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Liberty Global Looks for U.K. Deals to Enhance ITV Stake Value

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Liberty Global Plc (LBTYA), said it may make investments to reap greater benefits from its minority stake in ITV, the U.K.s biggest commercial broadcaster, and has no current plans to increase that holding.

Liberty Global, the international cable company controlled by billionaire John Malone, will seek other U.K. takeovers if they are suitable, Chief Strategy Officer Jim Ryan said today at a Royal Television Society conference in London. Its important we get access to local content, he said.

Malones company, which owns cable operators from Hungary to the U.K., has been expanding into TV production and programs to drive growth as the number of cable acquisition opportunities in Europe dwindles.

Liberty Global bought a 6.4 percent stake in ITV, which has top-rated shows such as Downton Abbey and rights to European Champions League soccer coverage, from Rupert Murdochs British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc for 481 million pounds ($775 million) in July. In May, Liberty Global teamed up with Discovery Communications Inc. to buy Permira Advisers LLPs television producer All3Media, in a deal valuing the company at 550 million pounds.

Good-quality content will be increasingly hard to come by because of consolidation in the industry, Ryan said today.

ITV shares fell 0.5 percent to 217.3 pence at 2:59 p.m. in London, paring the advance to 12 percent this year and giving the company a market value of about 8.7 billion pounds.

To contact the reporter on this story: Robert Valpuesta in London at rvalpuesta@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Kenneth Wong at kwong11@bloomberg.net Robert Valpuesta, John Bowker

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Liberty Global Has "No Current Plans" to Raise ITV Stake

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John Malone's Liberty Global is continuing to explore content acquisitions but doesn't plan to boost its stake in British broadcaster ITV right now, a top executive told a Tuesday conference in London.

Speaking at the Royal Television Society conference, Jim Ryan, senior vp and chief strategy officer, explained that after selling its Chellomedia channels business to AMC Networks for $1 billion, the international cable operator has been looking to focus its content activities around four areas: production firms, sports, over-the-top (or broadband) video and free-to-air TV.

The idea is to "hang that onto [our cable] technology," he explained.

Asked about continuing market chatter that Liberty Global and Discovery Communications, in which Malone also owns a stake, could jointly acquire a 49 percent stake in the Formula 1 racing circuit, Ryan said sports is a good business for pay TV companies, and "we would want to invest more" in the space. "Formula 1 is relevant in a couple of our big markets, but we have nothing more to say," he added.

Will Liberty Global raise its stake in U.K. commercial broadcaster ITV after recently buying a small stake, as some industry observers and analysts have suggested? Ryan said: "We have no current plans to build our stake."

He highlighted that a third of Liberty Global's business and staff are now in Britain after the acquisition of cable giant Virgin Media. "We do want to enhance" that, he said. "It gives us a seat at the table inU.K. content discussions."

But Ryan also emphasized that as a cable TV giant, Liberty Global does not like ITV's renewed push for U.S-style retransmission consent payments from pay TV firms. "We don't think theretransmission debate is something we should be supporting," he said.

Ryan also explained why Discovery and Liberty Global jointly acquired U.K. production firmAll3Media, calling it an ideal content deal for Liberty Global. Saying that the company sees value in local content opportunities, he highlighted that 70 percent of All3Media's business is in Liberty Global's core markets of Britain and Germany.

"We are a big indie" that is not affiliated with any big studio, Ryan said. "So we are interested in local content opportunities."

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