John Malone: 'Cable Cowboy' Faces The Test In Rounding Up The Right Mix Of Assets

John Malone: 'Cable Cowboy' Faces The Test In Rounding Up The Right Mix Of Assets via Cynthia Littleton, Variety

While he’s best known as a media mogul, John Malone holds a lesser-known distinction: He’s the largest individual landowner in the United States. The 75-year-old Liberty Media chairman has 2.2 million acres at his disposal, from majestic tracts of forest in Maine and New Hampshire to his Silver Spur Ranches, where cattle roam across Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado and Nebraska.

John Malone's land holdings are much like his media-business interests these days: vast, disparate, and not contained merely to the U.S. — he even owns a castle in Ireland. And just as he amassed eye-popping acreage in...