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Issuer:     Liberty Media Corp (FWONA)
CIK:        0001560385
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-01-08T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-25-002027
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Liberty Media names Derek Chang as President & CEO effective Feb 1, 2025; Malone remains Chairman
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- Derek Chang appointed President & CEO, effective Feb 1, 2025; John Malone resigns as CEO, stays Chairman.
- Chang receives $2.5M base salary, $150k signing bonus, one-time RSUs of $5M and $15M in FWONK, each vesting Feb 2030.
- Eligible for annual $3M FWONK option grants on declining vest schedule (5 years to 1 year); severance provides 12-month salary if terminated without cause.
- Chang steps down from Audit and Governance Committees; Gilchrist added to Audit, Bennett to Governance as Chair; Chang joins Executive Committee.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1560385/000110465925002027/0001104659-25-002027-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1560385/000110465925002027/tm252278d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-002027

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