How to Use counterprogramming in a Sentence

counterprogramming

noun

• The counterprogramming, too, was busy, reflecting the throng of Democrats jockeying to be the counter-voice to Trump.
  — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• Need some counterprogramming to the saccharine and the schlocky?
  — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
• The producers’ goal: to provide some counterprogramming to the dark news that month.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 30 Mar. 2020
• The night's only other counterprogramming came from the CW, which aired a new episode of Legends of Tomorrow (0.4 adults).
  — Michael O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2018
• 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
• The president has scheduled his own counterprogramming, holding a press conference here in the U.K. around the same time the hearing is set to begin.
  — NBC News, 4 Dec. 2019
• Well, that’s a wrap on Donald Trump’s counterprogramming tonight.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
• 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
• But the address may be running up against some counterprogramming: Mr. Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate.
  — CBS News, 4 Feb. 2020
• Traditionalist groups have scheduled counterprogramming in Rome for the days leading up to the summit.
  — Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
• 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
• A few cable shows, offered up as counterprogramming to broadcast network fare.
  — Lorne Manly, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Maybe the real action was on Tucker Carlson’s X account, where a pre-recorded video of Trump being very gently interviewed was aired as counterprogramming.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Doing so could showcase it to a new audience, lay the commentariat’s questions to rest, and jab at its streaming competitors at FX and Hulu with some counterprogramming.
  — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 29 May 2024
• Unlike most Americans, Haslam and his friend Phil Bredesen are trying to offer some counterprogramming.
  — Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2022
• For all the contemporary athletes who have expressed their full-throated dismay with the sitting president and his policies, here’s a rare bit of public counterprogramming.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Upstream has already hit at least one milestone of success: counterprogramming.
  — Brendan Kiley, The Seattle Times, 4 May 2017
• For the second year in a row, President Donald Trump did not attend, but instead held a political rally in Michigan as counterprogramming.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Apr. 2018
• 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
• For all the attention conferred on players for lapses in sportsmanship, here’s counterprogramming.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 8 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Super Bowl counterprogramming doesn’t come much cuter and cuddlier than in this annual canine-centric special.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• There is, however, some noteworthy counterprogramming arriving Friday (May 4) for those in the mood for something that doesn't feature superhumans in tights and/or flying suits of armor.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 4 May 2018
• Our eclectic dirty dozen, including a French murder mystery, a Canadian horror classic and an anime retelling of the Christmas story, are the perfect counterprogramming for anyone looking for new ideas this festive season.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024