Shares of AMC Networks (AMCX 0.60%) 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) 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) and CBS (PARA 0.67%) have spent years developing edgy original programming via their HBO and Showtime networks. Netflix (NFLX 1.82%) 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.
