Posted Monday, March 3rd, 2008 at 21:32 by MegaZone. Filed under TiVo Tags: Australia, DirecTV, financials, Forbes.com, Liberty Media, TiVo
TiVo reports their earnings this Wednesday and Forbes.com is running an AP earnings preview article. As I’d expect, the two main focuses are on the EchoStar appeal victory and the Comcast software roll-out, both of which happened during the last financial quarter. The analyst forecast is for a loss of 11 cents a share. TiVo has been beating analyst forecasts for the last several quarters, so we’ll see if they can repeat that. They’re also expecting a net loss of 67,000 subscribers, as DirecTV continues to shift users off the old DirecTiVo platform.
Personally, I’m curious to see if TiVo CEO Tom Rogers has anything to say about TiVo & DirecTV now that the Liberty Media acquisition of the latter is complete. He’s hinted at a possible reconciliation once the deal was closed during past financial calls. I’m also curious about the pending Australian roll-out, which is supposed to happen this month.
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Posted Saturday, March 1st, 2008 at 08:32 by MegaZone. Filed under DirecTV, TiVo Tags: Bloomberg, DirecTV, EngadgetHD, Liberty Media, News Corp, Reuters, TiVo
Liberty Media has completed their acquisition of News Corp’s shares in DirecTV. The FCC approved the deal on Monday, and the Justice Department followed suit on Tuesday, clearing the deal of any anti-trust hurdles. The full deal has Liberty giving up their 16.3% share in News Corp in return for News Corp’s controlling 41% share of DirecTV, three regional sports networks, and $625 million in cash. The total deal is valued at $13.6 billion. The acquisition has been long rumored to signal the potential return of TiVo as DirecTV’s DVR platform, as Liberty Media is also a corporate investor in TiVo. Only time will tell.
Via EngadgetHD.
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