on (the) television
Definition of on (the) television
: broadcast by television : being shown by television or in a television program What is on the television tonight? There's nothing (I want to watch) on television right now. I recognize your face. Are you on television?
From the M-W Editors
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televisionplay
: an electronic system of transmitting transient images of fixed or moving objects together with sound over a wire or through space by apparatus that converts light and sound into electrical waves and reconverts them into visible light rays and audible sound
: a television receiving set
: the television broadcasting industry
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