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, 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


	June 30,		December 31,
	2015		2014
	amounts in millions
Fair Value Option Securities
Time Warner, Inc. (a)	$	372	363
Viacom, Inc. (b)		120	273
Other equity securities (a)		63	55
Other debt securities		25	54
Total Fair Value Option Securities		580	745
AFS and cost investments
Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. ("Live Nation") debt securities		24	24
Other AFS and cost investments		50	47
Total AFS and cost investments		74	71
	$	654	816

(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, 2015.

(b)

During the six months ended June 30, 2015, Liberty sold 1.8 million shares of Viacom common stock for approximately $122 million in proceeds.

- 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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