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UNITED STATES
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Washington, D.C. 20549



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LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION
12300 Liberty Boulevard
Englewood, Colorado 80112
(720) 875-5400

July 8, 2016

April 24, 2019​
Dear Stockholder:

You are cordially invited to attend the 20162019 annual meeting of stockholders of Liberty Media Corporation (Liberty Media) to be held at 8:1500 a.m., local time, on August 23, 2016,May 30, 2019, at the corporate offices of Starz, 8900 Liberty Circle,Media, 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112, telephone (720) 852-7700.

875-5400.

At the annual meeting, you will be asked to consider and vote on the proposals described in the accompanying notice of annual meeting and proxy statement, as well as on such other business as may properly come before the meeting.

Your vote is important, regardless of the number of shares you own. Whether or not you plan to attend the annual meeting, please read the enclosed proxy materials and then promptly vote via the Internet or telephone or if you received a paper proxy card, by completing, signing and returning by mail the enclosed proxy cardcard.. Doing so will not prevent you from later revoking your proxy or changing your vote at the meeting.

Thank you for your cooperation and continued support and interest in Liberty Media.

Very truly yours,
Very truly yours,
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Gregory B. Maffei
SIGNATURE

Gregory B. Maffei
President and Chief Executive Officer

The Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials is first being mailed on or about July 13, 2016, and theChief Executive Officer

The proxy materials relating to the annual meeting will first be made available on or about the same date.

April 29, 2019.

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LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION
12300 Liberty Boulevard
Englewood, Colorado 80112
(720) 875-5400



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
to be Held on August 23, 2016

May 30, 2019

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the annual meeting of stockholders of Liberty Media Corporation (Liberty Media) to be held at 8:1500 a.m., local time, on August 23, 2016,May 30, 2019, at the corporate offices of Starz, 8900 Liberty Circle,Media, 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112, telephone (720) 852-7700,875-5400, to consider and vote on the following proposals:
1.

    1.

A proposal (which we refer to as theelection of directors proposal) to elect John C. Malone, Robert R. Bennett and M. Ian G. Gilchrist to continue serving as Class III members of our board until the 20192022 annual meeting of stockholders or their earlier resignation or removal; and
2.

2.
A proposal (which we refer to as theauditors ratification proposal) to ratify the selection of KPMG LLP as our independent auditors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2016.

2019.

You may also be asked to consider and vote on such other business as may properly come before the annual meeting.

Holders of record of our Series A Liberty SiriusXM common stock, par value $0.01 per share, Series A Liberty Braves common stock, par value $0.01 per share, Series A Liberty MediaFormula One common stock, par value $0.01 per share, Series B Liberty SiriusXM common stock, par value $0.01 per share, Series B Liberty Braves common stock, par value $0.01 per share, and Series B Liberty MediaFormula One common stock, par value $0.01 per share, in each case, outstanding as of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on July 1, 2016,April 8, 2019, therecord date for the annual meeting, will be entitled to notice of the annual meeting and to vote at the annual meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof. These holders will vote together as a single class on each proposal. A list of stockholders entitled to vote at the annual meeting will be available at our offices at 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112 for review by our stockholders for any purpose germane to the annual meeting for at least ten days prior to the annual meeting. The holders of record of our Series C Liberty SiriusXM common stock, par value $0.01 per share, Series C Liberty Braves common stock, par value $0.01 per share, and Series C Liberty MediaFormula One common stock, par value $0.01 per share, are not entitled to any voting powers, except as required by Delaware law, and may not vote on the proposals to be presented at the annual meeting.

We describe the proposals in more detail in the accompanying proxy statement. We encourage you to read the proxy statement in its entirety before voting.

Our board of directors has unanimously approved each of the election of directors proposal and the auditors ratification proposal and recommends that you vote "FOR" the election of each director nominee and "FOR" the auditors ratification proposal.


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Votes may be cast in person at the annual meeting or by proxy prior to the meeting by telephone, via the Internet, or by mail.


Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials For the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be Held on May 30, 2019: our Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders, Proxy Statement, and 2018 Annual Report to Stockholders are available at www.proxyvote.com.
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YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT. Voting promptly, regardless of the number of shares you own, will aid us in reducing the expense of any further proxy solicitation in connection with the annual meeting.

By order of the board of directors,




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Pamela L. Coe
Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Secretary

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Pamela L. Coe
Senior Vice President and Secretary
Englewood, Colorado
July 8, 2016

April 24, 2019

WHETHER OR NOT YOU INTEND TO BE PRESENT AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, PLEASE VOTE PROMPTLY VIA TELEPHONE OR ELECTRONICALLY VIA THE INTERNET. ALTERNATIVELY, IF YOU RECEIVED A PAPER PROXY CARD, PLEASE COMPLETE, SIGN AND RETURN BY MAIL THE ENCLOSED PAPER PROXY CARD.


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PROXY STATEMENT SUMMARY

THE ANNUAL MEETING

Notice and Access of Proxy Materials

Electronic Delivery

Time, Place and Date

Purpose

Quorum

Who May Vote

Votes Required

Votes You Have

Recommendation of Our Board of Directors

Shares Outstanding

Number of Holders

Voting Procedures for Record Holders

Voting Procedures for Shares Held in Street Name

Revoking a Proxy

Solicitation of Proxies

Other Matters to Be Voted on at the Annual Meeting

SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial
Owners

Security Ownership of Management

Changes in Control

PROPOSALS OF OUR BOARD

PROPOSAL 1—THE ELECTION OF
DIRECTORS PROPOSAL

Board of Directors

Vote and Recommendation

PROPOSAL 2—THE AUDITORS
RATIFICATION PROPOSAL

Audit Fees and All Other Fees

Policy on Pre-Approval of Audit and Permissible Non-Audit Services of Independent Auditor

Vote and Recommendation

MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE MATTERS

Executive Officers

Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance

Code of Ethics

Director Independence

Board Composition

Board Leadership Structure

Board Role in Risk Oversight

Committees of the Board of Directors

Board Meetings

Director Attendance at Annual Meetings

Stockholder Communication with Directors

Executive Sessions

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

Compensation Discussion and Analysis

Summary Compensation Table

Executive Compensation Arrangements

Grants of Plan-Based Awards

Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End

Option Exercises and Stock Vested

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Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans

Potential Payments Upon Termination or
Change-in-Control

DIRECTOR COMPENSATION

Nonemployee Directors

Director Compensation Table

EQUITY COMPENSATION PLAN INFORMATION

CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

STOCKHOLDER PROPOSALS

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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PROXY STATEMENT SUMMARY
2019 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
WHEN
8:00 a.m., local time, on May 30, 2019
WHERE
The Corporate Offices of Liberty Media
12300 Liberty Boulevard
Englewood, Colorado 80112
RECORD DATE
5:00 p.m., New York City time, on April 8, 2019
ITEMS OF BUSINESS
1.
Election of directors proposal—To elect John C. Malone, Robert R. Bennett and M. Ian G. Gilchrist to continue serving as Class III members of our board until the 2022 annual meeting of stockholders or their earlier resignation or removal.
2.
Auditors ratification proposal—To ratify the selection of KPMG LLP as our independent auditors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019.

Such other business as may properly come before the annual meeting.
WHO MAY VOTE
Holders of shares of LSXMA, LSXMB, BATRA, BATRB, FWONA and FWONB. Holders of shares of LSXMK, FWONK, and BATRK are NOT eligible to vote at the annual meeting.
PROXY VOTING
Stockholders of record on the record date are entitled to vote by proxy in the following ways:
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By calling 1-800-690-6903
(toll free) in the United States or
Canada
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Online at
www.proxyvote.com
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By returning a properly
completed, signed and dated
proxy card
ANNUAL MEETING AGENDA AND VOTING RECOMMENDATIONS
ProposalVoting
Recommendation
Page Reference
(for more detail)
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Auditors ratification proposalFOR23
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LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION
a Delaware corporation
12300 Liberty Boulevard
Englewood, Colorado 80112
(720) 875-5400

PROXY STATEMENT
FOR ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

For Annual Meeting of Stockholders

We are furnishing this proxy statement in connection with the board of directors'directors’ solicitation of proxies for use at our 20162019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held at 8:1500 a.m., local time, at the corporate offices of Starz, 8900 Liberty Circle,Media, 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112 on August 23, 2016,May 30, 2019, or at any adjournment or postponement of the annual meeting. At the annual meeting, we will ask you to consider and vote on the proposals described in the accompanying Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The proposals are described in more detail in this proxy statement. We are soliciting proxies from holders of our Series A Liberty SiriusXM common stock, par value $0.01 per share (LSXMA), Series A Liberty Braves common stock, par value $0.01 per share (BATRA), Series A Liberty MediaFormula One common stock, par value $0.01 per share (FWONALMCA), Series B Liberty SiriusXM common stock, par value $0.01 per share (LSXMB), Series B Liberty Braves common stock, par value $0.01 per share (BATRB), and Series B Liberty MediaFormula One common stock, par value $0.01 per share (FWONBLMCB). The holders of our Series C Liberty SiriusXM common stock, par value $0.01 per share (LSXMK), Series C Liberty Braves common stock, par value $0.01 per share (BATRK), and Series C Liberty MediaFormula One common stock, par value $0.01 per share (FWONKLMCK), are not entitled to any voting powers, except as required by Delaware law, and may not vote on the proposals to be presented at the annual meeting. We refer to LSXMA, LSXMB, LSXMK, BATRA, BATRB, BATRK, LMCA, LMCBFWONA, FWONB and LMCKFWONK together as ourcommon stock.


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Notice and Access of Proxy Materials

        We have elected, in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Commission's "Notice and Access" rule, to deliver a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials (theNotice) to our stockholders and to post our proxy statement and our annual report to our stockholders (collectively, theproxy materials) electronically. The Notice is first being mailed to our stockholders on or about July 13, 2016. The proxy materials will first be made available to our stockholders on or about the same date.

        The Notice instructs you how to access and review the proxy materials and how to submit your proxy via the Internet or by telephone. The Notice also instructs you how to request and receive a paper copy of the proxy materials, including a proxy card or voting instruction form, at no charge. We will not mail a paper copy of the proxy materials to you unless specifically requested to do so.

Electronic Delivery

Registered stockholders may elect to receive future notices and proxy materials by e-mail. To sign up for electronic delivery, go towww.proxyvote.comwww.computershare.com/investor. Stockholders who hold shares through a bank, brokerage firm or other nominee may sign up for electronic delivery when voting by Internet atwww.proxyvote.comwww.proxyvote.com, by following the prompts. Also, stockholders who hold shares through a bank, brokerage firm or other nominee may sign up for electronic delivery by contacting their nominee. Once you sign up, you will not receive a printed copy of the notices and proxy materials, unless you request them. If you are a registered stockholder, you may suspend electronic delivery of the notices and proxy materials at any time by contacting our transfer agent, Computershare,Broadridge, at 866-367-6355(888) 789-8415 (outside the


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United States 1-781-575-3400)(303) 562-9273). Stockholders who hold shares through a bank, brokerage firm or other nominee should contact their nominee to suspend electronic delivery.

Time, Place and Date

The annual meeting of stockholders is to be held at 8:1500 a.m., local time, on August 23, 2016,May 30, 2019, at the corporate offices of Starz, 8900 Liberty Circle,Media, 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112, telephone (720) 852-7700.

875-5400.

Purpose

At the annual meeting, you will be asked to consider and vote on each of the following:


the election of directors proposal, to elect John C. Malone, Robert R. Bennett and M. Ian G. Gilchrist to continue serving as Class III members of our board until the 20192022 annual meeting of stockholders or their earlier resignation or removal; and


the auditors ratification proposal, to ratify the selection of KPMG LLP as our independent auditors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2016.

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You may also be asked to consider and vote on such other business as may properly come before the annual meeting, although we are not aware at this time of any other business that might come before the annual meeting.

Quorum

In order to conduct the business of the annual meeting, a quorum must be present. This means that the holders of at least a majority of the aggregate voting power represented by the shares of our common stock outstanding on the record date and entitled to vote at the annual meeting must be represented at the annual meeting either in person or by proxy. For purposes of determining a quorum, your shares will be included as represented at the meeting even if you indicate on your proxy that you abstain from voting. If a broker, who is a record holder of shares, indicates on a form of proxy that the broker does not have discretionary authority to vote those shares on a particular proposal or proposals, or if those shares are voted in circumstances in which proxy authority is defective or has been withheld, those shares (broker non-votes) will nevertheless be treated as present for purposes of determining the presence of a quorum. See "—“—Voting Procedures for Shares Held in Street Name—Effect of Broker Non-Votes"Non-Votes” below.

Who May Vote

Holders of shares of LSXMA, LSXMB, BATRA, BATRB, LMCAFWONA and LMCB,FWONB, as recorded in our stock register as of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on July 1, 2016April 8, 2019 (such date and time therecord date for the annual meeting), will be entitled to notice of the annual meeting and to vote at the annual meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

Votes Required

Each director nominee who receives a plurality of the combined voting power of the outstanding shares of our common stock present in person or represented by proxy at the annual meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors at the annual meeting, voting together as a single class, will be elected to the office.

Approval of the auditors ratification proposal requires the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the aggregatecombined voting power of the outstanding shares of our common stock that are present in person or by proxy, and entitled to vote at the annual meeting, voting together as a single class.


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Votes You Have

At the annual meeting, holders of shares of LSXMA, BATRA and LMCAFWONA will have one vote per share, and holders of shares of LSXMB, BATRB and LMCBFWONB will have ten votes per share, in each case, that our records show are owned as of the record date. Holders of LSXMK, BATRK and LMCKFWONK will not be eligible to vote at the annual meeting.

Recommendation of Our Board of Directors

        Our board of directors has unanimously approved each of the election of directors proposal and the auditors ratification proposal and recommends that you vote "FOR" the election of each director nominee and "FOR" the auditors ratification proposal.

Recommendation of Our
Board of Directors
Our board of directors has unanimously approved each of the proposals and recommends that you vote “FOR” the election of each director nominee and “FOR” the auditors ratification proposal.
Shares Outstanding

As of the record date, an aggregate of 102,319,578approximately 102,866,000 shares of LSXMA, 9,870,9569,822,000 shares of LSXMB, 10,229,80610,249,000 shares of BATRA, 986,828982,000 shares of BATRB, 25,570,75125,680,000 shares of LMCAFWONA and 2,466,8212,453,000 shares of LMCBFWONB were issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at the annual meeting.

Number of Holders

There were, as of the record date, 1,2761,153 and 8665 record holders of LSXMA and LSXMB, respectively, 8041,681 and 5241 record holders of BATRA and BATRB, respectively, and 892817 and 7159 record holders of LMCAFWONA and LMCB,FWONB, respectively (which amounts do not include the number of stockholders whose shares are held of record by banks, brokers or other nominees, but include each such institution as one holder).

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Voting Procedures for Record Holders

Holders of record of LSXMA, LSXMB, BATRA, BATRB, LMCAFWONA and LMCBFWONB as of the record date may vote in person at the annual meeting, by telephone or through the Internet. Alternatively, if they received a paper proxy card, they may give a proxy by completing, signing, dating and returning the proxy card by mail. Instructions for voting by using the telephone or the Internet are printed on the Notice orproxy voting instructions attached to the proxy card. In order to vote through the Internet, holders should have their Notices or proxy cards available so they can input the required information from the Notice or the proxy card, and log onto the Internet website address shown on the Notice or proxy card. When holders log onto the Internet website address, they will receive instructions on how to vote their shares. The telephone and Internet voting procedures are designed to authenticate votes cast by use of a personal identification number, which will be provided to each voting stockholder separately. Unless subsequently revoked, shares of our common stock represented by a proxy submitted as described herein and received at or before the annual meeting will be voted in accordance with the instructions on the proxy.

YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT. It is recommended that you vote by proxy even if you plan to attend the annual meeting. You may change your vote at the annual meeting.

If you submit a properly executed proxy without indicating any voting instructions as to a proposal enumerated in the Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders, the shares represented by the proxy will be voted "FOR" the election of each director nominee and "FOR" the auditors ratification proposal.

If you submit a proxy indicating that you abstain from voting as to a proposal, it will have no effect on the election of directors proposal and will have the same effect as a vote "AGAINST" the auditors ratification proposal.

If you do not submit a proxy or you do not vote in person at the annual meeting, your shares will not be counted as present and entitled to vote for purposes of determining a quorum, and your failure


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to vote will have no effect on determining whether any of the proposals are approved (if a quorum is present).

Voting Procedures for Shares Held in Street Name

        General.

General
If you hold your shares in the name of a broker, bank or other nominee, you should follow the instructions provided by your broker, bank or other nominee when voting your shares or to grant or revoke a proxy. The rules and regulations of the New York Stock Exchange and The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (Nasdaq) prohibit brokers, banks and other nominees from voting shares on behalf of their clients with respect to numerous matters, including, in our case, the election of directors proposal. Accordingly, to ensure your shares held in street name are voted on these matters, we encourage you to provide promptly specific voting instructions to your broker, bank or other nominee.

Effect of Broker Non-Votes.Non-Votes
Broker non-votes are counted as shares of our common stock present and entitled to vote for purposes of determining a quorum but will have no effect on any of the proposals. You should follow the directions your broker, bank or other nominee provides to you regarding how to vote your shares of LSXMA, BATRA, LMCA,FWONA, LSXMB, BATRB or LMCBFWONB or how to change your vote or revoke your proxy.

Revoking a Proxy

If you submitted a proxy prior to the start of the annual meeting, you may change your vote by voting in person at the annual meeting or by delivering a signed proxy revocation or a new signed proxy with a later date to Liberty Media Corporation,Vote Processing, c/o Computershare Trust Company, N.A., P.O. Box 43102, Providence, Rhode Island 02940.Broadridge, 51 Mercedes Way, Edgewood, NY 11717. Any signed proxy revocation or later-dated proxy must be received before the start of the annual meeting. In addition, you may change your vote through the Internet or by telephone (if you originally voted by the corresponding method) not later than 2:00 a.m.11:59 p.m., New York City time, on August 23, 2016.

May 29, 2019.

Your attendance at the annual meeting will not, by itself, revoke a prior vote or proxy from you.

If your shares are held in an account by a broker, bank or other nominee, you should contact your nominee to change your vote or revoke your proxy.

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Solicitation of Proxies

We are soliciting proxies by means of our proxy statement and our annual report (together, theproxy materials) on behalf of our board of directors. In addition to this mailing, our employees may solicit proxies personally or by telephone. We pay the cost of soliciting these proxies. We also reimburse brokers and other nominees for their expenses in sending the Notice and, if requested, paper proxy materials to you and getting your voting instructions.

If you have any further questions about voting or attending the annual meeting, please contact Liberty Media Investor Relations at (877) 772-1518.

772-1518 or Broadridge at (888) 789-8415.

Other Matters to Be Voted on at the Annual Meeting

Our board of directors is not currently aware of any business to be acted on at the annual meeting other than that which is described in the Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders and this proxy statement. If, however, other matters are properly brought to a vote at the annual meeting, the persons designated as proxies will have discretion to vote or to act on these matters according to their best judgment. In the event there is a proposal to adjourn or postpone the annual meeting, the persons designated as proxies will have discretion to vote on that proposal.


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SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners

The following table sets forth information concerning shares of our common stock beneficially owned by each person or entity known by us to own more than five percent of the outstanding shares of each series of our commonvoting stock. All of such information is based on publicly available filings, unless otherwise known to us from other sources.

        On April 15, 2016, we completed a reclassification and exchange of our then-existing common stock into three new tracking stocks designated

Unless otherwise indicated, the Liberty SiriusXM common stock, the Liberty Braves common stock and the Liberty Media common stock (thereclassification). In the reclassification, each outstanding share of our then-existing common stock was reclassified and exchanged for (i) 1 share of the corresponding series of Liberty SiriusXM common stock, (ii) 0.10 of a share of the corresponding series of Liberty Braves common stock and (iii) 0.25 of a share of the corresponding series of Liberty Media common stock (together, thereclassification ratios) on April 15, 2016. Therefore, for purposes of the following presentation, we have applied the reclassification ratios to the publicly disclosed beneficial ownership information of the beneficial owners other than Mr. Malone and reported all information (including Mr. Malone's) on a post-reclassification basis.

        In addition, on May 18, 2016, we distributed subscription rights (Series C Liberty Braves Rights) to holders of our Liberty Braves common stock to purchase shares of BATRK at a subscription price of $12.80 (therights offering). The rights offering commenced on May 19, 2016 and expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on June 16, 2016. For purposes of the following presentation, we have not given effect to the distribution or exercise of any Series C Liberty Braves Rights.

        The security ownership information is given as of April 30, 201615, 2019 and, in the case of percentage ownership information, is based upon (1) 102,276,938102,816,795 LSXMA shares, (2) 9,870,9669,821,531 LSXMB shares, (3) 222,735,331209,079,807 LSXMK shares, (4) 10,227,69310,244,591 BATRA shares, (5) 987,096981,860 BATRB shares, (6) 22,283,53339,740,215 BATRK shares, (7) 25,569,429 LMCA25,675,346 FWONA shares, (8) 2,467,741 LMCB2,453,485 FWONB shares and


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(9) 55,684,235 LMCK202,887,872 FWONK shares, in each case, outstanding on that date.February 28, 2019. The percentage voting power is presented on an aggregate basis for all LSXMA, LSXMB, BATRA, BATRB, LMCAFWONA and LMCBFWONB shares.

Name and Address of Beneficial OwnerTitle of
Series
Amount and
Nature of
Beneficial
Ownership
Percent of
Series
(%)
Voting
Power
(%)
John C. Malone
c/o Liberty Media Corporation
12300 Liberty Boulevard
Englewood, CO 80112
LSXMA1,167,728(1)1.147.6
LSXMB9,455,341(1)96.3
LSXMK15,461,807(1)7.4
BATRA116,771(1)1.1
BATRB945,532(1)96.3
BATRK3,027,466(1)7.6
FWONA291,930(1)1.1
FWONB2,363,834(1)96.4
FWONK4,653,362(1)2.3
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.
3555 Farnam Street
Omaha, NE 68131
LSXMA14,860,360(2)14.55.5
LSXMB
LSXMK31,090,985(2)14.9
BATRA
BATRB
BATRK
FWONA
FWONB
FWONK
BlackRock, Inc.
55 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10055
LSXMA6,484,270(3)6.33.0
LSXMB
LSXMK12,170,640(3)5.8
BATRA661,499(3)6.5
BATRB
BATRK2,388,512(3)6.0
FWONA1,057,067(3)4.1
FWONB
FWONK9,515,547(3)4.7

Name and Address of Beneficial Owner
 Title of
Class
 Amount and
Nature of
Beneficial
Ownership
 Percent of
Class
(%)
 Voting
Power
(%)
 

John C. Malone

 LSXMA  1,202,487(1) 1.2  47.6 

c/o Liberty Media Corporation

 LSXMB  9,455,341(1) 95.8    

12300 Liberty Boulevard

 LSXMK  18,840,628(1) 8.5    

Englewood, CO 80112

 BATRA  120,246(1) 1.2    

 BATRB  945,532(1) 95.8    

 BATRK  1,884,062(1) 8.5    

 LMCA  300,619(1) 1.2    

 LMCB  2,363,837(1) 95.8    

 LMCK  4,710,156(1) 8.5    

Berkshire Hathaway

 

LSXMA

  
10,000,000

(2)
 
9.8
  
5.0
 

3555 Farnam Street

 LSXMB        

Omaha, NE 68131

 LSXMK  20,000,000(2) 9.0    

 BATRA  1,000,000(2) 9.8    

 BATRB        

 BATRK  2,000,000(2) 9.0    

 LMCA  2,500,000(2) 9.8    

 LMCB        

 LMCK  5,000,000(2) 9.0    
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Name and Address of Beneficial OwnerTitle of
Series
Amount and
Nature of
Beneficial
Ownership
Percent of
Series
(%)
Voting
Power
(%)
Norges Bank (The Central Bank of Norway)
Bankplassen 2
PO Box 1179 Sentrum
Oslo, Q8 0107
Norway
LSXMA2,260,630(4)2.21.3
LSXMB
LSXMK1,494,577(4)*
BATRA569,036(4)5.6
BATRB
BATRK224,015(4)*
FWONA710,649(4)2.8
FWONB
FWONK3,380,383(4)1.7
The Vanguard Group
100 Vanguard Blvd.
Malvern, PA 19355
LSXMA8,828,793(5)8.64.3
LSXMB
LSXMK14,012,828(5)6.7
BATRA462,737(6)4.5
BATRB
BATRK1,722,776(6)4.3
FWONA2,287,400(5)8.9
FWONB
FWONK16,678,660(5)8.2
Park West Asset Management LLC
900 Larkspur Landing Circle
Suite 165
Larkspur, CA 94939
LSXMA*
LSXMB
LSXMK
BATRA863,562(7)8.4
BATRB
BATRK2,847,218(7)7.2
FWONA
FWONB
FWONK
FMR LLC
245 Summer Street
Boston, MA 02210
LSXMA1,539,255(8)1.5*
LSXMB
LSXMK77,269(8)*
BATRA121(8)*
BATRB
BATRK909(8)*
FWONA847,389(8)3.3
FWONB
FWONK10,421,371(8)5.1
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Name and Address of Beneficial OwnerTitle of
Series
Amount and
Nature of
Beneficial
Ownership
Percent of
Series
(%)
Voting
Power
(%)
GAMCO Investors, Inc.
One Corporate Center
Rye, NY 10580
LSXMA599,959(9)**
LSXMB
LSXMK674,513(9)*
BATRA1,458,438(10)14.2
BATRB
BATRK1,715,205(9)4.3
FWONA137,640(9)*
FWONB
FWONK190,013(9)*
Ancient Art, L.P.
500 West 5th Street
Suite 1110
Austin, TX 78701
LSXMA1.0
LSXMB
LSXMK
BATRA
BATRB
BATRK
FWONA2,593,428(11)10.1
FWONB
FWONK
Janus Henderson Group plc
201 Bishopsgate ECM 3AE,
United Kingdom
LSXMA27,615(12)**
LSXMB
LSXMK62,557(12)*
BATRA
BATRB
BATRK
FWONA
FWONB
FWONK10,225,807(12)5.0
UBS Group AG
Bahnhofstrasse 45
Zurich, Switzerland
LSXMA265,361(13)**
LSXMB
LSXMK529,626(13)*
BATRA1,241,525(13)12.1
BATRB
BATRK20,775(13)*
FWONA156(13)*
FWONB
FWONK516,696(13)*
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Name and Address of Beneficial OwnerTitle of
Series
Amount and
Nature of
Beneficial
Ownership
Percent of
Series
(%)
Voting
Power
(%)
Southeastern Asset Management, Inc.
6410 Poplar Avenue,
Suite 900
Memphis, TN 38119
LSXMA*
LSXMB
LSXMK
BATRA
BATRB
BATRK
FWONA2,343,015(14)9.1
FWONB
FWONK4,619,714(14)2.3
Barclays PLC
1 Churchill Place,
London, E14 5HP, England
LSXMA181,120(15)**
LSXMB
LSXMK235,203(15)*
BATRA603,187(15)5.9
BATRB
BATRK12,780(15)*
FWONA1,369(15)*
FWONB
FWONK83,269(15)*
*
Less than one percent
(1)

Information with respect to shares of our common stock beneficially owned by Mr. Malone, our Chairman of the Board, is also set forth in "—“—Security Ownership of Management."
(2)

(2)
Based on Form 13F, dated May 16, 2016, jointly filed February 14, 2019, by Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (Berkshire Hathaway), with respect to itself and certain related institutional investment managers, including Warren E. Buffett (Mr. BuffettWB), GEICO CorporationCorp. (GEICO), National Fire & Marine Insurance CompanyCo. (National FireNF&MIC) and National Indemnity CompanyCo (National Indemnity), which Form 13F reports sole voting power, shared voting power, sole investment discretion, and shared investment discretion for shares of LSXMA and LSXMK as follows:
Title of
Series
Sole Voting
Power
Shared
Voting
Power
Sole
Investment
Discretion
Shared
Investment
Discretion
Berkshire Hathaway and Mr. BuffettLSXMA4,308,1174,308,117
LSXMK7,153,0277,153,027
Berkshire Hathaway, Mr. Buffett and National FireLSXMA933,391933,391
LSXMK508,654508,654
Berkshire Hathaway, Mr. Buffett and National IndemnityLSXMA1,827,0721,827,072
LSXMK4,069,3944,069,394
Berkshire Hathaway, Mr. Buffett, GEICO and National IndemnityLSXMA7,791,7807,791,780
LSXMK19,359,91019,359,910
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(3)
Based on (i) Schedule 13G, filed February 11, 2019, by BlackRock, Inc. (BlackRock), a parent holding company, with respect to its ownership of shares of LSXMK, (ii) three separate filings, each an Amendment No. 2 to Schedule 13G filed February 6, 2019 by BlackRock, with respect to its ownership of shares of LSXMA, BATRA and BATRK, respectively, and (iii) Form 13F, filed February 8, 2019, by BlackRock with respect to its ownership of shares of FWONA and FWONK, Blackrock has sole voting power, shared voting power, sole dispositive power/investment discretion, and shared dispositive power/investment discretion over these shares as provided in the following table. All shares covered by such filings are held by BlackRock and/or its subsidiaries.
Title of
Series
Sole Voting
Power
Shared
Voting
Power
Sole
Dispositive
Power/​
Investment
Discretion
Shared
Dispositive
Power/​
Investment
Discretion
LSXMA5,767,5556,484,270
LSXMK10,561,15012,170,640
BATRA635,065661,499
BATRK2,312,6912,388,512
FWONA972,6951,057,067
FWONK8,310,0319,515,547
(4)
Based on Amendment No. 1 to Form 13F, filed March 4, 2019, by Norges Bank (Norges), which states that Norges has: sole investment discretion and sole voting power over 2,260,630 LSXMA shares; sole investment discretion and sole voting power over 1,494,577 LSXMK shares; sole investment discretion and sole voting power over 569,036 BATRA shares; sole investment discretion and sole voting power over 224,015 BATRK shares; sole investment discretion and sole voting power over 710,649 FWONA shares; and sole investment discretion and sole voting power over 3,380,383 FWONK shares.
(5)
Based on four separate filings, each an Amendment No. 2 to Schedule 13G filed February 12, 2019 by The Vanguard Group (Vanguard), which state that Vanguard, with respect to its ownership of shares of each of LSXMA, LSXMK, FWONA and FWONK, has sole voting power, shared voting power, sole dispositive power, and shared dispositive power over these shares as follows:
Title of
Series
Sole Voting
Power
Shared
Voting
Power
Sole
Dispositive
Power
Shared
Dispositive
Power
LSXMA61,04213,7348,755,10173,692
LSXMK115,73856,88413,838,333174,495
FWONA17,3452,270,05517,345
FWONK127,73643,96316,514,661163,999
(6)
Based on Form 13F, filed February 14, 2019, by Vanguard, with respect to itself and certain related institutional investment managers, including Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Co (Trust Co) and Vanguard Investments Australia, Ltd. (Australia), which Form 13F reports sole voting power, shared voting power, sole investment discretion, and shared investment discretion for shares of BATRA and BATRK as follows:
Title of
Series
Sole Voting
Power
Shared
Voting
Power
Sole
Investment
Discretion
Shared
Investment
Discretion
VanguardBATRA442,720
BATRK3,4551,650,545
Vanguard and Trust CoBATRA20,01720,017
BATRK69,63169,631
Vanguard and AustraliaBATRA
BATRK2,6002,600
(7)
Based on (i) Amendment No. 3 to Schedule 13G, filed February 14, 2019, jointly by Park West Asset Management LLC (PWAM) and Peter S. Park, which states that, with respect to BATRA shares, each of PWAM and Peter S. Park has shared voting power and shared dispositive power over 863,562 shares and (ii) Form 13F, filed February 14, 2019, by PWAM, which states that PWAM has sole investment discretion and sole voting power over 2,847,218 BATRK shares.
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(8)
Based on (i) Amendment No. 1 to Schedule 13G, filed February 13, 2019, by FMR LLC (FMR) and Abigail P. Johnson, which states that, with respect to FWONK shares, each of FMR and Ms. Johnson has sole dispositive power over 10,421,371 shares and FMR has sole voting power over 1,609,659 shares, and (ii) Form 13F, filed February 13, 2019, by FMR, with respect to itself and certain related institutional investment managers, including Fidelity Management & Research Co. (Fidelity M&R), Strategic Advisers LLC (Strategic), and after applying the reclassification ratios, such entities haveFMR Co. Inc. (FMR Co), which Form 13F reports sole voting power, shared voting power, sole investment discretion, and shared investment discretion as follows:

Title of
Series
Sole
Voting
Power
Shared
Voting
Power
Sole
Investment
Discretion
Shared
Investment
Discretion
FMR, Fidelity M&R, and FMR CoLSXMA1,532,700
LSXMK45,524
BATRA
BATRK
FWONA846,357
FMR and StrategicLSXMA6,5556,555
LSXMK31,74431,744
BATRA121121
BATRK909909
FWONA1,0321,032
(9)
Based on Form 13F, filed January 30, 2019, by GAMCO Investors, Inc. (GBL), which reports that GBL has sole investment discretion over 599,959 LSXMA shares and sole voting power over 591,402 LSXMA shares, sole investment discretion over 674,513 LSXMK shares and sole voting power over 611,411 LSXMK shares, sole investment discretion over 1,715,205 BATRK shares and sole voting power over 1,560,378 BATRK shares, sole investment discretion over 137,640 FWONA shares and sole voting power over 127,335 FWONA shares, and sole investment discretion over 190,013 FWONK shares and sole voting power over 176,526 FWONK shares.
(10)
Based on Amendment No. 11 to Schedule 13D, filed on April 15, 2019, jointly by Gabelli Funds, LLC (Gabelli Funds), GAMCO Asset Management Inc. (GAMCO), MJG Associates, Inc. (MJG), GGCP, Inc. (GGCP), GBL, Associated Capital Group, Inc. (AC), Gabelli Foundation, Inc. (Foundation) and Mario J. Gabelli (Mr. Gabelli) with respect to BATRA shares. Mr. Gabelli is deemed to have beneficial ownership of the shares owned beneficially by each of such persons. AC, GBL and GGCP are deemed to have beneficial ownership of the shares owned beneficially by each of such persons other than Mr. Gabelli and the Foundation.
These entities have reported sole voting power, shared voting power, sole dispositive power and shared dispositive power over these shares as follows:
Title of
Series
Sole
Voting
Power
Shared
Voting
Power
Sole
Dispositive
Power
Shared
Dispositive
Power
Gabelli FundsBATRA263,109263,109
GAMCOBATRA1,398,4311,458,438
MJGBATRA2,0002,000
Mario J. GabelliBATRA39,00039,000
ACBATRA410410
GGCPBATRA25,00025,000
FoundationBATRA1,5001,500
(11)
Based on Amendment No. 1 to Schedule 13G, filed February 11, 2019, jointly by Ancient Art, L.P., Trango II, L.L.C., and Quincy J. Lee, which states that, with respect to FWONA shares, each has shared voting power and shared dispositive power over 2,593,428 shares.
(12)
Based on (i) Schedule 13G, filed February 12, 2019, by Janus Henderson Group plc (Janus Henderson), a parent holding company, which states that, with respect to FWONK shares, Janus Henderson has shared voting power and shared dispositive power over 10,255,807 shares, and (ii) Form 13F, filed February 6, 2019, by Janus Henderson, with respect to itself and certain related institutional investment managers, including Intech Investment Management LLC (Intech), which Form 13F reports sole voting power, shared voting power, sole investment discretion, and shared investment discretion as follows:
Title of
Series
Sole
Voting
Power
Shared
Voting
Power
Sole
Investment
Discretion
Shared
Investment
Discretion
Janus Henderson, Henderson Global and IntechLSXMA24,25327,615
LSXMK59,81962,557
(13)
Based on (i) Amendment No. 1 to Schedule 13G, filed April 2, 2019, by UBS Group AG (UBS Group), a parent holding company, on behalf of UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. (UBS Americas) which states that, with respect to BATRA shares held by UBS Americas and/or its subsidiaries, UBS Americas has sole voting power over 1,184,890 shares and shared dispositive power over 1,241,525 shares, and (ii) Form 13F, filed February 13, 2019, by UBS Americas, with respect to itself and certain related institutional investment managers, including UBS Group, UBS Asset Management Trust Company (UBS AM Trust), UBS AG/UBS Asset Management (UBS AG), UBS Asset Management (UK) Ltd (UBS UK), and UBS Asset Management Life Ltd (UBS Life), which Form 13F reports sole voting power, shared voting power, sole investment discretion, and shared investment discretion as follows:
 
