How to Use pay-per-view in a Sentence

pay-per-view

noun
  • Check out the full card below, and stream UFC 301 on pay-per-view here.
    Rudie Obias, Variety, 4 May 2024
  • Check out the full card below, and stream UFC 300 on pay-per-view here.
    Rudie Obias, Variety, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The Father’s Day 100 will be streamed on a pay-per-view basis on midwesttour.tv, racingamerica.tv and tracktv.com.
    Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2023
  • The middle prelims start at 8 p.m. ET, and the main card, which is the pay-per-view portion, starts at 10 p.m. ET.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • How much do Jones-Pettis tickets and pay-per-view cost?
    Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
  • These battles are presented for the world as pay-per-view sports.
    Giri Nathan, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • While Smackdown is available to watch for free, the WWE still has a number of events on its pay-per-view schedule.
    Tim Chan, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Rosas did not let that decision loss, which came on the pay-per-view portion of UFC 287, get him down or stick with him.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The boxing match is streamable online as a pay-per-view event for $74.95 for Prime Video subscribers.
    Rudie Obias, Variety, 15 June 2024
  • The country hosts — in what feels like the final boss of late-stage capitalism — pay-per-view WWE events.
    Lewis Gordon, The Verge, 1 Dec. 2023
  • But the poetry of the bout itself doesn’t always sell pay-per-view packages.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Twitter users dropped jokes about a possible pay-per-view fight.
    Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
  • And that is now the highest-grossing digital pay-per-view of all time and the sixth highest-grossing pay-per-view of all time.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The match was a WrestleMania exclusive until 2010, when Money in the Bank got its own pay-per-view.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 23 June 2023
  • The pay-per-view event will also be available on demand for a couple of days following the performance.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Several of his songs have been themes of pay-per-views, including at WrestleMania 34.
    Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 18 July 2024
  • His quiet demeanor doesn’t allow the causal boxing fan to push the button to invest financially on a high pay-per-view event.
    Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Meanwhile, tax revenues totaled in excess of $1.4 million sourced to sales, ticket and pay-per-view taxes.
    Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Maybe a money-minded promoter will crib from the gladiator days: Sign up now to watch the world champ fight a frothing lion on pay-per-view!
    Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The film itself, out of circulation since that initial one-week pay-per-view window, will become available for rental and download for the first time in June, as well.
    Chris Willman, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The pay-per-view business is a very lucrative, lucrative business.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
  • Thinking back historically, a summer movie would go to pay-per-view in autumn, which gave a three- or four-month window.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Because other than in some of the traditional sports which come from a completely different time, pay-per-view has never been a thing.
    Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Barstool produces and distributes more than 100 shows spanning podcasts, video, social media, live events and pay-per-view, and runs a commerce business.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Last year, the competition aired on ESPN2 and the organizers have also organized pay-per-view events.
    Peter White, Deadline, 24 June 2024
  • The pay-per-view is scheduled for 8 p.m. Eastern, with the main event estimated to start at approximately 11 p.m. Eastern.
    Matt Goul, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
  • This week reports emerged that Showtime, which is broadcasting Saturday’s fight on pay-per-view, could drop boxing after 2024.
    Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • After all, the firm has over the last six months set all-time highs for gate and/or attendance in 57 cities around the world and broken the gate record for each of its premium live events, formerly known as pay-per-views, over that time period.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
  • Shannon Ritch, a local bare-knuckle fighter, donned a headset and did the pay-per-view commentary alongside Feldman’s nineteen-year-old son, Dave Jr., a college freshman.
    Stayton Bonner, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Veeps All Access only offers discounts on pay-per-view specials; they’re not included in the monthly subscription.
    PCMAG, 13 Sep. 2024

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