TCI spins off programming assets to create Liberty Media Corp.
Charlie Collier, the president and general manager of the network, said that it had a long history of using its library of genre movies to help spin off original programming: a month of western movies preceded the debut of the network's 2006 original movie "Broken Trail," and a lineup of antihero films like "Goodfellas" helped buttress the earliest episodes of "Mad Men".
The company plans to spin off a separate program devoted exclusively to Everyday Food, according to Ms. Patrick.
When Mr. Malone decided to spin off Tele-Communications' cable programming investments from its cable systems into Liberty Media, Mr. Barton was named president of that operation, which was controlled by Mr. Malone.
As part of a deal with regulators to win approval for its acquisition of MediaOne Group Inc., the big cable carrier, AT&T agreed to take one of three steps: sell some of its cable systems outright; sell the Time Warner Entertainment stake; or spin off Liberty Media, the television programming operation controlled by John C. Malone, as an independent company.
Prudential also reiterated its "underweight" rating and $18 target price on Cablevision, saying that while there could be upside potential for the shares over the next 12 to 18 months, it continues to be concerned about management's ability to spin off its high-definition programming television service Voom.
With high oil prices and merger talks, the consensus is that no carrier in the United States is likely to spin off its frequent flier program in the near future.
C1 AT&T to Spin Off a Cable Unit AT&T, under pressure to reduce its holdings in the cable industry, will spin off Liberty Media, which owns stakes in programming companies.
Confirming an earlier announcement, the AT&T Corporation said it would spin off Liberty Media and other television programming units to satisfy regulatory conditions from its $44 billion purchase of MediaOne Group.
Last week, the company moved to take some of the time pressure off itself by announcing its plan to spin off the Liberty Media Corporation, the cable programming company it acquired with the purchase of the cable systems giant Tele-Communications Inc. in 1999.
In 1997, according to several sources, Geron planned to spin off its entire stem-cell program into a separate company, which would include West, when the plan, in the words of a scientific board member of the company, "got clobbered by the company leadership".