 LSXMA LSXMK BATRA BATRK LMCA LMCK 

WB

  1,965,000  3,135,000  196,500  313,500  491,250  783,750 

WB, GEICO and NIC

  6,980,980  16,145,817  698,098  1,614,581  1,745,245  4,036,454 

WB and NF&MIC

  933,391  508,654  93,339  50,865  233,347  127,163 

WB and NIC

  120,629  210,529  12,062  21,052  30,157  52,632 

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Title of
Series
Sole
Voting
Power
Shared
Voting
Power
Sole
Investment
Discretion
Shared
Investment
Discretion
UBS AmericasLSXMA39,30533,35011,789
LSXMK76,46965,85118,420
BATRK
FWONA
FWONK71,46475,3823,633
UBS Americas and UBS GroupLSXMA47510,367
LSXMK1,13821,770
BATRK8080
FWONA156156
FWONK20121,391
UBS Americas and UBS AM TrustLSXMA8,5788,578
LSXMK16,16216,162
BATRK
FWONA
FWONK15,48715,487
UBS Americas and UBS AGLSXMA109,147116,90691
LSXMK215,806238,954198
BATRK19,69520,695
FWONA
FWONK249,122267,741231
UBS Americas and UBS UKLSXMA22,0122,54462,780
LSXMK46,4512,838128,913
BATRK
FWONA
FWONK49,8933,697129,134
UBS Americas and UBS LifeLSXMA18,95618,956
LSXMK36,52036,520
BATRK
FWONA
FWONK
(14)
Based on (i) Schedule 13G, filed February 14, 2019, jointly by Southeastern Asset Management, Inc. (Southeastern), Longleaf Partners Small-Cap Fund (Longleaf), and O. Mason Hawkins, which states that, with respect to FWONA shares, each of Southeastern and Longleaf has shared voting power and shared dispositive power over 2,322,149 shares and Southeastern has sole dispositive power over 20,866 shares, and (ii) Form 13F, filed February 14, 2019, by Southeastern, with respect to itself and certain related institutional investment managers, including Longleaf, which Form 13F reports, with respect to FWONK shares, Southeastern’s sole dispositive power over 37,598 shares, and Southeastern and Longleaf’s joint shared dispositive power and sole voting power over 4,582,116 shares.
(15)
Based on (i) Schedule 13G, filed February 14, 2019, by Barclays PLC (Barclays), Barclays Capital Inc. (Barclays Capital), and Barclays Bank PLC (Barclays Bank), which states that, with respect to BATRA shares, Barclays has sole voting power and sole dispositive power over 603,187 shares, Barclays Capital has sole voting power and sole dispositive power over 33,973 shares, and Barclays Bank has sole voting power and sole dispositive power over 569,214 shares, and (ii) Form 13F, filed February 14, 2019, by Barclays, with respect to itself and certain related institutional investment managers, including Barclays Bank, Barclays Capital, and Barclays Capital Securities LTD (Barclays Securities), which Form 13F reports sole voting power, shared voting power, sole investment discretion, and shared investment discretion as follows:
Title of
Series
Sole
Voting
Power
Shared
Voting
Power
Sole
Investment
Discretion
Shared
Investment
Discretion
Barclays and Barclays BankLSXMA168,875168,875
LSXMK162,599162,599
BATRK12,75612,756
FWONA1,3461,346
FWONK76,14876,148
Barclays and Barclays CapitalLSXMA11,20011,200
LSXMK69,82169,821
BATRK2424
FWONA2323
FWONK3,9003,900
Barclays and Barclays SecuritiesLSXMA1,0451,045
LSXMK2,7832,783
BATRK
FWONA
FWONK3,2213,221
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The following table sets forth information with respect to the ownership by each of our directors and named executive officers (as defined herein) and by all of our directors and executive officers as a group of shares of (1) each series of our common stock (LSXMA, LSXMB, LSXMK, BATRA, BATRB, BATRK, LMCA, LMCBFWONA, FWONB and LMCK)FWONK) and (2) the Common Stock,common stock, par value $0.001 per share (SIRI), of Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (Sirius XM), in which we hold a controlling interest. The security ownership information with respect to our common stock is given as of April 30, 2016February 28, 2019 and, in the case of percentage ownership information, is based upon (1) 102,276,938102,816,795 LSXMA shares, (2) 9,870,9669,821,531 LSXMB shares, (3) 222,735,331209,079,807 LSXMK shares, (4) 10,227,69310,244,591 BATRA shares, (5) 987,096981,860 BATRB shares, (6) 22,283,53339,740,215 BATRK shares, (7) 25,569,429 LMCA25,675,346 FWONA shares, (8) 2,467,741 LMCB2,453,485 FWONB shares and (9) 55,684,235 LMCK202,887,872 FWONK shares, in each case, outstanding on that date. For purposes of the following presentation, we have not given effect to the distribution or exercise of any Series C Liberty Braves Rights. The security ownership information with respect to SIRI is given as of April 30, 2016,February 28, 2019, and, in the case of percentage ownership information, is based on 4,958,140,5354,345,777,230 SIRI shares outstanding on


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April 26, 2016. January 28, 2019. The percentage voting power with respect to our company is presented in the table below on an aggregate basis for all LSXMA, LSXMB, BATRA, BATRB, LMCAFWONA and LMCBFWONB shares.

        Shares of

The table also includes performance-based restricted stock units that havehad been granted pursuant tocertified as earned by our incentive plans are includedcompensation committee on or before February 28, 2019 that will be settled in the outstanding share numbers, for purposesshares of the table below and throughout this report.our common stock within 60 days of such date. Shares of common stock issuable upon exercise or conversion of options, warrants and convertible securities that were exercisable or convertible on or within 60 days after April 30, 2016February 28, 2019 are deemed to be outstanding and to be beneficially owned by the person holding the options, warrants or convertible securities for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of that person and for the aggregate percentage owned by the directors and named executive officers as a group, but are not treated as outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other individual person. For purposes of the following presentation, beneficial ownership of shares of LSXMB, BATRB or LMCB,FWONB, though convertible on a one-for-one basis into shares of LSXMA, BATRA or LMCA,FWONA, respectively, are reported as beneficial ownership of LSXMB, BATRB or LMCBFWONB only, and not as beneficial ownership of LSXMA, BATRA or LMCA,FWONA, respectively. So far as is known to us, the persons indicated below have sole voting and dispositive power with respect to the shares indicated as owned by them, except as otherwise stated in the notes to the table.

The number of shares indicated as owned by the persons in the table includes interests in shares held by the Liberty Media 401(k) Savings Plan as of April 30, 2016.February 28, 2019. The shares held by the trustee of the Liberty Media 401(k) Savings Plan for the benefit of these persons are voted as directed by such persons.

NameTitle of
Series
Amount and Nature of
Beneficial Ownership
(In thousands)
Percent of
Series
(%)
Voting
Power
(%)
John C. Malone
Chairman of the Board
and Director
LSXMA1,168(1)(2)(3)1.147.6
LSXMB9,455(1)(4)(5)96.3
LSXMK
15,462(1)(2)(3)(5)(6)
7.4
BATRA117(1)(2)(3)1.1
BATRB946(1)(4)(5)96.3
BATRK
3,027(1)(2)(3)(5)(6)
7.6
FWONA292(1)(2)(3)1.1
FWONB2,364(1)(4)(5)96.4
FWONK
4,653(1)(2)(3)(5)(6)
2.3
SIRI267(3)**
Name
 Title of
Series
 Amount and
Nature of
Beneficial
Ownership
 Percent
of Series
(%)
 Voting
Power
(%)
 
 
  
 (In thousands)
  
  
 

John C. Malone

 LSXMA  1,202(1)(2)(3) 1.2  47.6 

Chairman of the Board

 LSXMB  9,455(1)(2)(4) 95.8    

and Director

 LSXMK  18,841(1)(3)(4)(5) 8.5    

 BATRA  120(1)(2)(3) 1.2    

 BATRB  946(1)(2)(4) 95.8    

 BATRK  1,884(1)(3)(4)(5) 8.5    

 LMCA  301(1)(2)(3)(4)(6) 1.2    

 LMCB  2,364(1)(2)(4) 95.8    

 LMCK  4,710(1)(3)(4)(5)(6) 8.5    

 SIRI  267(6) *  * 

Gregory B. Maffei

 

LSXMA

  
3,030

(7)(8)
 
2.9
  
1.5
 

President, Chief Executive

 LSXMB        

Officer and Director

 LSXMK  6,580(5)(7)(8) 2.9    

 BATRA  303(7)(8) 2.9    

 BATRB        

 BATRK  657(5)(7)(8) 2.9    

 LMCA  757(7)(8)(9) 2.9    

 LMCB        

 LMCK  1,642(5)(7)(8)(9) 2.9    

 SIRI  99(10) *  * 
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Name
 Title of
Series
 Amount and
Nature of
Beneficial
Ownership
 Percent
of Series
(%)
 Voting
Power
(%)
 
 
  
 (In thousands)
  
  
 

Robert R. Bennett

 

LSXMA

  760(11) *  * 

Director

 LSXMB        

 LSXMK  1,526(11)(12) *    

 BATRA  76(11) *    

 BATRB        

 BATRK  153(11)(12) *    

 LMCA  190(11) *    

 LMCB        

 LMCK  382(11)(12) *    

 SIRI       

Brian M. Deevy

 

LSXMA

  
10

(13)
 
*
  
*
 

Director

 LSXMB        

 LSXMK  3(12)(13) *    

 BATRA  1(13) *    

 BATRB        

 BATRK  **(12)(13) *    

 LMCA  3(13) *    

 LMCB        

 LMCK  **(12)(13) *    

 SIRI       

M. Ian G. Gilchrist

 

LSXMA

  
2

(7)
 
*
  
*
 

Director

 LSXMB        

 LSXMK  3(12) *    

 BATRA  **(7) *    

 BATRB        

 BATRK  **(12) *    

 LMCA  **(7) *    

 LMCB        

 LMCK  **(12) *    

 SIRI       

Evan D. Malone

 

LSXMA

  
12

(7)
 
*
  
*
 

Director

 LSXMB        

 LSXMK  26(7)(12) *    

 BATRA  1(7) *    

 BATRB        

 BATRK  3(7)(12) *    

 LMCA  3(7) *    

 LMCB        

 LMCK  7(7)(12) *    

 SIRI  99(10) *  * 

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Name
 Title of
Series
 Amount and
Nature of
Beneficial
Ownership
 Percent
of Series
(%)
 Voting
Power
(%)
 
 
  
 (In thousands)
  
  
 

David E. Rapley

 

LSXMA

  4  *  * 

Director

 LSXMB        

 LSXMK  12(12) *    

 BATRA  **  *    

 BATRB        

 BATRK  1(12) *    

 LMCA  1  *    

 LMCB        

 LMCK  3(12) *    

 SIRI       

Larry E. Romrell

 

LSXMA

  
21

(7)
 
*
  
*
 

Director

 LSXMB  **  *    

 LSXMK  44(7)(12) *    

 BATRA  2(7) *    

 BATRB  **  *    

 BATRK  4(7)(12) *    

 LMCA  5(7) *    

 LMCB  **  *    

 LMCK  11(7)(12) *    

 SIRI       

Andrea L. Wong

 

LSXMA

  
4
  
*
  
*
 

Director

 LSXMB        

 LSXMK  13(12) *    

 BATRA  **  *    

 BATRB        

 BATRK  1(12) *    

 LMCA  **  *    

 LMCB        

 LMCK  3(12) *    

 SIRI       

Richard N. Baer

 

LSXMA

  
10

(12)
 
*
  
*
 

Chief Legal Officer

 LSXMB        

 LSXMK  19(12) *    

 BATRA  **(12) *    

 BATRB        

 BATRK  2(12) *    

 LMCA  2  *    

 LMCB        

 LMCK  5(12) *    

 SIRI       

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Name
 Title of
Series
 Amount and
Nature of
Beneficial
Ownership
 Percent
of Series
(%)
 Voting
Power
(%)
 
 
  
 (In thousands)
  
  
 

Albert E. Rosenthaler

 

LSXMA

  100(7) *  * 

Chief Tax Officer

 LSXMB        

 LSXMK  247(5)(7) *    

 BATRA  10(7) *    

 BATRB        

 BATRK  25(5)(7) *    

 LMCA  25(7) *    

 LMCB        

 LMCK  62(5)(7) *    

 SIRI       

Christopher W. Shean

 

LSXMA

  
97

(7)
 
*
  
*
 

Chief Financial Officer

 LSXMB        

 LSXMK  248(5)(7) *    

 BATRA  10(7) *    

 BATRB        

 BATRK  25(5)(7) *    

 LMCA  24(7) *    

 LMCB        

 LMCK  62(5)(7) *    

 SIRI       

All directors and executive officers as a group (12 persons)

 

LSXMA

  
5,252

(1)(2)(3)(7)(8)(11)(12)(13)
 
5.1
  
49.7
 

 LSXMB  9,456(1)(2)(4) 95.8    

 LSXMK  27,562(1)(3)(4)(5)(7)(8)(11)(12)(13) 12.4    

 BATRA  528(1)(2)(3)(7)(8)(11)(12)(13) 5.1    

 BATRB  946(1)(2)(4) 95.8    

 BATRK  2,762(1)(3)(4)(5)(7)(8)(11)(12)(13) 12.4    

 LMCA  1,310(1)(2)(3)(7)(8)(9)(11)(12) 5.1    

 LMCB  2,364(1)(2)(4) 95.8    

 LMCK  6,880(1)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(11)(12)(13) 12.4    

 SIRI  465(6)(10) *  * 

SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT
NameTitle of
Series
Amount and Nature of
Beneficial Ownership
(In thousands)
Percent of
Series
(%)
Voting
Power
(%)
Gregory B. Maffei
President, Chief Executive
Officer and Director
LSXMA2,978(7)(8)(9)(10)2.91.6
LSXMB37*
LSXMK
10,498(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)
4.9
BATRA298(7)(8)(9)2.9
BATRB4*
BATRK
1,413(6)(7)(8)(9)(14)
3.5
FWONA693(7)(8)(9)2.7
FWONB9*
FWONK
2,576(6)(7)(8)(9)(14)
1.3
SIRI744(11)**
Robert R. Bennett
Director
LSXMA760(12)**
LSXMB
LSXMK1,530(12)*
BATRA76(12)*
BATRB
BATRK268(12)*
FWONA190(12)*
FWONB
FWONK383(12)*
SIRI
Brian M. Deevy
Director
LSXMA10(13)**
LSXMB
LSXMK15(7)(13)*
BATRA1(13)*
BATRB
BATRK2(7)(13)*
FWONA3(13)*
FWONB
FWONK5(7)(13)*
SIRI
M. Ian G. Gilchrist
Director
LSXMA1(7)**
LSXMB
LSXMK19(7)*
BATRA**(7)*
BATRB
BATRK3(7)*
FWONA**(7)*
FWONB
FWONK10(7)*
SIRI
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NameTitle of
Series
Amount and Nature of
Beneficial Ownership
(In thousands)
Percent of
Series
(%)
Voting
Power
(%)
Evan D. Malone
Director
LSXMA11**
LSXMB
LSXMK54(7)*
BATRA1*
BATRB
BATRK8(7)*
FWONA3*
FWONB
FWONK16(7)*
SIRI237(11)**
David E. Rapley
Director
LSXMA4**
LSXMB
LSXMK22(7)*
BATRA
BATRB
BATRK3(7)*
FWONA1*
FWONB
FWONK9(7)*
SIRI
Larry E. Romrell
Director
LSXMA20**
LSXMB***
LSXMK58(7)*
BATRA2*
BATRB***
BATRK7(7)*
FWONA5*
FWONB***
FWONK20(7)*
SIRI
Andrea L. Wong
Director
LSXMA4**
LSXMB
LSXMK31(7)*
BATRA***
BATRB
BATRK4(7)*
FWONA1*
FWONB
FWONK9(7)*
SIRI
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NameTitle of
Series
Amount and Nature of
Beneficial Ownership
(In thousands)
Percent of
Series
(%)
Voting
Power
(%)
Richard N. Baer
Chief Legal Officer
LSXMA*
LSXMB
LSXMK27(14)*
BATRA
BATRB
BATRK4(14)*
FWONA
FWONB
FWONK20(14)*
SIRI
Mark D. Carleton
Chief Financial Officer
LSXMA*
LSXMB
LSXMK178(7)(14)*
BATRA13(7)*
BATRB
BATRK43(7)(14)*
FWONA18(7)*
FWONB
FWONK34(7)(14)*
SIRI163(11)**
Albert E. Rosenthaler
Chief Corporate Development
Officer
LSXMA67**
LSXMB
LSXMK330(6)(7)(14)*
BATRA10(7)*
BATRB
BATRK53(6)(7)(14)*
FWONA17*
FWONB
FWONK72(6)(7)(14)*
SIRI
All directors and
executive officers as a
group (12 persons)
LSXMA
5,024(1)(2)(3)(7)(8)(9)(10)(12)(13)
4.849.4
LSXMB9,492(1)(4)(5)96.7
LSXMK
28,223(1)(2)(3)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(12)(13)(14)
13.0
BATRA
518(1)(2)(3)(7)(8)(9)(12)(13)
5.0
BATRB949(1)(4)(5)96.7
BATRK
4,834(1)(2)(3)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(12)(13)(14)
11.9
FWONA
1,223(1)(2)(3)(7)(8)(9)(12)(13)
4.7
FWONB2,373(1)(4)(5)96.7
FWONK
7,808(1)(2)(3)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(12)(13)(14)
3.8
SIRI1,411(3)(11)**
*

Less than one percent

**

Less than 1,000 shares
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(1)

(1)
Includes 101,778 LSXMA shares, 230,564 LSXMB shares, 664,684 LSXMK shares, 10,177 BATRA shares, 23,056 BATRB shares, 66,468113,329 BATRK shares, 25,444 LMCAFWONA shares, 57,641 LMCBFWONB shares and 166,171 LMCKFWONK shares held by Mr. Malone'sMalone’s wife, Mrs. Leslie Malone, as to which shares Mr. Malone has disclaimed beneficial ownership.
(2)

(2)
Includes 34,759(i) 250,000 LSXMA shares, 162,500 LSXMK shares, 25,000 BATRA shares, 28,781 BATRK shares, 62,500 FWONA shares and 40,625 FWONK shares held by The Malone Family Land Preservation Foundation and (ii) 203,043 LSXMA shares, 20,304 BATRA shares, 9,543 BATRK shares and 50,760 FWONA shares held by The Malone Family Foundation, as to which shares Mr. Malone has disclaimed beneficial ownership.
(3)
Includes 612,907 LSXMA shares, 4,425,554 LSXMK shares, 61,290 BATRA shares, 1,095,768 BATRK shares, 153,226 FWONA shares, 1,125,144 FWONK shares and 267,141 SIRI shares pledged to Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC (Fidelity); 2,157,102 LSXMK shares, 510,221 BATRK shares, and 801,055 FWONK shares pledged to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (Merrill Lynch); and 7,380,000 LSXMK shares, 1,102,500 BATRK shares and 1,875,000 FWONK shares pledged to Bank of America (BoA) in connection with margin loan facilities extended by BoA.
(4)
Includes 108,687 LSXMB shares, 3,475 BATRA shares, 10,868 BATRB shares, 8,689 LMCA shares and 27,171 LMCBFWONB shares held by two trusts which are managed by an independent trustee, of which the beneficiaries are Mr. Malone'sMalone’s adult children and in which Mr. Malone has no pecuniary interest. Mr. Malone retains the right to substitute assets held by the trusts and has disclaimed beneficial ownership of the shares held by the trusts.

(3)
Includes (i) 250,000 LSXMA shares, 390,000 LSXMK shares, 25,000 BATRA shares, 39,000 BATRK shares, 62,500 LMCA shares and 97,500 LMCK shares held by The Malone Family Land Preservation
(5)

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    Foundation and (ii) 203,043 LSXMA shares, 20,304 BATRA shares and 50,760 LMCA shares held by The Malone Family Foundation, as to which shares Mr. Malone has disclaimed beneficial ownership.

(4)
Includes 490,597 LSXMB shares, 981,194671,594 LSXMK shares, 49,059 BATRB shares, 98,119167,293 BATRK shares, 122,649 LMCBFWONB shares and 245,298 LMCKFWONK shares held by a trust with respect to which Mr. Malone is the sole trustee and, with his wife, retains a unitrust interest in the trust.
(6)

(5)
Includes shares held in the Liberty Media 401(k) Savings Plan as follows:

LSXMKBATRKFWONK
John C. Malone3733169
Gregory B. Maffei38,1783,7809,467
Albert E. Rosenthaler7,0677031,748
Total45,6184,51411,284
(7)
 
 LSXMK BATRK LMCK 

John C. Malone

  530  53  132 

Gregory B. Maffei

  36,982  3,698  9,245 

Albert E. Rosenthaler

  6,817  681  1,704 

Christopher W. Shean

  13,448  1,345  3,364 

Total

  57,777  5,777  14,445 
(6)
Includes 153,226 LMCA shares, 825,000 LMCK shares and 267,141 SIRI shares pledged to Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC (Fidelity); 250,000 LMCK shares pledged to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (Merrill Lynch) and 1,875,000 LMCK shares pledged to Bank of America (BoA) in connection with margin loan facilities extended by Fidelity, Merrill Lynch and BoA.

(7)
Includes beneficial ownership of shares that may be acquired upon exercise of, or which relate to, stock options exercisable within 60 days after April 30, 2016.
February 28, 2019.

LSXMALSXMKBATRABATRKFWONAFWONK
Brian M. Deevy8,1499493,254
M. Ian G. Gilchrist85418,868852,7952139,053
Gregory B. Maffei1,165,7876,825,622116,599720,409291,3621,626,471
Evan D. Malone29,2633,5359,701
David E. Rapley14,6311,7674,850
Larry E. Romrell29,2633,5359,701
Andrea L. Wong17,2632,3414,669
Mark D. Carleton157,8587,32726,74318,30919,524
Albert E. Rosenthaler158,2423,32823,62719,331
Total1,166,6417,259,159127,339785,701309,8841,706,554
(8)
 
 LSXMA LSXMK BATRA BATRK LMCA LMCK 

M. Ian G. Gilchrist

  854    85    213   

Gregory B. Maffei

  1,165,787  2,784,974  116,599  277,295  291,362  692,858 

Evan D. Malone

  2,697  5,493  269  549  674  1,374 

Larry E. Romrell

  2,697  5,493  269  549  674  1,374 

Albert E. Rosenthaler

  33,275  107,393  3,328  10,718  8,316  26,782 

Christopher W. Shean

  49,911  141,280  4,991  14,108  12,474  35,252 

Total

  1,255,221  3,044,633  125,541  303,219  313,713  757,640 
(8)
Includes 59,032305,768 LSXMA shares, 118,065595,757 LSXMK shares, 5,90330,576 BATRA shares, 11,80645,677 BATRK shares, 14,758 LMCAFWONA shares and 29,516 LMCK72,313 FWONK shares held by theThe Maffei Foundation, as to which shares Mr. Maffei has disclaimed beneficial ownership.
(9)

(9)
Includes 144,655 LMCA680,989 LSXMA shares, 1,489,367 LSXMK shares, 119,007 BATRA shares, 492,012 BATRK shares, 170,247 FWONA shares and 289,309 LMCK671,937 FWONK shares pledged to Morgan Stanley Private Bank, National Association in connection with a loan facility.
(10)
Includes 824,069 LSXMA shares and 285,232 LSXMK shares held by a grantor retained annuity trust.
(11)
(10)
Includes beneficial ownership of shares that may be acquired upon exercise of, or which relate to, stock options exercisable within 60 days after April 30, 2016.February 28, 2019.


SIRI

Gregory B. Maffei

86,537

Evan D. Malone

86,637
SIRI

Total

173,174
Gregory B. Maffei
726,643
Evan D. Malone219,718
Mark D. Carleton145,559
Total1,091,920
(12)
(11)
Includes 21,585 LSXMA shares, 43,170 LSXMK shares, 2,158 BATRA shares, 4,3177,568 BATRK shares, 5,396 LMCAFWONA shares and 10,792 LMCKFWONK shares owned by Hilltop Investments, LLC, which is jointly owned by Mr. Bennett and his wife, Mrs. Deborah Bennett.
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(12)
Includes restricted shares, none of which has vested, as follows:

 
 LSXMA LSXMK BATRA BATRK LMCA LMCK 

Robert R. Bennett

    5,468    546    1,366 

Brian M. Deevy

    2,843    284    710 

M. Ian G. Gilchrist

    1,422    142    355 

Evan D. Malone

    2,625    262    656 

David E. Rapley

    4,047    404    1,011 

Larry E. Romrell

    2,625    262    656 

Andrea L. Wong

    5,468    546    1,366 

Richard N. Baer

  9,686  19,372  968  1,937  2,421  4,843 

Total

  9,686  43,870  968  4,383  2,421  10,963 
(13)
Includes 247 LSXMA shares, 494 LSXMK shares, 24 BATRA shares, 4987 BATRK shares, 61 LMCAFWONA shares and 123 LMCKFWONK shares held by the WJD Foundation, over which Mr. Deevy has sole voting power.

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(14)
Includes performance-based restricted stock units that had been certified as earned by our compensation committee that will be settled in shares of our common stock within 60 days of February 28, 2019, as follows:
LSXMKBATRKFWONK
Gregory B. Maffei14,12198,429
Mark D. Carleton12,2391,8109,010
Albert E. Rosenthaler12,2391,8109,010
Richard N. Baer16,3912,42412,066
Total40,86920,165128,515
Changes in Control

We know of no arrangements, including any pledge by any person of our securities, the operation of which may at a subsequent date result in a change in control of our company.


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PROPOSALS OF OUR BOARD

The following proposals will be presented at the annual meeting by our board of directors.


PROPOSAL 1—THE ELECTION OF DIRECTORS PROPOSAL

Board of Directors

Our board of directors currently consists of nine directors, divided among three classes. Our Class III directors, whose term will expire at the 20162019 annual meeting, are John C. Malone, Robert R. Bennett and M. Ian G. Gilchrist. Messrs. Malone, Bennett and GilchristThese directors are nominated for election to our board to continue serving as Class III directors, and we have been informed that Messrs. Malone, Bennett and Gilchrist are each willing to continue serving as a director of our company. The term of the Class III directors who are elected at the annual meeting will expire at the annual meeting of our stockholders in the year 2019.2022. Our Class I directors, whose term will expire at the annual meeting of stockholders in the year 2017,2020, are Evan D. Malone, David E. Rapley and Larry E. Romrell. Our Class II directors, whose term will expire at the annual meeting of stockholders in the year 2018,2021, are Brian M. Deevy, Gregory B. Maffei and Andrea L. Wong.

If any nominee should decline election or should become unable to serve as a director of our company for any reason before election at the annual meeting, votes will be cast by the persons appointed as proxies for a substitute nominee, if any, designated by the board of directors.

The following lists the three nominees for election as directors at the annual meeting and the six directors of our company whose term of office will continue after the annual meeting, and includes as to each person how long such person has been a director of our company, such person'sperson’s professional background, other public company directorships and other factors considered in the determination that such person possesses the requisite qualifications and skills to serve as a member of our board of directors. All positions referenced in the biographical information below with our company include, where applicable, positions with our predecessors. The number of shares of our common stock beneficially owned by each director as of April 30, 2016, is set forth in this proxy statement under the caption "Security“Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management—Security Ownership of Management."

Nominees for Election as Directors

John C. Malone

Age

    Age: 7578


Chairman of the Board and a director of our company.



Professional Background: Mr. Malone has served as the Chairman of the Board of our company (including our predecessor) since August 2011 and as a director since December 2010. Mr. MaloneHe served as Chairman of the Chief Executive OfficerBoard of Qurate Retail, Inc. (formerly named Liberty Interactive Corporation, (Qurate RetailLiberty Interactive), including its predecessor, from its inception in 1994 until March 2018 and served as Qurate Retail’s Chief Executive Officer from August 2005 to February 2006. Mr. Malone served as Chairman of the Board of Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) from November 1996 until March 1999, when it was acquired by AT&T Corp., and as Chief Executive Officer of TCI from January 1994 to March 1997.



Other Public Company Directorships: Mr. Malone has served as (i) a director and Chairman of the Board of Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail (including its predecessor) since its inception in 1994 (ii) the Chairman of the Board of Liberty Broadband Corporation (Liberty Broadband) since November 2014, (iii) the Chairman of the Board of Liberty Global plc (LGP) since June 2013, having previouslyand served as Chairman of the Board of Liberty Global, Inc. (LGI), LGP's predecessor,Qurate Retail (including its predecessor) from June 20051994 to June 2013 and LGI's predecessor, Liberty Media International, Inc. (LMI), from March 2004 to June 2005

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      and a director of UnitedGlobalCom, Inc., now a subsidiary of LGP, from January 2002 to June 2005, (iv)2018, (ii) a director of Discovery, Inc. (Discovery), which was formerly known as Discovery Communications, Inc. (Discovery Communications), since September 2008, and a director of Discovery'sDiscovery Communications’ predecessor, Discovery Holding Company (DHC), from May 2005 to September 2008 and as Chairman of the Board from March 2005 to September 2008, (iii) the Chairman of the Board of Liberty Global plc (LGP) since June 2013, having previously served as Chairman of the Board of Liberty Global, Inc. (LGI), LGP’s predecessor, from June 2005 to June 2013 and as Chairman of the Board of LGI’s predecessor, Liberty Media International, Inc. (LMI) from March 2004 to June 2005 and a director of UnitedGlobalCom, Inc., now a subsidiary of LGP, from January 2002 to June 2005, (iv) the Chairman of the Board of Liberty Broadband Corporation (Liberty Broadband) since November 2014, (v) Chairman of the Board of Liberty Expedia Holdings, Inc. (Liberty Expedia) since November 2016, (vi) a director of Liberty Latin America Ltd. since December 2017 and (vii) Chairman of the Board of GCI Liberty, Inc. (GCI Liberty)

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since March 2018. Previously, he served as (i) a director of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. from March 2015 to September 2018, (ii) a director of Charter Communications, Inc. (Charter) from May 2013 to July 2018, (iii) a director of Expedia, Inc. sincefrom December 2012 to December 2017, having previously served as a director from August 2005 to November 2012, (vi) a director of Charter Communications Inc. (Charter) since May 2013 and (vii) a director of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. since March 2015. Previously, he served as (i)(iv) the Chairman of the Board of Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings, Inc. (Liberty TripAdvisor) from August 2014 to June 2015, (ii)(v) a director of Sirius XM from April 2009 to May 2013, (iii)(vi) a director of Ascent Capital Group, Inc. (Ascent) from January 2010 to September 2012, (iv)(vii) a director of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (Live Nation) from January 2010 to February 2011, (v) a director(viii) Chairman of the Board of DIRECTV and its predecessors from February 2008 to June 2010 and (vi)(ix) a director of IAC/InterActiveCorp from May 2006 to June 2010.


Board Membership Qualifications: Mr. Malone, as President of TCI, co-founded Liberty Interactive'sQurate Retail’s former parent company and is considered one of the preeminent figures in the media and telecommunications industry. He is well known for his sophisticated problem solving and risk assessment skills.

Robert R. Bennett

Age

    Age: 5861


A director of our company.



Professional Background: Mr. Bennett has served as a director of our company (including our predecessor) since September 2011. Mr. Bennett serves as Managing Director of Hilltop Investments LLC, a private investment company. Mr. Bennett served as the Chief Executive Officer of Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail from April 1997 to August 2005 and its President from April 1997 to February 2006 and held various executive positions with Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail from 1994 to 1997.



Other Public Company Directorships: Mr. Bennett served as a director of Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail from September 1994 to December 2011. He has served as a director of Discovery since September 2008 and served as a director of DHC from May 2005 to September 2008. Mr. Bennett has served as a director of Sprint Corporation (and its predecessor) since October 2006 and HP, Inc. (formerly Hewlett-Packard Company) since July 2013. He served as a director of Demand Media, Inc. from January 2011 to February 2014.2014 and Sprint Corporation (and its predecessor) from October 2006 to November 2016.



Board Membership Qualifications: Mr. Bennett brings to our board in-depth knowledge of the media and telecommunications industry generally and our corporate history specifically. He has experience in significant leadership positions with Liberty Interactive,Qurate Retail, especially as a past Chief Executive Officer and President, and provides our company with strategic insights. Mr. Bennett also has an in-depth understanding of finance, and has held various financial management positions during the course of his career.

M. Ian G. Gilchrist

Age

    Age: 6669


A director of our company.



Professional Background: Mr. Gilchrist has served as a director of our company (including our predecessor) since September 2011.2011 and as a director and the President of Trine Acquisition Corp. since March 2019. Mr. Gilchrist held various officer positions including Managing Director at Citigroup/Salomon Brothers from 1995 to 2008, CS First Boston

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      Corporation from 1988 to 1995, and Blyth Eastman Paine Webber from 1982 to 1988 and served as a Vice President of Warburg Paribas Becker Incorporated from 1976 to 1982. Previously, he worked in the venture capital field and as an investment analyst.


