Once regarded as big money spinners to resurrect the television industry, a multitude of pay TV companies have been exterminated by the fierce competition.
付费电视公司曾经一度被誉为能使电视业恢复青春的印钞机，但无数这样的公司已被激烈的竞争消灭。
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But as the big woods of the Mississippi Delta were chopped down, the woodpecker-with its distinctive tooting call and double knock-was slowly exterminated.
Having missed their opportunity 9m years earlier, man's ancestors and their kin now grabbed it, moving into the niches vacated by their recently exterminated Cousins.