Rumors have floated of the possibility of a merger between DirecTV and DISH Network on and off for some time. The Comcast acquisition of Time Warner Cable is bound to create buzz…
The announced merger between the largest U.S. cable operator, Comcast, and the second largest, Time Warner Cable, will create a media goliath with 33 million cable subscribers. But this is in an…
In the past several weeks, several content providers have pressed wireless carriers to offer their services free from the normal fees for access to their products or services. Facebook is the latest…
Courtesy of the U.S. National Weather ServiceEach day that passes, The Weather Channel continues to plead for its viewers to switch from DIRECTV (NASDAQ: DTV), which has stopped running its content, over…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockIf Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) are seriously going to do a joint offer (or individually) for Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC), 24/7 Wall St. cannot…
ThinkstockThe country’s two largest cable operators, Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) have reportedly had discussions in the past few months related to a combination. Time Warner…
ThinkstockThe fate of T-Mobile US, Inc. (NYSEE: TMUS) is uncertain. It is not an uncertainty of earnings, but one of who will own it going forward. We have written about the possibilities…
ThinkstockThe latest report on short interest shows some pretty big names getting slammed pretty hard by short sellers. We thought it would be interesting to look at five heavily traded large cap…
courtesy Deere & Co.UBS has a list of stocks that investors may want to consider selling. They could even be a list of short sale candidates. The UBS team is bashing Apache…
ThinkstockDirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV) reported third-quarter 2013 results before markets opened Tuesday morning. The satellite TV provider posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.28 on revenues of $7.88 billion. In the same…
Paul Ausick Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsEarnings season has been going strong, most DJIA components have reported earnings, and this coming first full week of November will mark the last week of major earnings…
ThinkstockA true monopoly is when only one major player remains in an industry, even if tiny competitors exist here and there. So ask yourself what it would mean if the two satellite…
thinkstockBob Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), told an audience at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference on Tuesday morning that cable providers and telecom carriers may have to get…
Courtesy Xiaomi TechnologyFor a while there a couple of years ago, 3D TV was the next big thing with electronics manufacturers. Customers were far less enthusiastic and 3D television sets from makers…
ThinkstockThe number of subscribers to cable, satellite and telecom video programming fell by 366,000 in the second quarter of 2013, according to research firm SNL Kagan. The summertime drop was not unexpected,…
