This Week in Media Stocks: Why Liberty Is Alluring, and About Those Netflix Rumors...
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 15:00 PM EST
The excitement in media stocks the last few days surrounds rumors that Netflix (NFLX) may be looking to sell itself or sell a stake and establish a partnership with another media or communications company. In an interesting twist the news coincided with a Wall Street Journal article reviewing a recently released study about media usage in the United States. The key finding from eMarketer’s study is that the US remains a nation of couch potatoes. We are spending more time than ever in front of the TV up another 13 minutes a day in the last year. However the ...