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The Motley Fool
May 14, 2007
David Lee Smith |
DirecTV Churns Out One Solid Quarter With subscriber defections slowing, DirecTV was able to increase its quarterly income by more than 40%. From the perspective of savvy investors, it looks like there is money to made from DirecTV.   |
The Motley Fool
February 16, 2011
Brian Richards |
2 Things You Should Know About DIRECTV As it's become costlier to acquire new subscribers, the satellite provider has shifted its focus to higher-end customers. |
The Motley Fool
October 28, 2010
Matthew Brown |
Comcast's Bread Loses Its Butter A drop in subscribers may suggest stiffening competition. |
The Motley Fool
November 6, 2009
Anders Bylund |
DIRECTV Wins More Than It Loses With 18.4 million total subscribers, DIRECTV is becoming a force to be reckoned with. |
The Motley Fool
February 24, 2011
Anders Bylund |
Commodity Broadcast Media Is a Dish Served Cold One of the satellite TV operators has figured out how to survive in the Internet age and the other one hasn't. |
The Motley Fool
February 9, 2007
Brendan Mathews |
DirecTV Dishes Out High-Def The satellite-TV provider has a leg up in a tough industry, thanks to its aggressive focus on HDTV. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
August 6, 2009
Anders Bylund |
DirecTV Only Wants the Big Spenders Dish and DirecTV are locked in mortal combat. Will lower prices beat higher quality -- or vice versa? |
The Motley Fool
May 3, 2005
Ben McClure |
Gravity Grounds DirecTV The satellite entertainment giant dishes up subscriber growth -- but at what price? Investors expecting subscriber growth to translate into financial turnaround anytime soon may want to think again. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Churn, Baby, Churn! DISH-o Inferno! While DIRECTV, Comcast, Verizon, and many other cable or satellite broadcasting hubs are reporting subscriber growth in these hard times, DISH is dishing out shrinkage. |
The Motley Fool
May 11, 2010
Anders Bylund |
DISH Sees the Writing on the Wall Satellite TV purveyor DISH Network just released a spartan earnings report, in more ways than one. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Subscriber Growth Is a Dish Best Served Hot ... but it has gone stone cold for Dish Network. |
The Motley Fool
May 8, 2009
Anders Bylund |
DirecTV Flies High in This Recession Entertainment looks like a safe haven in a recession. But can DirecTV and others sustain their gains? |
The Motley Fool
November 8, 2007
Anders Bylund |
DirecTV Wants More Advanced Customers DirecTV is spending money on new customers now, with its lease program for its digital set-top receivers, in order to reap a lower taxable income in a few years. |
The Motley Fool
February 14, 2008
Anders Bylund |
DirecTV Turns Credit Crisis Into Competitive Advantage DirecTV credits its very good quarter and lowest monthly churn in eight years in part to the consumer credit crisis. |
The Motley Fool
August 20, 2011
David Williamson |
Want Every NFL Game? No Problem! NFL Sunday Ticket is now available on PlayStation 3. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Low Churn, Happy DirecTV Investors A little short-term pain leads to lots of long-term cash for DirecTV. Spending more money now on the high-def and DVR boxes they're putting into customers homes, the satellite TV leader knows that this strategy will return higher demand from customers and a higher revenue stream in the future. |
The Motley Fool
October 1, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Throw This Stock Away DISH Network has been steadily losing subscribers. Is it time to get rid of your DISH stock and replace it with something else? Take a look at: Direct TV... Liberty Capital... Netflix... |
The Motley Fool
May 14, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Is Dish Starting to Leak? Earnings are up, but sub growth is down, and Dish Network is having trouble keeping up with its competitors. |
BusinessWeek
May 24, 2004
Grover & Lowry |
Satellite's Hot Pursuit Of Cable In the all-out war for subscribers, the satellite industry is clearly winning out over the cable industry. |
The Motley Fool
August 8, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Is DirecTV a Flash in the Pan? DirecTV credits its new on-demand service for some of its sales growth, along with attractive digital video recorder packages and a market-leading high-definition channel lineup. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Quality Customers, Quality Profits Satellite TV operator DIRECTV Group is turning a profitable corner right about now, and it's all thanks to a smart customer recruiting policy. |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2006
Anders Bylund |
A Tale of Two Dishes: DirecTV vs. EchoStar Which of these satellite TV companies would you order? Is either of them a viable investment today? |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Just One Dish in a Crowded Buffet EchoStar isn't screaming "buy me!" at this point, but if the company can find a way to reverse the dropping subscriber growth, there could be good times still to come for investors. |
The Motley Fool
October 27, 2004
Phil Wohl |
