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TiVo Sees DirecTV Under Liberty As “Positive”

Do you think it’s possible that we’ll see another DirecTiVo type device?

NEW YORK, June 4 (Reuters) - TiVo Inc. (TIVO.O: Quote, Profile , Research) said on Monday it expects its relationship with DirecTV Group Inc. (DTV.N: Quote, Profile , Research) to improve after the satellite television provider is taken over by John Malone’s Liberty Media Corp. (LCAPA.O: Quote, Profile , Research).

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“Liberty is a company that has no ownership interests, now or after the DirecTV closes, in a competing DVR, and that probably changes things,” Rogers told a Deutsche Bank investor conference.

Rogers said people he knew at Liberty were fans of TiVo DVRs.

“I look at that as a positive in terms of a change of ownership though that deal hasn’t closed yet,” he added.

Control of DirecTV will be passed to Liberty as part of an $11 billion exchange of cash and assets with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Over 3 million DirecTV customers are also TiVo users.

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One Response to “TiVo Sees DirecTV Under Liberty As “Positive””

MegaZone says:
June 5th, 2007 at 7:25 pm |
I’ve been saying for a while now that the Liberty Media takeover of DirecTV offers a ray of hope. I wouldn’t hold my breath just yet, but it looks better.

BTW, what plug-in gives you the ‘Related Posts from the Past’?