News Corp completes $11bn DirecTV sale to Liberty

Alex Donohue, brandrepublic.com, 28 February 2008, 11:00AM

NEW YORK - News Corporation has completed the $11bn (£5.6bn) sale of satellite TV business DirecTV to Liberty Media, after a $10.1bn stock buyback, the largest in the company's history.

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