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                                                                    EXHIBIT 99.1

STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER REGARDING FACTS AND
CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS


     I, Robert R. Bennett, state and attest that:

     (1)  To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered
          reports of Liberty Media Corporation, and, except as corrected or
          supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

          o    no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material
               fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in
               the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials,
               as of the date on which it was filed); and

          o    no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to
               make the statements in the covered report, in light of the
               circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of
               the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a
               report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date
               on which it was filed).

     (2)  I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's
          audit committee.

     (3)  In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or
          before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

          o    Annual Report on Form 10-K of Liberty Media Corporation for the
               year ended December 31, 2001;

          o    all reports on Form 10-Q and all reports on Form 8-K and all
               definitive proxy materials of Liberty Media Corporation filed
               with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K
               identified above; and

          o    any amendments to any of the foregoing.


Dated: August 14, 2002                  /s/ Robert R. Bennett
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                                        Robert R. Bennett
                                        Chief Executive Officer


Subscribed and sworn to
before me this 14th day of
August, 2002.

/s/ Marlene J. Hill
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Notary Public
My Commission Expires: March 14, 2005