{"id":341799,"date":"2025-10-29T23:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/341799\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T23:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:11:12","slug":"media-mogul-john-malone-steps-down-from-liberty-media-after-decades-of-shaping-cable-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/341799\/","title":{"rendered":"Media mogul John Malone steps down from Liberty Media after decades of shaping cable TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pioneering media mogul John Malone<\/a> is stepping down as chairman of his holding companies, Liberty Media and Liberty Global, after shaping the\u00a0cable television\u00a0landscape for decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cFounding Liberty Media and serving as its Chairman has been among the most rewarding experiences of my professional life,\u201d Malone said in a statement Wednesday. <\/p>\n

\u201cWith the successful simplification of our portfolio in recent years and our operating businesses in positions of strength, I believe it is an appropriate time to step back from certain of my obligations, and I am very pleased to have Dob Bennett, my partner and colleague of 35 years, stepping into the Chairman role.<\/p>\n

\u201cDob has been involved in all key decisions throughout Liberty Media\u2019s history, and I am confident that Liberty is well-positioned for the future. I look forward to remaining actively engaged as a large Liberty shareholder and a strategic advisor to our management and board,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Malone, who founded Liberty Media in 1991, will become chairman emeritus of his companies beginning next year.<\/p>\n

The 84-year-old mogul has served on the boards of several media giants, including\u00a0Warner Bros. Discovery, Charter Communications and Qurate Retail, the parent company of QVC.<\/p>\n

\"JohnLiberty Media and Liberty Global chairman John Malone, 84, is stepping down from his position after establishing the company in 1991. REUTERS<\/p>\n

A mentor to Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav<\/a>, Malone made headlines in 2021 for criticizing CNN ahead of the merger between WarnerMedia, which owned the network, and Discovery Inc., where Malone was a top board member.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,\u201d Malone said on CNBC at the time.<\/p>\n

Malone, who describes himself as libertarian, continued criticizing CNN in September in his memoir \u201cBorn to Be Wired.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JohnIn a statement, Malone said, \u201cFounding Liberty Media and serving as its Chairman has been among the most rewarding experiences of my professional life.\u201d REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cCNN\u2019s employees, largely left of center, express their opinions too much in their news,\u201d Malone wrote in his book.<\/p>\n

In an interview with\u00a0The New York Times, Malone said Zaslav was \u201cunable to have any meaningful impact\u201d in reshaping CNN\u2019s political tone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can\u2019t help themselves,\u201d Malone\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0the paper. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so what you\u2019ve got is a left-leaning, anti-Trump news service.\u201d <\/p>\n

A CNN spokesperson rejected Malone\u2019s characterization in a statement to The Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pioneering media mogul John Malone is stepping down as chairman of his holding companies, Liberty Media and Liberty…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":341800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[37376,10755,171,168332,168333,398,173,67,132,68,1021],"class_list":{"0":"post-341799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-cable-tv","9":"tag-cnn","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-john-malone","12":"tag-liberty-media","13":"tag-media","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-warner-bros"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}