-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, Fy44nFBtBBlKARCySXWMytrpCjFrLRd3bVlqNjnvbMvoqeZZBce5RAMqYk3Axpgn gYtfAyT+YIn7UNujAkHepw== 0001104659-10-060891.txt : 20101202 0001104659-10-060891.hdr.sgml : 20101202 20101202144953 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-10-060891 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 3 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20101130 ITEM INFORMATION: Regulation FD Disclosure ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20101202 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20101202 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: LIBERTY MEDIA CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001355096 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: CABLE & OTHER PAY TELEVISION SERVICES [4841] IRS NUMBER: 841288730 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-33982 FILM NUMBER: 101227555 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 12300 LIBERTY BOULEVARD CITY: ENGLEWOOD STATE: CO ZIP: 80112 BUSINESS PHONE: 7208755400 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 12300 LIBERTY BOULEVARD CITY: ENGLEWOOD STATE: CO ZIP: 80112 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Liberty Media Holding CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20060303 8-K 1 a10-12395_128k.htm 8-K

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (date of earliest event reported): November 30, 2010

 

LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware

 

001-33982

 

84-1288730

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

12300 Liberty Blvd.

Englewood, Colorado 80112

(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (720) 875-5400

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

o            Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

x          Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

o            Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

o            Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 

 



 

Item 7.01.   Regulation FD Disclosure

 

On December 2, 2010 Liberty Media Corporation (“Liberty”) announced that Liberty has exchanged its entire equity stake in IAC for a combination of operating assets and cash in a transaction intended to be tax-free to Liberty and IAC.  Pursuant to the transaction, completed on December 1, Liberty exchanged approximately 12.8 million shares of IAC stock (consisting of approximately 8.5 million shares of Class B stock and 4.3 million shares of common stock, and representing approximately 60% of the total votes of all classes of IAC stock) for all of the capital stock of a wholly-owned subsidiary of IAC that holds the Evite and Gifts.com businesses, and approximately $220 million in cash. These assets will be attributed to the Liberty Interactive tracking stock group.

 

The information included in this Item 7.01 and the related press release set forth as Exhibit 99.2 to this Form 8-K are being furnished to the SEC in satisfaction of the public disclosure requirements of Regulation FD.

 

Item 8.01.  Other Matters

 

On November 30, 2010 Liberty Media Corporation announced that Greg Maffei, President and CEO of Liberty Media, will be presenting at the UBS 38TH Annual Global Media and Communications Conference on Tuesday, December 7th at 2:30 p.m., Eastern Time at the Grand Hyatt New York in New York City, New York.  During his presentation, Mr. Maffei may make observations regarding the company’s financial performance and outlook and may discuss the previously announced split-off of the Liberty Capital and Liberty Starz tracking stock groups.

 

Item 9.01.  Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

(d)  Exhibits

 

Exhibit No.

 

Name

 

 

 

99.1

 

Press Release dated November 30, 2010

99.2

 

Press Release dated December 2, 2010

 

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SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: December 2, 2010

 

 

 

 

LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Wade Haufschild

 

 

Name:

Wade Haufschild

 

 

Title:

Vice President

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.

 

Name

 

 

 

99.1

 

Press Release dated November 30, 2010

99.2

 

Press Release dated December 2, 2010

 

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EX-99.1 2 a10-12395_12ex99d1.htm EX-99.1

Exhibit 99.1

 

LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION TO PRESENT AT THE UBS 38th ANNUAL GLOBAL MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE

 

Englewood, Colo, Nov. 30 - Liberty Media Corporation (Nasdaq: LCAPA, LCAPB, LINTA, LINTB, LSTZA, LSTZB) announced that Greg Maffei, President and CEO of Liberty Media, will be presenting at the UBS 38TH Annual Global Media and Communications Conference on Tuesday, December 7th at 2:30 p.m., Eastern Time at the Grand Hyatt New York in New York City, New York.  During his presentation, Mr. Maffei may make observations regarding the company’s financial performance and outlook and may discuss the previously announced split-off of the Liberty Capital and Liberty Starz tracking stock groups.

 

The presentation will be broadcast live via the Internet.  All interested persons should visit the Liberty Media Corporation 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.

