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, 2015

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, 2015		December 31, 2014
	amounts in millions
Fair Value Option Securities
Time Warner Inc. (a)	$	275	363
Viacom, Inc. (b)		76	273
Other equity securities		74	82
Other debt securities		25	27
Total Fair Value Option Securities		450	745
AFS and cost investments
Live Nation debt securities		24	24
Other AFS and cost investments		59	47
Total AFS and cost investments		83	71
	$	533	816

(a)

See note 9 for details regarding the number and fair value of shares pledged as collateral pursuant to certain margin loan agreements and the Braves Holdings mixed-use development facility as of December 31, 2015.

(b)

During the year ended December 31, 2015, Liberty sold 1.8 million shares of Viacom, Inc. common stock for approximately $122 million in proceeds. Shares of Viacom, Inc. common stock are no longer pledged as collateral pursuant to margin loan agreements as of December 31, 2015.

- 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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