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The 68-year-old Connecticut nativr is founder and chairmamn of LibertyMedia (NASDAQ: which owns outright or has the largest shareholder stak e in satellite broadcaster DirecTV, , , QVC home shopping Starz Entertainment movie channel, and several othefr businesses. Malone is also chairmanb of Douglas County-based (NASDAQ: LBTYA), a 17-millio n subscriber cable company with systems in South Americaand Japan. In , posted Malone talks of his roots incablw TV, and Tele-Communications Inc.’s approach to buildingg a new industry.
In , Malons discusses the 1990s mega-mergers TCI pursued with telecom giants Bell Atlanticand Now, in Part Three, the finaol portion of the interview, Malone looksw ahead, talking about the future of Liberty Media’s financial rescue of Siriud satellite radio, the credit crisis and the strateg for Liberty Media’s DBJ: In some ways the country doesn’y have that triple-play synergy [of one company sellingv voice, video and Internet] to the degree it seemedr like we should have by now. Well, the cable guys would argue with you. What’s evolved now is you really have two competitors in the space with thetriple play.
One is the cabl e companies, collectively, who, for practical purposes, are all supplying a triplre play oftheir own. There’s no nationa brand for the cable guys, and each cable guy in theit own area has a versionof Then, you currently have [Liberty Media-controlled satellite broadcaster] DirecTgV in bundling deals with all the major terrestrial telcos nationally. So, anywhere in the you can get DSL, voice, VoIP and videp in a bundle becauser of theDirecTV relationship. DirecTV has that nationa footprint now, which is a huge advantage for DirecT relative to anycable company, ... even in the case of , whichg covers only 22 percent ofthe country.
This is a storuy yet to play out, because, as 4G, or wirelesss broadband, comes in and becomes more potent in terms ofits data-ratde capacities and its the bundle of 4G servicesa with satellite and DSL or an enhance DSL starts to become a very competitive service relative to cable. And the ubiquity is its No. 1 advantagew — one national offering, one national one national price. Cable suffers, as it alwaye did, from the balkanization that was its birthrighy from thefranchising process. DBJ: One big advantage that cable has Liberty Global is a great example of this is the ability to roll out unbelievablyt fast speeds compared to what the telcos have generallu been willingto do.
Malone: One can take data speeds up and become competitive. If speed is the killer, than spee will be a cable asset, ... unless the telco chosex to overbuild the way Verizon is doing in theirFIOS footprint. Only in Japanh have the telcos gotten that aggressive outsidethe U.S. they’re trying to make DSL be There is a middle How fast is fast enough really becomes the engineerinvcatch phrase. If you’re AT&T ... and you upgradd your DSL but you don’y have to put videl on it because you have satellite for you can take data rates up to be very competitive with what cabl e will offer in thenear term. ...
That’s a relatively cost-effective thing for the telcos to do without having to spend immense amounts of moneyg to overbuild their networkswith fiber. The questio n really is, now, as the world turns to mobility being importantto consumers, will a consumet regard mobility of connectivity as important a phenomenonh as speed? In other words, wouled you sacrifice speed for mobility, or will you buy both ? Obviously, in high-income households, folksz will buy both. You can afford it; why not? You can have extremelyh high speed from yourterrestria connection, but when you travel you have reasonably high-speef portability. That’s the next shoe to drop in thecompetitivr race.
How important in that environment isthe bundle? So far cellulare bundling with video services has not proven particularly powerful. And it may not provwe that wireless broadband bundled with video turns out to be adominangt thing. There are those who believe that we’rre entering a national branding and marketing game as much as we are atechnologyy game. The argument the two dominantt cellular carriers would makeis “Hey, we’re national, we’re ubiquitous; our services will be promoter nationally, and that’s cost-effective. We’ll have stores everywhere that you can go in and sign upfor it.