 

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: LINTA, LINTB), which includes Liberty Media’s interests in QVC, Provide Commerce, Backcountry.com, BUYSEASONS, Bodybuilding.com, IAC/InterActiveCorp, and Expedia, (2) the Liberty Starz group (Nasdaq: LSTZA, LSTZB), which includes Liberty Media’s interest in Starz, LLC, and (3) the Liberty Capital group (Nasdaq: LCAPA, LCAPB), which includes all businesses, assets and liabilities not attributed to the Interactive group or the Starz group including its subsidiaries the 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 Live Nation.

 

Additional Information

Nothing in this presentation shall constitute a solicitation to buy or an offer to sell shares of the split-off entity or any of Liberty’s tracking stocks.  The offer and sale of shares in the proposed split-off will only be made pursuant to an effective registration statement. Liberty stockholders and other investors are urged to read the registration statement to be filed with the SEC, including the proxy statement/prospectus to be contained therein (a preliminary filing of which has been made with the SEC), because they will contain important information about the split-off.  Copies of Liberty’s SEC filings are available free of charge at the SEC’s website (http://www.sec.gov). Copies of the filings together with the materials incorporated by reference therein will also be available, without charge, by directing a request to Liberty Media Corporation, 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112, Attention: Investor Relations, Telephone: (720) 875-5408.

 

Participants in a Solicitation

The directors and executive officers of Liberty and other persons may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in respect of proposals to approve the split-off. Information regarding the directors and executive officers of each of Liberty and the split-off entity and other participants in the proxy solicitation and a description of their respective direct and indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, will be available in the proxy materials filed with the SEC (a preliminary filing of which has been made with the SEC).

 



 

Contact:

Courtnee Ulrich

720-875-5420

 


 

EX-99.2 3 a10-12395_12ex99d2.htm EX-99.2

Exhibit 99.2

 

IAC and Liberty Media Announce Equity Exchange

 

Barry Diller to Exchange and Hold All Class B Voting Stock

 

Greg Blatt Named CEO of IAC

 

NEW YORK, NY and ENGLEWOOD, CO — December 2, 2010 — IAC [NASDAQ: IACI] and Liberty Media Corporation (“Liberty”)  [NASDAQ: LCAPA, LCAPB, LINTA, LINTB, LSTZA, LSTZB] announced today that Liberty has exchanged its entire equity stake in IAC for a combination of operating assets and cash in a transaction intended to be tax-free to Liberty and IAC.  Pursuant to the transaction, completed on December 1, Liberty exchanged approximately 12.8 million shares of IAC stock (consisting of approximately 8.5 million shares of Class B stock and 4.3 million shares of common stock, and representing approximately 60% of the total votes of all classes of IAC stock) for all of the capital stock of a wholly-owned subsidiary of IAC that holds the Evite and Gifts.com businesses, and approximately $220 million in cash. These assets will be attributed to the Liberty Interactive tracking stock group.

 

Immediately before Liberty’s exchange of shares with IAC, IAC Chairman and CEO Barry Diller exchanged approximately 4.3 million shares of IAC common stock held by him for an equal number of shares of Class B common stock held by Liberty.  This exchange took place pursuant to the terms of a pre-existing stockholders agreement between Mr. Diller and Liberty.

 

After giving effect to the transaction, Mr. Diller owns shares representing approximately 34% of the total votes of all classes of IAC stock, the largest individual voting stake in the company.

 

In connection with the transaction announced today, Mr. Diller was granted the right to exchange up to 1.5 million additional shares of IAC common stock he may acquire within the next 9 months for an equal number of shares of Class B stock held in the treasury of IAC.  If Mr. Diller acquires those shares, his shares will represent approximately 41% of the total votes of all classes of IAC stock.

 

Liberty and Barry Diller/IAC (and its predecessor entities) have been engaged since 1993 when Mr. Diller joined Silver King Communications, Inc., which had revenues that year of $46 million. Since then, the entities involved have grown to revenues of over $10 billion and a combined market capitalization of $13.8 billion. IAC itself has grown over 20% this year and has outperformed the S&P by 31% this year.

 

“These last 17 years of my association with John Malone and Liberty Media have been a great, and occasionally, wild ride. We began this grand tour of interactivity a few years before the internet became widely used, and we were able to create, acquire and build up substantial businesses over that time,” said Mr. Diller.  “While I’ll continue my association with Dr. Malone in Expedia, and as significant shareholders of the multiple spun-off companies, Liberty’s exit from IAC is a turning point, and I want to state my thanks and gratitude to Dr. Malone for his support and encouragement throughout (with one

 



 

brief period of mutual discontent which we both believe was an aberration). This has been a most productive partnership and I’m glad it will continue in other venues.”

