Liberty Media Corporation
12300 Liberty Boulevard
Englewood, Colorado 80112
March 26, 2009
By Facsimile and EDGAR
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
One Station Place
100 F Street, NE
Washington, D.C. 20549-3628
Attention: Perry J. Hindin
Special Counsel, Division of Corporation Finance
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Liberty Media Corporation
Schedule TO-I
Filed March 9, 2009
File No. 5-81951 |
Dear Mr. Hindin:
Liberty Media Corporation (the Company) has filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended (the Exchange Act), Amendment No. 2 (Amendment No. 2), to its Tender Offer Statement
on Schedule TO-I (File No. 5-81951), originally filed on March 9, 2009 and amended on March 20,
2009 (the Tender Offer Statement). The Tender Offer Statement relates to the Companys offer to
exchange certain outstanding options to purchase shares of the Companys Series A Liberty
Interactive common stock, par value $0.01 per share (LINTA shares), for new options to purchase
LINTA shares on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Companys Offer to
Exchange dated March 9, 2009 (as amended, the Offer to Exchange).
On March 16, 2009, the Staff of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the
Commission), sent to Robert W. Murray Jr., of Baker Botts L.L.P., a comment letter (the Comment
Letter) regarding the Tender Offer Statement, and the Company responded to the Comment Letter on
March 20, 2009. On March 24, 2009, you had a telephone conversation with John Winter of Baker
Botts L.L.P. in which you indicated that the Staff of the Commission was reissuing Comment No. 4
contained in the Comment Letter. Set forth below is the Companys supplemental response to Comment
No. 4.
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Schedule TO-I
Offer to Exchange
Conditions of the Exchange Offer, page 35
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Comment 4: |
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We note the representation in the penultimate paragraph of this section that the company
may assert the conditions regardless of the circumstances giving rise to such conditions. Please
revise to remove the implication that the offer conditions may be triggered through action or
inaction by the company. |
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The Company has made the requested revision by deleting the phrase and may be asserted by us
regardless of the circumstances giving rise to any such condition, in the Offer to Exchange.
Please see numbered paragraph 1 of Amendment No. 2. |
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If you have any questions with respect to the foregoing responses to or require further
information, please contact Robert W. Murray Jr. of Baker Botts L.L.P. at (212) 408-2540.
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Very truly yours, |
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LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION |
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By:
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/s/ Pamela L. Coe
Pamela L. Coe
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Title:
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Vice President and Deputy General
Counsel |
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Robert W. Murray Jr.
Baker Botts L.L.P. |
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