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S&P 500 component DIRECTV will unveil its latest earnings on Thursday, February 16, 2012.

Research analysts at Brean Murray decreased their price target on shares of DirecTV from $59.00 to $57.00 in a report issued on Monday.

A new report from Nielsen shows that the number of U.S. households that are ditching their cable providers is on the rise.A Though still only 5 percent of TV households, the number of homes with broadband Internet but only free, broadcast TV has risen 22.8 percent in the last year.

Today, we take a look at five companies reporting earnings next week. These five companies have some of the largest market caps for any companies reporting next week .

In 2009 ViaSat acquired residential satellite broadband service WildBlue for $568 million, and now it appears they're phasing out the WildBlue brand and service entirely.

SKY, part of DirecTV Group, will be the first of the group's subsidiaries and affiliated companies to offer Internet video streaming.

TiVo is still cranking out plenty of DVR boxes, and now they want an even wider audience.

The new episode is called "Royal Wedding" This episode is band trying to reunite a prince and a princess, but the princess has a crush on Twist.

Tracey Scheppach is senior VP, innovations director at Starcom MediaVest Group. In that role, she is the innovations lead for Starcom MediaVest Exchange and globalA director for VivaKi's The Pool, which studies emerging forms of media and works to create industry standards for new advertising models.

The new episode is called "The Lonely Rhino." This episode is about the guppies helping a rhino find a friend and learning about zoo habitats.

Virgin Media had a tougher than expected 2011 as the crisis in Europe included the UK economy.

"I think the real bargains are what they would call the smaller, ignored and unloved companies." Mario Gabelli is founder and CEO of Gabelli Asset Management Company Investors, a global investment firm headquartered in Rye, New York.

DirecTV was downgraded by investment analysts at Macquarie from an "outperform" rating to a "neutral" rating in a note issued to investors on Thursday.

DirecTV is once again offering a TiVo DVR to all its U.S. customers -- for the first time in seven years -- although the box uses TiVo's older, standard-definition user interface and lacks certain DirecTV features, including multiroom DVR.

TiVo and DirecTV's on-again, off-again, really off-again, kinda on-again relationship is now completely back on again.

Boxee, the Internet-video software startup, is engaging in some interesting rhetorical gymnastics.

Media services provider Access Media 3 has secured $30 million in funding from ORIX Venture Finance and Petra Capital Partners .

Time Warner Inc. CEO Jeff Bewkes wants the Internet version of his HBO premium channel to be available on your TV-and is railing against cable and satellite operators that are blocking it.

The way some analysts take chances you'd think that Johnny Knoxville is egging them on from the other side of the camera.

I like Wells Fargo and Sanofi Aventis the most among above the above stocks and believe they are likely to give good risk-adjusted returns going forward.