How to Use counterprogramming in a Sentence

counterprogramming

noun

• Gascón, meanwhile, simply doesn’t have the funds to launch counterprogramming.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
• Need some counterprogramming to the saccharine and the schlocky?
  — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
• The dads caucus offers a bit of aesthetic counterprogramming to these dads under siege.
  — Phillip MacIak, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• But counterprogramming has taken many forms over the years, from new episodes of fictional shows to comedy specials.
  — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• Others are expected to boycott the speech without plans for any counterprogramming.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
• The Last Jedi’ a box-office shoo-in, studios have placed their bets on these seven films as counterprogramming.
  — Mark Kelly, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2017
• Traditionalist groups have scheduled counterprogramming in Rome for the days leading up to the summit.
  — Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
• For all the attention conferred on players for lapses in sportsmanship, here’s counterprogramming.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 8 Sep. 2019
• Remember when the main counterprogramming to the Super Bowl was just the Puppy Bowl?
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
• Trump - who also skipped Republican debates last year - is likely to want to do several things with his latest bit of counterprogramming.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
• In a masterstroke of counterprogramming, my father invented a series of bedtime stories featuring three princesses who happened to be just our ages and even looked like us.
  — Gail Russell Chaddock, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2020
• The attempt at counterprogramming allowed Trump to position himself to siphon away the spotlight from his distant competitors.
  — Averi Harper, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2024
• The size of the counterprogramming marks a departure from Democrats' typical responses to such occasions.
  — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
• But that lauded and successful film—a Sundance breakout turned summer counterprogramming hit—failed to get any nominations this morning.
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 11 Dec. 2017
• The rest of the Fever’s first-round matchup is scheduled to take place on Wednesday and Friday (if necessary), avoiding marquee counterprogramming.
  — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 20 Sep. 2024
• There was no instant rebuttal Thursday night, no counterprogramming inside the room — a fact that was largely the making of Republicans.
  — Mike Debonis, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
• Unlike most Americans, Haslam and his friend Phil Bredesen are trying to offer some counterprogramming.
  — Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2022
• The speech is expected to provide counterprogramming to the summit’s focus on doomsday scenarios, including the ways AI could be used to deploy bioweapons.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• One of the best things about the Super Bowl is the annual counterprogramming, in which the most adorable players ever engage in their own showdown and really ruff up the competition.
  — Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 14 Jan. 2025
• Black Phone was a surprise counterprogramming hit in the summer of 2021 when moviegoers were making their way to back to cinemas after Covid.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2025
• The annual event, which changes locations every year, has become compelling counterprogramming to Art Basel, the world’s largest art fair, which takes place this week in the nearby convention center.
  — Thomas Rogers, New York Times, 10 June 2024
• The size of the counterprogramming marks a departure from Democrats' typical responses to Trump's addresses to Congress.
  — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
• The counterprogramming was driven by conservatives who objected to the Puerto Rican pop star performing his entire set in Spanish.
  — Sophie Brams, The Hill, 18 Feb. 2026
• The campaign Twitter account for Bloomberg — who did not qualify for Tuesday night's debate — posted dozens of humorous, sometimes surreal tweets as a form of counterprogramming.
  — Jason Silverstein, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2020
• Released by Angel Studios for the Fourth of July, the movie is intended as a bit of likably square, neo-traditional, right-wing-adjacent counterprogramming.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 July 2026
• To no one’s surprise except maybe some MAGA hopefuls, Bad Bunny’s performance eclipsed the audience for the conservative counterprogramming mounted against it by millions.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2026
• The most notable name headlining TPUSA’s counterprogramming is Kid Rock, a 55-year-old from Detroit who began as a hip-hop artist before going through many style shifts and most recently performing in the country rock genre.
  — Devon Henderson, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
• Things were going well for those first few seasons, winning an Emmy for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series and airing a live episode opposite the Super Bowl in the third season as strategic counterprogramming.
  — Elliott Smith, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025
• Supporters frame the observance as recognition of traditional family structures, while critics say the timing and language amount to political counterprogramming that excludes LGBTQ+ families.
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 3 June 2026