Once again, your humble No Fenders Scribe
missed Thou Memo of Formula 1's takeover; Err purchase by Liberty Media being
announced last Wednesday due to being en route to another pilgrimage to Mount
Rainier, but I digress...
And it's scary that I found the most
information in one of Liberty's competitors FOX stories upon the transaction,
which is overly complex as pointed out by Grizzled Journo' Joe Saward in the
exchanging of share percentages that will occur during the finalizing of the
complete transfer of power to Liberty Media, who'll become rebranded as the
Formula One Group; Huh? in March, 2017.
Liberty's chairman John Malone, age 75 is the
second largest shareholder of Discovery Communications, parent company of the
Discovery Channel amongst other fast media holdings, nee Charter
Communications, Live Nation, etc.
Thus, it'll be interesting to see if the
recent shoddy treatment of Formula 1 Terrestrial TV broadcasting by NBCSN,
owned by comca$t, certainly
a competitor of Liberty's, is in any way related?
Since apparently their F1 contract expires
this year with an option for 2017, which presumably will not be exercised?
Especially since Liberty's whole aim is to add content to its media platforms,
with the NBC Family 'O television networks being content to focus upon RASSCAR'
instead...
