: a person who plans or prepares entertainment programs
a television programmer
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This frees the programmer from having to manually track and release unused memory.—Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026 Now in its ninth year, the Great 8 showcase will screen unseen footage from all of the titles, introduced by their filmmakers, online exclusively to buyers and festival programmers from midday Friday.—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 May 2026 The song, which Diamond wrote with Alan and Marilyn Bergman, laments the cooling of a romance in language as direct as the music is florid; the recording, as the story goes, came in response to a homemade edit by a radio programmer eager to hear the two stars sing together.—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026 International selections, curated in partnership with programmers across Chile, Mexico, Argentina, and Uruguay, are part of a broader expansion that has helped further clarify the festival’s tone.—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for programmer