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View synonyms for pay television
pay television
noun
- a commercial service that broadcasts or provides television programs to viewers who pay a monthly charge or a per-program fee.
- the programming provided.
pay television
noun
- See pay-per-view, free-to-aira system by which television programmes are transmitted in scrambled form, unintelligible except to those who have paid for descrambling equipment Also calledsubscription television Compare free-to-air pay-per-view
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Origin of pay television1
First recorded in 1955–60
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