Malone's Tepid Voom view: liberty chief: I wouldn't fund a third DBSer.(Finance)

Multichannel News, March, 2005 by Farrell, Mike

John Malone offered a less-than-ringing endorsement of efforts to keep the struggling Voom-branded satellite-TV service afloat, saying last week he wouldn't put his own money into a third satellite competitor. Malone, recently named by Cablevision Systems Corp. chairman Charles Dolan to that MSO's board of directors, told analysts oil a conference call discussing Liberty Media International results that HD-centric Voom did launch early in the high-definition product cycle.

But its edge is being eroded as HDTV programming expands elsewhere. 'WINDOW CLOSING' "I believe that window is closing for them," said Malone, LMI's chairman and CEO. "They may still be able to squeak through it. They may find an existence as a subset of one of the major two...

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