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noun

a system of broadcasting television programming to private subscribers by means of coaxial cable.

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Also called cable TV, pay cable.

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How to use cable television in a sentence

Even if you never watched a minute of the Duggar reality shows during their 13 years on cable television, a few facts probably seeped into your subconscious.
TLC has canceled the Duggars again, but that doesn’t mean people can count them out for good|Emily Yahr|July 30, 2021|Washington Post
The cable television has an infinite number of channels, and some of them are even in Spanish.
Locked up in the Land of Liberty: Part IV|Yariel Valdés González|July 28, 2021|Washington Blade
It includes new product features such as real-time language translation, a new logo and global campaign, which rolled out earlier this summer with broadcast and cable television, connected television, online video, digital, print and paid social.
Why video conference app Webex is betting big on influencer marketing|Kimeko McCoy|June 30, 2021|Digiday
Sure, it aired on cable television, but Cinemax was also a cable channel, and every news outlet from Perez Hilton to The New York Times dismissed reality stars as famous for being famous.
How Kim Kardashian Exploited Porn|Cherie DeVille|June 10, 2021|The Daily Beast

As a result, the company has increased its television media investment by 275% year-over-year and has plans to advertise on TV for the rest of 2021 across network and cable television channels in the 22 markets where the chain has a footprint.
‘Helps drive broad awareness’: Why 7-Eleven has returned to TV advertising after a 5 year hiatus|Kristina Monllos|April 29, 2021|Digiday
Almost all of the network and cable news channels said that they would not be showing the cartoons either.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The last film about Martin Luther King was made for television in 1977.
Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of ‘Selma’|Gary May|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The television networks interrupt their broadcasts to take the nation directly to Selma.
Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of ‘Selma’|Gary May|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He appears frequently on television as a political commentator.
Will Dirty Pol Vito Fossella Replace Dirty Pol Michael Grimm?|David Freedlander|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Well, one expert I talked to said that physically it involves little more than a $20 cable.
Red Tape and Black Boxes: Why We Keep ‘Losing’ Airliners in 2014|Clive Irving|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I plainly heard a noise upon the cover of my closet like that of a cable, and the grating of it as it passed through the ring.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
That he laughed at their folly, and went himself in the boat, ordering his men to take a strong cable along with them.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
The second cable quotes mine of last night wherein I ask leave to call for the East Lancs.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
Neither of us has had a reply to his cable; instead, he has been told two enemy submarines are on their way to pay us a visit.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
The Spanish authorities had just time before this measure was taken to report the bare facts to Madrid by cable.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman

British Dictionary definitions for cable television

cable television

noun

a television service in which programmes are distributed to subscribers' televisions by cable rather than by broadcast transmission

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