Liberty Media Corporation Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Investments In Available-For-Sale Securities And Other Cost Investments (Tables)

Investments In Available-For-Sale Securities And Other Cost Investments (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2014

Investments In Available-For-Sale Securities And Other Cost Investments

Available-for-sale Securities, Including Fair Value Option Securities Separately Aggregated, and Other Cost Investments


	December 31, 2014		December 31, 2013
	amounts in millions
Fair Value Option Securities
Time Warner Inc. (a)	$	363	297
Time Warner Cable (a)(b)		—	320
Viacom, Inc. (a)		273	317
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (c)		27	255
Other equity securities		55	37
Other debt securities		27	27
Total Fair Value Option Securities		745	1,253
AFS and cost investments
Live Nation debt securities		24	24
Other AFS and cost investments		47	47
Total AFS and cost investments		71	71
	$	816	1,324

(a)

See note 10 for details regarding the number and fair value of shares pledged as collateral pursuant to certain margin loan agreements as of December 31, 2014 and 2013.

(b)

As discussed in note 1, Liberty’s former investment in Time Warner Cable was spun off to stockholders as part of the Broadband Spin-Off, which was completed on November 4, 2014.

(c)

In April 2014 Liberty reduced its overall ownership interest in Barnes & Noble, Inc. to less than 2% through the sale of approximately 90% of the preferred stock held by Liberty as of such date for $247 million in proceeds.

Unrealized Holdings Gains And Losses


	December 31, 2014			December 31, 2013
	Equity		Debt	Equity	Debt
	securities		securities	securities	securities
	amounts in millions
Gross unrealized holding gains	$	—	—	6	1
Gross unrealized holding losses	$	—	—	—	—

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of available-for-sale securities which includes, but is not limited to, changes in the cost basis and fair value, fair value and gross unrealized gain (loss), fair values by type of security, contractual maturity and classification, amortized cost basis, contracts to acquire securities to be accounted for as available-for-sale, debt maturities, transfers to trading, change in net unrealized holding gain (loss) net of tax, continuous unrealized loss position fair value, aggregate losses qualitative disclosures, other than temporary impairment (OTTI) losses or other disclosures related to available for sale securities.

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- Definition

Tabular disclosure of the realized and unrealized gains and losses reported in the statement of income which have resulted from the sale and holding of marketable securities, respectively, as well as the sale or disposal of cost method investments. Such amounts would include realized gains and losses on the sale or disposal of trading, available-for-sale, and held-to-maturity securities, unrealized gains and losses on trading securities, unrealized gains and losses on available-for-sale and held-to-maturity securities transferred to the trading securities category, realized gains and losses on the sale or disposal of cost method investments, and losses recognized for other than temporary impairments (OTTI) of such investments.

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