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Quick profile on John Malone, for those that don't know.

He's the majority shareholder and Chairman of Liberty Media and Liberty Global who now/will own Virgin Media.

He has been involved in UK cable for almost 30 years, buying up a cableco in Croydon. This company latter became Telewest, which he was the majority shareholder of for many years. Telewest and ntl merged 6 years ago and the merged company became virgin media.

His old company TCI (Tele Communications Inc) was the largest cableco in the States for years until it was sold.

He has owned/or still owns shareholdings in many media interests, including viacom, discovery, time warner. He owns Chello Media which has a half interest in the CBS channels, horror ch, extreme sports ch.

He used to own Flextech, the company that owned UK Gold, Trouble, Bravo etc.

Arch rival to Rupert Murdoch, almost took Murdoch's News Corporation company away from him.

Once the vm deal is done, Liberty will be the biggest cableco in the world.