Comcast Paying for Cable Users Leading U.S. cable company's results impacted by cost to lure subscribers. The company's shares appear to be attractive relative to its 76% analyst-estimated earnings growth rate next year. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Why Is DISH in Orbit Today? Dish is flying high today. But is there enough good news here to justify an investment? Read on. |
The Motley Fool
October 26, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Time for a Comcast Vacation? While Comcast's results weren't really that bad, it may be time to give its shares a rest. |
BusinessWeek
December 5, 2005
Ronald Grover |
Static In Rupert's Satellite Dreams New technology lets cable offer goodies DirecTV can't - and customers are noticing. |
The Motley Fool
August 12, 2011
David Lee Smith |
Comcast Continues to Expand Its Media Lead Following the market's wild and wacky weak, Comcast still leads the media parade. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
What's the Frequency, DirecTV? Competition with cable and phone companies is about to get more expensive for the satellite-Tv provider. Investors, take note. |
Home Theater
June 1, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
DirecTV Fixes Some STBs for 3D If you've got an H21, H23, H24, or HD21 box, you're in. Older set-top boxes will be left out in the 2D cold. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2008
David Lee Smith |
A Dish (Network) to Set Aside While Dish added subscribers in the quarter, its rate of growth fell from the prior period. |
The Motley Fool
August 5, 2010
Anders Bylund |
This Company Should Stop Wasting Cash A fat share buyback sounds shareholder-friendly, but only if the purchases make sense. |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2004
Phil Wohl |
EchoStar Dishes Up Value The second-largest satellite entertainment provider adds 350,000 subscribers. Trading at only 19 times the 2005 earnings estimate of $1.61 per share, the shares appear to be attractive relative to the company's long-term growth rate of 30%. |
The Motley Fool
June 23, 2010
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Disney Pulls the Plug on DISH Network Disney and DISH battle over HD channel programming fees. |
The Motley Fool
February 23, 2011
Anders Bylund |
Netflix Isn't Killing DIRECTV Commodity cable services are waning; DIRECTV bucks the trend. |
The Motley Fool
February 17, 2011
David Lee Smith |
Cord-Cutting Is for Babies Comcast will likely show us all that its future is brighter than ever. |
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Why Verizon Won't Buy DirecTV Verizon doesn't need a satellite TV operation, and it could hardly afford this one. |
Home Theater
April 23, 2005
Darryl Wilkinson |
VOOM Doom Brings DIRECTV Boom A week before VOOM satellite service is discontinued, DirecTV offers a deal to VOOM customers. |
The Motley Fool
December 19, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Why Did DirecTV Buy ReplayTV? DirecTV buys most of the assets of competing DVR specialist ReplayTV. It's not entirely clear what the satellite-slinger gains from this deal, though. |
BusinessWeek
November 1, 2004
Ronald Grover |
Can Charlie Ergen Still Go It Alone? His EchoStar is facing bigger cable rivals -- and Murdoch's deep-pocketed DirecTV. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2004
Ted Rogers |
Don't SAC Your ARPU Monitoring the ongoing performance of communications giants is a truly daunting task. SAC, ARPU, and churn, however, offer a way through the clutter to a quick measure of a telecom company's health. |
The Motley Fool
October 21, 2009
Adrian Rush |
The Daily Walk of Shame: DirecTV vs. Versus For nearly two months now, DirecTV and Comcast have been exchanging verbal jabs over Versus sports channel. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2007
Toby Shute |
Fool on the Street: Hearing Directly From DirecTV DirecTV has proved the skeptics wrong thus far, but can it match cable over the long term? Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2010
Anders Bylund |
This Is One Report Worth Ignoring! Nice quarter, DirecTV. How long can you keep up the charade? |
Home Theater
February 1, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Satellite Ops Sue Over MA Tax DirecTV, Dish say the tax will drive their subscribers to cable. |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2008
Tim Beyers |
This Is the Telco I'm Shorting The worst telco isn't even a full-fledged telecommunications provider. |
The Motley Fool
May 3, 2011
Jonas Zamora |
DIRECTV Is Flying High in Latin America Impressive subscriber growth and Latin American presence make it an attractive long-term investment. |
The Motley Fool
November 23, 2011
Anders Bylund |
Does This New Deal Bring TiVo Back to Life? With a terrific British launch under its belt, TiVo can now market itself as a value-building feature. |
The Motley Fool
March 14, 2008
Anders Bylund |
DIRECTV Plays Defense on Demand Falling behind in the TV service arms race could be fatal, so DIRECTV is learning new tricks. |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2004
Rich Smith |
DirecTV Deletes TiVo DirecTV sells its 4% stake in TiVo and resigns its board seat. |
