Unravelling Liberty

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Liberty Media recently signed a deal recently with United Pan-European Communications and its parent, UnitedGlobalCom, which will give it a 51% stake of United. As a result of the deal, Liberty is also News Corp.'s largest shareholder with an 18% stake. Liberty's John Malone says that the company now plans to spin off from parent AT&T and hold a flotation on the stock exchange.

Strategy & planning, Netherlands, United Pan-Europe Communications N.V., LBTYA, UPCO Y, UnitedGlobalCom Inc., UIHI, Liberty Media Corp.

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Hobson's choice

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Last week, Scanners lost the outside broadcast contract for BBC Wales to BBC Resources due to Greg Dyke blocking the deal at the last moment. Since it was incorporated in August 1998, Resources has posted losses of 25 million pounds sterling. The article details Resources and the Greg Dyke's management of the BBC.

Use of services, Contracts & orders received, Wales, Services for Movie, TV Production, Postproduction and Other Motion Picture and Video Industries, Services allied to motion pictures, Management, British Broadcasting Corp., Brief Article, Contracts, Dyke, Greg, BBC Resources Ltd., Scanners TV

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Hollywood under scrutiny; after the boom years of the mid-nineties for the Hollywood studios' international TV arms, European broadcasters may be more cautious in the next round of deals

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As the millennium approaches, Hollywood studios, including Columbia TriStar, Paramount, Warner Bros., Universal, Disney Buena Vista, 20th Century Fox, and MGM, are attempting to renew or replace many of the European deals they made in the mid-nineties, but they may not have much from which to choose. Although there is a greater variety of channels, buyers are probably not as apt to spend as their predecessors were. Increasing local production in many territories has led to fewer slots for U.S. programming, and consolidation seems to be favoring buyers of U.S. programming.

Europe, MOTION PICTURES, Motion Picture and Video Industries, Motion Picture & TV Production, Motion Picture Production & Services, Motion picture industry, Movie industry, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures Corp., Universal Studios Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Walt Disney Co. Walt Disney Studios, MGM-UA Entertainment Co.

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