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One need only glance at the recent business headlines to see the hurdles Malone, now chairman of Liberty Media, faces. In Britain the premium over-the-air service ITV Digital recently shut down, and each of the country's two big remaining cable companies, Telewest (in which Liberty holds a...
To put it mildly, Malone's European strategy is a contrarian play. But that's what he has always sought. Now that many cable companies have exhausted themselves and the patience of their bankers by trying to string copper wire and coaxial cable from the North Sea to the Baltic...
That doesn't mean they haven't caught anything. Malone has already taken advantage of the depressed market, pouring in much-needed funds to gain effective control over United GlobalCom, the leading international broadband provider, which has nearly 10 million cable subscribers scattered across the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, France, Scandinavia...
Malone isn't in Europe just for the bargains. He's also looking for outlets for the programming assets in which he owns stakes through Liberty Media. Though Liberty is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, Malone owns 44.6% of the voting shares and controls the company as...
With the media and cable industries rapidly consolidating, there's not much room left for a maverick like Malone. Stripped of the enormous leverage his cable empire once gave him, Malone can no longer dictate the terms at the bargaining table. AOL and Comcast are now the gatekeepers, and content...