JOHN MALONE

Liberty Media Chairman told CNBC he's doubtful that adding commercials to long-form streaming content would help media companies be successful in the long run.

The first steps toward change at CNN have been slow and incremental — at least until the network cancelled its long-running media criticism show ‘Reliable Sources’ and cut loose its host, Brian Stelter.

Host says, ‘It is not partisan to stand up for decency and democracy and dialogue,’ after CNN cancels media show Reliable Sources

A publicly traded Starz may look to increase in size by targeting other subscale media and entertainment companies.

The abrupt ouster of CNN chief executive Jeff Zucker because of a workplace relationship has left some prominent employees feeling angry and uncertain about the direction of their network at a pivotal moment.

Liberty Media's John Malone recalled attempts to have DirecTV purchase Netflix, when he was chairman of the satellite-television service from 2008 to 2010.

There's a place for CNN in the proposed $43 billion combination of WarnerMedia and Discovery, billionaire media mogul John Malone told CNBC.

Liberty Media Chairman John Malone said the sizzling IPO market and soaring equity valuations remind him of the dotcom bubble in the late 1990s.

AT&T decided regulatory and ownership challenges were too fraught to merge WarnerMedia with NBCUniversal, according to Discovery shareholder John Malone.

Billionaire media mogul John Malone told CNBC's David Faber that Discovery's global presence will be particularly beneficial for WarnerMedia's HBO Max.

On today's show, Lora Kolodny breaks down the news that Michael Burry's regulatory filings revealed a short position against Tesla. Plus, Alex Sherman explains how the WarnerMedia merger with Discovery puts NBCUniversal and ViacomCBS on notice. Michael Burry of 'The Big Short' reveals a $530 million bet against TeslaFamed investor Michael Burry on Monday revealed in a regulatory filing a short position against Tesla worth more than half a billion. As of March 31, Burry owned 8,001 put contracts, with unknown value, strike price, or expiry, according to the filing. Given that context, it may not be surprising that WarnerDiscovery -- the leading candidate for a name, according to a person familiar with the matter -- is structuring itself for a future sale.

John Malone was willing to give up super-voting shares in Discovery to make a future sale easier, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.

Suddenly, both ViacomCBS and NBCUniversal seem subscale compared as they attempt to put together global streaming services.

Liberty Media Chairman John Malone told CNBC that Amazon, Apple or Roku could dominate in the crowded streaming space given their ability to scale globally. "I think these global platforms will be enormously powerful," Malone said in an interview that aired Thursday with CNBC's David Faber. It looks increasingly like that's going to be, you know, Amazon ... or it's going to be Apple, or it's going to be Roku. The largest U.S. media companies, including Disney, Comcast's NBCUniversal, AT&T's Warner Media, have launched their own streaming services, while the entertainment world is being disrupted by tech giants like Apple and Amazon. Malone said Amazon and Apple are providing "extremely high quality services" and meeting consumer needs, while Roku, which aggregates content on its platform, is well-positioned for growth in the long run.

Liberty Media Chairman John Malone said hard assets look attractive as the unprecedented coronavirus stimulus is poised to lead to a depreciation in currencies. "We've survived this [pandemic] because of enormous fiscal and monetary stimulus," Malone said in an interview that aired Thursday with CNBC's David Faber. "And I've got to believe this will lead to devaluation of currencies, that hard assets ... will increase in value in currency terms. Hard assets refers to tangible assets including real estate and commodities. "I've been trying to invest or diversify into hard assets," Malone said.

Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei believes the company is well positioned to capitalize on the growing popularity of podcasts and other audio content. Maffei, who joined CNBC's David Faber from Liberty's investor day in New York, said that while there is competition for audio content, exclusive agreements should prove lucrative over time. "We have an exclusive with Marvel, we have an exclusive now with Lebron James called 'Uninterrupted,'" he continued. I think there's an opportunity to see increases in how podcasts and other forms of audio content are monetized," Maffei said. "Yes, there's a little bit of a bidding war for audio content, but you can't spend on audio.

Liberty Media Chairman John Malone has some reservations about HBO's bid to enter an extremely crowded streaming market. AT&T's WarnerMedia announced last month its HBO Max streaming service will launch in the U.S. in May of 2020. "The way I look at it is in the U.S., if you wanted HBO, you already have HBO. AT&T aims to reach 75 to 90 million subscribers by 2025, WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey said previously. The company said it will spend $4 billion over the next three years building HBO Max.

John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media and Liberty Global, and CEO of Discovery Holding, arrives at the conference. Getty ImagesThe Trump White House "is chaos" and the president isn't the right person to lead the United States, media mogul and Liberty Media Chairman John Malone said Thursday. "Look: I think a lot of the things Trump has tried to do identifying problems and trying to solve them has been great. I just don't think he's the right guy to do it," Malone told CNBC's David Faber from New York. Instead, Liberty's Malone said he'd vote for former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg in the 2020 presidential election despite his own reservations as a pronounced libertarian.

Liberty Media Chairman John Malone thinks that Apple could stun investors down the road as a winner in the intense streaming wars that have engulfed Silicon Valley and Hollywood in a bid for viewers and content alike. "Apple is going to surprise everyone with numbers they achieve in a short period of time. On Amazon, Malone said the company's video unit will evolve to be "a bundler of other peoples' services." The Liberty Media chairman also is a director on the board of Discovery Communications, which closed its $15 billion acquisition of Scripps Networks in March of 2018. Correction: Discovery Communications closed its acquisition of Scripps Networks in March of 2018.

Liberty Media Chairman John Malone took issue with SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son's investment approach in light of the botched WeWork IPO. He's got a balance sheet no one can understand," Malone told CNBC's David Faber in an exclusive interview Thursday. WeWork pulled its IPO filing in September after investors balked at its mounting losses and unusual corporate governance structure. "I look at each one of these deep-loss businesses ... you've got to have to have an argument that the scale will improve the marginal economics," Malone said. "I never quite understood Uber and I never quite understood why Dara took the job," Malone said of Dara Khosrowshahi, who succeeded CEO Travis Kalanick in 2017 following a series of scandals.