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DirecTV, Liberty brass split on Latin unit


September 18, 2008 DirecTV president and CEO Chase Casey and his chairman John Malone don't necessarily see eye to eye on the future structure of DirecTV Latin America. Greg Maffei, CEO of Malone's Liberty Media, which has a controlling stake in the satellite giant, signaled Wednesday that DirecTV Latin America could be spun off once Liberty gets full control of DirecTV. "I'm not a fan of financial re-engineering," he told the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference, adding that spinoffs and similar engineering options haven't been particularly successful.

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