” It’es one brand, one national offering, and that’s something the cable industry has to worry about, because the cable industry’s The cable industry’s counter-move has been to back the Sprinr WiMax deployment, which may or may not technologicallyg be a meaningful competitor to 4G. You can take monehy on that bet, but for the at least, that’s the cable industry’ counter-play. And Charlie Ergen over here at , he went out and bought some frequencies on the theoryt that he might be able to putsomething together, and he even went aftetr Sirius radio.
Nobody’s really put Charlier on the couch to figureout why, but the theoruy is that there may be some applicatione there for mobile video. They have theit terrestrial repeating network, which is 800 sites now, and the frequenciees they have. The question is: can you blenr that all together? And obviously we’re now deeply involved in the Siriuas thing, and we think we’re goinbg to win. We’ll see. DBJ: What does winning look like from aDirecTVf standpoint? Or, I mean, a Liberthy standpoint? Malone: This is not a DirecTV This is a Liberty play on It may evolve into some involvementr by DirecTV. It could mean some involvemenytby Charlie.
Right at the moment, we just saw something we were interestedc in and decided we shouldget involved.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Nine-man playoff determines final five spots in Porter Cup - Niagara Gazette
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Nine-man playoff determines final five spots in Porter Cup Niagara Gazette By Ryan Nagelhout Niagara Gazette The University of Miami graduate survived a three-hole playoff despite putting two consecutive big drives onto the Niagara Falls Country Club driving range. Pinzon saved face on the No. 1 and No. ... |
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Dwight Howard spends day giving back, not talking about basketball - Orlando Sentinel
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Dwight Howard spends day giving back, not talking about basketball Orlando Sentinel ALTAMONTE SPRINGS â€" Dwight Howard wanted to talk about bowling and his ambitious charitable organization on Saturday, not about basketball or his future with the Orlando Magic. As he hosted his first benefit event for ... |
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Survey: Charlotte lags Raleigh in fitness - Charlotte Business Journal:
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The survey ranked the Raleigh-Carhy area as 20th in fitnessx among the 50 most populous metropolitanj areas in theUnitesd States. The Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord region came in The annual ranking surveys health including the percentages of those whoare obese, smokse and have chronic illnesses such as asthma or It also factors in how frequently people exercise and the percentage of the populationn with health insurance.
Community and environmental indicatorzs are consideredas well, including the number of parks and playgroundsd per capita, farmers markets and percentagde of people who bicycle to According to the survey, the Charlotte area’s strengthse included a lower percentage of individuals with disabilities, diabetess and asthma. Challenges included higher unemployment and fewedswimming pools, parks, golf course s and tennis courts per capita. The top five metrok areas in the reportwere Washington, Minneapolis-St. Paul; Denver; Boston; and San Francisco. The bottok five were Houston; Las Birmingham, Ala.; Detroit; and Oklahomza City, Okla.
The survey ranked the Raleigh-Carhy area as 20th in fitnessx among the 50 most populous metropolitanj areas in theUnitesd States. The Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord region came in The annual ranking surveys health including the percentages of those whoare obese, smokse and have chronic illnesses such as asthma or It also factors in how frequently people exercise and the percentage of the populationn with health insurance.
