Home About Tracking Stocks News Investors ESG Careers Contact Company History Company History Asset List Executive Team Board of Directors Executive Insights The Evolution of Liberty Media Corporation For purposes of the summary below, “Old Liberty” refers to the former Liberty Media Corporation (including its predecessors) which changed its name to Liberty Interactive Corporation on September 22, 2011, and subsequently changed its name to Qurate Retail, Inc. on April 9, 2018. “New Liberty” refers to Liberty CapStarz, Inc. which changed its name to Liberty Media Corporation on September 22, 2011, in connection with the split-off transaction that occurred September 23, 2011, described below. “Liberty Media Corporation” refers to our company in its current form following the reserve spin-off of Starz on January 11, 2013, described below. January 26, 2021 Liberty Media Acquisition Corporation (LMAC) completed its IPO of 57.5 million units (the “Units”). The Units were sold for $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds to LMAC of $575 million. Concurrently with the IPO, LMAC completed the private sale of 10 million warrants to its sponsor, Liberty Media Acquisition Sponsor LLC (the “Sponsor”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Media and attributed to the Formula One Group tracking stock. View Press Release April 23, 2020 Liberty Media Corporation reattributes Live Nation and other assets and liabilities between the Formula One Group and the Liberty SiriusXM Group. View Press Release January 23, 2017 Liberty Media acquires Formula 1, the iconic global motorsports business, for a total enterprise value of $8.0 billion (attributed to the Liberty Media Group tracking stock). Following the acquisition, the Liberty Media Group tracking stock is renamed the Formula One Group and the tickers are changed from LMCA/LMCB/LMCK to FWONA/FWONB/FWONK. View Press Release April 15, 2016 Liberty Media Corporation completes its restructuring into three new tracking stocks, Liberty Media Group, Liberty Braves Group, and Liberty SiriusXM Group (NASDAQ: LMCA, LMCK, BATRA, BATRK, LSXMA, LSXMB, LSXMK; OTC: LMCB and BATRB). View Press Release November 4, 2014 Liberty Media Corporation completes the spin-off of Liberty Broadband Corporation (NASDAQ: LBRDA/B/K). View Press Release July 23, 2014 Liberty Media Corporation issues shares of its Series C common stock (NASDAQ: LMCK) to holders of its Series A and Series B common stock by means of a dividend. View Press Release January 11, 2013 Liberty Media Corporation (formerly New Liberty) and Starz complete a reverse spin-off. Liberty Media Corporation Series A and Series B common stock continue trading under NASDAQ symbols LMCA and LMCB, respectively. View Press Release November 29, 2011 New Liberty’s Series A and Series B Liberty Capital common stock begin trading under the new NASDAQ symbols LMCA and LMCB, respectively. November 28, 2011 On November 28, 2011, New Liberty completes the elimination of its tracking stock structure by converting each share of its Liberty Starz common stock into a fraction of a share of the corresponding series of Liberty Capital common stock. View Press Release September 23, 2011 Old Liberty completes the split-off of New Liberty, which held the businesses, assets, and liabilities formerly attributed to Old Liberty’s Liberty Capital Group and Liberty Starz Group, New Liberty issues its Liberty Capital Group and Liberty Starz Group tracking stock (NASDAQ: LCAPA/B and LSTZA/B, respectively). View Press Release November 19, 2009 Old Liberty completes the split-off of Liberty Entertainment, Inc. and business combination with DIRECTV (NASDAQ: DTV). The remaining businesses, assets, and liabilities not held by Liberty Entertainment, Inc. remain with Old Liberty and the Liberty Entertainment Group is redesignated as the Liberty Starz Group (NASDAQ: LSTZA/B). View Press Release March 3, 2008 Old Liberty completes its reclassification of the Liberty Capital Group tracking stock and issues a new tracking stock for the Liberty Entertainment Group (NASDAQ: LMDIA/B). View Press Release May 9, 2006 Old Liberty completes its restructuring and issues two new tracking stocks, Liberty Capital Group and Liberty Interactive Group (NASDAQ: LCAPA/B and LINTA/B, respectively). July 21, 2005 Old Liberty completes the spin-off of its ownership in Ascent Media Group, Inc. and Discovery Communications, Inc. into a separately traded company, Discovery Holding Company (NASDAQ: DISCA/B). The stock of Discovery Holding Company is distributed to existing Old Liberty stockholders as a dividend. June 7, 2004 Old Liberty completes the spin-off of its international businesses into a separate publicly traded company, Liberty Media International, Inc. (NASDAQ: LBTYA/B). The stock of Liberty Media International, Inc. is distributed to existing Old Liberty stockholders as a dividend. November 12, 2003 Old Liberty and Liberty Satellite & Technology, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LSTTA/B) merge. July 1, 2003 Old Liberty and Ascent Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGIA) (formerly known as Liberty Livewire Corporation) merge. January 1, 2002 Old Liberty Series A common stock begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol L. Old Liberty Series B common stock continues to trade under the symbol LMC.B. August 10, 2001 Old Liberty splits from AT&T and begins trading as a separate company on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols LMC.A and LMC.B. March 9, 1999 Tele-Communications, Inc., and AT&T merge. As a result, Liberty Media Group becomes a tracking stock of AT&T. Liberty Media Group tracking stock begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols LMG.A and LMG.B. TCI Ventures, Inc. (NASDAQ: TCIVA/B) merges with Liberty Media Group. November 19, 1998 Tele-Communications International, Inc. (NASDAQ: TINTA/B) merges with Liberty Media Group. August 10, 1995 Tele-Communications, Inc. issues Liberty Media Group tracking stock to stockholders. The tracking stock trades on NASDAQ under the same symbols LBTYA and LBTYB. August 4, 1994 Old Liberty merges with Tele-Communications, Inc. March 28, 1991 Old Liberty trades publicly for the first time on NASDAQ under the symbols LBTYA and LBTYB. LOOKING FOR ©2021 Liberty Media Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy Disclaimer Sitemap Manage Cookie Preferences Hi! Could we please enable some additional services for Analytics, Marketing, Functionality, Strictly Necessary & Security? You can always change or withdraw your consent later. Let me choose... I declineThat's ok