Other Public Company Directorships: Mr. Gilchrist has served as a director of Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail since July 2009.2009 and as a director of Trine Acquisition Corp. since March 2019.



Board Membership Qualifications: Mr. Gilchrist'sGilchrist’s field of expertise is in the media and telecommunications sector, having been involved with companies in this industry during much of his 32 years as an investment banker. Mr. Gilchrist brings to our board significant financial expertise and a unique perspective on the company and the media and telecommunications sector. He is also an important resource with respect to the financial services firms that our company engages from time to time.

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Directors Whose Term Expires in 2017

2020

Evan D. Malone

Age

    Age: 4548


A director of our company.



Professional Background: Dr. Malone has served as a director of our company (including our predecessor) since September 2011. HeSince June 2009, he has served as President of NextFab Studio, LLC, a high-tech workshop offeringwhich provides manufacturing-related technical training, consulting, product designdevelopment, and prototyping services, since June 2009 and has been an engineering consultant for more than the past five years.business acceleration services. Since January 2008, Dr. Malone has served as the owner and manager of a real estate property and management company, 1525 South Street LLC. During 2008, Dr. Malone also served as a post-doctoral research assistant at Cornell University and an engineering consultant with Rich Food Products, a food processing company. Dr. Malone has served as co-owner and director of Drive Passion PC Services, CC, an Internet café, telecommunications and document services company, in South Africa since 2007 and served as an applied physics technician for Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, part of the national laboratory system of the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy, from 1999 until 2001. He also is a founding member of Jet Wine Bar, a wine bar, and Rex 1516, a restaurant, both in Philadelphia. Since November 2016, he has served as director and president of the NextFab Foundation, an IRS 501(c)(3) private operating foundation, which provides manufacturing-related technology and education to communities affected by economic or humanitarian distress.



Other Public Company Directorships: Dr. Malone has served as a director of Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail since August 2008 and Sirius XM since May 2013.



Board Membership Qualifications: Dr. Malone brings an applied science and engineering perspective to the board. Dr. Malone'sMalone’s perspectives assist the board in developing business strategies and adapting to technological changes facing the industries in which our company competes. In addition, his entrepreneurial experience assists the board in evaluating strategic opportunities.

David E. Rapley

Age

    Age: 7577


A director of our company.



Professional Background: Mr. Rapley has served as a director of our company (including our predecessor) since September 2011. Mr. Rapley founded Rapley Engineering Services, Inc. (RESI) and served as its Chief Executive Officer and President from 1985 to 1998. Mr. Rapley also served as Executive Vice President of Engineering of VECO Corp. Alaska (a company that acquired RESI in 1998) from January 1998 to December 2001. Mr. Rapley served as the

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      President and Chief Executive Officer of Rapley Consulting, Inc. from January 2000 to December 2014. From 2003 to 2013, Mr. Rapley was a director of Merrick & Co., a private firm providing engineering and other services to domestic and international clients. From 2008 to 2011, Mr. Rapley was chairman of the board of Merrick Canada ULC.


Other Public Company Directorships: Mr. Rapley has served as a director of Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail since July 2002, having previously served as a director during 1994. He has served as a director of LGP since June 2013, having previously served as a director of LGI, LGP’s predecessor, from June 2005 to June 2013 and as a director of LMI, LGI’s predecessor, from May 2004 to June 2005.



Board Membership Qualifications: Mr. Rapley brings to our board the unique perspective of his lifelong career as an engineer. The industries in which our company competes are heavily dependent on technology, which continues to change and advance. Mr. Rapley'sRapley’s perspectives assist the board in adapting to these changes and developing strategies for our businesses.

Larry E. Romrell

Age

    Age: 7679


A director of our company.



Professional Background: Mr. Romrell has served as a director of our company (including our predecessor) since September 2011. Mr. Romrell held numerous executive positions with TCI from 1991 to 1999. Previously, Mr. Romrell held various executive positions with Westmarc Communications, Inc.



Other Public Company Directorships: Mr. Romrell has served as a director of Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail since December 2011, having previously served as a director from March 1999 to September 2011, and as a
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director of Liberty TripAdvisor since August 2014. He has served as a director of LGP since June 2013, having previously served as a director of LGI, LGP’s predecessor, from June 2005 to June 2013 and as a director of LMI, LGI’s predecessor, from May 2004 to June 2005.



Board Membership Qualifications: Mr. Romrell brings extensive experience, including venture capital experience, in the telecommunications industry to our board and is an important resource with respect to the management and operations of companies in the media and telecommunications sector.

Directors Whose Term Expires in 2018

2021

Brian M. Deevy

Age

    Age: 6164

A director of our company.


Professional Background: Mr. Deevy has been a director of our company since June 2015. Mr. Deevy previously served as the head of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Capital Markets'Markets’ Communications, Media & Entertainment Group (CME Group) Group until June 2015. Mr. Deevy was responsible for strategic development of the CME Group'sGroup’s business, which includes mergers & acquisitions, private equity and debt capital formation and financial advisory engagements. Mr. Deevy also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Daniels & Associates, the investment banking firm that provided financial advisory services to the communications industry until it was acquired by RBC in 2007. Prior to joining Daniels & Associates, RBC Daniels'Daniels’ predecessor, Mr. Deevy was with Continental Illinois National Bank.



Other Public Company Directorships: Mr. Deevy served as a director of Ascent Capital Group, Inc. from November 2013 to May 2016. Mr. Deevy served on the board of directors of Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. from August 2008 to January 2010.

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    Board Membership Qualifications: Mr. Deevy brings to our board in-depth knowledge of the communications, media and entertainment industries. He has an extensive background in mergers and acquisitions, investment banking and capital formation and is expected to provideprovides strategic insights with respect to our company'scompany’s activities in these areas.

Gregory B. Maffei

Age

    Age: 5658


Chief Executive Officer, President and a director of our company.



Professional Background: Mr. Maffei has served as a director and the President and Chief Executive Officer of our company (including our predecessor) since May 2007, and Liberty Broadband since June 2014.2014 and GCI Liberty since March 2018. He has served as a director, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Liberty TripAdvisor since July 2013 and as its Chairman of the Board since June 2015. He has served as the Chairman of the Board of Qurate Retail (including its predecessor), since March 2018, and as a director of Qurate Retail (including its predecessor) since November 2005. Mr. Maffei also served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Interactive sinceQurate Retail (including its predecessor) from February 2006 and as a director since November 2005. He alsoto March 2018, having served as its CEO-Elect from November 2005 through February 2006. Prior thereto, Mr. Maffei served as President and Chief Financial Officer of Oracle Corporation (Oracle), Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of 360networks Corporation (360networks), and Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft Corporation.Corporation (Microsoft).


Other Public Company Directorships: Mr. Maffei has served as (i) the Chairman of the Board of StarzQurate Retail since JanuaryMarch 2018 and a director of Qurate Retail (including its predecessor) since November 2005, (ii) Chairman of the Board of Liberty TripAdvisor since June 2015 and a director since July 2013, (ii)(iii) a director of Liberty Broadband since June 2014, (iv) a director of GCI Liberty since March 2018, (v) the Chairman of the Board of TripAdvisor, Inc. since February 2013, (iii)(vi) the Chairman of the Board of Live Nation since March 2013 and as a director since February 2011, (iv)(vii) the Chairman of the Board of Sirius XM since April 2013 and as a director since March 2009, (v)(viii) a director of Zillow Group, Inc. since February 2015, having previously served as a director of its predecessor, Zillow, Inc., from May 2005 to February 2015, and (vi)(ix) a director of Charter since May 2013. Mr. Maffei served as (i) a director of (i) DIRECTV and its predecessors from February 2008 to June 2010, (ii) a director of Electronic Arts, Inc. from June 2003 to July 2013, and (iii) a director of Barnes & Noble, Inc. from September 2011 to April 2014.2014, (iv) Chairman of the Board of Starz from
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January 2013 until its acquisition by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. in December 2016 and (v) the Chairman of the Board of Pandora Media, Inc. from September 2017 to February 2019.


Board Membership Qualifications: Mr. Maffei brings to our board significant financial and operational experience based on his current senior policy making positions at our company, Qurate Retail (including its predecessor), GCI Liberty, Interactive, Liberty TripAdvisor, and Liberty Broadband, and his previous executive positions at Oracle, Corporation, 360networks Corporation and Microsoft Corporation. In addition, Mr. Maffei has extensiveand his public company board experience. He provides our board with an executive leadership perspective on the strategic planning for, and operations and management of large public companies.

companies and risk management principles.

Andrea L. Wong

Age

    Age: 4952


A director of our company.



Professional Background: Ms. Wong has served as a director of our company (including our predecessor) since September 2011. Ms. Wong has served as President, International Production for Sony Pictures Television and President, International for Sony Pictures Entertainment sincefrom September 2011.2011 to March 2017. She previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Lifetime Entertainment Services from 2007 to April 2010. Ms. Wong also served as an Executive Vice President with ABC, Inc., a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, from 2003 to 2007.



Other Public Company Directorships: Ms. Wong has served as a director of Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail since April 2010, as a director of Hudson’s Bay Company since September 2014, as a director of Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. since August 2017 and as a director of Hudson's Bay CompanySocial Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. since September 2014.2017.

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    Board Membership Qualifications: Ms. Wong brings to our board significant experience in the media and entertainment industry, having an extensive background in media programming across a variety of platforms, as well as executive leadership experience with the management and operation of companies in the entertainment sector. Her experience with programming development and production, brand enhancement and marketing brings a pragmatic and unique perspective to our board. Her professional expertise, combined with her continued involvement in the media and entertainment industry, makes her a valuable member of our board.

Vote and Recommendation

A plurality of the combined voting power of the outstanding shares of our common stock present in person or represented by proxy at the annual meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors at the annual meeting, voting together as a single class, is required to elect each of Messrs. Malone, Bennett and Gilchrist as a Class III member of our board of directors.

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PROPOSAL 2—THE AUDITORS RATIFICATION PROPOSAL

We are asking our stockholders to ratify the selection of KPMG LLP as our independent auditors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2016.

2019.

Even if the selection of KPMG LLP is ratified, the audit committee of our board of directors in its discretion may direct the appointment of a different independent accounting firm at any time during the year if our audit committee determines that such a change would be advisable. In the event our stockholders fail to ratify the selection of KPMG LLP, our audit committee will consider it as a direction to select other auditors for the year ending December 31, 2016.

2019.

A representative of KPMG LLP is expected to be presentavailable to answer appropriate questions at the annual meeting and will have the opportunity to make a statement if he or she so desires and is expected to be available to respond to appropriate questions.

desires.

Audit Fees and All Other Fees

The following table presents fees for professional audit services rendered by KPMG LLP for the audit of our consolidated financial statements for 20152018 and 20142017 and fees billed for other services rendered by KPMG LLP.

2018(1)
2017(1)
Audit fees$3,107,0003,221,000
Audit related fees(2)72,000
Audit and audit related fees3,179,0003,221,000
Tax fees(3)441,0001,612,000
All other fees5,0005,000
Total fees$3,625,0004,838,000

 
 2015(1) 2014(1) 

Audit fees

 $1,730,000  1,584,000 

Audit related fees(2)

  79,000  32,000 

Audit and audit related fees

  1,809,000  1,616,000 

Tax fees(3)

  456,000  548,000 

Total fees

 $2,265,000  2,164,000 

(1)
(1)
Such fees with respect to 20152018 and 20142017 exclude audit fees, audit related fees and tax fees billed by KPMG LLP to Sirius XM for services rendered. Sirius XM is a separate public company and its audit fees, audit related fees, tax fees and all other fees (which aggregated $2,162,450$2,567,500 in 20152018 and $2,005,000$2,622,800 in 2014)2017) are reviewed and approved by the audit committee of the board of directors of Sirius XM.
(2)

(2)
Audit
Consists of audit related fees consist of professional consultations with respect to accounting issues affecting our financial statements, reviews of registration statements and issuance of consents, due diligence related to potential business combinations and audits of financial statements of certain employee benefit plans.combinations.
(3)

(3)
Tax fees consist of tax compliance and consultations regarding the tax implications of certain transactions.

Our audit committee has considered whether the provision of services by KPMG LLP to our company other than auditing is compatible with KPMG LLP maintaining its independence and believes that the provision of such other services is compatible with KPMG LLP maintaining its independence.

Policy on Pre-Approval of Audit and Permissible Non-Audit Services of Independent Auditor

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has approved the engagement of our independent auditor to provide the following services (all of which are collectively referred to aspre-approved services):


audit services as specified in the policy, including (i) financial audits of our company and our subsidiaries, (ii) services associated with registration statements, periodic reports and other documents filed or issued in connection with securities offerings (including comfort letters and consents), (iii) attestations of management reports on our internal controls and (iv) consultations with management as to accounting or disclosure treatment of transactions;


audit related services as specified in the policy, including (i) due diligence services, (ii) financial statement audits of employee benefit plans, (iii) consultations with management as to the accounting or disclosure treatment of transactions, (iv) attest services not required by statute or regulation, (v) certain audits incremental to the audit of our consolidated financial statements, (vi) closing balance sheet audits related to dispositions, and (vii) general assistance with implementation of the requirements of certain Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules or listing standards; and
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tax services as specified in the policy, including federal, state, local and international tax planning, compliance and review services, expatriate tax assistance and compliance and tax due diligence and advice regarding mergers and acquisitions.

Notwithstanding the foregoing general pre-approval, if, in the reasonable judgment of Liberty Media’s Chief Financial Officer or Senior Vice President and Controller, an individual project involving the provision of pre-approved services is expectedlikely to result in fees in excess of  $100,000, or if individual projects under $100,000 are expectedlikely to totalequal or exceed $500,000 during the period between the regularly scheduled meetings of the audit committee, then such projects will require the specific pre-approval of our audit committee. Our audit committee has delegated the authority for the foregoing approvals to the chairman of the audit committee, subject to his subsequent disclosure to the entire audit committee of the granting of any such approval. Brian M. Deevy currently serves as the chairman of our audit committee. In addition, the independent auditor is required to provide a report at each regularly scheduled audit committee meeting on all pre-approved services incurred during the preceding quarter. Any engagement of our independent auditors for services other than the pre-approved services requires the specific approval of our audit committee.

Under our policy, any fees incurred by Sirius XM in connection with the provision of services by Sirius XM'sXM’s independent auditor, are expected to be reviewed and approved by Sirius XM'sXM’s audit committee pursuant to Sirius XM'sXM’s policy regarding the pre-approval of all audit and permissible non-audit services provided by its independent auditor in effect at the time of such approval. Such approval by Sirius XM'sXM’s audit committee pursuant to its policy is deemed to be pre-approval of the services by our audit committee.

Our pre-approval policy prohibits the engagement of our independent auditor to provide any services that are subject to the prohibition imposed by Section 201 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

All services provided by our independent auditor during 20152018 were approved in accordance with the terms of the policy in place.

Vote and Recommendation

The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the aggregatecombined voting power of the outstanding shares of our common stock that are present in person or by proxy, and entitled to vote at the annual meeting, voting together as a single class, is required to approve the auditors ratification proposal.

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MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE MATTERS

Executive Officers

The following lists the executive officers of our company (other than Gregory B. Maffei, our President and Chief Executive Officer, and John C. Malone, our Chairman of the Board, whoeach of whom also serve as directors of our company and who are listed under "Proposals“Proposals of Our BoardProposal 1The Election of Directors Proposal"Proposal”), their ages and a description of their business experience, including positions held with our company. All positions referenced in the table below with our company include, where applicable, positions with our predecessors.

NamePositions
Name
Positions
Richard N. Baer

Age: 5962
Mr. Baer has served as Chief Legal Officer of our company, Liberty Interactive,Qurate Retail, Liberty TripAdvisor and Liberty Broadband since January 2016.2016, Liberty Expedia since March 2016 and GCI Liberty since March 2018. He previously served as a Senior Vice President and General Counsel of our company and Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail from January 2013 to December 2015, Liberty TripAdvisor from July 2013 to December 2015 and Liberty Broadband from June 2014 to December 2015. Previously, Mr. Baer served as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated from May 2011 to December 2012. He served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Qwest Communications International Inc. from December 2002 to April 2011 and Chief Administrative Officer from August 2008 to April 2011.

Albert E. Rosenthaler

Age: 5659


Mr. Rosenthaler has served as Chief Corporate Development Officer of our company, Qurate Retail, Liberty TripAdvisor, Liberty Broadband and Liberty Expedia since October 2016 and GCI Liberty since March 2018. He previously served as Chief Tax Officer of our company, Liberty Interactive,Qurate Retail, Liberty TripAdvisor and Liberty Broadband sincefrom January 2016 to September 2016 and Liberty Expedia from March 2016 to September 2016. He previouslyPrior to that, he served as a Senior Vice President of our company (including our predecessor) from May 2007 to December 2015, Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail (including its predecessor) from April 2002 to December 2015, Liberty TripAdvisor from July 2013 to December 2015 and Liberty Broadband from June 2014 to December 2015.
Mark D. Carleton
Christopher W. Shean
Age: 5058


Mr. SheanCarleton has served as the Chief Financial Officer of our company, and Liberty Interactive since November 2011Qurate Retail and Liberty Broadband since June 2014. Mr. SheanOctober 2016. He has also served as Chief Financial Officer of GCI Liberty since March 2018 and served as Treasurer from March 2018 to May 2018. He previously served as Chief Development Officer of our company, Qurate Retail, Liberty Broadband and Liberty TripAdvisor from January 2016 to September 2016, as a Senior Vice President of our company (including our predecessor) from May 2007January 2013 to December 2015, Liberty Broadband from October 2014 to December 2015, and the ControllerQurate Retail from May 2007November 2014 to October 2011. He servedDecember 2015, and as a Senior Vice President of predecessors of Liberty InteractiveMedia from January 2002 to December 2015, the Controller from October 2000 to October 2011 and a Vice President from October 20002003 to January 2002.2013. Prior to that time, Mr. Shean alsoCarleton served as Senior Vice Presidenta partner at KPMG LLP, where he had overall responsibility for the communications sector and Chief Financial Officerserved on KPMG’s board of Liberty TripAdvisor from July 2013 through December 2015.directors.

Our executive officers will serve in such capacities until their respective successors have been duly elected and have been qualified, or until their earlier death, resignation, disqualification or removal from office. There is no family relationship between any of our executive officers or directors, by blood, marriage or adoption, other than Evan D. Malone, who is the son of John C. Malone.

During the past ten years, none of the above personsour directors and executive officers has had any involvement in such legal proceedings as would be material to an evaluation of his or her ability or integrity.


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Section 16( Section 16(a)a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance

Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), requires our executive officers and directors, and persons who own more than ten percent of a registered class of our equity securities, to file reports of ownership and changes in ownership with the SEC. Officers, directors and greater than ten-percent stockholders are required by SEC regulation to furnish us with copies of all Section 16 forms they file.

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Based solely on a review of the copies of the Forms 3, 4 and 5 and amendments to those forms furnished to us during our most recent fiscal year orand written representations that no Forms 5 were required,made to us by our executive officers and directors, we believe that, during the year ended December 31, 2015,2018, all Section 16(a) filing requirements applicable to our officers, directors and greater than ten-percent beneficial owners were met, with the exception of one Form 4 reporting one transaction an inadvertent acquisition of 34 shares of our then-existing Series A common stock, by Brian M. DeevyGregory B. Maffei that was filed on an untimely reported in a Form 4 in 2015.

basis.

Code of Ethics

We have adopted a code of business conduct and ethics that applies to allour directors, officers, and employees of our employees, directors and officers,Liberty Media, which constitutes our "code“code of ethics"ethics” within the meaning of Section 406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Our code of business conduct and ethics is available on our website atwww.libertymedia.comwww.libertymedia.com.

Director Independence

It is our policy that a majority of the members of our board of directors be independent of our management. For a director to be deemed independent, our board of directors must affirmatively determine that the director has no direct or indirect material relationship with us. To assist our board of directors in determining which of our directors qualify as independent for purposes of Nasdaq rules as well as applicable rules and regulations adopted by the SEC, the nominating and corporate governance committee of our board of directors follows the Corporate Governance Rules of The Nasdaq Stock MarketNasdaq’s corporate governance rules on the criteria for director independence.

Our board of directors has determined that each of Robert R. Bennett, Brian M. Deevy, M. Ian G. Gilchrist, David E. Rapley, Larry E. Romrell and Andrea L. Wong qualifies as an independent director of our company. In making its determination with respect to Mr. Deevy, our board noted that he previously served as head of RBC Capital Markets' Communications, Media & Entertainment Group until June 2015 and that RBC Capital Markets was providing services to Sirius XM during that time. The fees for these services are believed to be immaterial to RBC Capital Markets. Based on this review, our board determined that Mr. Deevy is independent of our company. Our board of directors also determined that Donne F. Fisher, who retired from our board of directors in June 2015, qualified as an independent director of our company during his service on our board.

Board Composition

As described above under "Proposals“Proposals of Our BoardBoard—Proposal 11—The Election of Directors Proposal," our board is comprised of directors with a broad range of backgrounds and skill sets, including in media and telecommunications, science and technology, venture capital, investment banking, auditing and financial engineering. Our board is also chronologically diverse with our members'members’ ages spanning four decades. For more information on our policies with respect to board candidates, see "“—Committees of the Board of DirectorsDirectors—Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee"Committee” below.

Board Leadership Structure

Our board has separated the positions of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer). John C. Malone, one of our largest stockholders, holds the position of


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Chairman of the Board, leads our board and board meetings and provides strategic guidance to our Chief Executive Officer. Gregory B. Maffei, our President, holds the position of Chief Executive Officer, leads our management team and is responsible for driving the performance of our company. We believe this division of responsibility effectively assists our board in fulfilling its duties.

Board Role in Risk Oversight

The board as a whole has responsibility for risk oversight, with reviews of certain areas being conducted by the relevant board committees. Our audit committee oversees management of financial risks and risks relating to potential conflicts of interest. Our compensation committee oversees the management of risks relating to our compensation arrangements with senior officers. Our nominating and corporate governance committee oversees risks associated with the independence of the board. These committees then provide reports periodically to the full board. The oversight responsibility of the board and its committees is enabled by management reporting processes that are designed to provide visibility to the board about the identification, assessment and management of critical risks. These areas of focus include strategic, operational, financial and reporting, succession and compensation, legal and compliance, and other risks. Our management reporting processes include regular reports from our Chief Executive Officer, which are prepared with input from our senior management team, and also include input from our Internal Audit group.

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Committees of the Board of Directors

Executive Committee

Our board of directors has established an executive committee, whose members are John C. Malone, Gregory B. Maffei and Robert R. Bennett. Except as specifically prohibited by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, the executive committee may exercise all the powers and authority of our board of directors in the management of our business and affairs, including the power and authority to authorize the issuance of shares of our capital stock.

Compensation Committee

Our board of directors has established a compensation committee, whose chairman is M. Ian G. Gilchrist and whose other members are David E. Rapley and Andrea L. Wong. See "—“—Director Independence"Independence” above.

The compensation committee reviews and approves corporate goals and objectives relevant to the compensation of our Chief Executive Officer and our other executive officers. The compensation committee also reviews and approves the compensation of our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Legal Officer, Chief Tax Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Corporate Development Officer, and oversees the compensation of the chief executive officers of our non-public operating subsidiaries. For a description of our processes and policies for consideration and determination of executive compensation, including the role of our Chief Executive Officer and outside consultants in determining or recommending amounts and/or forms of compensation, see "Executive“Executive Compensation—Compensation Discussion and Analysis."

Our board of directors has adopted a written charter for the compensation committee, which is available on our website atwww.libertymedia.comwww.libertymedia.com.

Compensation Committee Report

The compensation committee has reviewed and discussed with our management the "Compensation“Compensation Discussion and Analysis"Analysis” included under "Executive Compensation"“Executive Compensation” below. Based on


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such review and discussions, the compensation committee recommended to our board of directors that the "Compensation“Compensation Discussion and Analysis"Analysis” be included in this proxy statement.

Submitted by the Members of the Compensation Committee

M. Ian G. Gilchrist
David E. Rapley
Andrea L. Wong​

Submitted by the Members of the Compensation Committee
M. Ian G. Gilchrist
David E. Rapley
Andrea L. Wong
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Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

No member of our compensation committee during 2018 is or has been an officer or employee of our company, or has engaged in any related party transaction in which our company was a participant.

Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Our board of directors has established a nominating and corporate governance committee, whose chairman is David E. Rapley and whose other members are M. Ian G. Gilchrist, Larry E. Romrell and Andrea L. Wong. See "—“—Director Independence"Independence” above.

The nominating and corporate governance committee identifies individuals qualified to become board members consistent with criteria established or approved by our board of directors from time to time, identifies director nominees for upcoming annual meetings, develops corporate governance guidelines applicable to our company and oversees the evaluation of our board and management.

The nominating and corporate governance committee will consider candidates for director recommended by any stockholder provided that such recommendations are properly submitted. Eligible stockholders wishing to recommend a candidate for nomination as a director should send the recommendation in writing to the Corporate Secretary, Liberty Media Corporation, 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112. Stockholder recommendations must be made in accordance with our bylaws, as discussed under "Stockholder Proposals"“Stockholder Proposals” below, and contain the following information:


the name and address of the proposing stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is being made, and documentation indicating the number of shares of our common stock owned beneficially and of record by such person and the holder or holders of record of those shares, together with a statement that the proposing stockholder is recommending a candidate for nomination as a director;


the candidate'scandidate’s name, age, business and residence addresses, principal occupation or employment, business experience, educational background and any other information relevant in light of the factors considered by the nominating and corporate governance committee in making a determination of a candidate'scandidate’s qualifications, as described below;


a statement detailing any relationship, arrangement or understanding between the proposing stockholder and/or beneficial owner(s), if different, and any other person(s) (including their names) under which the proposing stockholder is making the nomination and any affiliates or associates (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act) of such proposing stockholder(s) or beneficial owner (each aProposing Person);


a statement detailing any relationship, arrangement or understanding that might affect the independence of the candidate as a member of our board of directors;


any other information that would be required under SEC rules in a proxy statement soliciting proxies for the election of such candidate as a director;

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    a representation as to whether the Proposing Person intends (or is part of a group that intends) to deliver any proxy materials or otherwise solicit proxies in support of the director nominee;


a representation by each Proposing Person who is a holder of record of our common stock as to whether the notice is being given on behalf of the holder of record and/or one or more beneficial owners, the number of shares held by any beneficial owner along with evidence of such beneficial ownership and that such holder of record is entitled to vote at the annual stockholders meeting and intends to appear in person or by proxy at the annual stockholders meeting at which the person named in such notice is to stand for election;


a signedwritten consent of the candidate to be named in the proxy statement and to serve as a director, if nominated and elected;


a representation as to whether the Proposing Person has received any financial assistance, funding or other consideration from any other person regarding the nomination (aStockholder Associated Person) (including the details of such assistance, funding or consideration); and
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a representation as to whether and the extent to which any hedging, derivative or other transaction has been entered into with respect to our company within the last six months by, or is in effect with respect to, the Proposing Person, any person to be nominated by the proposing stockholder or any Stockholder Associated Person, the effect or intent of which transaction is to mitigate loss to or manage risk or benefit of share price changes for, or increase or decrease the voting power of, the Proposing Person, its nominee, or any such Stockholder Associated Person.

In connection with its evaluation, the nominating and corporate governance committee may request additional information from the proposing stockholder and the candidate. The nominating and corporate governance committee has sole discretion to decide which individuals to recommend for nomination as directors.

To be nominated to serve as a director, a nominee need not meet any specific minimum criteria. However, the nominating and corporate governance committee believes that nominees for director should possess the highest personal and professional ethics, integrity, values and judgment and should be committed to the long-term interests of our stockholders. When evaluating a potential director nominee, including one recommended by a stockholder, the nominating and corporate governance committee will take into account a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the following:


independence from management;


his or her unique background, including education, professional experience and relevant skill sets;


judgment, skill, integrity and reputation;


existing commitments to other businesses as a director, executive or owner;


personal conflicts of interest, if any; and


the size and composition of the existing board of directors, including whether the potential director nominee would positively impact the composition of the board by bringing a new perspective or viewpoint to the board of directors.

The nominating and corporate governance committee does not assign specific weights to particular criteria and no particular criterion is necessarily applicable to all prospective nominees. The nominating and corporate governance committee does not have a formal policy with respect to diversity; however, our board and the nominating and corporate governance committee believe that it is important that our board members represent diverse viewpoints.


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When seeking candidates for director, the nominating and corporate governance committee may solicit suggestions from incumbent directors, management, stockholders and others. After conducting an initial evaluation of a prospective nominee, the nominating and corporate governance committee will interview that candidate if it believes the candidate might be suitable to be a director. The nominating and corporate governance committee may also ask the candidate to meet with management. If the nominating and corporate governance committee believes a candidate would be a valuable addition to our board of directors, it may recommend to the full board that candidate'scandidate’s nomination and election.

Prior to nominating an incumbent director for re-election at an annual meeting of stockholders, the nominating and corporate governance committee will consider the director'sdirector’s past attendance at, and participation in, meetings of the board of directors and its committees and the director'sdirector’s formal and informal contributions to the various activities conducted by the board and the board committees of which such individual is a member.

The members of our nominating and corporate governance committee have determined that Messrs. Malone, Bennett and Gilchrist, who are nominated for election at the annual meeting, arecontinue to be qualified to serve as directors of our company and such nominations were approved by the entire board of directors.

Our board of directors has adopted a written charter for the nominating and corporate governance committee. Our board of directors has also adopted corporate governance guidelines, which were developed by the nominating and corporate governance committee. The charter and the corporate governance guidelines are available on our website atwww.libertymedia.comwww.libertymedia.com.

Audit Committee

Our board of directors has established an audit committee, whose chairman is Brian M. Deevy and whose other members are M. Ian G. Gilchrist and Larry E. Romrell. See "—“—Director Independence"Independence” above.

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Our board of directors has determined that Mr. Gilchrist is an "audit“audit committee financial expert"expert” under applicable SEC rules and regulations. The audit committee reviews and monitors the corporate financial reporting and the internal and external audits of our company. The committee'scommittee’s functions include, among other things:


appointing or replacing our independent auditors;


reviewing and approving in advance the scope and the fees of our annual audit and reviewing the results of our audits with our independent auditors;


reviewing and approving in advance the scope and the fees of non-audit services of our independent auditors;


reviewing compliance with and the adequacy of our existing major accounting and financial reporting policies;


reviewing our management'smanagement’s procedures and policies relating to the adequacy of our internal accounting controls and compliance with applicable laws relating to accounting practices;


confirming compliance with applicable SEC and stock exchange rules; and


preparing a report for our annual proxy statement.

Our board of directors has adopted a written charter for the audit committee, which is available on our website atwww.libertymedia.comwww.libertymedia.com.


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    Audit Committee Report

Each member of the audit committee is an independent director as determined by our board of directors, based on the listing standards of The Nasdaq Stock Market.Nasdaq. Each member of the audit committee also satisfies the SEC'sSEC’s independence requirements for members of audit committees. Our board of directors has determined that Mr. Gilchrist is an "audit“audit committee financial expert"expert” under applicable SEC rules and regulations.

The audit committee reviews our financial reporting process on behalf of our board of directors. Management has primary responsibility for establishing and maintaining adequate internal controls, for preparing financial statements and for the public reporting process. Our independent auditor, KPMG LLP, is responsible for expressing opinions on the conformity of our audited consolidated financial statements with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Our independent auditor also expresses its opinion as to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting.

Our audit committee has reviewed and discussed with management and KPMG LLP our most recent audited consolidated financial statements, as well as management'smanagement’s assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting and KPMG LLP'sLLP’s evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. Our audit committee has also discussed with KPMG LLP the matters required to be discussed by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Auditing Standard No. 16,1301, Communications with Audit Committees, including that firm'sfirm’s judgment about the quality of our accounting principles, as applied in its financial reporting.

KPMG LLP has provided our audit committee with the written disclosures and the letter required by the applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board regarding KPMG LLP'sLLP’s communications with the audit committee concerning independence, and the audit committee has discussed with KPMG LLP that firm'sfirm’s independence from the company and its subsidiaries.

Based on the reviews, discussions and other considerations referred to above, our audit committee recommended to our board of directors that the audited financial statements be included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015,2018 (the 2018 Form 10-K), which was filed on February 26, 201628, 2019 with the SEC.

Submitted by the Members of the Audit Committee
Brian M. Deevy
M. Ian G. Gilchrist
Larry E. Romrell
Submitted by the Members of the Audit Committee

Brian M. Deevy
M. Ian G. Gilchrist
Larry E. Romrell​

    Other

Our board of directors, by resolution, may from time to time establish other committees of our board of directors, consisting of one or more of our directors. Any committee so established will have the powers delegated to it by resolution of our board of directors, subject to applicable law.

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Board Meetings

During 2015,2018, there were six meetings of our full board of directors, no meetings of our executive committee, elevenfour meetings of our compensation committee, one meeting of our nominating and corporate governance committee and fivesix meetings of our audit committee.

Director Attendance at Annual Meetings

Our board of directors encourages all members of the board to attend each annual meeting of our stockholders. FourAll of the eightnine directors then serving attended our 20152018 annual meeting of stockholders.


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Stockholder Communication with Directors

Our stockholders may send communications to our board of directors or to individual directors by mail addressed to the Board of Directors or to an individual director c/o Liberty Media Corporation, 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112. All such communications from stockholders will be forwarded to our directors on a timely basis.

Executive Sessions

        Under the Nasdaq's corporate governance rules,

In 2018, the independent directors are required to meet in regularly scheduledof our company, then serving, met at three executive sessions without management participation.
Any interested party who has a concern regarding any matter that it wishes to have addressed by our independent directors, as a group, at an upcoming executive session may send its concern in writing addressed to Independent Directors of Liberty Media Corporation, c/o Liberty Media Corporation, 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112. The current independent directors of our company are Robert R. Bennett, Brian M. Deevy, M. Ian G. Gilchrist, David E. Rapley, Larry E. Romrell and Andrea L. Wong.


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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

This section sets forth information relating to, and an analysis and discussion of, compensation paid by our company to the following persons (who we collectively refer to as ournamed executive officers):


John C. Malone, our Chairman of the Board;


Gregory B. Maffei, our Chief Executive Officer and President;


Christopher W. Shean,
Mark D. Carleton, our Chief Financial Officer; and


Richard N. Baer and Albert E. Rosenthaler, our other two most highly compensated executive officers at the end of 2015.

        This section does not give effect to the reclassification or any adjustments to the named executive officers' stock option, restricted stock or restricted stock unit awards in connection with the reclassification or the rights offering. References to LMCA and LMCK in this section mean our Series A and Series C common stock as they existed prior to the reclassification.