Community and environmental indicatorzs are consideredas well, including the number of parks and playgroundsd per capita, farmers markets and percentagde of people who bicycle to According to the survey, the Charlotte area’s strengthse included a lower percentage of individuals with disabilities, diabetess and asthma. Challenges included higher unemployment and fewedswimming pools, parks, golf course s and tennis courts per capita. The top five metrok areas in the reportwere Washington, Minneapolis-St. Paul; Denver; Boston; and San Francisco. The bottok five were Houston; Las Birmingham, Ala.; Detroit; and Oklahomza City, Okla.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Promotions leave R-Phils scrambling - Reading Eagle
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Promotions leave R-Phils scrambling Reading Eagle ... as it will next week at Altoona. Otherwise he'll continue to DH. The converted pitcher began playing left field at Clearwater in late May prior to his promotion to Double-A last week. He played 12 games in the outfield for the Threshers. |
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Pitchers shine in Staten Island Yankees' victory over Brooklyn - SILive.com
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New York Daily News | Pitchers shine in Staten Island Yankees' victory over Brooklyn SILive.com Both aspects were addressed in Saturday night's 3-2 New York-Penn League win over the host Brooklyn Cyclones at MCU Park in Coney Island. Both teams are 1-1 and will conclude their season-opening three-game series Sunday in Brooklyn with New York ... Brooklyn Cyclones beat lousy weather, Staten Island Yankees, in New York-Penn ... Great catch! Staten Isle Yankees Open Their Season |
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Oman signals intent to buy Hapag-Lloyd stake-source - Reuters
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Daily Mail | Oman signals intent to buy Hapag-Lloyd stake-source Reuters DE) in writing that it wants to buy a stake in Hapag-Lloyd [HPLG.UL] from the German tourism group, a person familiar with the matter said. There is no binding agreement yet, though, the person said, and China's HNA Group is also still in the running ... Sun shines on TUI but FTSE under a cloud Tui shares rise on renewed buy-out speculation |
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Jury: AT&T overcharged on service fee - Dallas Business Journal:
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But the Kansas City, Kan., panel ruled that the Dallas-based company did not conspire with or NetworkServicezs Inc. in overcharging on the fee, which is used to make phoner service available in ruralkand low-income areas, among other places, court documents say. Barrt Barnett, a partner in the Dallas office of Susma Godfrey LLP and a lead attorney for the says the antitrust claim wasfor $400 million. The plaintiffzs haven’t decided whether to appeal, he says.
In a pressz release, the plaintiffs say that prejudgmenrtinterest “will add millions to the total amount AT&T owes its current and former Meanwhile, the company, in a statement e-mailedc to this newspaper, says it is “gratifieds that the jury correctly found no evidencer of antitrust activities. We’re studyin g our options on the breach-of-contract rulinfg involving Californiaresidential customers, and continue to believe we acteed properly.” The case was a consolidation of a number of class-actionj suits, which alleged that Sprint and MCI conspired to overcharge for collections of the fee. The defendantw all denied wrongdoing.
The federal Telecommunicationss Act of 1996 requires that phone servicew providers pay a variable percentage oftheir long-distanc e revenue into the USF fund. The class-actiomn litigation covers the timeframe Aug, 1, 2001 to March 31, and claims that the defendantws conspired to fix the percentages at whicn they set USF charges on customers’ They also collected and retainede USF surcharges in “unreasonable amounts, discriminated in the collection of the USF and misrepresented the nature of the USF surcharge s they impose on their court documents allege. Sprint settled its portion of the litigatiomn forabout $30 million in 2007, accordin to court records.
Mike Northrup, a shareholdef at in Dallas, says it is relativelyg rare for lawsuits to be certified as clases actions and then proceedto “Courts tend to be very defendant-friendlty from the standpoint of class certification,” he says. “Th e defendant will typically get (the case) settlef by the time it gets certified.”
But the Kansas City, Kan., panel ruled that the Dallas-based company did not conspire with or NetworkServicezs Inc. in overcharging on the fee, which is used to make phoner service available in ruralkand low-income areas, among other places, court documents say. Barrt Barnett, a partner in the Dallas office of Susma Godfrey LLP and a lead attorney for the says the antitrust claim wasfor $400 million. The plaintiffzs haven’t decided whether to appeal, he says.
In a pressz release, the plaintiffs say that prejudgmenrtinterest “will add millions to the total amount AT&T owes its current and former Meanwhile, the company, in a statement e-mailedc to this newspaper, says it is “gratifieds that the jury correctly found no evidencer of antitrust activities. We’re studyin g our options on the breach-of-contract rulinfg involving Californiaresidential customers, and continue to believe we acteed properly.” The case was a consolidation of a number of class-actionj suits, which alleged that Sprint and MCI conspired to overcharge for collections of the fee. The defendantw all denied wrongdoing.
