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Exhibit 23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors
Liberty Media Corporation:

        We consent to the incorporation by reference in the following registration statements of Liberty Media Corporation (the Company) of our reports dated February 28, 2011, with respect to the consolidated balance sheets of Liberty Media Corporation and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2010 and 2009, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive earnings, cash flows, and equity for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2010, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2010, which reports appear in the December 31, 2010 annual report on Form 10-K of Liberty Media Corporation.

Description   Registration
statement No.
  Description
S-8   333-134115   2000 LMC Incentive Plan (amended 2/22/07)
S-8   333-142626   2007 LMC Incentive Plan
S-8   333-134114   2002 Nonemployee Director Plan (amended 8/15/07)
S-8   333-134067   LMC 401(k) Plan
S-8   333-149543   2002 Nonemployee Director Plan (amended 8/15/07)
S-8   333-149542   2000 LMC Incentive Plan (amended 2/22/07)
S-8   333-149544   2007 LMC Incentive Plan
S-8   333-149545   LMC 401(k) Plan
S-8   333-171193   2007 LMC Incentive Plan
S-8   333-171194   2002 Nonemployee Director Plan (amended 8/15/07)
S-8   333-171192   2000 LMC Incentive Plan (amended 2/22/07)

        Our report on the consolidated financial statements of Liberty Media Corporation refers to the Company's adoption, effective January 1, 2009, of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 160, Noncontrolling Interests in Consolidated Financial Statements, an amendment of ARB No. 51 (included in Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 810, Consolidation).

Denver, Colorado
February 28, 2011




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