pay-TV
noun
: a service providing noncommercial television programming (such as recent movies and entertainment specials) by means of a scrambled signal to subscribers who are provided with a decoder
called also pay television
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The practice of robbing Linear Pete to pay Stock-Watching Paul has only exacerbated pay-TV’s wholly credible shrinking act, and now the traditional media giants seem to have given up on any sort of last-ditch reclamation effort.
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 20 June 2025
Right now, media executives expect the pay-TV bundle to hit a floor of subscribers, though no one is quite sure of how low that floor will go.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025
Stock markets were closed Thursday for the Juneteenth holiday, but on Wednesday shares in pay-TV stakeholders like Comcast, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Charter were largely unchanged after the Netflix-TF1 news.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 19 June 2025
The goal is to boost the value of the high-growth streaming and studio biz by amputating the declining TV arm that has been hurt by the shrinking pay-TV universe, while freeing up both companies to seek potentially value-accretive M&A deals.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 11 June 2025
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 20 June 2025
Right now, media executives expect the pay-TV bundle to hit a floor of subscribers, though no one is quite sure of how low that floor will go.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025
Stock markets were closed Thursday for the Juneteenth holiday, but on Wednesday shares in pay-TV stakeholders like Comcast, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Charter were largely unchanged after the Netflix-TF1 news.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 19 June 2025
The goal is to boost the value of the high-growth streaming and studio biz by amputating the declining TV arm that has been hurt by the shrinking pay-TV universe, while freeing up both companies to seek potentially value-accretive M&A deals.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 11 June 2025
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“Pay-TV.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pay-TV. Accessed 28 Jun. 2025.
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