2018.

Compensation Discussion and Analysis

Compensation Overview

Our compensation committee of our board of directors has responsibility for establishing, implementing and regularly monitoring adherence to our compensation philosophy. That philosophy seeks to align the interests of the named executive officers with those of our stockholders, with the ultimate goal of appropriately motivating our executives to increase long-term stockholder value. To that end, the compensation packages provided to the named executive officers (other than Mr. Malone) include significant performance-based bonuses and significant equity incentive awards.

awards, including equity awards that vest many years after initial grant.

Our compensation committee seeks to approve a compensation package for each named executive officer that is commensurate with the responsibilities and proven performance of that executive and that is competitive relative to the compensation packages paid to similarly situated executives in other companies. Our compensation committee does not engage in any regular benchmarking analysis; rather, it is familiar with the range of total compensation paid by other companies and periodically reviews survey information provided by Mercer (US) Inc. (Mercer) and others. Our compensation committee uses this range and survey data as a guide to ensure that the named executive officers receive attractive compensation packages. Our compensation committee believes that our compensation packages should assist our company in attracting and retaining key executives critical to our long-term success.

        Our feedback from stockholders on this pay philosophy has been positive.

At our 20152018 annual stockholder meeting, stockholders representing 79.4%a majority of the aggregate voting power of Liberty Media present and entitled to vote on our say-on-pay proposal approved,voted in favor of, on an advisory basis, our executive compensation as disclosed in our proxy statement for the 20152018 annual meeting of stockholders. No material changes were implemented to our executive compensation program as a result of this vote. In 2012, theAt our 2018 annual stockholder meeting, stockholders of our predecessor parent company (currently known as Starz,Old LMC) elected to hold a say-on-pay vote every three years and we assumedour board of directors adopted this as the results of that vote in connection with the spin-off in 2013 of our company from Old LMC (theLMC Spin-Off).

    frequency at which future say-on-pay votes would be held.

Services Agreements

In connection with prior spin-off or split offsplit-off transactions involving our company and Liberty Interactive,or Qurate Retail, we have entered into transitional services arrangements with each of Liberty Interactive, Starz,Qurate Retail, Liberty Broadband, Liberty TripAdvisor, Liberty Expedia and Liberty TripAdvisor.GCI Liberty. Pursuant to these arrangements, our employees provide or provided services to these companies and our company is reimbursed for the time spent serving these companies.


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Liberty Interactive Corporation.    

We assumed a services agreement with Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail (the Qurate Retail Services Agreement) in connection with the LMC Spin-Off (theLIC Services Agreement).spin-off of our company from our predecessor parent company. Pursuant to the LICQurate Retail Services Agreement, in 2015, Liberty Interactive2018, Qurate Retail reimbursed us for the portion of the base salary and certain other compensation we paid to our employees that was allocable to Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail for estimated time spent by each such employee related to that company. Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail does not reimburse us for time spent by Mr. Maffei on Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail matters. Rather, Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail pays Mr. Maffei directly pursuant to his employment agreement with Liberty Interactive.Qurate Retail. The 20152018 performance-based bonuses earned by the named executive officers offor services provided to our company were paid directly by our company.company and the performance-based bonuses earned by the named executive officers for services provided to Qurate Retail were paid directly by Qurate Retail. During 2015,2018, the estimate of the allocable percentages of time spent performing services for Liberty Interactive,Qurate Retail, on the one hand, and our company, on the other hand, were reviewed quarterly by our audit committee for appropriateness. The salaries and certain perquisite
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information included in the "Summary“Summary Compensation Table"Table” below reflect the portion of the compensation paid by and allocable to Liberty Media and do not reflect the portion of the compensation allocable to Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail and for which Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail reimbursed Liberty Media under the LICQurate Retail Services Agreement. During the year ended December 31, 2015,2018, the weighted average percentage of each such named executive officer'sofficer’s time that was allocated to our company was: Mr. Malone—55%75%; Mr. Baer—50%70%; Mr. Rosenthaler—45%Carleton—75%; and Mr. Shean—38%Rosenthaler—73%.

Starz.    In January 2013, we separated from Starz in the LMC Spin-Off.

Other Services Agreements
In connection with each of the LMC Spin-Off,August 2014 spin-off of Liberty TripAdvisor from Qurate Retail, our November 2014 spin-off of Liberty Broadband, the November 2016 split-off of Liberty Expedia from Qurate Retail and the March 2018 acquisition and subsequent separation of GCI Liberty from Qurate Retail, we entered into a services agreement with Starz, pursuant to which Starz will compensate us for the portion of the salary and other cash compensation we pay to our employees, including our named executive officers (other than Mr. Maffei), that is allocable to Starz for time spent on matters related to Starz. The services agreement provides that a portion of Mr. Maffei's base salary will be allocable to Starz for time spent on matters related to Starz and provides that none of Mr. Maffei's performance-based bonus will be allocable to Starz. For the year ended December 31, 2015, we allocated to Starz 10% of Mr. Maffei's base salary and 5% of Mr. Rosenthaler's base salary, and we were compensated accordingly under the services agreement.

Liberty TripAdvisor, Holdings.    In August 2014, Liberty Interactive completed the spin-off of its subsidiary,Broadband, Liberty TripAdvisor (theTripCo Spin-Off). In connection with the TripCo Spin-Off,Expedia and GCI Liberty, Interactive requested that we enter into a services agreement with Liberty TripAdvisor,respectively, pursuant to which we will provide to Liberty TripAdvisoreach of them certain administrative and management services, and Liberty TripAdvisor will payeach of them pays us a monthly management fee, the amount of which is subject to semi-annual review. For the year ended December 31, 2015,2018, Liberty TripAdvisor, Liberty Broadband, Liberty Expedia and GCI Liberty accrued aggregate management fees of  $2,323,285$3.2 million, $3.5 million, $4.0 million and $8.3 million, respectively, payable to our company under the relevant services agreement.

Liberty Broadband Corporation.    In November 2014, we completed the spin-off of our subsidiary, Liberty Broadband (theBroadband Spin-Off). In connection with the Broadband Spin-Off, we entered into a services agreement with Liberty Broadband, pursuant to which we will provide to Liberty Broadband certain administrative and management services, and Liberty Broadband will pay us a monthly management fee, the amount of which is subject to semi-annual review. For the year ended December 31, 2015, Liberty Broadband accrued aggregate management fees of $2,278,605 payable to our company under the services agreement.

Setting Executive Compensation

In making its compensation decision for each named executive officer (other than Mr. Malone), our compensation committee considers the following:


each element of the named executive officer's historicalofficer’s compensation, including salary, bonus, equity compensation, perquisites and other personal benefits, and weights equity compensation most heavily;

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    the financial performance of our company compared to internal forecasts and budgets;


the scope of the named executive officer'sofficer’s responsibilities;


the competitive nature of the compensation packages offered based on general industry knowledge of the media, telecommunications and entertainment industries and periodic use of survey information provided by Mercer (US) Inc. (Mercer) and others; and


the performance of the group reporting to the named executive officer.

In addition, when setting compensation, our compensation committee considers the recommendations obtained from our Chief Executive Officer as to all elements of the compensation packages of Mr.Messrs. Baer, Mr. RosenthalerCarleton and Mr. Shean.Rosenthaler. To make these recommendations, our Chief Executive Officer evaluates the performance and contributions of each such named executive officer. He also considers whether the pay packages afforded to such named executive officers are competitive and are aligned internally. He also evaluates the named executive officer'sofficer’s performance against individual, department and corporate goals.

In December 2014, our compensation committee approved a new five-year employment agreement with Mr. Maffei (the2015 Maffei Employment Agreement), which setsestablishes his compensation for the term of the agreement. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Gregory B. Maffei"Maffei” below. Prior to entering into the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement, our compensation committee obtainedreviewed information from Mercer with respect to chief executive officer compensation packages at media, telecommunications, e-commerce and entertainment companies and discussed with Mercer alternative equity award structures.

In May 2016, our compensation committee approved a new four-year employment agreement with Mr. Malone'sBaer (the 2016 Baer Employment Agreement), which establishes his compensation for the term of the agreement. See “—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Richard N. Baer” below. Prior to entering into the 2016 Baer Employment Agreement, our compensation committee reviewed compensation data with respect to chief legal officer compensation packages at media, telecommunications and entertainment companies and considered the recommendations of Mr. Maffei with respect to the proposed compensation package.
Mr. Malone’s compensation is governed by the terms of his employment agreement with our company. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—John C. Malone."

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Elements of 20152018 Executive Compensation

For 2015,2018, the principal components of compensation for the named executive officers (other than Mr. Malone) were:


base salary;


a performance-based bonus, payable in cash;


time-vested and performance-based stock option awards and restricted stock unit awards granted to Mr. Maffei;RSUs;


stock option awards granted to Messrs. Rosenthaler and Shean consisting of (i) a multi-year stock option award to purchase 192,538 shares of LMCK that vest in equal increments on each of December 31, 2019 and 2020 and (ii) a stock option award to purchase 118,100 shares of LMCK that vest in equal installments on each of March 4, 2016, March 4, 2017 and March 4, 2018;

perquisites and other limited personal benefits; and


deferred compensation arrangements.

Base Salary

Our compensation committee believes base salary should be a relatively smaller portion of each named executive officer’s overall compensation package, thereby aligning the interests of our executives more closely with those of our stockholders. The base salaries of the named executive officers are reviewed on an annual basis (other than Messrs. Malone and Maffei, whose salaries are governedset by their respective employment agreements), as well as at the time of any change in responsibilities. Typically, after establishing a named executive officer'sofficer’s base salary, salary increases are limited to cost-of-living adjustments, adjustments based on changes in the scope of the named executive officer'sofficer’s responsibilities, and adjustments to align the named executive officer'sofficer’s salary level with those of our other named executive officers. Our


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compensation committee believes base salary should be a relatively smaller portion of each named executive officer's overall compensation package, thereby aligning the interests of our executives more closely with those of our stockholders. Similarly, in accordance with the terms of his employment agreement, Mr. Malone'sMalone’s fixed cash compensation is limited.

After completion of the annual review in December 2014,2017, the 20152018 base salaries of Messrs. Baer, RosenthalerCarleton and SheanRosenthaler were increased by 3%2%, reflecting a cost-of-living adjustment. Additionally, in February 2015, the base salaries for Messrs. Rosenthaler and Shean were further increased by 3% and 1%, respectively, to better align the base salaries of our company's senior officers with the salaries of other senior officers with similar levels of responsibility. For 2015,2018, Mr. Maffei received the 5% base salary increase prescribed by the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement. Mr. Malone received no increase under the terms of his employment agreement.

2015

2018 Performance-based Bonuses

For 2015,2018, our compensation committee adopted an annual, performance-based bonus program for each of the named executive officers (other than Mr. Malone), which was structured to comply with Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (theCode). The 20152018 bonus program was comprised of two components: a bonus amount payable based on each participant'sparticipant’s individual performance (theIndividual Performance Bonus) and a bonus amount payable based on the corporate performance of our company (theCorporate Performance Bonus). No amounts would be payable under our 20152018 bonus program unless a minimum corporate performance was achieved: the combined Adjusted OIBDA (or equivalent measure) of Sirius XM, and Braves Holdings, LLC (Braves Holdings), Formula 1 (or F1), and a proportionate share of the equivalent measure of Adjusted OIBDA of Live Nation, for the year ended December 31, 20152018 was required to exceed $500 million (theBonus Threshold). If the Bonus Threshold was met, the notional bonus pool for our company would be funded with 0.95%0.57% of the amount by which such combined Adjusted OIBDA exceeded $500 million (theCash Bonus Poolbonus pool). If the bonus poolCash Bonus Pool were insufficient to cover the aggregate maximum bonus amounts of all participants (as described in more detail below), each participant'sparticipant’s maximum bonus amount would be reduced pro rata, for all purposes under the program, based upon his respective maximum bonus amount.

For purposes of the bonus program, Adjusted OIBDA is defined as revenue less cost of sales, operating expense and selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expense (excluding stock compensation). Sirius XM and Live Nation do not report Adjusted OIBDA information. As a result, we used Adjusted EBITDA as reported by Sirius XM and Adjusted Operating Income, or AOI, as reported by Live Nation, which are the most similar non-GAAP measures reported by Sirius XM and Live Nation, to determine their results. For a definition of Adjusted EBITDA as defined by Sirius XM, please see Sirius XM'sXM’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015,2018, filed on February 2, 2016.January 30, 2019. For a definition of AOI as defined by Live Nation, please see Live Nation'sNation’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015,2018, filed on February 25, 2016.

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Each participant was assigned a maximum bonus under the performance-based bonus program for each of Liberty Media and Liberty Interactive.Qurate Retail. The maximum bonuses for our participantsthe Liberty Media program were as follows: Mr. Maffei—$4,803,750;8,341,414; Mr. Baer—$875,243;1,406,882; Mr. Carleton—$1,366,305; and Messrs. Rosenthaler and Shean—Mr. Rosenthaler—$850,0001,366,305 (each participant'sparticipant’s LMC Funding Pool Maximum Performance Bonus). Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail also established maximum performance-based bonuses for our participants in the same amounts (theas follows: Mr. Maffei—$5,560,943; Mr. Baer—$937,921; Mr. Carleton—$910,870; and Mr. Rosenthaler—$910,870.
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Combined Maximum BonusEXECUTIVE COMPENSATION.

To determine the LMC Funding Pool Maximum Performance Bonus for each of Messrs. Baer, Rosenthaler,Carleton and Shean,Rosenthaler, our compensation committee divided the base salary paid by our company in half, recognizing that the other half would be subject to Liberty Interactive'sQurate Retail’s bonus program. Our compensation committee then set the LMC Funding Pool Maximum Performance Bonus at twothree times the quotient above. In February 2015, theabove for Mr. Baer, Mr. Carleton and Mr. Rosenthaler. Mr. Maffei’s LMC Funding Pool Maximum Performance Bonus amount for each of Messrs. Rosenthaler and Shean was increased from 1.5 times to two times to align the compensation of our company's senior officers more closely. Mr. Baer's LMC Maximum


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Bonus amount is consistent with the percentage applied to him with respect to our previous performance-based bonus programs. Mr. Maffei's maximum bonus was set at fiveseven and one half times the base salary paid by our company, which is consistent withexceeded the terms of the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement.

Mr. Baer’s LMC Funding Pool Maximum Performance Bonus was set at three times the base salary paid by our company, which exceeded the terms of the 2016 Baer Employment Agreement. Our compensation committee increased Mr. Maffei’s LMC Funding Pool Maximum Performance Bonus and Mr. Baer’s LMC Funding Pool Maximum Performance Bonus to account for the fact that their respective time allocated to Liberty TripAdvisor, Liberty Broadband, Liberty Expedia, and GCI Liberty under the services agreements is charged to our company in the determination of their LMC individual bonuses by our compensation committee. In addition, the LMC Funding Pool Maximum Performance Bonuses of Mr. Carleton and Mr. Rosenthaler were similarly increased in 2018.

Our compensation committee then determined that if the Cash Bonus Pool were fully funded, it would make its determinations as to the percentage to pay Mr. Maffei and Mr. Baer based on the above-described contractual limits (five times base pay for Mr. Maffei and two times attributable base pay for Mr. Baer). Similarly, our compensation committee determined to make its determinations as to the percentage to pay Mr. Carleton and Mr. Rosenthaler based on a limit of two times their respective attributable base pay. These limits will be referred to as the LMC Maximum Performance Bonus.
Assuming the Bonus Threshold was met (and after taking into account any reductions associated with a shortfall in the bonus pool)Cash Bonus Pool), each participant was entitled to receive from our company an amount (theLMC Maximum Individual Bonus)Bonus) equal to the LMC Allocable Time Percentage (as defined below) multiplied by 60% of the CombinedLMC Maximum Performance Bonus for that participant (theCombined Maximum Individual Bonus).participant. The LMC Maximum Individual Bonus was subject to reduction based on a subjective determination of the participant'sparticipant’s achievement of qualitative criteria established with respect to the services to be performed by the participant on behalf of our company. TheLMC Allocable Time Percentage for each participant is equal to the difference between 100% and the percentage of such participant's time that was spent performing services for Liberty Interactive under the LIC Services Agreement, as determined by our compensation committee for purposes of the payment of bonuses: 55% as to Mr. Maffei; 50% as to Mr. Baer; 45% as to Mr. Rosenthaler; and 38% as to Mr. Shean. Under Liberty Interactive'sQurate Retail’s corollary program, each participant was entitled to receive from Liberty Interactive an amountQurate Retail a maximum individual bonus equal to the remaining portion60% of the Combined Maximum Individual Bonus,his Qurate Retail maximum performance bonus, subject to reduction based on a subjective determination of the participant'sparticipant’s achievement of qualitative criteria established with respect to the services to be performed by the participant on behalf of Liberty Interactive.Qurate Retail. Our compensation committee believes this construct was appropriate in light of the LICQurate Retail Services Agreement and the fact that each participant splits his professional time and duties.

Also, assuming the Bonus Threshold was met (and after taking into account any reductions associated with a shortfall in the bonus pool)Cash Bonus Pool), each participant was entitled to receive from our company an amount (theLMC Maximum Corporate Bonus) equal to the LMC Corporate Percentage (as defined below) multiplied by 40% of his CombinedLMC Maximum Performance Bonus, (theCombined Maximum Corporate Bonus), subject to reduction based on a subjective determination of the corporate performance of our company. TheLMC Corporate Percentage was determined by referenceQurate Retail has a corollary program pursuant to the historical relative market capitalizations of our company and Liberty Interactive. Under Liberty Interactive's corollary program,which each participant was entitled to receive from Liberty Interactive an amount (theLIC Maximum Corporate Bonus) equal to the remaining portionQurate Retail a bonus that is 40% of the Combined Maximum Corporate Bonus,Qurate Retail maximum bonus, which was subject to reduction based on a subjective determination of the corporate performance of Liberty Interactive.

Qurate Retail.

In December 2015,2018, our compensation committee and the Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail compensation committee collaborated in their review ofreviewed contemporaneously our respective named executive officers' individualofficers’ performance criteria and their review ofunder each company's corporate performance metrics.company’s program. Notwithstanding this collaborativejoint effort, our compensation committee retained sole and exclusive discretion with respect to the approval of award terms and amounts payable under our bonus program.

Also, in December 2015,2018, our compensation committee determined that the combined Adjusted OIBDA (or equivalent measure) for Sirius XM, and Braves Holdings, Formula 1 and a proportionate share of the equivalent measure of Adjusted OIBDA of Live Nation, was approximately $1.85 billion$2,959.7 million using the formula described above, exceeding the Bonus Threshold by approximately $1.35 billion,$2,459.7 million, thereby creating a notional bonus poolCash Bonus Pool of approximately $12.81$14.02 million, which exceeded the amount necessary to cover the aggregate maximum bonus amountsLMC Funding Pool Maximum Performance Bonuses of all the participants and enabling each participant to receive a bonus ofunder the performance-based program up to his maximum bonus amount.

LMC Funding Pool Maximum Performance Bonus.

Individual Performance Bonus.Bonus. Our compensation committee then reviewed the individual performance of each participant to determine the reductions that would apply to each participant'sparticipant’s LMC Maximum Individual Bonus. Our compensation committee took into account a variety of factors, without assigning a numerical weight to any single performance measure. This determination was based on reports of our board, the observations of committee members throughout the year, executive


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IndividualPerformance Objectives
Individual
Performance Objectives

Gregory B. Maffei


Provide leadership to management team to drive strategies, further enhance brand and increase shareholder value

Support F1 management and Sirius XM management in strategic initiatives

Pursue synergistic acquisitions

Assist subsidiaries with succession plans and hiring of key executives

Pursue optimal capital structure for our company

and subsidiaries, including development of additional capital funding strategies

Assist with strategy and succession planning at our company and subsidiaries

Oversee extension of Braves stadium development

Support development of our company’s management team

Develop strategic initiatives for our company, assist subsidiaries and equity affiliates with strategic initiatives

Increase stake in Live Nation

Support development and goals of management team

Achieve company financial goals

Richard N. Baer

Provide sound and timely advice to senior management and board on key issues


Provide effective legal support in connection with mergers, acquisitions, investments and other transactional matters


Oversee briefingcompliance obligations and oral argument of Vivendi appealassist with litigation at our company and explore and, if possible, negotiate settlement

its subsidiaries


Negotiate executive employment arrangements

Facilitate, along with other members of senior management team, sound approach to governance and compliance


Provide legal support to, and assess and appropriately manage significant legal matters of, subsidiaries and controlled companies


Assist with succession planning at our company and subsidiaries

Facilitate continued professional development and engagement of legal department staff

Mark D. Carleton

Manage relationship with Live Nation

Co-oversee activities of Atlanta Braves subsidiary

Assist Sirius XM in its corporate development and other efforts

Oversee personal and departmental growth of Accounting, Finance and Internal Audit Groups

Support the Accounting department to maintain timely and accurate internal and external financial reports
Albert E. Rosenthaler

Continue legislative

Lead corporate development efforts,

including efforts at F1, Sirius XM and our company

Provide effective tax counsel

Identify possible acquisition targets; provide analysis and advice on strategic initiatives

evaluation of potential transactions

Obtain closing agreement from the IRS in connection with the Liberty Broadband Spin-Off

Obtain full or partial acceptance letter from IRS for 2014 Compliance Assurance Process

Train

Oversee, train and develop internal tax staff

Christopher W. Shean


Increase staffing as needed and oversee personal and departmental growth of corporate development team

Support Chief Executive Officer in pursuit of optimal capital structure for our company

Work with Chief Executive Officer on initiatives to improve our liquidity position and achieve company financial goals

Explore opportunities to maximize value of Braves Holdings

Assess and optimize functionality of financial reporting team

Train and develop internal finance staff

Our compensation committee then considered the time allocated and services provided by each named executive officer to (i) our company, or (ii) the companies who are parties to the services agreements, under which our company is reimbursed for such time and services. See “—Services Agreements” above.

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Following a review of the participants' performance,above, our compensation committee determined to pay each participant the following portion of his LMC Maximum Individual Bonus:

NameLMC Maximum
Individual Bonus
Percentage
Payable
Aggregate
Dollar Amount
Gregory B. Maffei$5,738,89362.50%$3,586,808
Richard N. Baer$787,85487.50%$689,372
Mark D. Carleton$819,78375.00%$614,837
Albert E. Rosenthaler$797,92281.25%$648,312

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Name
 LMC Maximum
Individual Bonus
 Percentage
Payable
 Aggregate
Dollar Amount
 

Gregory B. Maffei

 $3,170,476  81.3%$2,576,011 

Richard N. Baer

 $525,146  81.3%$426,681 

Albert E. Rosenthaler

 $459,000  87.5%$401,625 

Christopher W. Shean

 $387,600  81.3%$314,925 

Corporate Performance Bonus.Bonus. Our compensation committee then made a subjective determination as to the reductions, if any, that would apply to each participant'sparticipant’s LMC Maximum Corporate Bonus. In making this determination, our compensation committee reviewed forecasts of 20152018 Adjusted OIBDA, revenue and free cash flow (as defined below) for Sirius XM, and Braves Holdings and Formula 1, and a proportionate share of Live Nation, all of which forecasts were prepared in December 20152018 and are set forth in the table below. Also set forth in the table below are the corresponding actual financial measures achieved for 2015,2018, which were within one percent ofdeviated from our forecasts except that actualas indicated below. Although forecasted free cash flow was 107.4% ofdeviated from the forecast. In determining whether any reductionsactual result, neither that deviation nor the Revenue or Adjusted OIBDA deviations would be made tohave materially affected the LMC Maximum Corporate Bonus payable to each participant, our compensation committee weightedamounts paid under the corporate performance metrics as follows: 25% attributable to revenue growth, 50% attributable to Adjusted OIBDA growth and 25% attributable to growth in free cash flow.

bonus portion of the program.
(dollar amounts in millions)
2018 Forecast2018 ActualActual/Forecast
Revenue(1)$11,526.3$11,672.41.3%
Adjusted OIBDA(1)$2,959.7$3,001.11.4%
Free Cash Flow(1)(2)$2,078.8$2,161.94.0%

(dollar amounts in millions)
 2015
Forecast
 2015
Actual
 Actual /
Forecast
 

Revenue(1)

 $7,123.1 $7,216.0  101.3%

Adjusted OIBDA(1)

 $1,848.0 $1,855.0  100.4%

Free Cash Flow(1)(2)

 $1,263.3 $1,357.3  107.4%

(1)
(1)
Revenue, Adjusted OIBDA and Free Cash Flow information represent the summation for Sirius XM, and Braves Holdings and Formula 1, and a proportionate share of Live Nation. Includes our share of Live Nation'sNation’s revenue, Adjusted OIBDA (or comparable measure) and Free Cash Flow (or comparable measure) at ownership levels including the impactas of the forward contract through 2/9/15,December 31, 2017, which was the percentage used for approving the 20152018 performance bonus program.
(2)

(2)
Defined for purposes of the bonus program as Adjusted OIBDA less all other operating and investing items.

Based on a review of these forecasts and our compensation committee’s consideration of our company’s performance against plan for these measures, our compensation committee determined that the growth metrics were achieved to the extent described below:

Growth Factor
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Revenue

25% of a possible 25%

Adjusted OIBDA

50% of a possible 50%

Free Cash Flow

25%17.5% of a possible 25%

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Our compensation committee then used its subjective discretion to translatetranslated the achievement of these growth metrics into a percentage payable to each participant of his LMC Maximum Corporate Bonus, as follows:

NameLMC Maximum
Corporate
Bonus
Percentage
Payable
Aggregate
Dollar Amount
Gregory B. Maffei$3,011,92892.5%$2,786,033
Richard N. Baer$507,99892.5%$469,899
Mark D. Carleton$493,34792.5%$456,346
Albert E. Rosenthaler$493,34792.5%$456,346

Name
 LMC Maximum
Corporate Bonus
 Percentage
Payable
 Aggregate
Dollar Amount
 

Gregory B. Maffei

 $1,569,816  100%$1,569,816 

Richard N. Baer

 $286,020  100%$286,020 

Albert E. Rosenthaler

 $277,771  100%$277,771 

Christopher W. Shean

 $277,771  100%$277,771 

Aggregate Results.Results. The following table presents information concerning the aggregate 20152018 performance-based bonus amounts payable to each named executive officer by our company (other than Mr. Malone), after giving effect to the determinations described above.

NameIndividual
Performance
Bonus
Corporate
Performance
Bonus
Total Bonus
Gregory B. Maffei$3,586,808$2,786,033$6,372,841
Richard N. Baer$689,372$469,899$1,159,270
Mark D. Carleton$614,837$456,346$1,071,183
Albert E. Rosenthaler$648,312$456,346$1,104,658

Name
 Individual
Performance
Bonus
 Corporate
Performance
Bonus
 Total Bonus 

Gregory B. Maffei

 $2,576,011 $1,569,816 $4,145,828 

Richard N. Baer

 $426,681 $286,020 $712,701 

Albert E. Rosenthaler

 $401,625 $277,771 $679,396 

Christopher W. Shean

 $314,925 $277,771 $592,696 

Our compensation committee then noted that, when combined with the total 20152018 performance-based bonus amounts paid by Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail to the overlapping named executive officers, each of our named executive officers received the following portion of his respective Combined Maximum Bonus:

payments:
Name
 Combined
Maximum Bonus
 Combined
Percentage Paid
 

Gregory B. Maffei

 $9,607,502  84.6%

Richard N. Baer

 $1,750,486  84.6%

Albert E. Rosenthaler

 $1,700,000  88.3%

Christopher W. Shean

 $1,700,000  84.6%
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NameCombined Performance Bonus
Gregory B. Maffei$7,064,502
Richard N. Baer$1,472,891
Mark D. Carleton$1,293,780
Albert E. Rosenthaler$1,362,095
For more information regarding these bonus awards, please see the "Grants“Grants of Plan-Based Awards"Awards” table below.

Equity Incentive Compensation
The Liberty Media Corporation 2017 Omnibus Incentive Plan, as amended, (the 2017 incentive plan

        The) provides, and prior to its expiration, the Liberty Media Corporation 2013 Incentive Plan (Amended and Restated as of March 31, 2015), as amended (the2013 incentive plan) providesprovided, for the grant of a variety of incentive awards, including stock options, restricted shares, restricted stock units,RSUs, stock appreciation rights and performance awards. Our compensation committee has a preference for grants of stock-based incentive awards (restricted stock units,(RSUs, restricted stock and options) as compared with cash incentive awards based on the belief that they better promote retention of key employees through the continuing, long-term nature of an equity investment. It is the policy of our compensation committee that stock options be awarded with an exercise price equal to fair market value on the date of grant, typically measured by reference to the closing price on the grant date.

Maffei Performance-based Equity Awards.Awards. In December 2014, we entered into the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement which provides Mr. Maffei with the opportunity to earn annual equity incentive awards during the employment term. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Gregory B. Maffei"Maffei” for additional information about the annual awards to be provided under the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement.


Table The Maffei Employment Agreement provides that Mr. Maffei was entitled to receive from our company and Qurate Retail in 2018 a combined target value equity award of  Contents$19 million and contemplates that the equity awards would be structured to qualify as performance-based compensation under Section 162(m) of the Code. The Maffei Employment Agreement contemplated that the $19 million equity award would be divided between our company and Qurate Retail according to relative market capitalization. Mr. Maffei is also eligible to receive above-target equity awards from our company and Qurate Retail equaling in the aggregate $9.5 million (split by relative market capitalization) that would be granted at the end of the performance period in each compensation committee’s sole discretion. The Maffei Employment Agreement also sets forth provisions for determining and establishing any performance criteria for equity awards.

In 2018, our compensation committee, with the consent of Mr. Maffei, decided to grant a combination of time-vested stock options and performance-based RSUs that the parties agreed were in satisfaction of our obligations under the Maffei Employment Agreement. Our compensation committee believes that time-vested stock options are consistent with its philosophy of aligning the interests of the named executive officers with those of our stockholders, with the ultimate goal of appropriately motivating our executives to increase long-term stockholder value. In addition, our compensation committee believed that Mr. Maffei’s RSU grants should be subject to performance metrics that incentivize and reward Mr. Maffei for successful completion of our company’s strategic initiatives. Our compensation committee determined to grant 23% of the total award value of  $19 million in FWONK awards, 36% of the total award value of  $19 million in LSXMK, and 3% of the total award value of  $19 million in BATRK awards in accordance with the relative market capitalization of our three tracking stock groups and Qurate Retail’s two tracking stock groups. The parties did not amend the Maffei Employment Agreement and made no decision as to whether to formalize the above process for future grants.
As a result, our compensation committee granted to Mr. Maffei 632,752 LSXMK time-vested options (the Maffei LSXMK options

), 46,052 BATRK time-vested options (the Maffei BATRK options), 138,655 FWONK time-vested options (the Maffei FWONK options), 12,279 BATRK performance-based RSUs (the 2018 Maffei BATRK RSUs) and 85,590 FWONK performance-based RSUs (the 2018 Maffei FWONK RSUs, and collectively with the 2018 Maffei BATRK RSUs, the For 2015, our2018 Maffei RSUs). The Maffei LSXMK options, Maffei BATRK options and Maffei FWONK options had a grant date of March 5, 2018, had a term of seven years, and had a base price of  $42.50, $23.34 and $31.99, respectively, which was the closing price of LSXMK, BATRK and FWONK on the grant date. In addition, the stock options vested in full on December 31, 2018, and were subject to other applicable terms and conditions for option grants as set forth in the Maffei Employment Agreement. Our compensation committee also granted to Mr. Maffei the 2018 Maffei RSUs on March 5, 2018, which vest only upon attainment of the performance objectives described below.

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Our compensation committee adopted an annual, performance-based equity award program for Mr. Maffei pursuant to the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement. That program was intended to comply with Section 162(m)payment of the Code so that the annual awards would be determined to be performance-based compensation. In accordance with the 20152018 Maffei Employment Agreement, our compensation committee granted performance equity awards in March 2015 in the grant values specified by the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement (theLMC Target Equity Awards), which awards would be vested by our compensation committee by March 15, 2016, if and to the extent earned by Mr. Maffei. Consistent with the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement, after reviewing the relative market capitalizations of our company and Liberty Interactive, our compensation committee determined that $6,510,400 in initial grant value would be issued as LMC Target Equity Awards. Liberty Interactive's compensation committee likewise determined that $9,489,600 in initial grant value would be issued as Liberty Interactive target performance equity awards, for a combined initial target grant value from the two companies of $16 million. Under the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement, Mr. Maffei has the right, with certain limitations, to designate the percentage of such award value he will receive in the form of restricted stock units and stock options. Mr. Maffei elected to receive 80% of his LMC Target Equity Awards in the form of stock options and elected to receive the balance in the form of restricted stock units.

        Accordingly, in March 2015, our compensation committee approved a grant of LMC Target Equity Awards of 418,414 stock options to purchase shares of LMCK with a term of seven years (the2015 Annual Options) and 33,527 restricted stock units with respect to shares of LMCK (the2015 Annual RSUs). Our compensation committee then set a maximum grant value payoutRSUs. None of the annual performance awards based on our company's relative market capitalization of $9,765,600 (theLMC 162(m) Maximum) and Liberty Interactive's compensation committee similarly set a maximum grant value payout of $14,234,400, for a combined maximum payout of $24 million. Any payout of an equity award by our company above $6,510,400 would be in our compensation committee's sole discretion, would be issued in the first quarter of 2016, and2018 Maffei RSUs would vest immediately after grant (anLMC Above-Target Award).

        The LMC Target Equity Awards were earned and vested based on achievement of objective metrics that were designed to qualifyunless a minimum corporate performance was achieved: the payment as performance-based compensation under Section 162(m) (the162(m) objective metrics). Subject to Mr. Maffei's right under the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement to receive a guaranteed portion of the LMC Target Equity Awards upon achievement of the 162(m) objective metrics, our compensation committee considered whether to use its negative discretion to reduce the award earned under the 162(m) objective metrics. For the reasons discussed below, our compensation committee determined in March 2016 that the full amount of the LMC Target Equity Awards would vest and that an additional $589,600 of LMC Above-Target Awards would be granted and vested.

