Liberty Media Corporation Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

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

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

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 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

Investments in AFS securities, including Fair Value Option Securities separately aggregated, and other cost investments are summarized as follows:



	June 30, 2014		December 31, 2013
	amounts in millions
Fair Value Option Securities
Time Warner, Inc. (a)	$	299	297
Time Warner Cable, Inc. (a)	348		320
Viacom, Inc. (a)	315		317
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (b)	27		255
Other equity securities	51		37
Other debt securities	27		27
Total Fair Value Option Securities	1,067		1,253
AFS and cost investments
Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. ("Live Nation") debt securities	24		24
Other AFS and cost investments	38		47
Total AFS and cost investments	62		71
	$	1,129	1,324


(a)	See note 8 for details regarding the number and fair value of shares pledged as collateral pursuant to certain margin loan agreements as of June 30, 2014.


(b)	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

Unrealized holding gains and losses related to investments in AFS securities are summarized below.



	June 30, 2014			December 31, 2013
	Equity securities		Debt securities	Equity securities	Debt securities
	amounts in millions
Gross unrealized holding gains	$	2	—	6	1
Gross unrealized holding losses	$	—	—	—	—

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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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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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