Home Box Office had set a goal of getting 6 or 7 percent of the cable homes in a particular system to take the service.

Between 1989 and 2001, the channel was the cable home of the New York Yankees.

He said the Triplecast's goal of being available to 40 million cable homes is close to being reached.

Game 2 produced a 2.16 rating (1.8 million cable homes), up 7 percent from last year.

By 2002, Disney Channel was seen in 80 million cable homes nationwide.

Right now, only about 10 percent of cable homes are taking it.

Its ratings increased by almost half during the course of the first season, eventually reaching a respectable 2.8 average in cable homes.

But attention must be paid when a challenge is made by a hungry force with gobs of cash and access to 55 million cable homes.

About 28 million homes have high-speed service, less than half the number of cable homes in the country.

Britain has only 480,000 cable homes - just 2 percent of television-owning households.