cable television
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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That’s a problem only if vehicle ownership turns out to be like cable television subscriptions, where a departure by the young was an early warning sign.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
Paramount’s offer includes acquiring HBO, the Burbank studios and Warner’s cable television channels like CNN and HGTV.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026
And at a time when the cable television business is collapsing in many markets, the Dodgers have a blockbuster TV deal that will pay them more than $330 million a year through 2038.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
CNN would thus wind up part of a highly-indebted public company with weak growth prospects and still on cable television, which has been losing millions of subscribers in the United States each year.
From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025
They followed their success with Capital One with a similar success, in a distressed European cable television company called United Pan-European Cable.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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