Best Media Companies To Invest In Right Now

Best Media Companies To Invest In Right Now: DISH Network Corporation(DISH)

DISH Network Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides direct broadcast satellite (DBS) subscription television services in the United States. It offers programming that includes approximately 280 basic video channels, 60 Sirius satellite radio music channels, 30 premium movie channels, 35 regional and specialty sports channels, 2,800 local channels, 250 Latino and international channels, and 55 channels of pay-per-view content. The company also offers local HD channels in approximately 160 markets and 215 national HD channels; and receiver systems, including a small satellite dish, digital set-top receivers, and remote controls. In addition, it provides DISHOnline.com, which enables DISH Network subscribers to watch 150,000 movies, television shows, clips, and trailers; DISH Remote Access that enables subscribers to remotely manage their DVRs using compatible mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops through their broadband-connected receiver; and Go ogle TV that enables DISH Network subscribers to search the Internet, check email, interact with social media, and find additional online programming content while simultaneously watching television. As of March 31, 2011, the company had approximately 14.191 million customers. DISH Network provides receiver systems and programming through direct sales channels; and independent third parties, such as small satellite retailers, direct marketing groups, local and regional consumer electronics stores, nationwide retailers, and telecommunications companies. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Dan Radovsky]

  SoftBank recently laid out point-by-point why it thought its bid for Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S  ) was superior to the bid from DISH Network (NASDAQ: DISH  ) . For value, timing, leverage, structure, financing, and mobile expertise, ! according to SoftBank, it held the advantage.

• [By Dan Radovsky]

  Why the rush forward to provide Clearwire with funding? You can bet it's for the large cache of spectrum licenses Clearwire controls. DISH Network (NASDAQ: DISH  ) has already made a $2.2 billion offer to buy 24% of Clearwire's spectrum, and Verizonhas offered to buy between $1 billion and $1.5 billion for a portion of spectrum.

• [By Rich Duprey]

  Full-spectrum opportunity
  Yet telecom presented an interesting avenue of attack, too, as Verizon (NYSE: VZ  ) had the second "less bad" performance of Dow components, pulling back by less than half of a percent. That was no doubt largely in response to a two-fold development: its willingness to pay $1.5 billion for Clearwire's (NASDAQ: CLWR  ) spectrum and DISH Network's (NASDAQ: DISH  ) offer to buy Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S  ) for $25.5 billion.

• [By Anders Bylund]

  Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S  ) and Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR  ) are nearing the end of their multiple bidding wars. Figuring out what Japanese wireless vendor Softbank and all-American broadcaster DISH Network (NASDAQ: DISH  ) might get is tough enough, but hardly the whole story. This drama is so complicated, one of the targets (Sprint) is even bidding on the other one (Clearwire).

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