{"id":88041,"date":"2009-11-26T20:51:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T12:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/malone-directv-not-for-sale\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:47:24","slug":"malone-directv-not-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/malone-directv-not-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Malone: DirecTV Not for Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[11-26-09] <strong>DirecTV<\/strong>, which split off from its parent company <strong>Liberty Media<\/strong> on Nov. 19, is not for sale, according to Chairman John Malone.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Malone was featured in an interview with CNBC to silence industry rumors that the split with Liberty was initiated in order to sell DirecTV to <strong>AT&amp;T<\/strong> or <strong>Verizon<\/strong>. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; However, Malone said the company would at least listen to offers. &#8220;If somebody wants to buy DirectTV, they can call up Mike White or me and we\u2019ll talk to them,&#8221; said Malone in an interview, adding that a merge with a major telephone company in the United States would be difficult to clear regulatory hurdles.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DirecTV recently appointed former PepsiCo CEO Michael White as its new CEO to take office on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[11-26-09] DirecTV, which split off from its parent company Liberty Media on Nov. 19, is not for sale, according to Chairman John Malone. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Malone was featured in an interview with CNBC to silence industry rumors that the split with Liberty was initiated in order to sell DirecTV to AT&amp;T or Verizon. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; However, Malone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88156,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88041\/revisions\/88156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}