162(m) Objective Metrics.    Our compensation committee selected the following 162(m) objective metrics for the LMC Target Equity Awards: revenue growth,combined Adjusted OIBDA growth and free cash flow as compared to budget at each(or equivalent measure) of Sirius XM, Braves Holdings, Formula 1 and a proportionate share of Live Nation. For purposesthe equivalent measure of the LMC Target Equity Awards, Adjusted OIBDA is defined as revenue less cost of sales, operating expense and SG&A (excluding stock compensation). Sirius XM and Live Nation, do not report Adjusted OIBDA information. As a result, we used Adjusted EBITDA as reported by Sirius XM and AOI as reported by Live Nation, which are the most similar non-GAAP measures reported by these companies, to determine their results. For a definition of Adjusted EBITDA as defined by Sirius XM, please see Sirius XM's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015, filed on February 2, 2016. For a definition2018 was required to exceed $500 million (the Maffei RSU Threshold). If the Maffei RSU Threshold were met, the notional pool for payment of AOI as definedthe 2018 Maffei RSUs would be funded with 0.43% of the amount by Live Nation,which such combined Adjusted OIBDA exceeded $500 million (the Maffei RSU pool


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please see Live Nation's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015, filed on February 25, 2016.

 
 Sirius XM
(weighted 82%)
 Braves Holdings
(weighted 6%)
 Live Nation
(weighted 12%)
 
 
 Revenue Adjusted
OIBDA
 Free
Cash
Flow(1)
 Revenue Adjusted
OIBDA
 Free
Cash
Flow(1)
 Revenue Adjusted
OIBDA
 Free
Cash
Flow(1)
 
 
 (dollars in millions)
 

Metric weighting

  25% 50% 25% 25% 50% 25% 25% 50% 25%

Percentage achieved

  9.30% 12.99% 106.91% (2.88)% 155.55% 159.61% 10.75% 10.99% 97.57%

Vesting percentage

  100.00% 100.00% 93.80% 0.00% 31.10% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 74.60%

Weighted average vesting

     98.46%       40.56%       93.65%   

Total weighted vesting percentage

              94.40%            

2018 Maffei RSUs or $9.234 million of grant value was established.
(1)
Defined forFor purposes of the LMC Target Equity Awards asMaffei RSU pool, Adjusted OIBDA less capital expenditures,was defined in the same manner as the cash taxes, other operating payments, such as channel placement feesperformance bonus program. See “—Elements of 2018 Executive Compensation—2018 Performance-based Bonuses” above. Assuming the Maffei RSU Threshold of  $500 million was met and minority interest dividends, and positive or negative movements in working capital.

        Basedthe Maffei RSU pool was funded, the amount earned would be subject to reduction from the maximum amount payable by our compensation committee based on this financial performance criteria. After review of our company’s 2018 Adjusted OIBDA results, our compensation committee determined and certified that itthe maximum 2018 Maffei RSUs could award a maximum number of 2015 LMC Target Equity Awards and Above Target Awards equaling a grant value of $9,219,156, which was 94.40% of the LMC 162(m) Maximum.be paid to Mr. Maffei. Our compensation committee then considered whether to reduce such maximum payout of $9,219,156 and determined to do so based on a combinationreview Mr. Maffei’s performance to determine what portion of objective, subjective and discretionary criteria that had been established in March 2015. In March 2016, ourthe maximum award would be paid. Our compensation committee reviewed Mr. Maffei'sMaffei’s 2018 performance to determineand noted his efforts in successfully overseeing the extent to which he would vestacquisition of Pandora by Sirius XM. After considering Mr. Maffei’s performance in his LMC Target Equity Awards and any LMC Above-Target Awards. Ourthese areas, our compensation committee took into account a varietydetermined to vest 100% of factors, without assigning a numerical weight to any single individual performance metric, to assessthe previously issued 2018 Maffei RSUs.

In addition, for the same reasons, our compensation committee awarded Mr. Maffei'sMaffei above-target awards for his performance in respect of Sirius XM, Braves Holdings, Live Nation and our other investments. Our compensation committee considered in its evaluation reports from our board, the observations of committee members throughout the year and an executive self-evaluation.2018. Our compensation committee also consideredrecommended to the criteria below in evaluating Mr. Maffei's performance:

Individual Performance Metrics

    Total stockholder return as compared to peer groupsQurate Retail compensation committee and the S&P 500;

    Leadership ability;

    Successful pursuit of merger, acquisition and divestiture opportunities;

    Successful financial engineering efforts;

    Management succession planning efforts;

    Successful accomplishment of annual goals in the performance-based bonus program; and

    Year-over-year improvement in the fair market value of our investments in subsidiary assets.

        Following a review of Mr. Maffei's performance, ourGCI Liberty compensation committee approved full vestingthat those committees consider making similar above-target awards related to Mr. Maffei’s performance. As a result of these discussions, the three compensation committees awarded Mr. Maffei's LMC Target Equity Awards and approved granting $589,600 ofMaffei above-target awards with a grant value of LMC Above-Target Awards. Ouraggregating $2.7 million. The compensation committee believed it appropriate tocommittees split the grant these awards due to the successful achievementvalue by each granting an additional 15% of the above-listed metricstarget number of restricted stock units and the superior financial performance of our significant subsidiaries during 2015. Pursuantstock options granted to his right to do so under the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement, Mr. Maffei electedin March 2018. In the case of GCI Liberty, such grant related to receiveawards of Qurate Retail’s former Series B Liberty Ventures common stock on an as-converted basis as a result of the LMC Above-Target Awards in the form of LMCK stock options.March 2018 transactions between Qurate Retail and GCI Liberty. Accordingly, our compensation committee approved an additional award of


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61,355 LMCKgranted 6,908 BATRK options, 94,913 LSXMK options, 20,798 FWONK options, 1,842 BATRK restricted stock options in March 2016 with a grant value of $589,600. In the aggregate, Mr. Maffei vested in 479,769units, and 12,839 FWONK restricted stock options to purchase LMCK shares (including the LMC Above-Target Awards), and 33,527 shares of LMCK with respect to the vesting of his 2015 Annual RSUs. The aggregate initial grant value of these awards was $7,100,000.units. For more information regarding the LMC Target Equity Awards, pleasetarget equity and above-target equity awards, see the "Grants“Grants of Plan-Based Awards"Awards” table below.

below and “—Executive Compensation—Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Elements of 2018 Executive Compensation—Equity Incentive Compensation—Maffei Performance-based Equity Awards” in Qurate Retail’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed April 24, 2019.

Other 20152018 Awards
Multiyear Stock Option Awards.Options. Consistent with ourits previous practices, our compensation committee (and, prior to the split-off of Old LMC from Liberty Interactive in September 2011 (theOld LMC Split-Off), the Liberty Interactive compensation committee) has made larger stock option grants (equaling approximately four to five years'years’ value of the named executive officer’s annual grants made in years prior to 2009)grants) that vest between four and five and three-quarters years after grant, rather than making annual grants over the same period. These multi-yearmultiyear grants provide for back-end weighted vesting and generally expire seven to ten years after grant to encourage executives to remain with the company over the long-term and to better align their interests with those of the stockholders. Accordingly,Our compensation committee made such an award to Mr. Maffei in connection with the execution of the Maffei Employment Agreement. See “—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Gregory B. Maffei” below. Also, in March 2015, our compensation committee granted to each of Messrs. Carleton and Rosenthaler and Shean (i)multiyear stock options that equaled the value of the named executive officer’s annual grants that were expected to be granted to him for the period from January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2020. See “Summary Compensation Table” below. Also, Mr. Baer received a multi-year stock option award in June 2016 in connection with entering into the 2016 Baer Employment Agreement. See “—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Richard N. Baer—2016 Term Options” below. Mr. Baer’s grant equaled the value of his annual grants that were expected to purchase 192,538 shares of LMCK that vests in equal increments on each of December 31, 2019 and 2020 and expires on the eighth anniversary of the grant date and (ii) a stock option awardbe granted to purchase 118,100 shares of LMCK that vests in equal increments on each of March 4, 2016, March 4, 2017 and March 4, 2018 and expires on the seventh anniversary of the grant date. Messrs. Rosenthaler and Shean had last received stock option awards in March 2010 which were multi-year awards intended to provide equity valuehim for the period from 2011January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2020. Mr. Malone does not participate in the equity award program and as a result did not receive a multiyear stock option award.
Annual Performance Awards. Consistent with our practice since December 2014 of granting a combination of multiyear stock options and annual performance awards to 2014. When structuring the 2015 awards,senior officers, our compensation committee sought to align the structure of the compensation packages providedgranted annual performance RSUs to Messrs. Baer, Carleton and Rosenthaler and Shean with the structure of Mr. Maffei's compensation package.in March 2018. Our compensation committee also soughtgranted to align more closely the compensationMessrs. Baer, Carleton and Rosenthaler, 16,391, 12,239 and 12,239 LSXMK performance-based RSUs, respectively, 2,424, 1,810 and 1,810 BATRK performance-based RSUs, respectively,
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and 12,066, 9,010 and 9,010 FWONK performance-based RSUs, respectively, on March 5, 2018 (the 2018 Chief RSUs). The 2018 Chief RSUs would vest only upon attainment of the senior officersperformance objectives described below.
Our compensation committee adopted an annual, performance-based program for payment of the company.2018 Chief RSUs. None of the 2018 Chief RSUs would vest unless a minimum corporate performance was achieved: the combined Adjusted OIBDA (or equivalent measure) of Sirius XM, Braves Holdings, Formula 1 and a proportionate share of the equivalent measure of Adjusted OIBDA of Live Nation, for the year ended December 31, 2018 was required to exceed $500 million (the Chief Threshold

). If the Chief Threshold were met, the notional pool for payment of the 2018 Chief RSUs would be funded with 0.24% of the amount by which such combined Adjusted OIBDA exceeded $500 million (the Chief RSU pool). If the Chief RSU pool was not funded so that the maximum awards could be paid to all participants, each participant’s maximum award would be reduced pro rata. The maximum payout set for each of Messrs. Malone,Baer, Carleton and Rosenthaler was $1.875 million, $1.4 million and $1.4 million, respectively.

For purposes of the Chief RSU pool, Adjusted OIBDA was defined in the same manner as the performance cash bonus program. See “—Elements of 2018 Executive Compensation—2018 Performance-based Bonuses”. Assuming the Chief Threshold of  $500 million was met and the Chief RSU pool was fully funded, the amount earned would be subject to reduction from the maximum amount payable by our compensation committee based on performance criteria. After review of our company’s 2018 Adjusted OIBDA results, our compensation committee determined and certified that the maximum Chief RSU awards could be paid to Messrs. Baer, Carleton and Rosenthaler. Our compensation committee then determined to review each named executive officer’s performance to determine what portion of the maximum award would be paid. Our compensation committee reviewed Messrs. Baer, Carleton and Rosenthaler’s performance and also considered the recommendations from Mr. Maffei. Mr. Maffei recommended that our committee vest 100% of the 2018 Chief RSUs previously granted to each of Messrs. Baer, Carleton and Rosenthaler based on his assessment of their individual performance against the goals established in connection with the performance cash bonus program and his general observation of their leadership and executive performance. Accordingly, our compensation committee determined to reduce the payouts down to the target award levels and then approved vesting of all of the 2018 Chief RSUs previously granted to Messrs. Baer, Carleton and Rosenthaler.
Mr. Malone did not receive any multi-year equity grants duringparticipate in the 2015 calendar year.

annual performance RSU program.

Perquisites and Other Personal Benefits.Benefits
The perquisites and other personal benefits available to our executives (that are not otherwise available to all of our salaried employees, such as matching contributions to the Liberty Media 401(k) Savings Plan and the payment of life insurance premiums) consist of:


limited personal use of corporate aircraft;


in the case of Mr. Maffei, reimbursement of legal expenses;


occasional, personal use of an apartment in New York City owned by a subsidiary of our company, which is primarily used for business purposes, and occasional, personal use of a company car and driver;

in the case of Mr. Carleton, reimbursement for use of private housing while on New York City business trips;


a deferred compensation plan that provides above-market preferential returns; and


in the case of Mr. Malone, an annual allowance of  $1 million for personal expenses provided pursuant to the terms of his employment agreement (see "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—John C. Malone"Malone”).

Taxable income may be incurred by our executives in connection with their receipt of perquisites and personal benefits. Other than as contemplated by Mr. Malone'sMalone’s employment agreement, we have not provided gross-up payments to our executives in connection with any such taxable income incurred during the past three years.

Aircraft Usage.Usage. On occasion, and with the approval of our Chairman or Chief Executive Officer, executives may have family members and other guests accompany them on our corporate aircraft when


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traveling on business. Under the terms of the employment arrangements with our Chairman and our Chief Executive Officer, those individualsour Chairman and our Chief Executive Officer and their guests may use the corporate aircraft for non-business purposes subject to specified limitations.

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Pursuant to a February 5, 2013 letter agreement between us and Mr. Maffei, Mr. Maffei was entitled to 120 hours per year of personal flight time through the first to occur of  (i) the termination of his employment, subject to any continued right to use the corporate aircraft as described below or pursuant to the terms of his employment arrangement in effect at the time of the termination or (ii) the cessation of ownership or lease of corporate aircraft. Effective November 11, 2015, pursuant to a letter agreement between us and Mr. Maffei of the same date, Mr. Maffei is entitled to 30 additional hours per year of personal flight time if he reimburses us for such usage through the first to occur of  (i) the termination of his employment or (ii) the cessation of ownership or lease of corporate aircraft. Under the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement, if Mr. Maffei'sMaffei’s employment had been terminated due to disability, for good reason or without cause, Mr. Maffei would have been entitled to continued use of the company'scompany’s aircraft under the terms of the February 5, 2013 letter agreement for 12 months after termination of his employment. Mr. Maffei incurs taxable income, calculated in accordance with the Standard Industry Fare Level (SIFL) rates, for all personal use of our corporate aircraft under the February 5, 2013 letter agreement. Mr. Maffei incurs taxable income at the SIFL rates minus amounts paid under time sharing agreements with our company for travel pursuant to the November 11, 2015 letter agreement. Flights where there are no passengers on company-owned aircraft were not charged against the 120 hours of personal flight time per year allotted to Mr. Maffei if the flight department determines that the use of a NetJets, Inc. supplied aircraft for a proposed personal flight would be disadvantageous to our company due to (i) use of budgeted hours under the then current Liberty Media fractional ownership contract with NetJets, Inc. or (ii) higher flight cost as compared to the cost of using company owned aircraft.

The cost of Mr. Malone'sMalone’s personal use of our corporate aircraft, calculated in accordance with SIFL, counts toward his $1 million personal expense allowance (described above).

For disclosure purposes, we determine incremental cost using a method that takes into account:


landing and parking expenses;


crew travel expenses;


supplies and catering;


aircraft fuel and oil expenses per hour of flight;


any customs, foreign permit and similar fees; and


passenger ground transportation.

Because the company'scompany’s aircraft is used primarily for business travel, this methodology excludes fixed costs that do not change based on usage, such as salaries of pilots and crew, purchase or lease costs of aircraft and costs of maintenance and upkeep.

Pursuant to our aircraft time sharing agreements with Liberty Interactive, Starz,Qurate Retail, Liberty TripAdvisor, and Liberty Broadband, Liberty Expedia, and GCI Liberty, each of these companies pays us for any costs, calculated in accordance with Part 91 of the Federal Aviation Regulations, associated with Mr. Malone or Mr. Maffei using our corporate aircraft that are allocable to such company, except that allocations made to Starz, Liberty TripAdvisor, or Liberty Broadband, Liberty Expedia or GCI Liberty may only be made for corporate aircraft use relating to such company'scompany’s business matters.matters, while allocations made to Qurate Retail relate to such company’s business matters along with approved personal use of our aircraft. Pursuant to our aircraft time sharing agreements with Mr. Maffei, Mr. Maffei reimburses us for costs associated with his personal use of our corporate aircraft under the November 11, 2015 letter agreement, and such costs include the expenses listed


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above, insurance obtained for the specific flight and an additional charge equal to 100% of the aircraft fuel and oil expenses for the specific flight.

For purposes of determining an executive'sexecutive’s taxable income, personal use of our aircraft is valued using a method based on SIFL rates, as published by the Treasury Department. The amount determined using the SIFL rates is typically lower than the amount determined using the incremental cost method. Under the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, the amount we may deduct for a purely personal flight is limited to the amount included in the taxable income of the executives who took the flight. Also, the deductibility of any non-business use will be limited by Section 162(m) of the Code to the extent that the named executive officer'sofficer’s compensation that is subject to that limitation exceeds $1 million. See "—“—Deductibility of Executive Compensation"Compensation” below.

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Deferred Compensation

To help accommodate the tax and estate planning objectives of the named executive officers, as well as other executives with the title of Assistant Vice President and above, our board of directors assumed the previously established Liberty Media Corporation 2006 Deferred Compensation Plan (as amended and restated effective January 1, 2016) in connection with the LMC Spin-Off. The following description summarizes the terms of the plan as it was in effect prior to its amendment and restatement, which became effective January 1, 2016.restated). Under that plan, and for 2015, participants maycould elect to defer up to 50% of the portion of their base salaries and up to 100% of their cash performance bonuses that arewere allocable to our company. Compensation deferred under the plan that otherwise would have been received prior to 2015 willwould earn interest income at the rate of 9% per annum, compounded quarterly, for the period of the deferral. Compensation deferred under the plan that otherwise would have been received on or after January 1, 2015 will earn interest income at the primea rate that is intended to approximate our company’s general cost of interest (as determined in10-year debt. For 2016, 2017 and 2018, theWall Street Journal as of the first business day of November of the year prior to each plan year) plus 3% per annum, compounded quarterly, for the period of the deferral, and for 2015, this rate was 6.25%. In the LMC Spin-Off, we assumed the plan, 6.5% and all outstanding obligations thereunder.6.25%, respectively. Since the LMC Spin-Off,September 2011, the named executive officers may not participate in the plan with respect to any portion of their cash performance bonuses paid by Liberty Interactive.Qurate Retail. In addition, Mr. SheanCarleton had a deferral election in place for his 2011 performance-based bonus, with respect to which Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail will remain responsible for the payment of such deferred amount and all deferred interest thereon going forward. For more information on this plan and the amendments that became effective January 1, 2016, see "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—2006 Deferred Compensation Plan"Plan” and the "—“—Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans"Plans” table below.

We provide Mr. Malone with certain deferred compensation arrangements that were entered into by our predecessors and assumed by us in connection with the various restructurings that we have undergone. Beginning in February 2009, Mr. Malone began receiving accelerated payments under those deferred compensation arrangements. For more information on these arrangements, see "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—John C. Malone"Malone” below.

Changes for 20162019
Maffei Employment Agreement Grant Process.

        Based on its assessment of Messrs. Rosenthaler and Shean's performance during 2015 and to further align Messrs. Rosenthaler and Shean's interests with those of the other stockholders and other senior executives, in In March 2016,2019, our compensation committee determined, with the consent of Mr. Maffei, to set performance criteria for Mr. Maffei’s 2019 annual performance awards in a manner similar to those set in 2018, which the parties agreed was in satisfaction of the obligations under the Maffei Employment Agreement. Our compensation committee has followed this general process since 2016.

Equity from Spin-off and Split-off Companies. In the past, except for the 2014 stock option grants from Liberty Broadband and Liberty TripAdvisor to Mr. Maffei, our company has not allocated any portion of the costs of the named executive officers’ equity awards to Liberty Broadband, Liberty TripAdvisor, GCI Liberty, or Liberty Expedia. After the closing of the transactions that resulted in Qurate Retail acquiring a controlling equity interest in GCI Liberty that was subsequently split-off, our compensation committee reviewed this practice and determined that it would be appropriate to request each of these entities (other than Liberty Expedia due to its pending merger with a wholly owned subsidiary of Expedia Group, Inc.) to grant 15,603 restricted stock units relatinga portion of the equity awards granted to LMCK sharesour named executive officers. Our compensation committee determined to allocate to each of Messrs. RosenthalerQurate Retail, Liberty Broadband, Liberty TripAdvisor and Shean thatGCI Liberty, a proportionate share of the aggregate equity grant value given to each vested in fullnamed executive officer based 50% on March 21, 2016. It is anticipated that Messrs. Rosenthalerrelative market capitalization and Shean will continue to be eligible50% on relative time spent by our company’s employees working for grants of restricted stock units, which may be performance-based.

such issuer.

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        On May 24, 2016, the compensation committee approved a new compensation arrangement with Mr. Baer. For more information on this arrangement, see "—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Richard N. Baer—May 2016 Compensation Arrangement."

    Deductibility of Executive Compensation

In developing the 2018 compensation packages for the named executive officers, the deductibility of executive compensation under Section 162(m) of the Code iswas considered. That provision prohibits the deduction of compensation of more than $1 million paid to certain executives, subject to certain exceptions. One exception is for performance-based compensation, including stock options grantedFollowing the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, beginning with the 2018 calendar year, the executives potentially affected by our predecessors under their incentive plans (and assumed by us to the extent applicable under the Liberty Media Corporation Transitional Stock Adjustment Plan) or to be granted under the incentive plan. Our compensation committee has not adopted a policy requiring all compensation to be deductible underlimitations of Section 162(m) of the Code has been expanded and there is no longer any exception for qualified performance-based compensation. Although some performance-based awards will not result in ordera compensation deduction until after 2017, we believe the transition rules in effect for binding contracts in effect on November 2, 2017 should continue to allow certain of these awards to maintain flexibility in making compensation decisions. Portionstheir exemption from the $1 million annual deduction limitation for so long as such contracts are not materially modified. However, portions of the compensation we pay to certain of the named executive officers may not be deductible due to the application of Section 162(m) of the Code.

    Our compensation committee believes that the lost deduction on compensation payable in excess of the $1 million limitation for the named executive officers is not material relative to the benefit of being able to attract and retain talented management.

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Policy on Restatements

In those instances where we grant cash or equity-based incentive compensation, we include in the related agreement with the executive a right, in favor of our company, to require the executive to repay or return to the company any cash, stock or other incentive compensation (including proceeds from the disposition of shares received upon exercise of options or stock appreciation rights). That right will arise if  (1) a material restatement of any of our financial statements is required and (2) in the reasonable judgment of our compensation committee, (A) such restatement is due to material noncompliance with any financial reporting requirement under applicable securities laws and (B) such noncompliance is a result of misconduct on the part of the executive. In determining the amount of such repayment or return, our compensation committee may take into account, among other factors it deems relevant, the extent to which the market value of the applicable series of our common stock was affected by the errors giving rise to the restatement. The cash, stock or other compensation that we may require the executive to repay or return must have been received by the executive during the 12-month period beginning on the date of the first public issuance or the filing with the SEC, whichever occurs earlier, of the financial statement requiring restatement. The compensation required to be repaid or returned will include (1) cash or company stock received by the executive (A) upon the exercise during that 12-month period of any stock appreciation right held by the executive or (B) upon the payment during that 12-month period of any incentive compensation, the value of which is determined by reference to the value of company stock, and (2) any proceeds received by the executive from the disposition during that 12-month period of company stock received by the executive upon the exercise, vesting or payment during that 12-month period of any award of equity-based incentive compensation.


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Our board of Contentsdirectors adopted stock ownership guidelines that require each executive officer (other than Mr. Malone) to own shares of our company’s stock equal to (i) at least three times the base salary paid by our company to Mr. Maffei, with respect to Mr. Maffei’s requirement, and (ii) at least three times 50% of the base salary paid by our company to Messrs. Baer, Carleton and Rosenthaler, in the case of Messrs. Baer, Carleton and Rosenthaler. The named executive officers (other than Mr. Malone) have a similar stock ownership requirement at Qurate Retail with respect to the base salary paid by Qurate Retail, in the case of Mr. Maffei, or allocated to Qurate Retail per our company’s stock ownership guidelines in the case of Messrs. Baer, Carleton, and Rosenthaler. The named executive officers (other than Mr. Malone) will have until March 2021 to comply with these guidelines.
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Summary Compensation Table
Name and Principal
Position
(as of 12/31/18)
Year
Salary
($)(1)
Bonus
($)
Stock
Awards
($)(2)
Option
Awards
($)(3)
Non-Equity
Incentive Plan
Compensation
($)
Change in
Pension Value and
Nonqualified
Deferred
Compensation
Earnings
($)(4)
All Other
Compensation
($)(5)(6)(7)
Total
($)
John C. Malone
   Chairman of the Board
20182,925215,628920,790(8)1,139,343
20171,677224,672570,733(8)797,082
20161,482232,747512,927(8)747,156
Gregory B. Maffei
   President and Chief    Executive Officer
20181,112,1883,024,6168,830,0196,372,841397,703416,179(9)(10)20,153,546
20171,059,2271,711,50110,247,9806,066,373401,887325,295(9)(10)19,812,263
20161,045,739928,8722,296,3926,907,4485,043,938335,068332,008(9)(10)16,889,465
Richard N. Baer
   Chief Legal Officer
2018656,5451,139,1851,159,27024,5172,979,517
2017487,3511,186,302937,40018,2982,629,351
2016607,856106,35516,5323,073,150901,50020,5344,725,927
Mark D. Carleton
   Chief Financial Officer
2018683,153850,6331,071,183331,28933,677(10)2,969,935
2017669,758885,8191,016,186304,38433,227(10)2,909,374
2016781,045151,7731,233,631875,500199,30134,736(10)3,275,986
Albert E. Rosenthaler
   Chief Corporate    Development Officer
2018664,935850,6331,104,65829,494(10)(11)2,649,720
2017553,666885,819561,640953,22919,6732,974,027
2016572,16184,9031,221,037875,50024,902(11)2,778,503
(1)

Name and Principal
Position (as of 12/31/15)
 Year Salary
($)(1)
 Bonus
($)
 Stock
Awards
($)(2)
 Option
Awards
($)(2)(3)
 Non-Equity
Incentive Plan
Compensation
($)
 Change in
Pension
Value and
Nonqualified
Deferred
Compensation
Earnings
($)(4)
 All Other
Compensation
($)(5)(6)(7)
 Total
($)
 

John C. Malone

  2015  2,145          239,961  670,237(8) 912,343 

Chairman of the Board

  2014  1,326          246,409  485,716(8) 733,451 

  2013  884          252,176  539,176(8) 792,236 

Gregory B. Maffei

  
2015
  
960,750
  
  
1,280,731
  
5,085,655
  
4,145,828
  
99,232
  
527,975

(9)(10)
 
12,100,171
 

President and Chief

  2014  1,057,491      36,668,946  3,349,692  52,641  435,651(9)(10) 41,564,421 

Executive Officer

  2013  868,219        2,413,619  9,366  277,561(9)(10) 3,568,765 

Richard N. Baer

  
2015
  
437,622
  
  
  
  
712,701
  
  
15,701
  
1,166,024
 

Senior Vice President

  2014  424,875        662,677    15,451  1,103,003 

and General Counsel

  2013  419,100        746,625    2,549  1,168,274 

Albert E. Rosenthaler

  
2015
  
380,340
  
  
  
4,417,286
  
679,396
  
  
14,131
  
5,491,153
 

Senior Vice President

  2014  440,928        538,560    17,305  996,794 

  2013  397,761        494,893    15,748  908,403 

Christopher W. Shean

  
2015
  
322,397
  
  
  
4,417,286
  
592,696
  
22,388
  
16,693

(10)(11)
 
5,371,460
 

Senior Vice President

  2014  424,784        495,711  17,295  20,449(10)(11) 958,240 

and Chief Financial

  2013  396,550        368,792  17,499  13,605  796,446 

Officer

                            

(1)
Represents only that portion of each named executive officer'sofficer’s salary that was allocated to our company with respect to the years ended December 31, 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 20132016 under the services agreements. For a description of the allocation of compensation between (i) our company and Liberty Interactive following the LMC Spin-Off, (ii) our company andQurate Retail, Liberty TripAdvisor, following the TripCo Spin-Off and (iii) our company and Liberty Broadband, following the Broadband Spin-Off,Liberty Expedia and GCI Liberty, see "—“—Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Services Agreements."
(2)

(2)
Reflects the grant date fair value of the 2015 Annualrestricted stock granted in 2016 and RSUs in the "Stock Awards" columngranted to our named executive officers during 2018, 2017 and the 2015 Annual Options in the "Option Awards" column that Mr. Maffei could earn as described in "—Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Elements of 2015 Compensation—Equity Incentive Compensation—Maffei Performance-based Equity Awards."2016. The 2014 dollar amount shown in the "Option Awards" columntable reflects the grant date fair value of the 2016 performance-based RSUs granted to each of Messrs. Maffei, Carleton and Rosenthaler, restricted stock granted to Messrs. Maffei, Baer, Carleton and Rosenthaler in 2016, the 2017 performance-based RSUs granted to each of Messrs. Maffei, Baer, Carleton and Rosenthaler and the 2018 Maffei RSUs and the 2018 Chief RSUs. A maximum payout equal to 1.5 times the target number of 2018 Maffei RSUs or $9.234 million of grant value was established. The maximum payout set for Mr. Maffei's Term Options (as defined below) which were granted in connection withBaer was $1.875 million of grant value, and the approvalmaximum payout set for each of his December 2014 compensation arrangement described below in "—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Gregory B. Maffei."Messrs. Carleton and Rosenthaler was $1.4 million of grant value of 2018 Chief RSUs. The grant date fair value of these awards has been computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, but (pursuant to SEC regulations) without reduction for estimated forfeitures. For a description of the assumptions applied in these calculations, see Note 1314 to our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 20152018 (which are included in our Annual Report on2018 Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015 (the2015 Form 10-K))10-K).
(3)

(3)
The grant date fair value of Mr. RosenthalerMaffei’s 2018, 2017 and Mr. Shean's 20152016 stock option awards, hasMr. Baer’s 2016 Term Options (as defined below) and Mr. Rosenthaler’s 2017 stock option award have been computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, but (pursuant to SEC regulations) without reduction for estimated forfeitures. For a description of the assumptions applied in these calculations, see Note 1314 to our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 20152018 (which are included in the 20152018 Form 10-K).
(4)

(4)
Reflects the above-market earnings credited during 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 20132016 to the deferred compensation accounts of each applicable named executive officer. See "—“—Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Elements of 20152018 Executive Compensation—Deferred Compensation," "—” “—Executive Compensation Arrangements—John C. Malone," and "—“—Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans"Plans” below.
(5)

(5)
Included in this column are the following life insurance premiums paid on behalf of each of the named executive officers and allocated to our company under the services agreement:

Amounts ($)
Name201820172016
John C. Malone4,6352,6572,348
Gregory B. Maffei4,2173,4323,462
Richard N. Baer5,2673,9883,309
Mark D. Carleton3,6773,6774,378
Albert E. Rosenthaler3,5793,0403,207
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 Amounts ($) 
Name
 2015 2014 2013 

John C. Malone

  5,438  3,082  3,082 

Gregory B. Maffei

  2,696  1,521  1,311 

Richard N. Baer

  2,451  2,451  2,549 

Albert E. Rosenthaler

  2,206  2,745  1,468 

Christopher W. Shean

  996  889  855 

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(6)
We make available to our personnel, including our named executive officers, tickets to various sporting events with no aggregate incremental cost attributable to any single person.
(7)

(7)
The Liberty Media 401(k) Savings Plan provides employees with an opportunity to save for retirement. The Liberty Media 401(k) Savings Plan participants may contribute up to 75% of their eligible compensation on a pre-tax basis to the plan and an additional 10% of their eligible compensation on an after-tax basis (subject to specified maximums and IRS limits), and we contributedcontribute a matching contribution based on the participants'participants’ own contributions up to the maximum matching contribution set forth in the plan. Our company receives reimbursements from Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail under the LICQurate Retail Services Agreement for Liberty Interactive'sQurate Retail’s allocable portion of the matching contribution. Participant contributions to the Liberty Media 401(k) Savings Plan are fully vested upon contribution.


Generally, participants acquire a vested right in our matching contributions as follows:

Years of Service
Vesting
Percentage

Less than 1

0%%

1 - 2

33%%

2 - 3

66%%

3 or more

100%%

Included
in this column, with respect to each named executive officer are the following matching contributions made by and allocated to our company to the Liberty Media 401(k) Savings Plan in 20152018, 2017 and 2014:
2016:
Amounts ($)
Name201820172016
John C. Malone20,62511,61010,070
Gregory B. Maffei23,65018,90018,020
Richard N. Baer19,25014,31017,225
Mark D. Carleton20,62520,25022,790
Albert E. Rosenthaler20,07516,63316,695

 
 Amounts ($) 
Name
 2015 2014 

John C. Malone

  14,575  8,840 

Gregory B. Maffei

  14,575  15,080 

Richard N. Baer

  13,250  13,000 

Albert E. Rosenthaler

  11,925  14,560 

Christopher W. Shean

  10,070  13,520 

With respect to these matching contributions, all of our named executive officers are fully vested.
(8)

(8)
Includes the following amounts which were allocated to our company under the LICQurate Retail Services Agreement:

Amounts ($)
201820172016
Reimbursement for personal legal, accounting and tax services45,00064,06426,852
Compensation related to personal use of corporate aircraft(a)204,974165,655188,122
Tax payments made on behalf of Mr. Malone642,598324,073281,515
 
 Amounts ($) 
 
 2015 2014 2013 

Reimbursement for personal legal, accounting and tax services

  52,341  63,185  124,954 

Compensation related to personal use of corporate aircraft(a)

  214,528  199,949  255,455 

Tax payments made on behalf of Mr. Malone

  378,388  205,724  143,833 

(a)
(a)
Calculated based on aggregate incremental cost of such usage to our company.


Also includes miscellaneous personal expenses, such as courier charges.
(9)

Includes the following amounts which were allocated to our company under the LICQurate Retail Services Agreement:

Amounts ($)
201820172016
Reimbursement for legal services3,454
Compensation related to personal use of corporate aircraft(a)373,028298,535304,454
 
 Amounts ($) 
 
 2015 2014 2013 

Reimbursement for legal services

  180,746  128,999   

Compensation related to personal use of corporate aircraft(a)

  325,750  288,311  262,750 

(a)
(a)
Calculated based on aggregate incremental cost of such usage to our company
company.
(10)
Prior to the Old LMC Split-Off, we owned
We own an apartment in New York City which wasis primarily used for business purposes. The apartment was assigned to Old LMC in the Old LMC Split-Off and later to our company in the LMC Spin-Off. Messrs. Maffei, Carleton and SheanRosenthaler occasionally used this apartment for personal reasons. From time to time, we reimburse Mr. Carleton for his use of private housing while on New York City business trips, and we also pay the cost of miscellaneous shipping and catering expenses for Mr. Maffei.
(11)

(11)
Includes $5,000 in charitable contributions in each of 20152018 and 20142016 made on behalf of Mr. SheanRosenthaler pursuant to our political action committee matching contribution program.

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Executive Compensation Arrangements

John C. Malone

        In connection with the merger of TCI and AT&T in 1999, an employment agreement between John C. Malone and TCI was assigned to a predecessor of Liberty Interactive.

