Pay-TV's 3rd quarter earnings season: Complete summary starts now

Duck season. Rabbit season. No--earnings season. As the four top pay-TV services find themselves mired in regulatory doldrums, and operators like Dish Network prep groundbreaking over-the-top products, the leaders of the top cable, satellite and telecom operations will be forced in the coming weeks to get on the phone with their investors and analysts and spill some beans. Who is losing gobs of subscribers? Who is watching program costs shred their bottom lines? It is all summarized in FierceCable's running third-quarter earnings report diary, which can be found here.