cable television

noun

|Updated on: 10 Jul 2018

Definition of cable television

: a system of television reception in which signals from distant stations are picked up by a master antenna and sent by cable to the individual receivers of paying subscribers — called also cable TV

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Recent Examples of cable television from the Web

That prompted White House trade adviser Peter Navarro to appear on cable television to try to calm investors.

— bob davis, WSJ, "Trade Rift Within Trump Administration Sends Stocks on Wild Ride," 25 June 2018
Or perhaps Pfeiffer, a regular CNN commentator, is relishing his liberation from the constraints of cable television.

— john diaz, SFChronicle.com, "‘Yes We (Still) Can,’ by Dan Pfeiffer," 15 June 2018
Stormy Daniels’s lawyer, Michael Avenatti, was the first person to insinuate this possibility on cable television.

— andrew sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, "Kanye West and the Question of Freedom," 11 May 2018
Turner had revolutionized cable television by beaming Superstation TBS around the globe by satellite and was convinced there was a market for an all-news network that could reach audiences through the expanding cable and satellite network.

— shelia poole, ajc, "Ted Turner gets his own historic marker," 26 May 2018
The show was only made available on cable television or by purchasing episodes or season passes on digital storefronts like iTunes and Amazon.

— samuel axon, Ars Technica, "Syfy has canceled The Expanse, but its producers want to find it a new home," 11 May 2018
Tenant also pays separately for electricity, cable television and internet.

— pamela dittmer mckuen, chicagotribune.com, "Renovated Addison apartments offer special draw: one-bedrooms topping 1,000 square feet," 24 May 2018
The award for top network TV series went to Dan Romer for ABC’s The Good Doctor; Top Box Office Film went to Heitor Pereira for Despicable Me 3 and top cable television series went to Trent Reznor for his work on the PBS series, The Vietnam War.

— melinda newman, Billboard, "Composers John Powell And Germaine Franco Honored at 33rd Annual ASCAP Screen Music Awards," 24 May 2018
Eli’s entry, focusing on U.S. Supreme Court cases that paved the way for student free speech in schools, was one of 150 honored by the cable television public affairs channel, which received 2,985 middle- and high-school student contest submissions.

— kate magill, Columbia Flier, "First Amendment comes to life at Long Reach High School," 16 May 2018

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First Known Use of cable television

1951

in the meaning defined above

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