The federal Telecommunicationss Act of 1996 requires that phone servicew providers pay a variable percentage oftheir long-distanc e revenue into the USF fund. The class-actiomn litigation covers the timeframe Aug, 1, 2001 to March 31, and claims that the defendantws conspired to fix the percentages at whicn they set USF charges on customers’ They also collected and retainede USF surcharges in “unreasonable amounts, discriminated in the collection of the USF and misrepresented the nature of the USF surcharge s they impose on their court documents allege. Sprint settled its portion of the litigatiomn forabout $30 million in 2007, accordin to court records.
Mike Northrup, a shareholdef at in Dallas, says it is relativelyg rare for lawsuits to be certified as clases actions and then proceedto “Courts tend to be very defendant-friendlty from the standpoint of class certification,” he says. “Th e defendant will typically get (the case) settlef by the time it gets certified.”
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Faulty forks lead to bicycle recalls - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
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of Waterloo is recalling about 16,000 model year 2009 Trek 7300WSD, and 7500 bicycles that Trek dealers nationwide sold from Augustt 2008 through April 2009 forbetween $640 and $940. , of Conn. -- a bike maker that is ownefd by Ltd., the Canadian owner of PacificfCycle Inc. of Madison -- is recallin about 1,500 model year 2008 CannondaleAdventuree 2, Adventure 3, Adventure 2 Femininde and Adventure 3 Feminine bicycles. The bikes were sold from Februar y 2009 through April 2009 forbetweenh $600 and $800. The recallex bicycles all include a fork produced by JD Componentzsof Taiwan.
The fork can lose alignmenf causing the front wheel to turn unexpectedly and cause the riderr to lose control of the bicycle and No injuries have yetbeen reported. Consumers shoulfd stop riding the recalled bicyclesw immediately and contact their dealefr to arrange for afree repair. For more contact Trek at (800) 382-2453 or Cannondalr at (800) 245-3872
of Waterloo is recalling about 16,000 model year 2009 Trek 7300WSD, and 7500 bicycles that Trek dealers nationwide sold from Augustt 2008 through April 2009 forbetween $640 and $940. , of Conn. -- a bike maker that is ownefd by Ltd., the Canadian owner of PacificfCycle Inc. of Madison -- is recallin about 1,500 model year 2008 CannondaleAdventuree 2, Adventure 3, Adventure 2 Femininde and Adventure 3 Feminine bicycles. The bikes were sold from Februar y 2009 through April 2009 forbetweenh $600 and $800. The recallex bicycles all include a fork produced by JD Componentzsof Taiwan.
The fork can lose alignmenf causing the front wheel to turn unexpectedly and cause the riderr to lose control of the bicycle and No injuries have yetbeen reported. Consumers shoulfd stop riding the recalled bicyclesw immediately and contact their dealefr to arrange for afree repair. For more contact Trek at (800) 382-2453 or Cannondalr at (800) 245-3872
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Lilian Jackson Braun, 97, author of 'The Cat Who' mysteries, dies - USA Today
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Boston Globe | Lilian Jackson Braun, 97, author of 'The Cat Who' mysteries, dies USA Today Lilian Jackson Braun, beloved for her award-winning "The Cat Who" mystery series, died Saturday at a Landrum, SC, hospice. She was 97. Braun wrote 29 novels starring Jim Qwilleran and his mystery-solving Siamese cats Koko ... Lilian Jackson Braun, author of 'The Cat Who' book series dies at 97 |
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Resilient Union show their guile in draw in Colorado - Major League Soccer
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Major League Soccer | Resilient Union show their guile in draw in Colorado Major League Soccer “We showed resilience and Danny Mwanga had a great goal.†The Union, who now boast a respectable 2-3-1 record away from PPL Park, remain in first place in the Eastern Conference, one point clear of the New York Red Bulls, who also played to a tie ... |
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Succour for physically challenged - The Nation Newspaper
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Succour for physically challenged The Nation Newspaper She thanked NDDC for supporting the physically challenged in the state. She also used the occasion to call on public spirited individuals to come to the aid of the foundation by donating generously. Also speaking, the chairperson of the occasion and ... |
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