Thanks for your reply. Actually I did own common stock at COB on April 5th. I agree that is what much of the documentation on the AT&T website stated. When I sold my shares on the morning of April 8th and did not get the shares of Warner Bros, I checked more information and found in one obscure website that the actual date of the spin off was April 8th COB. I assume having sold my shares in the AM (according to the trade information I received), I no longer owned the shares as of COB therefore I didn't get the Warner Bros shares. The trade did occur at the pre spin off price so I was not cheated out of that aspect of the sale. I tried to discuss this with Computershare but they were completely unwilling to help. So, I am planning to correct the 1099 -B information as described by JohnB early in this thread.
