Best Media Companies To Own In Right Now

Best Media Companies To Own In Right Now: Time Warner Inc.(TWX)

Time Warner Inc. operates as a media and entertainment company in the United States and internationally. It operates in three segments: Networks, Filmed Entertainment, and Publishing. The Networks segment provides domestic and international networks, premium pay and basic tier television programming services, and digital media properties, which primarily consist of brand-aligned Websites. Its premium pay television services consist of the multi-channel HBO and Cinemax premium pay television services. This segment provides programming to cable system operators, satellite service distributors, telephone companies, and other distributors; sells advertising; and licenses original programming to domestic and international television networks. The Filmed Entertainment segment produces and distributes feature films, television and other programming, and videogames; distributes home video products; and licenses rights to its feature films, television programming, and characters. T he Publishing segment publishes magazines and books; and operates various Websites, as well as engages in marketing services and direct-marketing businesses. This segment publishes magazines on style and entertainment, lifestyle, news, and sports. The company?s brands include TNT, TBS, CNN, HBO, Cinemax, Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, People, Sports Illustrated, and Time. Time Warner Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Tim Beyers]

  Consider Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX  ) success with Christopher Nolan's Batman series.The Dark Knight may very well be rated PG-13, but only the clinically unconscious would call it a kids' film. Heath Ledger's Joker is as dark a character as you'll find in a comic-book film, and that one earned a billion at the box office when doing so was a rarity. Overall, Nolan'sBatman series earned Warner more than $2.4 billion in global box-of! fice receipts.

• [By Doug Ehrman]

  Anyone who watches a lot of sports will note that an increasing amount of sports programming has moved to cable channels. Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA  ) broadcasts NBA playoff games on Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX  ) TNT network, and even in Chicago, most Blackhawks games have been aired on NBC SportsNet, rather than on NBC itself. This shift is happening because sports programming is one area that viewers want to watch in real time, meaning that waiting for rebroadcasts, repackaging, or recapping doesn't have the same appeal. Sports may be the last frontier of cable and satellite providers, so a softening relationship with the NFL could have a huge impact on DIRECTV stock over the coming years. This is a critical issue to watch, but in the meantime, you can thank the gridiron gladiators for the stock's recent touchdown dance.

• [By Rick Munarriz]

  Then we have a catalyst that has yet to play out. Hemlock Grove -- the latest show that will be exclusively available on Netflix for the time being -- begins streaming next weekend. After February's wildly successful House of Cards, if Netflix can nab another magnetic property, it will be that much harder for folks to cancel subscriptions between programming lulls. Netflix will have proved itself worthy of scoring magnetic content, and the comparison's with Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX  ) HBO will be even more apropos.

• [By Tim Beyers]

  Through its first two weekends in theaters, Iron Man 3 has generated more than $680 million in sales worldwide for Marvel Studios and parent Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS  ) . That must have Time Warner (NYSE: TWX  ) , which owns the DC Comic characters, News Corp. (NASDAQ: FOXA  ) , which owns the film rights to Marvel's X-Men characters, and Sony (NYSE: SNE  ) , which owns the film rights to the Spider-Man franchise, thinking of ways to bring more superheroes to th! e cinema.!

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