At&t Chairman C.Michael Armstrong has always come across as a man with a vision— selling voice, video and data service over a fat telecom pipe. Leave it to John Malone to teach him that ignoring the details can blur even the grandest of visions.In a telling case that symbolizes his bigger problems, Armstrong's cable group, AT&T Broadband, must pay about $300 million a year for 21 more years to carry the number-three cable movie channel, Starz, and its suite of 13 channels. The group, Starz Encore, is controlled by Malone's Liberty Media.
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