ABC is seeking a fee for its cable outlet, the Disney Channel, among other concessions.
Liberty holds stakes in Sprint PCS, the News Corporation, Time Warner, USA Networks and The Discovery Channel, among others.
The airline also carries Animal Planet, the Golf Channel, Home & Garden and the Weather Channel, among others.
While a few games are carried on Fox's soccer channel, among others, the league does not have a television rights deal.
Sky News had a 2.4% all day share (compared to a three month average of 0.7%) – the third popular channel among multichannel services.
ESPN, which broadcasts "Monday Night Football" and floods its week with football programming, is typically found by surveys to be the most valuable cable channel among subscribers.
It attracted 3.3 million to its premiere on Monday night and set a new first-episode record for the channel among viewers ages 12 to 34.
MSNBC has been encroaching on CNN for years, and last year it beat that channel among 25- to 54-year-old viewers in prime time.
TBS is now the No. 1 cable channel among viewers aged 18 to 34 — a group replete with O'Brien aficionados and prized by advertisers.
Reruns of "The Big Bang Theory" helped bolster TBS's ratings, making the channel the No. 1-rated cable channel among adults ages 18 to 49.
The tagline, "Lean Forward," will be publicly announced Tuesday, opening a planned two-year advertising campaign intended to raise awareness of the channel among viewers, advertisers and distributors.