Mr. Malone'sMalone’s employment agreement and his deferred compensation arrangements with our predecessor companies, as described below, werehave been assigned to Old LMC in connection with the Old LMC Split-Off and later to our company in connection with the LMC Spin-Off.company. The term of Mr. Malone'sMalone’s employment agreement is extended daily so that the remainder of the employment term is five years. The employment agreement was amended in June 1999 to provide for, among other things, an annual salary of  $2,600 (which was increased to $3,900 in 2014), subject to increase with board approval. The employment agreement was amended in 2003 to provide for payment or reimbursement of personal expenses, including professional fees and other expenses incurred by Mr. Malone for estate, tax planning and other services, and for personal use of corporate aircraft and flight crew. The aggregate amount of such payments or reimbursements and the value of his personal use of corporate aircraft was originally limited to $500,000 per year but increased to $1 million effective January 1, 2007 by the Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail compensation committee. Although the "Summary“Summary Compensation Table"Table” table above reflects the portion of the aggregate incremental cost of Mr. Malone'sMalone’s personal use of our corporate aircraft attributable to our company, the value of his aircraft use for purposes of his employment agreement is determined in accordance with SIFL, which aggregated $193,195$70,712 for use of the aircraft by our company and Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail during the year ended December 31, 2015. Liberty Interactive2018. Qurate Retail is allocated, and reimburses us for, portions of the other components of the payments/reimbursements to Mr. Malone described above.

In December 2008, the Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail compensation committee determined to modify Mr. Malone'sMalone’s employment arrangements to permit Mr. Malone to begin receiving fixed monthly payments in 2009, in advance of a termination event, in satisfaction of its obligations to him under a 1993 deferred compensation arrangement, a 1982 deferred compensation arrangement and an installment severance plan, in each case, entered into with him by Liberty Interactive'sQurate Retail’s predecessors (and which had been assumed by Liberty Interactive)Qurate Retail). At the time of the amendment, the amounts owed to Mr. Malone under these arrangements aggregated approximately $2.4 million, $20 million and $39 million, respectively. As a result of these modifications, Mr. Malone receives 240 equal monthly installments, which commenced February 2009, of: (1) approximately $20,000 under the 1993 deferred compensation arrangement, (2) approximately $237,000 under the 1982 deferred compensation arrangement and (3) approximately $164,000 under the installment severance plan. Interest ceased to accrue under the installment severance plan once these payments began; however, interest continues to accrue on the 1993 deferred compensation arrangement at a rate of 8% per annum and on the 1982 deferred compensation arrangement at a rate of 13% per annum. In connection with the LMC Spin-Off,2013, we assumed these payment obligations from Old LMC, who had in turn assumed them from Liberty Interactive in the Old LMC Split-Off.

obligations.

Under the terms of Mr. Malone'sMalone’s employment agreement, he is entitled to receive upon the termination of his employment at our election for any reason (other than for death or "cause"“cause”), a lump sum equal to his salary for a period of five full years following termination (calculated on the basis of  $3,900 per annum, thelump sum severance payment). As described above, in connection with the LMC Spin-Off, we assumed Mr. Malone'sMalone’s employment agreement and all outstanding obligations thereunder, from Old LMC (which were previously assumed by Old LMC in the Old LMC Split-Off), and Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail will reimburse us for its allocated portion of any such lump sum severance payments made thereunder.

For a description of the effect of any termination event or a change in control of our company on his employment agreement, see "—“—Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control"Control” below.


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December 2014 Employment Arrangement.Arrangement
On December 24, 2014, our compensation committee approved a new compensation arrangement with Mr. Maffei. The arrangement provides for a five year employment term beginning January 1, 2015 and ending December 31, 2019, with an annual base salary of  $960,750, increasing annually by 5% of the prior year'syear’s base salary, and an annual target cash bonus equal to 250% of the applicable year'syear’s base salary. The arrangement also provides Mr. Maffei with the opportunity to earn annual performance-based equity incentive awards during the employment term, as described in more detail below. In connection with the approval of his compensation arrangement, Mr. Maffei was granted the Term Options describeddefined below. Mr. Maffei'sMaffei’s compensation arrangement was memorialized in the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement executed on December 29, 2014.

The arrangement provides that, in the event Mr. Maffei is terminated for cause (as defined in the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement) he will be entitled to only his accrued base salary and any amounts due under applicable law. If Mr. Maffei is terminated by Liberty Media without cause or if Mr. Maffei terminates his employment for good
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reason (as defined in the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement), he is entitled to (i) his accrued base salary, (ii) his accrued but unpaid bonus and any amounts due under applicable law (theStandard Entitlements), (iii) a severance payment of 1.5 times his base salary during the year of his termination to be paid in equal installments over 18 months, (iv) a payment equal to $11,750,000 pro rated based upon the elapsed number of days in the calendar year of termination (including the date of termination), with (subject to certain exceptions) up to 25% of such amount payable in shares of LMCK,our common stock, at our discretion and with the remainder of such amount paid in cash (thePro Rated Amount), (v) a payment equal to $17,500,000, with (subject to certain exceptions) up to 25% of such amount payable in shares of LMCKour common stock at our discretion and with the remainder of such amount paid in cash (theUn-Pro Rated Amount), and (vi) continued use of certain services and perquisites provided by our company, including continued useaircraft benefits consistent with those provided to him during the period of our aircrafthis employment (theServices). If Mr. Maffei terminates his employment without good reason (as defined in the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement), he will be entitled to the Standard Entitlements and a payment of the Pro Rated Amount. Lastly, in the case of Mr. Maffei'sMaffei’s death or disability, he is entitled to the Standard Entitlements, a payment of 1.5 times his base salary during the year of his termination, payments of the Pro Rated Amount and the Un-Pro Rated Amount, and, only in the case of his termination for disability, the Services. The 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement also contains other customary terms and conditions.

Term Options.    
Also on December 24, 2014, in connection with the approval of his compensation arrangement, Mr. Maffei received a one-time grant of 3,298,724 options to purchase shares of LMCKour then-existing Series C common stock (theTerm Options), which havehad an exercise price of  $34.04 per share. Mr. Maffei’s Term Options have been adjusted in connection with the April 2016 reclassification and exchange of our common stock into the Liberty SiriusXM common stock, the Liberty Braves common stock and the Liberty Formula One common stock (the reclassification) and the June 2016 rights offering with respect to BATRK shares, and as a result, the Term Options now relate to shares of LSXMK, BATRK and FWONK. One-half of the Term Options will vestvested on the fourth anniversary of the grant date with the remaining Term Options vesting on the fifth anniversary of the grant date, in each case, subject to Mr. Maffei being employed on the applicable vestingsuch date. The Term Options have a term of seven years.

Upon a change in control (as defined in the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement) prior to Mr. Maffei'sMaffei’s termination or in the event of Mr. Maffei'sMaffei’s termination for death or disability, all of his unvested Term Options will become exercisable. If Mr. Maffei is terminated for cause, all of his unvested Term Options will terminate immediately. If Mr. Maffei is terminated by our company without cause or if he terminates his employment for good reason (as defined in the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement), then each unvested tranche of each type of Term Options will vest pro rata based on the number of days elapsed in the vesting period for such tranche since the grant date plus 548 calendar days; however, in the event (i) all members of the Malone Group (as defined in the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement) cease to beneficially own our company'scompany’s securities representing at least 20% of our company'scompany’s voting power, (ii) within 90 to 210 days of clause (i) Mr. Maffei'sMaffei’s employment is terminated by our company without cause or by Mr. Maffei for good reason and (iii) at the time of clause (i) Mr. Maffei does not beneficially own our company'scompany’s securities representing at least 20% of


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our company'scompany’s voting power, then all unvested Term Options will vest in full as of the date of Mr. Maffei'sMaffei’s termination. If Mr. Maffei terminates his employment without good reason, then a portion of each unvested tranche of each type of Term Options will vest pro rata based on the number of days elapsed in the vesting period for such tranche since the grant date. In the event of a change in control prior to Mr. Maffei'sMaffei’s termination, all of the Term Options will remain exercisable until the end of the term. If Mr. Maffei is terminated for cause prior to December 31, 2019 (without a prior change in control occurring), then all vested Term Options will expire on the 90th day following such termination. In all other events of termination or if Mr. Maffei has not been terminated prior to December 31, 2019, all vested Term Options will expire at the end of the term.

Annual Awards.    Beginning in 2015,
Mr. Maffei will receive annual grants of options to purchase shares of LMCKLSXMK, BATRK and FWONK with a term of seven years (theAnnual Options) and restricted stock unitsRSUs with respect to LMCKLSXMK, BATRK and FWONK (theAnnual RSUs and together with the Annual Options, theAnnual Awards)., and Mr. Maffei may elect the portions of his Annual Award that he desires to be issued in the form of Annual RSUs and Annual Options. For a description of Mr. Maffei's LMC Target EquityMaffei’s target Annual Awards, see "—“—Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Elements of 20152018 Executive Compensation—Equity Incentive Compensation—Maffei Performance-based Equity Awards." Pursuant to the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement, Mr. Maffei will receivereceives upfront grants of the Annual Awards and awards from Liberty MediaQurate Retail in the following combined target amounts: $16 million for calendar year 2015, $17 million for calendar year
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2016, $18 million for calendar year 2017, $19 million for calendar year 2018 and $20 million for calendar year 2019. The combined target amounts will befor 2015 to 2018 were allocated between Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail and our company based on relative market capitalization.capitalization and, for 2019, will be allocated among Qurate Retail, GCI Liberty, Liberty Broadband, Liberty TripAdvisor and our company based 50% on relative market capitalization and 50% on time allocation. In our compensation committee'scommittee’s sole discretion, Mr. Maffei is also eligible to receive additional awards each year from Liberty Media up to a maximum of 50% of the Liberty Media target award grant amount for such year as an above-target award.

Upon Mr. Maffei'sMaffei’s termination for any reason, his unvested Annual Awards (including any dividend equivalents related to any unvested Annual RSUs) will terminate at the close of business on the day of the separation, except that, in the case of performance-based Annual RSUs, if Mr. Maffei remains employed through the end of the relevant grant year but his termination occurs prior to the date as of which any performance criteria has been determined to have been met or not with respect to the Annual AwardsRSUs relating to such grant year, such Annual AwardsRSUs will remain outstanding until such determination date and become exercisablevested to the extent determined by the compensation committee. Upon a change in control prior to Mr. Maffei'sMaffei’s termination, all vested Annual Options (and any Annual Options that vest after such change in control) will terminate at the expiration of the original term. If Mr. Maffei is terminated by our company for cause (without a prior change in control) prior to December 31, 2019, all vested Annual Options will terminate at the close of business on the 90th day following the termination. In all other events of termination or if Mr. Maffei has not been terminated prior to December 31, 2019, all vested Annual Options will terminate at the expiration of the original term.

Aircraft Usage.Usage
We are party to a February 5, 2013 letter agreement with Mr. Maffei, pursuant to which he was entitled to personal use of corporate aircraft not to exceed 120 hours of flight time per year through the first to occur of  (i) the termination of his employment, subject to any continued right to use the corporate aircraft as described below or pursuant to the terms of his employment arrangement in effect at the time of the termination or (ii) the cessation of ownership or lease of corporate aircraft. Effective November 11, 2015, pursuant to a letter agreement between us and Mr. Maffei of the same date, Mr. Maffei is entitled to 30 additional hours per year of personal flight time if he reimburses us for such usage through the first to occur of  (i) the termination of his employment or (ii) the cessation of ownership or lease of corporate aircraft. Mr. Maffei will continue to incur taxable income, calculated in accordance with SIFL, for all personal use of our corporate aircraft under the February 5, 2013 letter agreement. Mr. Maffei incurs taxable income at the SIFL rates minus amounts paid under time sharing agreements with our company for travel pursuant to the November 11, 2015 letter agreement. Pursuant to our aircraft time sharing agreements with Liberty Interactive, Starz,Qurate Retail, Liberty TripAdvisor, Liberty Broadband and Liberty Broadband, Liberty Interactive, Starz, Liberty


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TripAdvisor and Liberty BroadbandExpedia, such entities pay us for any costs, calculated in accordance with Part 91 of the Federal Aviation Regulations, associated with Mr. Maffei using our corporate aircraft that are allocable to Liberty Interactive, Starz,these entities. Qurate Retail, Liberty TripAdvisor, or Liberty Broadband as the case may be. Starz, Liberty TripAdvisor and Liberty BroadbandExpedia reimburse us only for Mr. Maffei'sMaffei’s use of our corporate aircraft for Starz, Liberty TripAdvisor or Liberty Broadbandsuch entity’s business, as the case may be.be, while Qurate Retail also reimburses us for Mr. Maffei’s personal use of our corporate aircraft. Pursuant to our aircraft time sharing agreements with Mr. Maffei, Mr. Maffei reimburses us for costs associated with his up to 30 hours of personal use of our corporate aircraft under the November 11, 2015 letter agreement. Flights where there are no passengers on company-owned aircraft are not charged against the 120 hours of personal flight time per year allotted to Mr. Maffei if the flight department determines that the use of a NetJets, Inc. supplied aircraft for a proposed personal flight would be disadvantageous to our company due to (i) use of budgeted hours under the then current Liberty Media fractional ownership contract with NetJets, Inc. or (ii) higher flight cost as compared to the cost of using company owned aircraft.

Richard N. Baer

2016 Baer Employment Agreement.    On November 7, 2012, Old LMC entered into an executive employment agreement (theemployment agreement), effective October 31, 2012, with Richard Baer. Mr. Baer served as an independent contractor providing consulting services to Old LMC and Liberty Interactive from October 31, 2012 until the start of his employment as Senior Vice President and General Counsel with the companies on January 1, 2013. The employment agreement was assigned to Liberty Media in connection with the LMC Spin-Off. The agreement provides for, among other things, a four year term ending on December 31, 2016, with an annual base salary of $825,000, subject to adjustments at Liberty Media's discretion, and an annual discretionary bonus beginning in the calendar year 2013. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, Mr. Baer's target bonus for each year is 100% of his annual base salary for that year, and in no event will his bonus for any year be greater than two times his annual base salary. Mr. Baer is also entitled to certain benefits and perquisites available to Liberty Media's senior executives. Pursuant to the agreement, on November 8, 2012, as part of the consideration for his services under the employment agreement, Mr. Baer was granted a combination of options and restricted shares. One-half of these options and one-half of these restricted shares vested on December 31, 2015 and December 15, 2015, respectively. The remaining options vest on December 31, 2016, and the remaining restricted shares vest on December 15, 2016, in each case, subject to Mr. Baer being employed by our company on the applicable vesting date and to the early vesting events described below. The options have a term of ten years. The other terms and conditions of Mr. Baer's options and restricted shares, including acceleration and continued exercisability in connection with certain terminations of employment, are described in the applicable award agreements.

        The agreement provides that, in the event Mr. Baer is terminated for cause (as defined in the employment agreement), he will be entitled to his accrued but unpaid base salary through the date of termination and any unpaid expenses. If, however, Mr. Baer terminates his employment for good reason (as defined in the employment agreement) or if his employment is terminated without cause (as defined in the employment agreement), then he is entitled to receive his accrued but unpaid base salary, any unpaid expenses, any accrued but unpaid bonus from the prior year and a severance payment of two times his annual base salary at the time of termination. If Mr. Baer terminates his employment without good reason (as defined in the employment agreement), he is entitled to receive any accrued but unpaid base salary, any accrued but unpaid bonus from the prior year and any unpaid expenses. In the case of Mr. Baer's death or disability (as defined in the employment agreement), the employment agreement provides for the right for his estate or him, as applicable, to receive any accrued but unpaid base salary, any unpaid expenses, any accrued but unpaid bonus from the prior year and a severance payment of two times his annual base salary at the time of death or disability (as defined in the employment agreement). As a condition to Mr. Baer's receipt of any severance payments as a result of his termination, as well as any acceleration of vesting or extension of exercise periods

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described in the grant agreements for the equity grants, Mr. Baer must execute a severance agreement and release in favor of Liberty Media in accordance with the procedures set forth in the employment agreement.

        Although not a party to Mr. Baer's employment agreement, Liberty Interactive is obligated to reimburse Liberty Media for its allocable portion of any payments made to Mr. Baer thereunder (other than payments relating to equity awards which are directly settled with the applicable issuer) pursuant to the LIC Services Agreement.

        May 2016 Compensation Arrangement.On May 24, 2016, the compensation committee of our company approved a new compensation arrangement with Mr. Baer, which was memorialized in a definitive employment agreement, dated effective as of August 18, 2016 (the 2016 Baer Employment Agreement), between our company and Mr. Baer. The arrangement provides for a four year employment term beginning January 1, 2017 and ending December 31, 2020 (the employment period) during which Mr. Baer will continue to serve as Chief Legal Officer of our company, Qurate Retail, GCI Liberty, Interactive, Liberty Broadband, Liberty Expedia and Liberty TripAdvisor. The 2016 Baer Employment Agreement memorialized Mr. Baer's currentBaer’s 2016 annual base salary of  $901,000$901,500 and provides for its adjustment from time to time. Mr. Baer’s

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annual target cash bonus of 100% of base salary under his currentthe 2012 employment agreement with our company remainremains unchanged under the new compensation arrangement.2016 Baer Employment Agreement. The arrangement also providesprovided Mr. Baer with the opportunity to earn annual performance-based equity incentive awards from our company and Qurate Retail, and, for 2019, from our company, Qurate Retail, GCI Liberty, InteractiveLiberty TripAdvisor and Liberty Broadband, during the employment term, as described in more detail below. In connection with the approval of his compensation arrangement, the compensation committee granted options to Mr. Baer with respect to LSXMK, BATRK and LMCKFWONK (together, the2016 Term Options), each as described in more detail below.
The 2016 Baer Employment Agreement governs any termination of Mr. Baer’s employment that occurs on or after January 1, 2017 during the term of such agreement. The 2016 Baer Employment Agreement provides that, in the event Mr. Baer is terminated for cause (as defined in the 2016 Baer Employment Agreement), he will be entitled to his accrued but unpaid base salary through the date of termination, any unpaid expenses and other amounts required to be paid by law. In addition, all unexercised 2016 Term Options, whether vested or unvested, will be forfeited.
If, however, Mr. Baer terminates his employment for good reason (as defined in the 2016 Baer Employment Agreement) or if his employment is terminated without cause (as defined in the 2016 Baer Employment Agreement), then he is entitled to receive his (i) accrued but unpaid base salary, (ii) any unpaid expenses and other amounts required to be paid by law, (iii) a lump sum payment of any declared but unpaid bonus from the prior year and (iv) if such termination occurs (x) between January 1, 2017 and March 31, 2018, a lump sum cash payment of $5.3 million, (y) between April 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019, a lump sum cash payment of  $3.5 million or (z) between April 1, 2019 and the close of business on December 31, 2020, a lump sum cash payment of  $1.9 million. In addition, if his employment is terminated by us without cause or by Mr. Baer for good reason (a protected termination), (a) between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2019, he will vest in 75% of the original number of 2016 Term Options (less any options that have previously vested) or (b) during 2020, the unvested portion of his 2016 Term Options will vest in full, in each case on the date of his termination, and such options will remain exercisable for the period specified in the applicable award agreement. The award agreements for Mr. Baer’s annual grants of Performance RSUs (as defined below) will provide that if a protected termination occurs during the employment period, any Performance RSUs that are outstanding and unvested on the termination date will remain outstanding until the date that our compensation committee determines whether the performance criteria applicable to such Performance RSUs were met and will vest to the extent determined by the committee on the date of such determination.
If Mr. Baer terminates his employment without good reason (as defined in the 2016 Baer Employment Agreement), he is entitled to receive any accrued but unpaid base salary, any declared but unpaid bonus from the prior year and any unpaid expenses and other amounts required to be paid by law. In addition, Mr. Baer will alsoforfeit any 2016 Term Options and Performance RSUs that are unvested on the date of such termination. Any vested 2016 Term Options will remain exercisable for 90 days after Mr. Baer’s termination without good reason, or, if such termination occurs after December 31, 2020, for the remainder of the term of such options.
In the case of Mr. Baer’s death or disability (as defined in the 2016 Baer Employment Agreement), such employment agreement provides for the right for his estate or him, as applicable, to receive any accrued but unpaid base salary, any unpaid expenses and other amounts required to be entitledpaid by law, any declared but unpaid bonus from the prior year and a lump sum cash payment of  $1.9 million. In addition, the 2016 Term Options will vest in full and remain exercisable for a one year period following his death or disability or, if such termination occurs after December 31, 2020, for the remainder of the term of such options. Any outstanding but unvested Performance RSUs will vest immediately in the event of Mr. Baer’s death or disability to certainthe extent not already vested as of the date of his termination due to death or disability.
As a condition to Mr. Baer’s receipt of any severance payments and benefits that will beas a result of his termination, as well as any acceleration of vesting or extension of exercise periods described in the definitive employmentgrant agreements for the equity grants, Mr. Baer must execute a severance agreement to be entered into by our company and Mr. Baer.

release in favor of Liberty Media in accordance with the procedures set forth in the 2016 Baer Employment Agreement.

Although Liberty Interactive will not be a party to Mr. Baer's proposed employment agreement, Liberty Interactive will bethe 2016 Baer Employment Agreement, Qurate Retail is obligated to reimburse us for Liberty Interactive'sits allocable portion of the above payments (other than payments relating to performance bonuses and payments relating to equity awards which will beare directly settled with the applicable issuer) pursuant to the LICQurate Retail Services Agreement. Mr. Baer's compensation arrangement is expected to be memorialized in a definitive employment agreement with our company. If we and Mr. Baer do not enter into a definitive employment agreement by January 1, 2017, the
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2016 Term Options will be forfeited.

2016 Term Options.    

On May 24, 2016, in connection with the approval of his compensation arrangement, the compensation committee approved a one-time grant to Mr. Baer of  (i) 346,466 options to purchase shares of LSXMK with an exercise price equal to $31.66 per share, (ii) 32,048 options to purchase shares of BATRK with an exercise price equal to $15.11 per share, and (iii) 83,942 options to purchase shares of LMCKFWONK with an exercise price equal to $19.11 per share. The exercise prices are equal to the closing price of LSXMK, BATRK and LMCKFWONK on June 1, 2016, the grant date for these options. One-half of the 2016 Term Options will vest on December 31, 2019 with the remaining 2016 Term Options vesting on December 31, 2020, in each case, subject to Mr. Baer being employed on the applicable vesting date, and subject to any accelerated vesting upon a termination event. Vesting of the 2016 Term Options will not start until January 1, 2017, and no early acceleration will occur if Mr. Baer is terminated prior to January 1, 2017. The 2016 Term Options expire on December 31, 2023.

Annual Performance-Based Awards.    
Beginning in 2017, Mr. Baer willis eligible to receive annual grants of performance-based restricted stock unitsRSUs with respect to LSXMK, BATRK and LMCKFWONK (thePerformance RSUs). The combined annual target value of the Performance RSUs and the performance-based restricted stock unitsRSUs issued by Liberty Interactive will beQurate Retail has been $1.875 million. The compensation committee will establish performance metrics with respect to each grant of Performance RSUs that will determine, in the compensation committee'scommittee’s sole discretion, the extent to which such grant will vest.


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    Equity Incentive Plans

The 2017 incentive plan is administered by the compensation committee of our board of directors. The compensation committee has full power and authority to grant eligible persons the awards described below and to determine the terms and conditions under which any awards are made. The 2017 incentive plan is designed to provide additional remuneration to certain employees and independent contractors for exceptional service and to encourage their investment in our company. Our compensation committee may grant non-qualified stock options, SARs, restricted shares, restricted stock units,RSUs, cash awards, performance awards or any combination of the foregoing under the 2017 incentive plan (collectively,incentive plan awards).

The maximum number of shares of our common stock with respect to which incentive plan awards may be issued under the 2017 incentive plan is 74,940,000,50,000,000, subject to anti-dilution and other adjustment provisions of the 2017 incentive plan. With limited exceptions, under the 2017 incentive plan, no person may be granted in any calendar year incentive plan awards covering more than 24,000,0008,000,000 shares of our common stock (subject to anti-dilution and other adjustment provisions of the 2017 incentive plan) nor may any person receive under the 2017 incentive plan payment for cash incentive plan awards during any calendar year in excess of  $10 million. However, no nonemployee director may be granted during any calendar year incentive plan awards having a value (as determined on the grant date of such award) in excess of  $2 million. Shares of our common stock issuable pursuant to incentive plan awards made under the 2017 incentive plan are made available from either authorized but unissued shares or shares that have been issued but reacquired by our company. The 2017 incentive plan has a five year term.

In connection with the LMC Spin-Off,2013, our company'scompany’s board of directors adopted the Liberty Media Corporation Transitional Stock Adjustment Plan (theTSAP, and together with the 2013 incentive plan, theexisting incentive plans). The TSAP governs the terms and conditions of equity incentive awards with respect to our common stock issued in connection with adjustments made to equity incentive awards relating to Old LMC'sour predecessor’s common stock that were granted prior to the LMC Spin-Off.2013. No further grants are permitted under the TSAP.

2006 Deferred Compensation Plan

Our company maintains the Liberty Media Corporation 2006 Deferred Compensation Plan (as amended and restated, the2006 deferred compensation plan), under which officers at the level of Assistant Vice President and above wereare eligible to elect to defer up to 50% of such officer'sofficer’s annual base salary and 100% of cash performance bonus for 2015.bonuses. These deferral elections must be made in advance of certain deadlines and may include (1) the selection of a payment date, which generally may not be later than 30 years from the end of the year in which the applicable compensation is initially deferred, and (2) the form of distribution, such as a lump-sum payment or substantially equal annual installments over two to five years for elections made prior to January 1, 2016 or two to ten years for elections made on or after January 1, 2016.
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In addition to the accelerated distribution events described under "—“—Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control"Control” below, at the eligible officer'sofficer’s request, if the compensation committee determines that such officer has suffered a financial hardship, it may authorize immediate distribution of amounts deferred under the 2006 deferred compensation plan.

Compensation deferred under the 2006 deferred compensation plan that otherwise would have been received prior to 2015 would earn interest income at the rate of 9% per annum, compounded quarterly, for the period of the deferral. Compensation deferred under the 2006 deferred compensation plan that otherwise would have been received on or after January 1, 2015 will earn interest at the rate of 9% per year, compounded quarterly at the end of each calendar quarter. For amounts deferred on or after January 1, 2015, those amounts will earn interestincome at a rate equalthat is intended to the prime rateapproximate our company’s general cost of interest (as determined by reference to the Wall Street Journal) plus 3%, and for 2015, this rate was 6.25%. The compensation committee has the authority to change this interest rate for future deferrals at any time prior to a change of control (as defined in the plan).

        The 2006 deferred compensation plan was amended effective January 1, 2016, to reflect the following changes: (A) eligible participants may elect to defer up to 50% of the portion of their base salaries and up to 100% of their cash performance bonuses that are allocable to our company,


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(B) eligible participants may elect to receive annual installments over two to ten years, rather than two to five years and (C) for10-year debt. For amounts deferred on or after January 1, 2015, the compensation committee may not change the applicable interest rate in effect after a change of control has occurred.

For 2018 the rate was 6.25%.

Our board of directors reserves the right to terminate the 2006 deferred compensation plan at any time. An optional termination by our board of directors will not result in any distribution acceleration.

Pay Ratio Information
We are providing the following information about the relationship of the median annual total compensation of our employees and the total compensation of Mr. Maffei, our chief executive officer on December 31, 2018, pursuant to the SEC’s pay ratio disclosure rules set forth in Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K. We believe our pay ratio is a reasonable estimate calculated in a manner consistent with the SEC’s pay ratio disclosure rules. However, because these rules provide flexibility in determining the methodology, assumptions and estimates used to determine pay ratios and the fact that workforce composition issues differ significantly between companies, our pay ratio may not be comparable to the pay ratios reported by other companies.
To identify our median employee, we first determined our employee population as of December 31, 2018, which consisted of employees located in the U.S., the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and the United Kingdom, representing all full-time, part-time, seasonal and temporary employees employed by our company and our consolidated subsidiaries, Sirius XM, Formula 1 and Braves Holdings, on that date. Using information from our payroll records and Form W-2s (or its equivalent for non-U.S. employees), we then measured each employee’s gross wages for calendar year 2018, consisting of base salary, commissions, actual bonus payments, long-term incentive cash payments, if any, realized equity award value and taxable fringe benefits. We did not annualize the compensation of employees who were new hires or took a leave of absence in 2018. Also, we did not annualize the compensation of our temporary or seasonal employees. In addition, we did not make any cost-of-living adjustments to the gross wages information.
We determined that the median employee’s total compensation for calendar year 2018, including any perquisites and other benefits, in the same manner that we determined the total compensation of our named executive officers for purposes of the Summary Compensation Table above. The ratio of our chief executive officer’s total annual compensation to that of the median employee was as follows:
Chief Executive Officer Total Annual Compensation$20,153,546
Median Employee Total Annual Compensation$72,089
Ratio of Chief Executive Officer to Median Employee Total Annual Compensation280:1
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Grants of Plan-Based Awards

The following table contains information regarding plan-based incentive awards granted during the year ended December 31, 20152018 to the named executive officers (other than Mr. Malone, who did not receive any grants).

 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 All Other
Option
Awards:
Number of
Securities
Underlying
Options
(#)
  
  
 
 
  
 Estimated Future Payouts
under Non-Equity
Incentive Plan Awards
 Estimated Future Payouts
under Equity
Incentive Plan Awards
 Exercise
or Base
Price of
Option
Awards
($/Sh)
 Grant Date
Fair Value
of Stock
and
Option
Awards ($)
 
Name
 Grant Date Threshold
($)(1)
 Target
($)(1)
 Maximum
($)(2)
 Threshold
(#)(3)
 Target
(#)(3)
 Maximum
(#)(4)
 

Gregory B. Maffei

                               

  2/26/2015(5)     4,803,750             

LMCK

  3/31/2015(6)         418,414      38.20  5,085,655 

LMCK

  3/31/2015(6)         33,527        1,280,731 

Richard N. Baer

  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 

  2/26/2015(5)     875,243             

Albert E. Rosenthaler

  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 

  2/26/2015(5)     850,000             

LMCK

  3/4/2015              118,100(7) 39.65  1,324,066 

LMCK

  3/4/2015              192,538(8) 39.65  3,093,219 

Christopher W. Shean

  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 

  2/26/2015(5)     850,000             

LMCK

  3/4/2015              118,100(7) 39.65  1,324,066 

LMCK

  3/4/2015              192,538(8) 39.65  3,093,219 

NameGrant
Date
Committee
Action
Date
Estimated Future Payouts
under Non-Equity
Incentive Plan Awards
Estimated Future Payouts
under Equity Incentive
Plan Awards
All Other
Stock
Awards:
Number
of Shares
of Stock
or
Units
(#)
All Other
Option
Awards:
Number
of
Securities
Underlying
Options
(#)
Exercise
or Base
Price of
Option
Awards
($/Sh)
Grant
Date Fair
Value of
Stock
and
Option
Awards
($)
Threshold
($)(1)
Target
($)(1)
Maximum
($)(2)
Threshold
(#)(3)
Target
(#)(3)
Maximum
(#)(4)
Gregory B. Maffei
3/14/2018(5)
8,758,485
LSXMK3/5/2018632,752(6)42.507,313,816
BATRK3/5/201846,052(6)23.34296,457
BATRK
3/5/2018(7)
12,279286,592
FWONK3/5/2018138,655(6)31.991,219,745
FWONK
3/5/2018(7)
���85,5902,738,024
Richard N. Baer
3/14/2018(5)
1,435,019
LSXMK
3/5/2018(7)
16,391696,618
BATRK
3/5/2018(7)
2,42456,576
FWONK
3/5/2018(7)
12,066385,991
Mark D. Carleton
3/14/2018(5)
1,393,631
LSXMK
3/5/2018(7)
12,239520,158
BATRK
3/5/2018(7)
1,81042,245
FWONK
3/5/2018(7)
9,010288,230
Albert E.
Rosenthaler
3/14/2018(5)
1,393,631
LSXMK
3/5/2018(7)
12,239520,158
BATRK
3/5/2018(7)
1,81042,245
FWONK
3/5/2018(7)
9,010288,230
(1)

Our 20152018 performance-based bonus program does not provide for a threshold bonus amount. The program also does not provide for a target payout amount for any named executive officer that would be payable upon satisfaction of the performance criteria under the 20152018 performance-based bonus program. For the actual bonuses paid by our company see the amounts included for 20152018 in the column entitled Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation in the "Summary“Summary Compensation Table"Table” above.
(2)

(2)
Represents the maximum amount that would have been payable to each named executive officer assuming (x) the Bonus Threshold was met in order to permit the maximum bonus amounts to have been payable, (y) the full 60% of the participant's maximum bonus amount attributable to individual performance was attained and (z) the full 40% of the participant's maximum bonus amount attributable to corporate performance of our company was attained.payable. For more information on this performance bonus program, see "—“—Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Elements of 20152018 Executive Compensation—20152018 Performance-based Bonuses."
(3)

(3)
The terms of Mr. Maffei's LMC Target Equity Awardsthe 2018 Maffei RSUs and the 2018 Chief RSUs do not provide for a threshold amount that would be payable upon satisfaction of the performance criteria established by the compensation committee. RepresentsThe amounts in the Target column represent the target amount that would have been payable to Mr. Maffeithe named executive officer assuming (x) maximum achievement of the 162(m) objective metricsMaffei RSU Threshold and the Chief Threshold was attained and (y) our compensation committee determined not to reduce such payout after considering a combination of the objective, subjective and discretionary criteria established by our compensation committee in March 2015.2018. For the actual 20152018 Annual Options, 2018 Maffei RSUs and 2015 Annual2018 Chief RSUs that vested see "—“—Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Elements of 20152018 Executive Compensation—Equity Incentive Compensation—Maffei Performance-based Equity Awards."Awards” and “—Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Elements of 2018 Executive Compensation—Equity Incentive Compensation—Annual Performance Awards” above.
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(4)

(4)
Our compensation committee also set a maximum grant value payout with respect to (i) the 2018 Maffei RSUs - equal to 1.5 times the target number of 2018 Maffei RSUs or $9.234 million of grant value and (ii) the 2018 Chief RSUs - equal to $1.875 million for Mr. Baer and $1.4 million for each of Messrs. Carleton and Rosenthaler of grant value of the annual performance awards based on our company's relative market capitalization of $9,765,600.2018 Chief RSUs. Any payout of an equity award by our company above the LMC Target Equity Award of $6,510,400target equity award would be in our compensation committee'scommittee’s sole discretion, would be issued in the first quarter of 2016,2019, and would vest immediately after grant. For more information on the LMC Target Equity Award,target equity award, see "—“—Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Elements of 20152018 Executive Compensation—Equity Incentive Compensation—Maffei Performance-based Equity Awards."Awards” and “—Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Elements of 2018 Executive Compensation—Equity Incentive Compensation—Annual Performance Awards” above.
(5)

(5)
Reflects the date on which our compensation committee established the terms of the 20152018 performance-based bonus program, as described under "—“—Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Elements of 20152018 Executive Compensation—20152018 Performance-based Bonuses."
(6)

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(6)
Vested in full on December 31, 2018.
(7)
Reflects the date on which our compensation committee established the terms of Mr. Maffei's LMC Target Equity Awardsthe 2018 Maffei RSUs and the 2018 Chief RSUs as described under "—“—Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Elements of 20152018 Executive Compensation—Equity Incentive Compensation—Maffei Performance-based Equity Awards."

