Company History

Present

• December 1992

  Initial Liberty investment in HSN

• July 1997 - June 1998

  HSN (IAC) acquires Ticketmaster

• May 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)

• August 2008

  Ticketmaster spun off from IAC into separately traded company

• January 2010

  Ticketmaster and Live Nation merge

  • Liberty owns 24.5m shares (14.6% stake)
  • Liberty completes series of private purchases and tender offer throughout the year to increase stake to 18.4%

• February - June 2011

  Liberty purchases 7.3m additional shares through subscription agreement, increasing ownership to 20.7%

• September 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)

• November 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

• November 2011

  New Liberty's Series A and Series B Liberty Capital common stock begin trading under the new NASDAQ symbols LMCA and LMCB, respectively

• May 2012

  Liberty Media purchases 9.5m additional shares through a forward contract, bringing ownership to 25.6%

• January - March 2013

  Liberty Media acquires 3.3m additional shares through series of market purchases, increasing stake to 26.0%

• May 2014

  Liberty Media acquires 1.7m additional shares via market purchase, increasing stake to 26.8%

• September 2015

  Liberty Media acquires 15.9m additional shares through a forward contract, bringing total shares owned to 69.6m, and ownership stake of 34.4%

• April 2016

  Liberty Media 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). Liberty's Live Nation stake is 34.0%

• January 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. Liberty's Live Nation stake is 33.5%

• April 2020

  Liberty Media reattributes Live Nation and other assets and liabilities between the Formula One Group and the Liberty SiriusXM Group. Liberty's Live Nation stake is 31.9%

• August 2023

  Liberty Media Corporation completes its reclassification into three new tracking stocks, Liberty SiriusXM Group, Formula One Group, and Liberty Live Group (NASDAQ: LSXMA, LSXMB, LSXMK, FWONA, FWONK, LLYVA, LLYVK; OTC: FWONB and LLYVB). Liberty's Live Nation stake is 30.2%

• January 2024

  Liberty Media acquires Quint, an industry-leading provider of ticket and hospitality packages to sports and entertainment events globally. Quint is attributed to Liberty Media's Formula One Group tracking stock. Liberty's Live Nation stake is 29.8%

• December 2025

  Liberty Media completes Split-Off of Liberty Live Group into Liberty Live Holdings, a separate publicly traded company. As a result of the Split-Off, Liberty and Liberty Live Holdings are separate publicly traded companies, and Liberty no longer has a tracking stock structure. Prior to the split-off, Quint and other private assets were reattributed from Liberty’s Formula One Group to Liberty’s Liberty Live Group