Other competitors in the services sector include: Scripps Networks (SNI), CBS (CBS), and Outdoor Channel Holdings (OUTD).

FORBES: Earnings Preview: Discovery Communications

Other competitors in the services sector include: Walt Disney Company (DIS), Scripps Networks (SNI), and Time Warner (TWX).

FORBES: Earnings Preview: CBS

Analysts have become increasingly bearish on Scripps Network Interactive (SNI) in the month leading up to the company's fourth quarter earnings announcement scheduled for Thursday, February 7, 2013.

FORBES: Scripps Networks

Some groups have suggested he becomes the leader of the so-called Syrian National Initiative (SNI), but he denies such aspirations himself, saying he is in too poor health to play a major political role.

BBC: Profile: Syrian dissident Riad Seif