Shares of AMC Networks (AMCX +0.23%) are up some 36% year to date on the strength of its award-winning programming. Take The Walking Dead, a ratings winner so big that DISH Network (DISH +0.00%) agreed to end a long-standing legal dispute to bring it back.
And yet AMC isn't the only up-and-coming content house. Time Warner (TWX +0.00%) and CBS (CBS +0.00%) have spent years developing edgy original programming via their HBO and Showtime networks. Netflix (NFLX 2.49%) is in on the game, too. What makes AMC so special that it deserves the rally it's enjoying right now? I answer that question and more in the video below.
