{"id":13716,"date":"2017-04-05T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/colorado-firm-buys-gci-for-1-12-billion\/"},"modified":"2017-04-05T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T00:18:00","slug":"colorado-firm-buys-gci-for-1-12-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/colorado-firm-buys-gci-for-1-12-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado firm buys GCI for $1.12 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE <\/strong><strong>&mdash;<\/strong> It was a good day to be a shareholder in General Communication Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of the Anchorage-based telecom leapt 62 percent, from $20.56 to close at $33.39, after a deal was announced April 4 to sell a controlling interest to Colorado-based Liberty Interactive Corp. for $1.12 billion that included a huge premium on existing shares.<\/p>\n<p>The deal will pay existing GCI shareholders $32.50 per share; the company&rsquo;s stock has traded between $12 and $20 over the previous year.<\/p>\n<p><em>To read the full story, click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskajournal.com\/2017-04-04\/colorado-firm-buys-gci-112-billion\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.alaskajournal.com\/2017-04-04\/colorado-firm-buys-gci-112-billion<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE &mdash; It was a good day to be a shareholder in General Communication Inc. Shares of the Anchorage-based telecom leapt 62 percent, from $20.56 to close at $33.39, after a deal was announced April 4 to sell a controlling interest to Colorado-based Liberty Interactive Corp. for $1.12 billion that included a huge premium on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":13717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13716"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}