The latest quarterly earnings should prove beyond any doubt that traditional linear TV is dead, and the pay TV business as we know it is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Pay TV companies, who are all also broadband companies (save for satcos) in the US, have collectively reported a better-than-expected Q3, but the trends already in motion won’t be reversed. All the major TV networks know this, and are now signaling openly their plans to aggressively pursue viewers directly through Internet-delivered subscription services. Meanwhile, the collective broadband subscriber base continues to grow. Broadband/pay TV providers in the States are busy testing out new types of skinny bundles and streaming bundles in order to grow their shrinking pay TV subscriber bases, and…