gavel-to-gavel

adjective

1. from the opening to the closing of a formal session or series of sessions.

   gavel-to-gavel television coverage of the Congressional hearing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gavel-to-gavel¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

Senate to urge streaming companies to begin offering customers the privately funded television service, which has provided nonpartisan gavel-to-gavel television coverage of congressional hearings and roll call votes for decades.

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But the real problems began in 1973, when the service broadcast gavel-to-gavel prime-time coverage of the Watergate hearings, earning the enmity of President Richard Nixon.

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C-SPAN, the nonprofit outfit that has brought live gavel-to-gavel congressional coverage to cable TV viewers for decades, is feeling the squeeze faced by the rest of the TV business.

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The days of gavel-to-gavel convention coverage have long passed.

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Mr. Bensky’s gavel-to-gavel coverage of the congressional Iran-contra hearings of 1987 put the Pacifica network on the map, earning him a prestigious Polk Award for radio reporting.

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