If it lost cable subscribers at the same rate as Comcast and Time Warner cable, the nine largest pay-TV companies had zero net gain for the latest quarter and lost subscribers in the second.
Looking at this competition Richard Plepler of HBO points out that pay-TV is not a zero-sum game: one network's success is not necessarily bad news for another.
The zero point of the bell is ringing, the people of the whole country has entered the countdown on TV "ten, nine, eight..." the outside is playing "or" firecrackers.