Greg Maffei
Analyst · Evercore ISI
Thank you, Courtnee. Good morning. Today, speaking on the call, we will also have Liberty’s CFO, Mark Carleton. During Q&A, we will be available to answer questions if you have them about Liberty Broadband as well. So on January 23, we close the Formula 1 acquisition on that day Chase Carey was appointed CEO in addition to his job as Chairman. I can pick up no one in the world better suited for this role. I want to once again thank Bernie Ecclestone for his efforts and building this fantastic business. Chase is added a several strong players with team notably Ross Brawn, Managing Director, Motor Sports, who story success in Ferrari and Mercedes is amazing. For you Americans on the call, he is the Bill Belichick of F1. And Sean Bratches, Managing Director, Commercial Operations a fantastic leader, we had a huge role in building the phenomenal success of ESPN. We also received commitments in the last few days for the refinancing of the first lien term loan at Formula 1, we took a full $3.1 billion first of the lean term lean, which was expect to be refinanced at a rate decrease to 50 basis points. Maturity date will be extended from July of 2021 to the earlier of February 2024, or six months prior to the maturity of the second lien term loan, which is currently maturing in 2022. We also expect used cash on the balance sheet to repay $300 million of the first – of the $1 billion second lien term loan. Together these actions in financings will resolve an annual savings around $36 million a year. We expect to close in quarter in Q1, the deals we said and we’re working with the teams to make changes to enhance the sport and potentially invested in Formula 1. We know you’re all excited to talk about this, but recall the deal, which I said close in January, so it’s not consolidated in the Q4 results, which we’re here to discuss. We do plan provide the Q4 results assumes we put in the U.S. GAAP and in the Europe, we will provide a qualitative discussion the earnings release, which were pleasing. We expect that we in the Formula 1 management team will have more discuss in Q2. We very much look forward to start of this great season on March 26 in Australia. And on to the operational highlights, at Sirius XM we had another fantastic year. 2016 revenue declined 10% to $5 billion, net income rose 46% and adjusted EBITDA grew 13% to $1.88 billion. Sirius XM beat 2016 guidance pretty much across the Board. It also generated free cash flow of $1.51 billion, up 15% as of the end of January, Liberty Media’s ownership in Sirius XM stood at about 67.1%. The discount entity is wided. So if you like Sirius, its 15% or more of at LSXMA. Live Nation recorded at six consecutive year of record results, revenue was up 15%, operating income up 40% and adjusted operating income up 12% and constant currency rates as compared to 2016. The Live Nation constant of tenants of $71 million was up 12% and ticket sales were up double-digits year-over-year through February 2017 of this year. On to the Braves, the minor-league teams are get among the top rank, if not the top rank. Mark will go into more detail, but we’re on time in on budget and set for opening day on April 14. And the Braves just received the certificate of occupancy for the new SunTrust Park – a huge milestone. Over Liberty Broadband try to reported strong results. In 2016 pro forma customer growth of PSU’s were up nearly 5%. Revenue was up 7%, we experience double-digit adjusted EBITDA growth. The network path is 49.2 million homes and businesses, car lease serves 26.2 million residential and SMB customers. We’re progressing on track for the Time Warner/Bright House integration confident that will be able to achieve the milestone that we’re set forth in a times that we’re set forward. During 2016 Charter were purchased – nearly $1.6 billion of its common stock. With that, let me turn over to Mark for more financial results.