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
compare pay-cable, subscription tvExamples of pay-TV in a Sentence
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That’s because they don’t get paid nearly as much from pay-TV distributors in retransmission fees as the cable networks.
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Alex Sherman, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
Keeping both pay-TV partners on board was key for the DFL decision-makers ahead of the restart of the television auctions.
—Manuel Veth, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
The write-down brought into sharper focus the collateral damage of consumers’ shift from pay-TV subscriptions to streaming video platforms.
—Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
Some of them are utterly unpredictable, like the forward march of AI and technological developments that might further upend the pay-TV ecosystem.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
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Alex Sherman, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
Keeping both pay-TV partners on board was key for the DFL decision-makers ahead of the restart of the television auctions.
—Manuel Veth, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
The write-down brought into sharper focus the collateral damage of consumers’ shift from pay-TV subscriptions to streaming video platforms.
—Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
Some of them are utterly unpredictable, like the forward march of AI and technological developments that might further upend the pay-TV ecosystem.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Pay-TV.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pay-TV. Accessed 15 Dec. 2024.
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