corporation (5%) -
provider of higher education multimedia manuals
ACTV (12%) - interactive programming
Digital Health Group (100%)
DMX - digital audio services, digital
music express
Cable, Telephony & Satellite:
IDT Corp (partial)
Bresnan International Partners
(Chile) (100%)
Metropolis Intercom, S.A. (30%)
Cablevision S.A. (Argentina) (28%)
Jupiter Telecommunications . (40%)
Princes Holdings (Ireland) (50%)
Sky Latin America (10%)
Sprint PCS Group (24%)
TCI Cablevision of Puerto Rico.
(100%)
Telewest Communications (UK) (22%)
Technology & Manufacturing:
Antec Corporation (19%)
General Instrument Corporation (21%)
- set top boxes
gstore.com. (1%)
HomeGrocer.com. (2%)
iBeam Broadcasting (7%)
Interactive Pictures (4%) -
interactive photographic technology for Internet)
iVillage (3%)
KPCB Java Fund (5%)
The Lightspan Partnership (8%)
priceline.com (2%)
Quokka Sports, Inc. (3%)
Sportsline USA, Inc. (3%)
MTVN Online (10%)
TiVo Inc (1%)
Total Entertainment Network (19%)
Primedia (5%)
Kearns - Tribune Company Salt
Lake Tribune
Net2Phone (32%)
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