malone is on the boards of directors for bank of new york mellon, the cato institute, expedia.com, charter communications, discovery, inc., and lions gate entertainment corp. malone is chairman emeritus of cable television laboratories, inc. and chairman of liberty global, inc., and formerly the directv group. his rise to chairman at liberty global was contentious at times. in 2005, malone held 32 percent of the shares in the media company news corporation, and although only about half were voting shares, rupert murdoch reportedly had concerns that he might lose control of his company to malone, and tried to oust him from the firm with a "poison pill" strategy. he was director of the national cable & telecommunications association (ncta) from 1974 to 1977, and again from 1980 to 1993. during the 1977–1978 term, malone was the ncta's treasurer.