 

“We are pleased to welcome Evite and Gifts.com to Liberty Interactive’s eCommerce companies,” said Dr. John Malone, Liberty Media Chairman.  “These companies are established leaders and build on our strength in specialty commerce.  Our 17-year relationship with Barry has been very beneficial in creating value for our shareholders, and this transaction represents an efficient exit for Liberty from our IAC stake.  We will continue to work together through Expedia and various other public vehicles created from our association.”

 

Also today, IAC announced that Greg Blatt, formerly Match.com’s CEO, has become the CEO of IAC and joined IAC’s Board of Directors.  Barry Diller has assumed the role of Chairman and Senior Executive.

 

“It’s been clear to me for some time that this Company needs a full time aggressive and aspirational executive in the CEO role.  While I’m  not going anywhere, IAC, with its operating businesses growing, large cash resources and virtually no debt, needs the kind of leadership that Greg Blatt can bring it in order to continue to grow and thrive many years into the future,” said Mr. Diller.  “Greg Blatt joined IAC in 2003 as General Counsel and in February 2009 we named him CEO of Match.com. Since that time, he has overseen a period of record setting performance in the business, driving revenue, profit, and subscriber growth to strong double digit levels.  The IAC Board looks forward to him bringing a similar stewardship to IAC.”

 

“As noted above, I have the right, and the intention to purchase additional shares over the next 9 months that will increase my voting share to over 40%.  I want this to be a long term holding for me and my family and I want this well capitalized and growing Company to be of enduring ambition and naming a new CEO is critical to that goal.”

 

“The one constant throughout IAC’s history has been change,” said Mr. Blatt.  “While I expect that to continue, we intend for the same emphasis on consistent operating performance and disciplined deployment of capital that have defined our recent quarters to guide our decision-making and management as we grow IAC into the future.  Our businesses are on solid footing, and our healthy balance sheet and strong operating cash flows put us in a great position to drive solid shareholder returns for the foreseeable future.  I couldn’t be more excited about the new position and the opportunities in front of IAC.”

 

Each of the principal businesses that make up IAC’s Match segment  - including Match.com, Chemistry.com, and People Media — have established leadership and general management in place that have worked directly alongside Mr. Blatt in his capacity of CEO of the Match portfolio. The businesses will continue to be run by their current leaders and will continue to report directly to Mr. Blatt in his IAC role.

 

About Greg Blatt

Mr. Blatt, 42, served as CEO of Match.com since early 2009, where he oversaw IAC’s entire Match segment during a period of record setting growth in the business.  Prior to that, he spent more than five years as IAC senior management where he was Executive Vice President, General Counsel and a

 



 

member of the Office of the Chairman, with direct responsibility for the legal, human resources and corporate communications functions. Before joining IAC, he served as Executive Vice President, Business Affairs and General Counsel, of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, where he was responsible for all legal and transactional activity. Mr. Blatt has also been an associate at Grubman Indursky & Schindler and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, two New York law firms. He has a BA from Colgate University and a JD from Columbia Law School. He serves on the Boards of HSN, Inc., Interval Leisure Group, Inc., and Meetic.

 

About IAC

IAC operates more than 50 leading and diversified Internet businesses across 30 countries... our mission is to harness the power of interactivity to make daily life easier and more productive for people all over the world. To view a full list of the companies of IAC please visit our website at www.iac.com.

 

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:  LINTA, LINTB), which includes Liberty Media’s interests in QVC, Provide Commerce, Backcountry.com, BUYSEASONS, Bodybuilding.com, and Expedia, (2) the Liberty Starz group (Nasdaq:  LSTZA, LSTZB), which includes Liberty Media’s interest in Starz Entertainment and Starz Media, LLC, and (3) the Liberty Capital group (Nasdaq:  LCAPA, LCAPB), which includes all businesses, assets and liabilities not attributed to the Interactive group or the Starz group including its subsidiaries 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 Live Nation.

 

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Contact Information:

 

 

 

IAC Communications

IAC Investor Relations

Stacy Simpson/ Leslie Cafferty

Nick Stoumpas/Lisa Jaffa

(212) 314-7470 / 7326

(212) 314-7400

 

 

Liberty Media Corporation

 

Courtnee Ulrich

 

720-875-5420

 

 


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