Liberty Media Corporation to Hold Annual Meeting of Shareholders
June 18 2009 - 8:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Liberty Media
Corporation (Liberty Media)
(NASDAQ:LCAPANASDAQ:LCAPBNASDAQ:LINTANASDAQ:LINTBNASDAQ:LMDIANASDAQ:LMDIB)
will be holding its Annual Meeting of Shareholders on Thursday,
June 25, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. Mountain Time at the Marriot Denver
South at Park Meadows, 10345 Park Meadows Drive, Littleton,
Colorado 80124. At the meeting, Liberty Media may make observations
concerning its historical operating performance and outlook and may
discuss 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. In addition, the
presentation will be broadcast live via the Internet. All
interested persons should visit the Liberty Media website at
http://www.libertymedia.com/events to register for the webcast. An
archive of the webcast will also be available on this website for
30 days. Additional Information Nothing in this press release shall
constitute a solicitation to buy or an offer to sell shares of
Liberty Entertainment, Inc. (LEI), the new DIRECTV or any of the
Liberty 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. Liberty Media stockholders and other
investors are urged to read the registration statements 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 (http://www.sec.gov/). Copies of Liberty Media's filings
together with the materials incorporated by reference therein can
also be obtained, without charge, by directing a request to Liberty
Media Corporation, 12300 Liberty 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 Liberty 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 Liberty 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 Liberty Media Corporation
Liberty Media 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 Liberty Interactive group (NASDAQ:LINTANASDAQ:LINTB), which
includes Liberty's interests in QVC, Provide Commerce,
Backcountry.com, BUYSEASONS, Bodybuilding.com, IAC/InterActiveCorp,
and Expedia, (2) the Liberty Entertainment group
(NASDAQ:LMDIANASDAQ:LMDIB), which includes Liberty Media's
interests in The DIRECTV Group, Inc., Starz Entertainment, Game
Show Network, LLC, WildBlue Communications, Inc., and Liberty
Sports Holdings LLC, and (3) the Liberty Capital group (NASDAQ:
LCAPANASDAQ: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., Liberty Media's interest in SIRIUS XM Radio, Inc., and
minority equity investments in Time Warner Inc. and Sprint Nextel
Corporation. DATASOURCE: Liberty Media Corporation CONTACT:
Courtnee Ulrich of Liberty Media Corporation, +1-720-875-5420 Web
Site: http://www.libertymedia.com/
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