Liberty Media: We’re ‘absolutely’ interested at looking into buying a stake in Universal Music Group

The starting pistols go off on the biggest music rights deal of the year
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Latest Industry: SAG-AFTRA/AFM, Liberty Media, XXXTentacion’s Funeral, UMG, CD Baby, More…

SAG-AFTRA and AFM sued over the Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund. SAG-AFTRA and the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) face a massive class-action lawsuit for allegedly having a conflict of interest in their administration of streamin…

Liberty: Sure, we’d buy Pandora… for $1bn less than we offered last year

Greg Maffei puts further pressure on Pandora stock price

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Sirius owner savages Spotify business model, warns of Amazon ‘commoditization’

Greg Maffei says if Liberty did buy Pandora, it would be folded into Sirius

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Sirius XM Just Added Half-a-Million Subscribers In Just 3 Months

Despite having missed their second quarterly forecast earnings, Sirius XM Satellite Radio is rapidly adding subscribers.  The company just released their second quarterly statement showing more than half a million new subscriptions added. The second quarterly report shows a 10% increase in revenue, totaling to about $1.24 billion, with Sirius XM shares (SIRI) having increased close […]

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