I think the "national" part means that the Q can deal with any of the COX carriers located throughout the nation and make their pitch to get those individual carriers to carry the Q. Similar to Time Warner. The Q, at this time, is on TW Maine but it is on none of the other TW areas. However, I believe that under the hunting license with TW, it can attempt to persuade those other TW carriers (for example, TW NY) to carry the Q. Apparently, you have to go through the entity itself before you can deal with the individual local carriers in each market.