Liberty Media boss John Malone and sidekick Greg Maffei have grand plans to consolidate the cable business via a 27 percent stake in Charter Communications, The Post has learned.

Fed up with the balkanized cable industry’s lack of co-ordination and ineffective efforts to battle the likes of Netflix, Malone and Maffei plan to pitch cable bigs on a get-together plan.

Liberty had reached out to Time Warner Cable boss Glenn Britt to talk about a Charter merger, according to a CNBC report yesterday.

The New York cable operator has hired Morgan Stanley to assess its options, according to the report, which added Britt had brushed off potential talks with reps for Charter, and Charter declined comment.

The talks pushed most cable stocks higher, raising Time Warner Cable up 8.1 percent to $103.93, a four-year high; Charter moved 5.2 percent higher to $116.61, while Cablevision rose 3.6 percent, closing at $14.68.