(7)
Vests 331/3% on March 4, 2016, 331/3% on March 4, 2017Awards” and 331/3% on March 4, 2018.“—Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Elements of 2018 Executive Compensation—Equity Incentive Compensation—Annual Performance Awards” above.

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Vests 50% on December 31, 2019 and 50% on December 31, 2020.
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Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End

The following table contains information regarding unexercised options and unvested shares of our common stockRSUs which were outstanding as of December 31, 20152018 and held by the named executive officers (with the exception of John C. Malone, who had no outstanding equity awards as of December 31, 2015)2018).

Option awardsStock awards
NameNumber of
securities
underlying
unexercised
options(#)
Exercisable
Number of
securities
underlying
unexercised
options (#)
Unexercisable
Equity
Incentive
Plan
Awards:
Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Unearned
Options
(#)
Option
exercise
price
($)
Option
expiration
date
Number
of Shares
or Units
of Stock
That Have
Not Vested
(#)
Market
Value of
Shares or
Units of
Stock That
Have Not
Vested
($)
Equity
Incentive
Plan
Awards:
Number of
Unearned
Shares,
Units or
Other
Rights
That Have
Not Vested
(#)
Equity
Incentive
Plan
Awards:
Market or
Payout Value
of Unearned
Shares, Units
or Other
Rights That
Have Not
Vested
($)
Gregory B. Maffei
Option Awards
LSXMA1,165,78719.7512/17/2019
LSXMK2,374,52619.3812/17/2019
LSXMK1,668,5961,668,597(1)28.0112/24/2021
LSXMK348,10931.4403/31/2022
LSXMK62,33930.2603/15/2023
LSXMK724,22831.0703/29/2023
LSXMK22,46536.7805/11/2024���
LSXMK897,69436.7805/11/2024
LSXMK632,75242.5003/05/2025
BATRA116,59911.4212/17/2019
BATRK237,54911.1912/17/2019
BATRK166,955166,955(1)16.1712/24/2021
BATRK33,49118.1503/31/2022
BATRK6,25517.4703/15/2023
BATRK74,32217.9403/29/2023
BATRK15,28323.5103/30/2024
BATRK133,59423.5103/30/2024
BATRK46,05223.3403/05/2025
FWONA291,36211.6812/17/2019
FWONK593,54511.1812/17/2019
FWONK417,158417,158(1)16.1612/24/2021
FWONK83,68218.1403/31/2022
FWONK15,63117.4603/15/2023
FWONK185,70317.9303/29/2023
FWONK171,29933.9203/30/2024
FWONK138,65531.9903/05/2025
RSU Awards
BATRK12,279(2)305,624
FWONK85,590(2)2,627,613
Richard N. Baer
Option Awards
LSXMK346,466(3)31.6612/31/2023
BATRK32,048(3)15.1112/31/2023
FWONK83,942(3)19.1112/31/2023
RSU Awards
LSXMK16,391(2)606,139
BATRK2,424(2)60,333
FWONK12,066(2)370,426

 
 Option awards Stock awards 
Name
 Number of
securities
underlying
unexercised
options (#)
Exercisable
 Number of
securities
underlying
unexercised
options (#)
Unexercisable
 Equity
Incentive
Plan Awards:
Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Unearned
Options (#)
 Option
exercise
price
($)
 Option
expiration
date
 Number of
Shares or
Units of
Stock That
Have Not
Vested (#)
 Market
Value of
Shares or
Units of
Stock That
Have Not
Vested ($)
 Equity
Incentive
Plan Awards:
Number of
Unearned
Shares,
Units
or Other
Rights That
Have Not
Vested (#)
 Equity
Incentive
Plan Awards:
Market or
Payout
Value of
Unearned
Shares,
Units
or Other
Rights That
Have Not
Vested ($)
 

Gregory B. Maffei

                            

Option Awards

                            

LMCA

  1,161,860      23.88  12/17/2019         

LMCK

  2,347,777      23.55  12/17/2019         

LMCK

    3,298,724(1)   34.04  12/24/2021         

LMCK

      418,414(2) 38.20  03/31/2022         

RSU Award

  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 

LMCK

                33,527(3) 1,276,708 

Richard N. Baer

  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 

Option Awards

                            

LMCA

  53,176  53,178(4)   23.66  11/08/2022         

LMCK

  107,428  107,429(4)   23.33  11/08/2022         

Stock Awards

  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 

LMCA

            9,686(5) 380,176     

LMCK

            19,372(5) 737,686     

Albert E. Rosenthaler

  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 

Option Awards

                            

LMCA

  33,163      23.88  03/19/2020         

LMCK

  67,012      23.55  03/19/2020         

LMCK

    118,100(6)   39.65  03/04/2022         

LMCK

    192,538(7)   39.65  03/04/2023         

Christopher W. Shean

  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 

Option Awards

                            

LMCA

  1,346      23.88  12/17/2016         

LMCA

  99,487      23.88  03/19/2020         

LMCK

  2,720      23.55  12/17/2016         

LMCK

  201,034      23.55  03/19/2020         

LMCK

    118,100(6)   39.65  03/04/2022         

LMCK

    192,538(7)   39.65  03/04/2023         
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Option awardsStock awards
NameNumber of
securities
underlying
unexercised
options(#)
Exercisable
Number of
securities
underlying
unexercised
options (#)
Unexercisable
Equity
Incentive
Plan
Awards:
Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Unearned
Options
(#)
Option
exercise
price
($)
Option
expiration
date
Number
of Shares
or Units
of Stock
That Have
Not Vested
(#)
Market
Value of
Shares or
Units of
Stock That
Have Not
Vested
($)
Equity
Incentive
Plan
Awards:
Number of
Unearned
Shares,
Units or
Other
Rights
That Have
Not Vested
(#)
Equity
Incentive
Plan
Awards:
Market or
Payout Value
of Unearned
Shares, Units
or Other
Rights That
Have Not
Vested
($)
Mark D. Carleton
Option Awards
LSXMK39,00019.3803/19/2020
LSXMK118,85832.6303/04/2022
LSXMK193,774(3)32.6303/04/2023
BATRA7,32711.4203/19/2020
BATRK14,92711.1903/19/2020
BATRK11,81618.8403/04/2022
BATRK19,264(3)18.8403/04/2023
FWONA18,30911.6803/19/2020
FWONK19,52418.8303/04/2022
FWONK48,134(3)18.8303/04/2023
RSU Awards
LSXMK12,239(2)452,598
BATRK1,810(2)45,051
FWONK9,010(2)276,607
Albert E. Rosenthaler
Option Awards
LSXMK118,85832.6303/04/2022
LSXMK193,774(3)32.6303/04/2023
LSXMK39,38439.2103/20/2024
BATRA3,32811.4203/19/2020
BATRK6,78011.1903/19/2020
BATRK11,81618.8403/04/2022
BATRK19,264(3)18.8403/04/2023
BATRK5,03122.9603/20/2024
FWONK48,134(3)18.8303/04/2023
FWONK19,33133.8503/20/2024
RSU Awards
LSXMK12,239(2)452,598
BATRK1,810(2)45,051
FWONK9,010(2)276,607
(1)

Vests 50% on December 24, 2018 and 50% on December 24, 2019.
(2)

(2)
Represents the target number of 2015 Annual Options2018 Maffei RSUs that Mr. Maffei could earn and the target number of 2018 Chief RSUs that each of Messrs. Baer, Carleton and Rosenthaler could earn based on our performance in 2015.2018.
(3)

(3)
Represents the target number of 2015 Annual RSUs that Mr. Maffei could earn based on our performance in 2015.

(4)
Vests in full on December 31, 2016.

(5)
Vests in full on December 15, 2016.

(6)
Vests 331/3% on March 4, 2016, 331/3% on March 4, 2017 and 331/3% on March 4, 2018.

(7)
Vests 50% on December 31, 2019 and 50% on December 31, 2020.

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Option Exercises and Stock Vested

The following table sets forth information concerning the exercise of vested options and the vesting of restricted stockRSUs held by our named executive officers (with the exception of Mr. Malone, who had no exercises of vested options or vesting of restricted stock)RSUs), in each case, during the year ended December 31, 2015.

2018.
Option AwardsStock Awards
Name
Number of
shares
acquired on
exercise
(#)(1)
Value
realized on
exercise
($)
Number of
shares
acquired on
vesting
(#)(1)
Value
realized on
vesting
($)
Gregory B. Maffei
LSXMA
LSXMK
BATRA
BATRK
FWONA
FWONK29,438967,333
Richard N. Baer
LSXMA
LSXMK19,285830,412
BATRA
BATRK2,49259,285
FWONA
FWONK11,039362,742
Mark D. Carleton
LSXMA
LSXMK60,2181,601,19714,400620,064
BATRA
BATRK1,86144,273
FWONA
FWONK8,243270,865
Albert E. Rosenthaler
LSXMA
LSXMK14,400620,064
BATRA
BATRK1,86144,273
FWONA8,316193,921
FWONK46,465974,8258,243270,865

 
 Option Awards Stock Awards 
Name
 Number of
shares
acquired on
exercise (#)(1)
 Value
realized on
exercise ($)
 Number of
shares
acquired on
vesting (#)(1)
 Value
realized on
vesting ($)
 

Gregory B. Maffei

             

LMCA

  437,023  6,721,414     

LMCK

  883,096  12,690,090     

Richard N. Baer

  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 

LMCA

      9,686  381,532 

LMCK

      19,372  741,366 

Albert E. Rosenthaler

  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 

LMCA

  66,324  1,038,872  19,091  (2)

LMCK

  134,022  2,125,269  38,182  (2)

Christopher W. Shean

  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 

LMCA

      19,091  (2)

LMCK

      38,182  (2)

(1)
(1)
Includes shares withheld in payment of withholding taxes at election of holder.

(2)
On December 4, 2012 (theGrant Date), to effect Old LMC's 2012 option modification program, Old LMC's compensation committee approved the acceleration of each unvested in-the-money option to acquire shares of our Series A common stock (LMCA) held by certain of its and its subsidiaries' officers (collectively, theEligible Optionholders), including Old LMC's then-and our current-named executive officers Messrs. Rosenthaler and Shean. Following this acceleration, also on the Grant Date, each Eligible Optionholder exercised, on a net settled basis, substantially all of his or her outstanding in-the-money vested and unvested options to acquire LMCA shares (theEligible Options) and with respect to each unvested Eligible Option, each Eligible Optionholder acquired LMCA shares which have a vesting schedule identical to that of the unvested Eligible Option.

The Value column below represents the value related to awards that were subject to continued vesting requirements as of the Grant Date, but which vested during the twelve months ended December 31, 2015. Such value was realized by the applicable named executive officer in 2012 and


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    therefore included in our proxy statement relating to our 2013 annual meeting of stockholders under "Executive Compensation—Option Exercises and Stock Vested."

Name
 Number of shares
acquired upon lapse of
restriction (#)
 Value ($) 

Albert E. Rosenthaler

       

LMCA

  19,091  455,511 

LMCK

  38,182  870,015 

Christopher W. Shean

  
 
  
 
 

LMCA

  19,091  455,511 

LMCK

  38,182  870,015 
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Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans

The following table sets forth information regarding the nonqualified deferred compensation plans in which our named executive officers participated during the year ended December 31, 2015.2018. Messrs. Maffei and SheanCarleton participated in the 2006 deferred compensation plan. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—2006 Deferred Compensation Plan"Plan” for more information. Mr. Malone'sMalone’s deferred compensation arrangements are described under "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—John C. Malone." During 2015,2018, Messrs. Baer and Rosenthaler did not participate in any deferred compensation arrangements.

NameExecutive
contributions
in 2018
($)
Registrant
contributions
in 2018
($)
Aggregate
earnings in
2018
($)(1)
Aggregate
withdrawals/​
distributions
($)
Aggregate
balance at
12/31/18 ($)(1)(2)
John C. Malone2,259,620(3,082,818)17,589,370
Gregory B. Maffei601,7837,066,788
Richard N. Baer
Mark D. Carleton1,501,445564,3439,196,482
Albert E. Rosenthaler

Name
 Executive
contributions
in 2015 ($)
 Registrant
contributions
in 2015 ($)
 Aggregate
earnings in
2015 ($)(1)
 Aggregate
withdrawals/
distributions ($)
 Aggregate
balance at
12/31/15 ($)(1)(2)
 

John C. Malone

      2,513,056  (3,082,818) 19,784,465 

Gregory B. Maffei

      460,766    5,410,811 

Christopher W. Shean(3)

  288,222    97,778  (122,958) 1,294,345 

(1)
(1)
Of these amounts, the following were reported in the "Summary“Summary Compensation Table"Table” as above-market earnings that were credited to the named executive officer'sofficer’s deferred compensation account during 2015:
2018:

NameAmount
($)
Name
Amount ($)

John C. Malone

239,961215,628

Gregory B. Maffei

99,232397,703

Richard N. Baer

Mark D. Carleton331,289
Albert E. Rosenthaler

Christopher W. Shean

22,388
(2)
(2)
In our prior year proxy statements, we reported the following above-market earnings that were credited as interest to the applicable officer'sofficer’s deferred compensation accounts during the years reported:

Amount ($)
Name201720162015
John C. Malone224,672232,747239,961
Gregory B. Maffei401,887335,06899,232
Richard N. Baer
Mark D. Carleton304,384199,301n/a
Albert E. Rosenthaler
 
 Amount ($) 
Name
 2014 2013 2012 

John C. Malone

  246,409  252,176  257,336 

Gregory B. Maffei

  52,641  9,366   

Christopher W. Shean

  17,295  17,499  15,870 
(3)
As described above in "—Executive Compensation Arrangements—2006 Deferred Compensation Plan," Mr. Shean had a deferral election in place under the 2006 deferred compensation plan

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    following the Old LMC Split-Off with respect to $32,336, which represents 10% of a portion of his 2011 performance-based bonus that was allocable to and paid by Liberty Interactive (the2011 deferral). Liberty Interactive will continue to be responsible for payment of the 2011 deferral and for the payment of interest income at the rate of 9% per annum, compounded quarterly, thereon. In 2015, Mr. Shean began receiving installment payments with respect to the 2011 deferral pursuant to his deferral election, and at December 31, 2015, the outstanding balance was $25,843.

Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change-in-Control

The following table sets forth the potential payments to our named executive officers if their employment with Liberty Media had terminated or a change in control had occurred, in each case, as of December 31, 2015.2018, which was the last business day of our last completed fiscal year. In the event of such a termination or change in control, the actual amounts may be different due to various factors. In addition, we may enter into new arrangements or modify these arrangements from time to time.

The amounts provided in the tables are based on the closing market prices on December 31, 2015, the last trading day of such year,2018 for our LMCALSXMA common stock, which was $39.25, and$36.80, our LMCKLSXMK common stock, which was $38.08.$36.98, our BATRA common stock, which was $24.94, our BATRK common stock, which was $24.89, our FWONA common stock, which was $29.72, and our FWONK common stock, which was $30.70. The value of the options shown in the table is based on the spread between the exercise or base price of the award and the applicable closing market price. Because the exercise prices of certain stock options held by Messrs. Maffei and Rosenthaler were more than the applicable closing market price of LSXMK and FWONK shares on December 31, 2018, these options have been excluded from the table below. The value of the restricted stockRSUs shown in the table is based on the applicable closing market price and the number of sharesRSUs unvested.

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Each of our named executive officers (other than Mr. Malone) has received awards and payments under the existing incentive plans, and each of our named executive officers is eligible to participate in our deferred compensation plan. Additionally, each of Messrs. Malone, Maffei and Baer is entitled to certain payments and certain acceleration rights upon termination under his respective employment agreement. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements"Arrangements” above and "Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control—“—Termination Without Cause or for Good Reason"Reason” below.

No immediate distributions under the 2006 deferred compensation plan are permitted as a result of a termination for cause or a termination without cause or for good reason (other than pursuant to the compensation committee’s right to distribute certain de minimus amounts from an officer’s deferred compensation account). In addition, we do not have an acceleration right to pay out account balances to the named executive officers upon a voluntary termination or a termination due to death or disability. However, the named executive officer may file an election at the time of the deferral to receive distributions under the 2006 deferred compensation plan upon his separation from service, including any of the types of termination above. For purposes of the tabular presentation below, we have assumed that the named executive officer has elected to receive payout of all deferred compensation upon his separation from service, including interest. The 2006 deferred compensation plan also provides our compensation committee with the option of terminating the plan 30 days preceding or within 12 months after a change of control and distributing the account balances (which option is assumed to have been exercised for purposes of the tabular presentation below).
The circumstances giving rise to these potential payments and a brief summary of the provisions governing their payout are described below and in the footnotes to the table (other than those described under "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements," which are incorporated by reference herein):

Voluntary Termination.Termination
Each of the named executive officers (other than Mr. Malone) holds equity awards that were issued under our existing incentive plans. Under these plans and the related award agreements, in the event of a voluntary termination of his employment with our company for any reason, each named executive officer (other than Mr. Malone) would only have a right to the equity grants that vested prior to his termination date, except that in 2015 each of2018 Mr. Maffei and Mr. Baer had certain acceleration rights with respect to one or more of his equity awards and is entitled to certain other benefits upon a voluntary termination of his employment with our company for good reason (as defined in their respective employment agreements).termination. Also, if Mr. Maffei also has certain acceleration rights upon a voluntary termination without good reason under the award agreement relating to the Term Options that were granted in connection with the approval of his new compensation arrangement. Mr. Maffei would forfeit the LMC Target Equity Awards if he voluntarily terminated his employment onas of December 31, 2015.2018, his 2018 Annual RSUs would remain outstanding until any performance criteria had been determined to have been met or not and would vest to the extent determined by the compensation committee. Mr. Baer would have forfeited his 2016 Term Options and his 2018 Chief RSUs if he had voluntarily terminated his employment as of December 31, 2018. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Gregory B. Maffei" above "—Maffei” and “—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Richard N. Baer"Baer” above. Mr. Carleton and "Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control—Termination Without Cause or for Good Reason" below. Neither Mr. Shean nor Mr. Rosenthaler isare not entitled to any severance payments or other benefits upon a voluntary termination of his employment for any reason.

        Under the 2006 deferred compensation plan, we do not have an acceleration right to pay out account balances toemployment. The foregoing discussion assumes that the named executive officers voluntarily terminated his respective employment without good reason. See “—Termination Without Cause or for Good Reason” below for a discussion of potential payments and benefits upon this type of termination. However, thea named executive officer may file at the timeofficer’s voluntary termination of the deferral an election to receive distributions under the 2006 deferred compensation plan upon his separation from service, including a voluntary termination. For

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purposes of the tabular presentation below, we have assumed that the named executive officer has elected to receive payout of all deferred compensation upon his separation from service, including interest.

Termination for Cause.Cause

All outstanding equity grants constituting options, whether unvested or vested but not yet exercised, and all equity grants constituting unvested restricted sharesRSUs under the existing incentive plans would be forfeited by any named executive officer (other than Mr. Maffei in the case of equity grants constituting vested options or similar rights) who is terminated for "cause."“cause.” However, if Mr. Maffei’s employment was terminated for cause as of December 31, 2018, his 2018 Annual RSUs would remain outstanding until any performance criteria had been determined to have been met or not and would vest to the extent determined by the compensation committee. The existing incentive plans, which govern the awards unless there is a different definition in the applicable award agreement, define "cause"“cause” as insubordination, dishonesty, incompetence, moral turpitude, other misconduct of any kind and the refusal to perform his duties and responsibilities for any reason other than illness or incapacity;providedprovided that, if such termination is within 12 months after a change in control (as described below), "cause"“cause” means a felony conviction for fraud, misappropriation or embezzlement. Mr. Maffei has certain continuing rights to exercise vested options or similar rights following a termination for cause under his employment agreement, and the employment agreementsagreement of Mr. Maffei and Mr. Baer have definitionshas a definition of cause that areis different from the definition under the incentive plans. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements"Arrangements” above.
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        No immediate distributions under the 2006 deferred compensation plan are permitted as a result of this type of termination (other than pursuant to the compensation committee's right to distribute certain de minimus amounts from an officer's deferred compensation account). However, the named executive officer may file an election at the time of the deferral to receive distributions under the 2006 deferred compensation plan upon his separation from service, including a termination for cause. For purposes of the tabular presentation below, we have assumed that the named executive officer has elected to receive payout of all deferred compensation upon his separation from service, including interest.

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Termination Without Cause or for Good Reason.Reason
Mr. Malone does not have any unvestedoutstanding equity awards. As of December 31, 2015,2018, Mr. Maffei'sMaffei’s unvested equity awards consisted of the Term Options and the LMC Target Equity Awards.2018 Annual RSUs. The Term Options are subject to partial acceleration upon a termination of his employment without cause or for good reason. If Mr. Maffei would forfeit the LMC Target Equity Awards if hisMaffei’s employment was terminated without cause or he terminated it for good reason onas of December 31, 2015.2018, his 2018 Annual RSUs would remain outstanding until any performance criteria had been determined to have been met or not and become vested to the extent determined by the compensation committee. Each of Mr. Malone and Mr. Maffei is entitled to severance payments and/or other benefits upon a termination of his employment without cause or for good reason. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—John C. Malone"Malone” and "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Gregory B. Maffei"Maffei” above.

        The award agreements relating to

As of December 31, 2018, Mr. Baer's multi-yearBaer’s unvested equity awards provide that upon a terminationconsisted of his 2016 Term Options and his 2018 Chief RSUs. Mr. Baer would have vested in 75% of the original number of his 2016 Term Options (less any options that have previously vested) if his employment had been terminated without cause or for good reason (each as defined in his employment agreement), a pro rata portion of his unvested options and restricted shares as of December 31, 2018, and his 2018 Chief RSUs would have stayed outstanding until the date the compensation committee acted to determine the extent to which the performance criteria were met and the number of termination will vest based on the portion of the vesting period elapsedMr. Baer’s 2018 Chief RSUs that would have been earned and vested had he remained employed through the termination date plus 365 days. This pro rata vesting is applied separately with respect to each tranche of his options and restricted shares based on the vesting period for that tranche.December 31, 2018. Mr. Baer is also entitled under certain circumstances to severance payments and other benefits upon a termination of his employment without cause or for good reason. To receive these benefits, Mr. Baer must execute a severance agreement and release in favor of our company in accordance with the procedure set forth in the Baer Employment Agreement. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Richard N. Baer."

As of December 31, 2015,2018, Mr. Shean'sCarleton’s and Mr. Rosenthaler'sRosenthaler’s only unvested equity awards were the stock options granted to them on March 4, 2015. The standardmulti-year stock option awards granted to them on that dateMarch 4, 2015 and the 2018 Chief RSUs granted to them on March 5, 2018. The multi-year stock option awards granted to them on March 4, 2015 provide for vesting upon a termination of employment without cause of those options that would have vested during the 12-month period following the termination date if such person had remained an employee. The multi-year awards granted to them on that date provide for vesting upon a termination of employment without cause of those options that would have vested during the 12-month period following the termination date if such person had remained an employee,


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plus a pro rata portion of the remaining unvested options based on the portion of the vesting period elapsed through the termination date. NeitherThe 2018 Chief RSUs held by these officers would have remained outstanding until any performance criteria had been determined to have been met or not and become vested to the extent determined by the compensation committee. None of these officers is entitled to any severance pay or other benefits upon a termination without cause.

        No immediate distributions under the 2006 deferred compensation plan are permitted as a result of this type of termination (other than pursuant to the compensation committee's right to distribute certain de minimus amounts from an officer's deferred compensation account). However, the named executive officer may file an election at the time of the deferral to receive distributions under the 2006 deferred compensation plan upon his separation from service, including a termination without cause or for good reason. For purposes of the tabular presentation below, we have assumed that the named executive officer has elected to receive payout of all deferred compensation upon separation from service, including interest.

        Death.

Death
In the event of death of any of the named executive officers, the existing incentive plans and applicable award agreements provide for vesting in full of any outstanding options and the lapse of restrictions on any restricted shareRSU awards, except that if Mr. Maffei would forfeit the LMC Target Equity Awards in the event of hisMaffei’s employment was terminated due to death on December 31, 2015.2018, his 2018 Annual RSUs would remain outstanding until any performance criteria had been determined to have been met or not and would vest to the extent determined by the compensation committee. Each of Mr. Malone, Mr. Maffei and Mr. Baer is also entitled to certain payments and other benefits if he dies while employed by our company. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements"Arrangements” above.

No amounts are shown for payments pursuant to life insurance policies, which we make available to all our employees.

        Under the 2006 deferred compensation plan, we do not have an acceleration right to pay out account balances to the named executive officers upon this type of termination. However, the named executive officer may file an election at the time of the deferral to receive distributions under the 2006 deferred compensation plan upon his separation from service, including a termination due to death. For purposes of the tabular presentation below, we have assumed that the named executive officer has elected to receive payout of all deferred compensation upon separation from service, including interest.

        Disability.

Disability
If the employment of any of the named executive officers is terminated due to disability, which is defined in the existing incentive plans or applicable award agreements, such plans or agreements provide for vesting in full of any outstanding options and the lapse of restrictions on any restricted shareRSU awards, except that if Mr. Maffei would forfeit the LMC Target Equity Awards if hisMaffei’s employment was terminated due to disability on December 31, 2015.2018, his 2018 Annual RSUs would remain outstanding until any performance criteria had been determined to have been met or not and become vested to the extent determined by the compensation committee. Each of Mr. Malone, Mr. Maffei and Mr. Baer is also entitled to certain payments and other benefits upon a termination of his employment due to disability. See "Executive“Executive Compensation Arrangements"Arrangements” above.

No amounts are shown for payments pursuant to short-term and long-term disability policies, which we make available to all our employees.

        Under the 2006 deferred compensation plan, we do not have an acceleration right to pay out account balances to the named executive officers upon this type of termination. However, the named executive officer may file an election at the time of the deferral to receive distributions under the 2006 deferred compensation plan upon his separation from service, including a termination due to disability. For purposes of the tabular presentation below, we have assumed that the named executive officer has elected to receive payout of all deferred compensation upon separation from service, including interest.

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Change in Control.Control
In case of a change in control, the incentive plans provide for vesting in full of any outstanding options and the lapse of restrictions on any restricted shareRSU awards held by the named executive officers, except that Mr. Maffei's LMC Target Equity Awards would remain outstanding.officers. A change in control is generally defined as:


The acquisition by a non-exempt person (as defined in the incentive plans) of beneficial ownership of at least 20% of the combined voting power of the then outstanding shares of our

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      company ordinarily having the right to vote in the election of directors, other than pursuant to a transaction approved by our board of directors.


The individuals constituting our board of directors over any two consecutive years cease to constitute at least a majority of the board, subject to certain exceptions that permit the board to approve new members by approval of at least two-thirds of the remaining directors.


Any merger, consolidation or binding share exchange that causes the persons who were common stockholders of our company immediately prior thereto to lose their proportionate interest in the common stock or voting power of the successor or to have less than a majority of the combined voting power of the then outstanding shares ordinarily having the right to vote in the election of directors, the sale of substantially all of the assets of the company or the dissolution of the company.

In the case of a change in control described in the last bullet point, our compensation committee may determine not to accelerate the existing equity awards of the named executive officers if equivalent awards will be substituted for the existing awards, except that Mr. Maffei'sMaffei’s Term Options may also be subject to acceleration upon a change in control, including of the type described in the last bullet point, pursuant to the terms of his employment agreement. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Gregory B. Maffei"Maffei” above. For purposes of the tabular presentation below, we have assumed no such determination was made.

        The 2006 deferred compensation plan providesthat our compensation committee withnamed executive officers’ existing unvested equity awards would vest in full in the optioncase of terminating the plan 30 days preceding or within 12 months after a change ofin control and distributingdescribed in the account balances (which option is assumed to have been exercised for purposes of the tabular presentation below).

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Benefits Payable Upon Termination or Change in Control
NameVoluntary
Termination
Without Good
Reason
($)
Termination for
Cause
($)
Termination Without
Cause or for Good
Reason
($)
Death
($)
Disability
($)
After a Change
in Control
($)
John C. Malone
Lump Sum Severance(1)19,50019,50019,50019,500
Installment Severance Plan(2)19,808,83519,808,83519,808,83519,808,83519,808,83519,808,835
1993 Deferred Compensation Arrangement(3)2,430,3102,430,3102,430,3101,664,4422,430,3102,430,310
1982 Deferred Compensation Arrangement(3)28,654,76928,654,76928,654,76915,924,92828,654,76928,654,769
Options
RSUs
Total50,913,41450,893,91450,913,41437,398,20550,913,41450,913,414
Gregory B. Maffei
Severance11,750,000(4)30,918,283(5)30,918,283(5)30,918,283(5)
Deferred Compensation7,066,788(6)7,066,788(6)7,066,788(6)7,066,788(6)7,066,788(6)7,066,788(7)
Options135,416,150(8)117,336,565(8)139,825,205(9)139,825,205(10)139,825,205(10)139,825,205(10)
RSUs2,933,237(8)2,933,237(8)2,933,237(9)2,933,237(10)2,933,237(10)2,933,237(10)
Perquisites(11)380,922380,922
Total157,166,176127,336,590181,124,435180,743,513181,124,435149,825,230
Richard N. Baer
Severance(12)3,500,0001,900,0001,900,000
Options(8)(8)2,347,129(13)3,129,516(10)3,129,516(10)3,129,516(10)
RSUs(8)(8)1,036,899(13)1,036,899(10)1,036,899(10)1,036,899(10)
Total6,884,0286,066,4156,066,4154,166,415
Mark D. Carleton
Deferred Compensation9,196,482(6)9,196,482(6)9,196,482(6)9,196,482(6)9,196,482(6)9,196,482(7)
Options2,140,524(8)(8)3,408,520(13)3,671,339(10)3,671,339(10)3,671,339(10)
RSUs(8)(8)774,256(13)774,256(10)774,256(10)774,256(10)
Total11,337,0069,196,48213,379,25913,642,07713,642,07713,642,077
Albert E. Rosenthaler
Options736,109(8)(8)2,004,106(13)2,266,924(10)2,266,924(10)2,266,924(10)
RSUs(8)(8)774,256(13)774,256(10)774,256(10)774,256(10)
Total736,1092,778,3623,041,1803,041,1803,041,180
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Name
 Voluntary
Termination
Without
Good
Reason ($)
 Termination
for
Cause ($)
 Termination
Without
Cause or
for Good
Reason ($)
 Death ($) Disability ($) After a
Change in
Control ($)
 

John C. Malone

                   

Lump Sum Severance(1)

  19,500    19,500    19,500  19,500 

Installment Severance Plan(2)

  25,702,373  25,702,373  25,702,373  25,702,373  25,702,373  25,702,373 

1993 Deferred Compensation Arrangement(3)

  3,153,378  3,153,378  3,153,378  1,951,295  3,153,378  3,153,378 

1982 Deferred Compensation Arrangement(3)

  37,180,155  37,180,155  37,180,155  17,833,170  37,180,155  37,180,155 

Total

  66,055,405  66,035,905  66,055,405  45,486,838  66,055,405  66,055,405 

Gregory B. Maffei

                   

Severance

  11,750,000(4)   30,691,125(5) 30,691,125(5) 30,691,125(5)  

Deferred Compensation

  5,410,811(6) 5,410,811(6) 5,410,811(6) 5,410,811(6) 5,410,811(6) 5,410,811(7)

Options/SARs

  55,025,128(8) 51,970,988(8) 59,524,239(9) 65,297,833(10) 65,297,833(10) 65,297,833(10)

Perquisites(11)

      492,159    492,159   

Total

  72,185,939  57,381,799  96,118,334  101,399,769  101,891,928  70,708,644 

Richard N. Baer

                   

Severance(12)

      1,750,486  1,750,486  1,750,486   

Options/SARs

  2,413,577  2,413,577  4,827,200(13) 4,827,200(10) 4,827,200(10) 4,827,200(10)

Restricted Stock

      1,117,861(13) 1,117,861(10) 1,117,861(10) 1,117,861(10)

Total

  2,413,577  2,413,577  7,695,547  7,695,547  7,695,547  5,945,061 

Albert E. Rosenthaler

                   

Options/SARs

  1,483,400(8)   1,483,400(13) 1,483,400(10) 1,483,400(10) 1,483,400(10)

Total

  1,483,400    1,483,400  1,483,400  1,483,400  1,483,400 

Christopher W. Shean

                   

Deferred Compensation

  1,294,345(6) 1,294,345(6) 1,294,345(6) 1,294,345(6) 1,294,345(6) 1,294,345(7)

Options/SARs

  4,510,349(8)   4,510,349(13) 4,510,349(10) 4,510,349(10) 4,510,349(10)

Total

  5,804,694  1,294,345  5,804,694  5,804,694  5,804,694  5,804,694 

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Under Mr. Malone'sMalone’s employment agreement, which was assigned to us in the Old LMC Split-Off and later to our company in the LMC Spin-Off,2013, if his employment had been terminated, as of December 31, 2015,2018, at our election (other than for death or cause) (whether before or after a change in control) or upon Mr. Malone'sMalone’s prior written notice, he would have been entitled to a lump sum severance payment of  $19,500 payable upon termination, which is equal to five years'years of his current annual salary of  $3,900. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—John C. Malone"Malone” above. Pursuant to the services agreement, 45%25% of such lump sum severance payment would have been allocable to Liberty Interactive.Qurate Retail.
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(2)
As described above, Mr. Malone began receiving 240 consecutive monthly installment severance payments in February 2009 pursuant to the terms of his amended employment agreement. The number included in the table represents the aggregate amount of the payments remaining as of December 31, 2015.2018. With respect to periods following the termination of his employment, the foregoing payments are conditioned on Mr. Malone'sMalone’s compliance with the confidentiality, non-competition, non-solicitation and non-interference covenants contained in his employment agreement. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—John C. Malone"Malone” above.
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(3)
As described above, Mr. Malone began receiving 240 consecutive monthly payments of his deferred compensation plus interest, in February 2009 pursuant to the terms of his amended employment agreement, which our company assumed in connection with the Old LMC Split-Off.2013. The number included in the table represents the aggregate amount of these payments remaining as of December 31, 2015.2018. With respect to periods following the termination of his employment, the foregoing payments are conditioned on Mr. Malone'sMalone’s compliance with the confidentiality, non-competition, non-solicitation and non-interference covenants contained in his employment agreement. If Mr. Malone'sMalone’s employment had been terminated, as of December 31, 2015,2018, as a result of his death, his beneficiaries would have instead been entitled to a lump sum payment of the unamortized principal balance of the remaining deferred compensation payments, and the compliance conditions described above would be inapplicable. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—John C. Malone"Malone” above.
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If Mr. Maffei had voluntarily terminated his employment without good reason (as defined in the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement) as of December 31, 2015,2018, he would have been entitled to receive in a lump sum the Pro-Rated Amount of  $11,750,000, with up to 25% of such amount payable in shares of LMCK.our common stock. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Gregory B. Maffei"Maffei” above.
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(5)
If Mr. Maffei'sMaffei’s employment had been terminated at our company's electionas of December 31, 2018 by Liberty Media without cause or by Mr. Maffei for good reason (as defined in the 2015 Maffei Employment Agreement) (whether before or within a specified period following a change in control) or due to Mr. Maffei'sMaffei’s death or disability, as of December 31, 2015,2018, he would have been entitled to receive a payment of 1.5 times his 20152018 base salary payable in 18 equal monthly installments. Mr. Maffei would also be entitled to receive in lump sums the Pro-Rated Amount of  $11,750,000 and a separate Un-Pro Rated Amount of  $17,500,000 and, in each case, up to 25% of such amounts would be payable in shares of LMCK.our common stock. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Gregory B. Maffei"Maffei” above.
(6)

(6)
Under the 2006 deferred compensation plan, we do not and Liberty InteractiveQurate Retail does not have an acceleration right to pay out account balances to Mr. Maffei or Mr. SheanCarleton upon a termination of employment. However, Mr. Maffei and Mr. SheanCarleton had the right to file an election at the time of his initial deferral to receive distributions under the 2006 deferred compensation plan upon his separation from service, including under the termination scenarios in the table above. For purposes of the tabular presentation above, we have assumed that each of Mr. Maffei and Mr. SheanCarleton has elected to receive payout upon a separation from service of all deferred compensation, including interest.
(7)

(7)
The 2006 deferred compensation plan provides our compensation committee with the option of terminating the plan 30 days preceding or within 12 months after a change of control of Liberty Media and distributing the account balances (which option is assumed to have been exercised for purposes of the tabular presentation above).
(8)

(8)
Based on the number of vested options and SARs held by each named executive officer at year-endDecember 31, 2018, other than certain stock options held by Messrs. Maffei and Rosenthaler to purchase LSXMK and FWONK shares, and, with respect to Mr. Maffei upon a voluntary termination of his employment without good reason, the pro rata vesting of his unvested Term Options. Because the exercise prices of certain stock options held by Messrs. Maffei and Rosenthaler were more than the applicable closing market price of LSXMK and FWONK shares on December 31, 2018, these options have been excluded. Also, if Mr. MaffeiMaffei’s employment terminated without good reason or for cause as of December 31, 2018, his 2018 Annual RSUs would forfeitremain outstanding until any performance criteria had been determined to have been met or not and would vest to the extent determined by the compensation committee. If Mr. Baer’s employment had been terminated without good reason or for cause as of December 31, 2018, he would have forfeited the 2016 Term Options and his LMC Target Equity Award2018 Chief RSUs. Each of Messrs. Carleton and Rosenthaler would have forfeited his 2018 Chief RSUs if his employment had been terminated without good reason or for any reason oncause as of December 31, 2015.2018. For more information, see the "Outstanding“Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End"Year-End” table, and "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Gregory B. Maffei"Maffei” and “—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Richard N. Baer” above.
(9)

(9)
Based on (i) the number of vested options and SARs held by Mr. Maffei at year-endDecember 31, 2018, other than certain stock options held by Mr. Maffei to purchase LSXMK and FWONK shares, and (ii) the number of unvested Term Options held by Mr. Maffei at year-endDecember 31, 2018 that would vest pursuant to the forward-vesting provisions in the award agreement if he were terminated without cause or for good reason at year-end.as of December 31, 2018. Because the exercise prices of certain stock options held by Mr. Maffei would forfeit his LMC Target Equity Award if his employment had been terminated for any reasonwere more than the applicable closing market price of LSXMK and FWONK shares on December 31, 2015.2018, these options have been excluded. Also, if Mr. Maffei’s employment terminated without cause or for good reason as of December 31, 2018, his 2018 Annual RSUs would remain outstanding until any performance criteria had been determined to have been met or not and would vest to the extent determined by the compensation committee. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Gregory B. Maffei"Maffei” above and the "Outstanding“Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End"Year-End” table above.
(10)

(10)
Based on (i) the number of vested options held by each named executive officer at December 31, 2018, other than certain stock options held by Messrs. Maffei and SARsRosenthaler to purchase LSXMK and FWONK shares, (ii) the number of unvested options and SARs held by each named executive officer at December 31, 2018, and (iii) the number of unvested 2018 Annual RSUs held by Mr. Maffei and the number of shares of restricted stockunvested 2018 Chief RSUs held by Messrs. Baer, Carleton and Rosenthaler at December 31, 2018. Because the exercise prices of certain stock options held by Messrs. Maffei and Rosenthaler were more than the applicable closing market price of LSXMK and FWONK shares on December 31, 2018, these options have been excluded. Also, if Mr. Baer at year-end.Maffei’s employment terminated due to death or disability as of December 31, 2018, his 2018 Annual RSUs would remain outstanding until any performance criteria had been determined to have been met or not and would vest to the extent determined by the compensation committee. Upon a change in control, we have assumed for purposes of the tabular presentation above that Mr. Maffei’s 2018 Annual RSUs and the other named executive officers’ Chief RSUs would vest in full. For more information, see the "Outstanding“Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End"Year-End” table above.
(11)

(11)
If Mr. Maffei'sMaffei’s employment had been terminated at our company'scompany’s election for any reason (other than cause) or by Mr. Maffei for good reason (as defined in his employment agreement) or by reason of disability, as of December 31, 2015,2018, he would have been entitled to receive personal use of the corporate aircraft for 120 hours per year over a 12-month period. Perquisite amount of $492,159$380,922 represents the maximum potential cost of using the corporate aircraft for 120 hours based on an hourly average of the incremental cost of use of the corporate aircraft. Pursuant to the LICQurate Retail Services Agreement, 45%14% of such perquisite expense would have been allocable to Qurate Retail.
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(12)

(12)
If Mr. Baer'sBaer’s employment had been terminated due to his death or disability or atby Liberty Media's electionMedia without cause or by Mr. Baer for good reason (as defined in his employment agreement)2016 Employment Agreement), as of December 31, 2015,2018, he would have been entitled to receive a $3.5 million lump sum payment. If Mr. Baer’s employment had been terminated due to his disability or death, as of December 31, 2018, he or his estate would have been entitled to receive a lump sum payment in an amount equal to two times his base salary then in effect.of  $1.9 million. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Richard N. Baer"Baer” above. Pursuant to the LICQurate Retail Services Agreement, 50%30% of such lump sum severance payment would have been allocable to Liberty Interactive.Qurate Retail.
(13)

(13)
Based on (i) the number of vested options and SARs held by such named executive officer at year-endDecember 31, 2018, other than certain stock options held by Mr. Rosenthaler to purchase LSXMK and FWONK shares, and (ii) the number of unvested options and SARs held by each named executive officer and the number of shares of restricted stock held by Mr. Baer at year-endDecember 31, 2018 that would vest pursuant to the forward-vesting provisions in such named executive officer'sofficer’s award agreements if he were terminated without cause or, inas of December 31, 2018 and (iii) the casenumber of 2018 Chief RSUs held by Messrs. Baer, Carleton and Rosenthaler. Because the exercise prices of certain stock options held by Mr. Baer, if he voluntarily terminated for good reason, at year-end.Rosenthaler were more than the applicable closing market price of LSXMK and FWONK shares on December 31, 2018, these options have been excluded. See "—“—Executive Compensation Arrangements—Richard N. Baer," the "Outstanding“Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End"Year-End” table and "Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control—“—Termination Without Cause or for Good Reason"Reason” above.

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DIRECTOR COMPENSATION

Nonemployee Directors

Director Fees. Each of our directors who is not an employee of our company is paid an annual fee for 2019 of $210,000$222,500 (which, in 2015,2018, was $181,000)$218,000) (which we refer to as thedirector fee), of which $100,000$106,000 ($88,000104,000 in 2015)2018) is payable in cash and the balance is payable in restricted sharesRSUs or options to purchase shares of LSXMK, BATRK and LMCK (orFWONK. For service on our board in 2019 and 2018, each director was permitted to elect to receive $116,500 and $114,000, respectively, of his or her director fee in RSUs or options to purchase shares of LSXMK, BATRK and FWONK. The awards issued to our board of directors with respect to 2015, shares ofservice on our then-existing Series C common stock).board in 2019 were issued in December 2018. See "—“—Director Restricted Share Grants"RSU Grants” and "—“—Director Option Grants"Grants” below for information on the incentive awards granted in 2015 to the nonemployee directors. The chairman of the2018.
Fees for service on our audit committee, of our board of directors is paid an additional annual fee of $40,000 ($30,000 in 2015), and each other member of that committee receives an additional annual fee of $30,000. With respect to our executive committee, each nonemployee member thereof receives an additional annual fee of $10,000 for his participation on the committee. With respect to our compensation committee and nominating and corporate governance committee are the same for 2018 and 2019, with each member thereof receivesreceiving an additional annual fee of $30,000, $10,000 and $10,000, respectively, for his or her participation on each such committee, except that any committee member who is also the chairman of thateach such committee instead receives an additional annual fee of  $40,000, $20,000 and $20,000, respectively, for his or herparticipation on that committee. With respect to our executive committee, each member thereof who is not an employee of our company receives an additional annual fee of  $10,000 for his participation on that committee. The cash portion of the director fees and the fees for participation on committees are payable quarterly in arrears.

Charitable Contributions.    
If a director makes a donation to our political action committee, we will make a matching donation to a charity of his or her choice in an amount not to exceed $10,000.

Equity Incentive Plan.    The Liberty Media Corporation 2013 Nonemployee Director Incentive Plan (Amended and Restated as of December 17, 2015) (thedirector
Awards granted to our nonemployee directors under the 2017 incentive plan) is are administered by our entire board of directors.directors or our compensation committee. Our board of directors has full power and authority to grant eligible personsnonemployee directors the awards described below and to determine the terms and conditions under which any awards are made. The director2017 incentive plan is designed to provide our nonemployee directors with additional remuneration for services rendered, to encourage their investment in our common stock and to aid in attracting persons of exceptional ability to become nonemployee directors of our company. Our board of directors may grant non-qualified stock options, SARs, restricted shares, restricted stock units and cash awards or any combination of the foregoing under the director2017 incentive plan.

The maximum number of shares of our common stock with respect to which awards may be issuedgranted under the director2017 incentive plan is 4,490,000,50 million shares, subject to anti-dilution and other adjustment provisions of the 2017 incentive plan. Under the director plan, noNo nonemployee director may be granted during any calendar year awards having a value (as determined on the grant date of grantsuch award) that would be in excess of  $3$2 million. Shares of our common stock issuable pursuant to awards made under the director2017 incentive plan arewill be made available from either authorized but unissued shares of our common stock or shares of our common stock that we have been issued but reacquired, by our company.

including shares purchased in the open market.

As described above, in connection with the LMC Spin-Off,2013, our company'scompany’s board of directors adopted the TSAP, which governs the terms and conditions of awards with respect to our common stock issued in the LMC Spin-Off in connection with adjustments made to awards previouslyrelating to our predecessor’s common stock that were granted by Old LMC with respectprior to its common stock.

2013.

In 2015,2018, each of our nonemployee directors was given a choice of receiving his or her annual equity grant in the form of restricted sharesRSUs or options.

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DIRECTOR COMPENSATION
Director Restricted ShareRSU Grants.    
Pursuant to our director compensation policy described above and the director2017 incentive plan, onwe granted the following RSU awards in December 17, 2015, each of Mr. Bennett, Mr. Deevy and Ms. Wong were granted 2,843 restricted shares of our then-existing Series C common stock, and each of Mr. Gilchrist and Mr. Rapley were granted 1,422 restricted shares of our then-existing Series C common stock. 2018:
NameLSXMKBATRKFWONK
Robert R. Bennett1,7382741,158
David E. Rapley869137579
These restricted sharesRSUs will vest on the first anniversary of the grant date, or on such earlier date that the grantee ceases to be a director because of death or disability, and, unless our board of directors


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determines otherwise, will be forfeited if the grantee resigns or is removed from the board before the vesting date.

Director Option Grants.    
Pursuant to our director compensation policy described above and the director2017 incentive plan, on June 8, 2015, andwe granted the following stock option awards in connection with his election to our board of directors on June 2, 2015, Mr. Deevy was grantedDecember 2018:
Name# of
LSXMK
Options
Exercise
Price
($)
# of
BATRK
Options
Exercise
Price
($)
# of
FWONK
Options
Exercise
Price
($)
Brian M. Deevy6,03939.2888825.463,87930.57
M. Ian G. Gilchrist6,03939.2888825.463,87930.57
Evan D. Malone6,03939.2888825.463,87930.57
David E. Rapley3,02039.2844425.461,93930.57
Larry E. Romrell6,03939.2888825.463,87930.57
Andrea L. Wong6,03939.2888825.463,87930.57
These options to purchase 5,035 shares of our then-existing Series C common stock at an exercise price of $38.21, which was the closing price of such stock on the grant date, and which vests in full on June 8, 2017. In addition, on December 17, 2015, each of Mr. Gilchrist and Mr. Rapley were granted options to purchase 5,855 shares of our then-existing Series C common stock and each of Dr. Malone and Mr. Romrell were granted options to purchase 11,709 shares of our then-existing Series C common stock, in each case at an exercise price equal to $37.30, which was the closing price of such stock on the grant date. The options granted on December 17, 2015 will become exercisable on the first anniversary of the grant date, or on such earlier date that the grantee ceases to be a director because of death or disability, and, unless our board determines otherwise, will be terminated without becoming exercisable if the grantee resigns or is removed from the board before the vesting date. Once vested, the options will remain exercisable until the seventh anniversary of the grant date or, if earlier, until the first business day following the first anniversary of the date the grantee ceases to be a director.

Stock Ownership Guidelines.    
In March 2016, our board of directors adopted stock ownership guidelines that require each nonemployee director to own shares of our company'scompany’s stock equal to at least three times the value of their annual cash retainer fees. DirectorsNonemployee directors will have five years from the later of  (i) the effective date of the new guidelines and (ii) the director'sdirector’s initial appointment to our board to comply with these guidelines.

Director Deferred Compensation Plan.Plan
Effective beginning in the fourth quarter of 2013, directors of our company are eligible to participate in the Liberty Media Corporation Nonemployee Director Deferred Compensation Plan (thedirector deferred compensation plan), pursuant to which eligible directors of our company can elect to defer all or any portion of their annual cash fees that they would otherwise be entitled to receive. The deferral of such annual cash fees shall be effected by a reduction in the quarterly payment of such annual cash fees by the percentage specified in the director'sdirector’s election. Elections are required to be made in advance of certain deadlines, which generally must be on or before the close of business on December 31 of the year prior to the year to which the director'sdirector’s election will apply, and elections must include the form of distribution, such as a lump-sum payment or substantially equal installments over a period not to exceed ten years. The director deferred compensation plan was amended effective January 1, 2015, to reflect the following changes: (A) compensationCompensation deferred under the director deferred compensation plan that otherwise would have been received prior to 2015 would earn interest income at the rate of 9% per annum, compounded quarterly, for the period of the deferral. Compensation deferred under the director deferred compensation plan that otherwise would have been received on or after January 1, 2015 will earn interest at the rate of 9% per year, compounded quarterly at the end of each calendar quarter. For amounts deferred on or after January 1, 2015, those amounts will earn interestincome at a rate equalthat is intended to the prime rateapproximate our company’s general cost of interest (as determined by reference to10-year debt. For 2016, 2017 and 2018, the Wall Street Journal) plus 3%; and (B) the board of directors has the authority to change this interest rate for future deferrals at any time prior to a change of control. For 2015, this rate was 6.25%.

, 6.5% and 6.25%, respectively.

        Role of Compensation ConsultantLiberty Media Corporation .    Our board was provided with market data from Mercer pertaining to director fees and equity compensation paid to nonemployee directors at companies in the media, telecommunications, entertainment and internet retail industries. Mercer also provided market data to the board concerning the fees to be paid to our directors who serve on the board of directors of both Liberty Interactive and our company. In comparing the change in our nonemployee director compensation from 2014, Mercer noted that year-over-year total compensation increased 2.8% at our company and Liberty Interactive, as compared to a 9% median increase in the market data and a 4% increase at S&P 500 companies. The market data also indicated that our 2015 total compensation was approximately 10% lower than the 25th percentile. After consideration of this market data, the board determined to increase the equity and board retainer portions of the nonemployee director2019 Proxy Statement

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compensation by 18% and 13%, respectively, which leaves us near the 50th percentile of the market data at each company.

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Director Compensation Table
Name(1)
Fees
Earned
or Paid
in Cash
($)
Stock
Awards
($)(2)(3)
Option
Awards
($)(2)(3)
Change in
Pension
Value
and
Nonqualified
Deferred
Compensation
Earnings
($)(4)
All Other
Compensation
($)(5)
Total
($)
Robert R. Bennett114,000(4)110,64522,07020,368(6)267,083
Brian M. Deevy144,000108,166��20,368(6)272,534
M. Ian G. Gilchrist164,000108,16622,868(6)(7)295,034
Evan D. Malone104,000108,166212,166
David E. Rapley134,000(4)55,32254,08410,39520,368(6)274,169
Larry E. Romrell144,000108,16620,368(6)272,534
Andrea L. Wong124,000(4)108,16620,92317,645(6)(7)270,734
(1)

Name(1)
 Fees
Earned
or Paid
in Cash
($)
 Stock
Awards
($)(2)(3)
 Option
Awards
($)(2)(3)
 Change in
Pension Value
and Nonqualified
Deferred
Compensation
Earnings
($)(4)
 All Other
Compensation
($)
 Total
($)
 

Robert R. Bennett

  98,000(4) 106,044    3,542  17,925(5) 225,511 

Brian M. Deevy(6)

  68,833  106,044  54,886    12,284(5) 242,047 

Donne F. Fisher(7)

  64,000        13,963(5)(8) 77,963 

M. Ian G. Gilchrist

  148,000  53,041  52,457    17,925(5) 271,423 

Evan D. Malone

  88,000    104,906      192,906 

David E. Rapley

  118,000  53,041  52,457    17,925(5) 241,423 

Larry E. Romrell

  128,000    104,906    17,925(5) 250,831 

Andrea L. Wong

  108,000  106,044    2,786  1,000(8) 217,830 

(1)
John C. Malone and Gregory B. Maffei, each of whom is a director of our company and a named executive officer, received no compensation for serving as directors of our company during 2015.2018.
(2)

(2)
As of December 31, 2015,2018, our directors (other than Messrs. Malone and Maffei, whose stock incentiveequity awards are listed in "Outstanding“Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End"Year-End” above) held the following stock incentiveequity awards with respect to shares of our then-existing Series A common stock and our then-existing Series C common stock:

Robert R.
Bennett
Brian M.
Deevy
M. Ian G.
Gilchrist
Evan D.
Malone
David E.
Rapley
Larry E.
Romrell
Andrea L.
Wong
Options (#)
LSXMA854
LSXMK14,18824,90735,30217,65135,30223,302
BATRA85
BATRK1,8373,6834,4232,2114,4233,229
FWONA213
FWONK7,13312,93213,5806,78913,5808,548
RSUs (#)
LSXMK1,738869
BATRK274137
FWONK1,158579
(3)
 
 Robert R.
Bennett
 Brian M.
Deevy
 Donne F.
Fisher
 M. Ian G.
Gilchrist
 Evan D.
Malone
 David E.
Rapley
 Larry E.
Romrell
 Andrea L.
Wong
 

Options/SARs

                         

LMCA

      6,332  851  2,688    2,688   

LMCK

    5,035  12,797  14,362  17,141  5,855  17,141   

Restricted Stock

  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 

LMCA

                 

LMCK

  5,468  2,843    1,422  2,625  4,047  2,625  5,468 
(3)
The aggregate grant date fair value of the stock options and restricted stockRSU awards has been computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, but (pursuant to SEC regulations) without reduction for estimated forfeitures. For a description of the assumptions applied in these calculations, see Note 1314 to our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 20152018 (which are included in the 20152018 Form 10-K).
(4)

(4)
Includes the following amounts earned and deferred under the director deferred compensation plan:

Name2018 Deferred
Compensation
($)
2018 Above Market
Earnings on
Accrued Interest
($)
2017 Above Market
Earnings on Accrued
Interest
($)
Robert R. Bennett111,37622,07020,358
David E. Rapley131,37610,3957,407
Andrea L. Wong122,22020,92318,250
(5)
We make available to our directors tickets to various sporting events with no aggregate incremental cost attributable to any single person.
Name
 2015 Deferred
Compensation
 2015 Above Market
Earnings on
Accrued Interest
 

Robert R. Bennett

  95,596  3,542 

Andrea L. Wong

    2,786 
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(5)
Includes the following amounts of health insurance premiums paid by our company for the benefit of the following directors:

NameAmount
($)
Name
Amount ($)

Robert R. Bennett

17,92520,368

Brian M. Deevy

12,28420,368

Donne F. Fisher

8,963

M. Ian G. Gilchrist

17,92520,368

David E. Rapley

17,92520,368

Larry E. Romrell

17,92520,368
Andrea L. Wong16,645
(7)
(6)
Elected to the board on June 2, 2015.

(7)
Retired from the board on June 2, 2015.

(8)
Includes charitable contributions made on behalf of each of Mr. FisherGilchrist and Ms. Wong pursuant to our political action committee matching contribution program.

Name
Name
Amount
($)

Donne F. Fisher

5,000

M. Ian G. Gilchrist2,500
Andrea L. Wong

1,000

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EQUITY COMPENSATION PLAN INFORMATION

The following table sets forth information as of December 31, 20152018 with respect to shares of our common stock authorized for issuance under our equity compensation plans. For purposes
Plan CategoryNumber of securities
to be issued upon
exercise of
outstanding options,
warrants and rights
(a)
Weighted average
exercise price of
outstanding options,
warrants and rights
Number of securities
available for future
issuance under equity
compensation plans
(excluding securities
reflected in column (a))
Equity compensation plans approved by security
holders:
Liberty Media Corporation 2013 Incentive Plan (Amended and Restated as of March 31, 2015), as amended(1)
LSXMA11,480$30.55
LSXMB
LSXMK7,922,910$30.72
BATRA323$17.86
BATRB
BATRK843,544$18.28
FWONA1,611$18.27
FWONB
FWONK3,900,062$26.90
Liberty Media Corporation 2013 Nonemployee Director Incentive Plan (Amended and Restated as of December 17, 2015), as amended
(1)
LSXMA
LSXMB
LSXMK86,207$31.96
BATRA
BATRB
BATRK10,262$18.97
FWONA
FWONB
FWONK22,811$23.45
Liberty Media Corporation 2017 Omnibus Incentive Plan, as amended43,922,779(2)
LSXMA
LSXMB
LSXMK778,607$42.38
BATRA
BATRB
BATRK67,515$23.30
FWONA
FWONB
FWONK2,123,427$31.70
Liberty Media Corporation Transitional Stock Adjustment Plan, as amended(3)
LSXMA1,390,999$19.75
LSXMB
LSXMK2,707,508$19.38
BATRA177,104$11.42
BATRB
BATRK354,354$11.19
FWONA358,748$11.68
FWONB
FWONK637,467$11.18
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EQUITY COMPENSATION PLAN INFORMATION
Plan CategoryNumber of securities
to be issued upon
exercise of
outstanding options,
warrants and rights
(a)
Weighted average
exercise price of
outstanding options,
warrants and rights
Number of securities
available for future
issuance under equity
compensation plans
(excluding securities
reflected in column (a))
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders: None.
Total
LSXMA1,402,479
LSXMB
LSXMK11,495,232
BATRA177,427
BATRB
BATRK1,275,675
FWONA360,359
FWONB
FWONK6,683,767
43,922,779
(1)
Upon adoption of the tabular presentation below, we have not given effect toLiberty Media Corporation 2017 Omnibus Incentive Plan, the reclassification,board of directors ceased making any further grants under the prior plans, including the Liberty Media Corporation 2013 Incentive Plan and references to LMCA, LMCB and LMCK refer to our Series A, Series B and Series C common stock, respectively, that existed prior to the reclassification.

Plan Category
 Number of
securities to be
issued upon
exercise of
outstanding
options, warrants
and rights (a)
 Weighted average
exercise price
of outstanding
options, warrants
and rights
 Number of
securities
available for
future issuance
under equity
compensation
plans (excluding
securities reflected
in column (a))
 

Equity compensation plans approved by security holders:

          

Liberty Media Corporation 2013 Incentive Plan (Amended and Restated as of March 31, 2015)

        69,094,068(1)

LMCA

  22,449 $37.22    

LMCB

        

LMCK

  5,829,346 $35.85    

Liberty Media Corporation 2013 Nonemployee Director Incentive Plan (Amended and Restated as of December 17, 2015)

        4,410,042(1)

LMCA

        

LMCB

        

LMCK

  48,670 $36.75    

Liberty Media Corporation Transitional Stock Adjustment Plan

        (2)

LMCA

  2,337,418 $23.23    

LMCB

        

LMCK

  4,735,384 $22.92    

Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders: None.

  
 
  
 
  
 
 

Total

          

LMCA

  2,359,867       

LMCB

         

LMCK

  10,613,400       

        73,504,110 

Liberty Media Corporation 2013 Nonemployee Director Incentive Plan.
(1)
Each plan
(2)
The Liberty Media Corporation 2017 Omnibus Incentive Plan permits grants of, or with respect to, shares of any series of our common stock, subject to a single aggregate limit.
(3)

(2)
The Liberty Media Corporation Transitional Stock Adjustment Plan governs the terms and conditions of awards with respect to our company'scompany’s common stock that were granted in connection with adjustments made to awards relating to our predecessor’s common stock that were granted by Old LMC with respectprior to its common stock.2013. As a result, no further grants are permitted under this plan.

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CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Under our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and Corporate Governance Guidelines, if a director or executive officer has an actual or potential conflict of interest (which includes being a party to a proposed "related“related party transaction"transaction” (as defined by Item 404 of Regulation S-K)), the director or executive officer should promptly inform the person designated by our board to address such actual or potential conflicts. No related party transaction may be effected by our company without the approval of the audit committee of our board or another independent body of our board designated to address such actual or potential conflicts.


STOCKHOLDER PROPOSALS

This proxy statement relates to our annual meeting of stockholders for the calendar year 20162019 which will take place on August 23, 2016.May 30, 2019. Based solely on the date of our 20162019 annual meeting and the date of this proxy statement, (i) a stockholder proposal must be submitted in writing to our Corporate Secretary and received at our executive offices at 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112, by the close of business on March 15, 2017December 31, 2019 in order to be eligible for inclusion in our proxy materials for the annual meeting of stockholders for the calendar year 20172020 (the20172020 annual meeting), and (ii) a stockholder proposal, or any nomination by stockholders of a person or persons for election to the board of directors, must be received at our executive offices at the foregoing address not earlier than May 25, 2017February 28, 2020 and not later than June 26, 2017March 31, 2020 to be considered for presentation at the 20172020 annual meeting. We currently anticipate that the 20172020 annual meeting will be held during the second quarter of 2017.2020. If the 20172020 annual meeting takes place more than 30 days before or 30 days after August 23, 2017May 30, 2020 (the anniversary of the 20162019 annual meeting), as currently contemplated, a stockholder proposal, or any nomination by stockholders of a person or persons for election to the board of directors, will instead be required to be received at our executive offices at the foregoing address not later than the close of business on the tenth day following the first day on which notice of the date of the 20172020 annual meeting is communicated to stockholders or public disclosure of the date of the 20172020 annual meeting is made, whichever occurs first, in order to be considered for presentation at the 20172020 annual meeting.

All stockholder proposals for inclusion in our proxy materials will be subject to the requirements of the proxy rules adopted under the Exchange Act, our charter and bylaws and Delaware law.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

We file periodic reports, proxy materials and other information with the SEC. You may read and copy any document that we file at the Public Reference Room of the SEC at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. You may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at (800) SEC-0330. You may also inspect such filings on the Internet website maintained by the SEC atwww.sec.govwww.sec.gov. Additional information can also be found on our website atwww.libertymedia.comwww.libertymedia.com. (Information contained on any website referenced in this proxy statement is not incorporated by reference in this proxy statement.)If you would like to receive a copy of our Annual Report onthe 2018 Form 10-K, for the year ended December 31, 2015, or any of the exhibits listed therein, please call or submit a request in writing to Investor Relations, Liberty Media Corporation, 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112, Tel. No. (877) 772-1518, and we will provide you with the Annual Report2018 Form 10-K without charge, or any of the exhibits listed therein upon the payment of a nominal fee (which fee will be limited to the expenses we incur in providing you with the requested exhibits).


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. q IF YOU HAVE NOT VOTED VIA THE INTERNET OR TELEPHONE, FOLD ALONG THE PERFORATION, DETACH AND RETURN THE BOTTOM PORTION IN THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE. q Proxy — LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION THIS PROXY IS SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS August 23, 2016 The undersigned hereby appoint(s) Richard N. Baer and Christopher W. Shean, or either of them, as proxies, each with the power to appoint his substitute, and hereby authorizes them to represent and to vote, as designated on the reverse side of this ballot, all of the shares of Series A Liberty SiriusXM common stock, Series B Liberty SiriusXM common stock, Series A Liberty Braves common stock, Series B Liberty Braves common stock, Series A Liberty Media common stock and/or Series B Liberty Media common stock held by the undersigned at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held at 8:15 a.m., local time, on August 23, 2016, at the corporate offices of Starz, 8900 Liberty Circle, Englewood, Colorado 80112, and any adjournment or postponement thereof, with all the powers the undersigned would possess if present in person. All previous proxies given with respect to the meeting are revoked. THIS PROXY, WHEN PROPERLY EXECUTED, WILL BE VOTED AS DIRECTED BY THE UNDERSIGNED. IF NO SUCH DIRECTIONS ARE MADE, THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED FOR THE ELECTION OF THE NOMINEES LISTED ON THE REVERSE SIDE FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND FOR PROPOSAL 2. IF ANY OTHER MATTERS PROPERLY COME BEFORE THE MEETING, THE PERSONS NAMED IN THIS PROXY WILL VOTE IN THEIR DISCRETION. PLEASE MARK, SIGN, DATE AND RETURN THIS PROXY CARD PROMPTLY USING THE ENCLOSED REPLY ENVELOPE. CONTINUED AND TO BE SIGNED ON REVERSE SIDE

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NNNNNNNNNNNN . + NNNNNN C 1234567890 000004 ENDORSEMENT_LINE______________ SACKPACK_____________ MR A SAMPLE DESIGNATION (IF ANY) ADD 1 ADD 2 ADD 3 ADD 4 ADD 5 ADD 6 Vote by Internet • Go to www.envisionreports.com/LMC • Or scan the QR code with your smartphone • Follow the steps outlined on the secure website Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Liberty Media Corporation Stockholder Meeting to be Held on August 23, 2016 Under Securities and Exchange Commission rules, you are receiving this notice that the proxy materials for the annual stockholders’ meeting are available on the Internet. Follow the instructions below to view the materials and vote online or request a copy. The items to be voted on and location of the annual meeting are on the reverse side. Your vote is important! This communication presents only an overview of the more complete proxy materials that are available to you on the Internet. We encourage you to access and review all of the important information contained in the proxy materials before voting. The proxy statement and annual report to stockholders are available at: www.envisionreports.com/LMC Easy Online Access — A Convenient Way to View2019 Proxy Materials and Vote When you go online to view materials, you can also vote your shares. Step 1: Go to www.envisionreports.com/LMC to view the materials. Step 2: Click on Cast Your Vote or Request Materials. Step 3: Follow the instructions on the screen to log in. Step 4: Make your selection as instructed on each screen to select delivery preferences and vote. When you go online, you can also help the environment by consenting to receive electronic delivery of future materials. Obtaining a Copy of the Proxy Materials – If you want to receive a paper or email copy of these documents, you must request one. There is no charge to you for requesting a copy. Please make your request for a copy as instructed on the reverse side on or before August 9, 2016 to facilitate timely delivery. + 2 8 6 0 6 7 02ECTA NNNNNNNNN Stockholder Meeting Notice1234 5678 9012 345 IMPORTANT ANNUAL MEETING INFORMATION

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. Stockholder Meeting Notice Liberty Media Corporation’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders will be held on August 23, 2016 at the corporate offices of Starz, 8900 Liberty Circle, Englewood, Colorado 80112, at 8:15 a.m., local time. For directions to the Annual Meeting of Stockholders (where you may vote in person), please call (720) 875-5400. Proposals to be voted on at the meeting are listed below along with the Board of Directors’ recommendations. The Board of Directors recommends that you vote FOR all nominees listed in Proposal 1 and FOR Proposal 2. 1.ELECTION[MISSING IMAGE: tv514444_proxycard1.jpg]


TABLE OF DIRECTORS Nominees: 01 - John C. Malone 02 - Robert R. Bennett 03 - M. Ian G. Gilchrist 2.A proposal to ratify the selection of KPMG LLP as our independent auditors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2016. PLEASE NOTE – THIS NOTICE IS NOT A PROXY CARD AND ACCORDINGLY YOU CANNOT VOTE BY RETURNING THIS NOTICE. To vote your shares you must vote online or request a paper copy of the proxy materials to receive a proxy card. If you wish to attend and vote at the meeting, please bring this notice with you. Here’s how to order a copy of the proxy materials and select a future delivery preference: Paper copies: Current and future paper delivery requests can be submitted via the telephone, Internet or email options below. Email copies: Current and future email delivery requests must be submitted via the Internet following the instructions below. If you request an email copy of current materials you will receive an email with a link to the materials. PLEASE NOTE: You must use the number in the shaded bar on the reverse side when requesting a set of proxy materials. g Internet – Go to www.envisionreports.com/LMC. Click Cast Your Vote or Request Materials. Follow the instructions to log in and order a paper or email copy of the current meeting materials and submit your preference for email or paper delivery of future meeting materials. Telephone – Call us free of charge at 1-866-641-4276 using a touch-tone phone and follow the instructions to log in and order a paper copy of the materials by mail for the current meeting. You can also submit a preference to receive a paper copy for future meetings. Email – Send an email to investorvote@computershare.com with “Proxy Materials Liberty Media Corporation” in the subject line. Include in the message your full name and address, plus the number located in the shaded bar on the reverse, and state in the email that you want a paper copy of current meeting materials. You can also state your preference to receive a paper copy for future meetings. To facilitate timely delivery, all requests for a paper copy of the proxy materials must be received by August 9, 2016. g g 02ECTA

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