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History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption - demonstrating a quantifiable value for 'must-have' broadcast programming.
Gordon Smith

Meaning of "pay-TV" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PAY-TV

pay-TV  [ˌpeɪtiːˈviː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PAY-TV

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pay-Tv is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PAY-TV MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pay television

Pay television, premium television, or premium channels refer to subscription-based television services, usually provided by both analog and digital cable and satellite television, but also increasingly via digital terrestrial and internet television. Subscription television began in the multi-channel transition and transitioned into the post-network era. Some parts of the world, notably in France and the United States, have also offered encrypted analog terrestrial signals available for subscription.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PAY-TV


ach-y-fi
ˌaxəˈviː
arvee
ɑːˈviː
ASV
ˌeɪesˈviː
CDTV
ˌsiːdiːtiːˈviː
cheville
ʃəˈviː
ETV
ˌiːtiːˈviː
evhoe
iːˈviː
evoe
iːˈviː
evohe
iːˈviː
FFV
ˌefefˈviː
PPV
ˌpiːpiːˈviː
tirrivee
ˌtɪrɪˈviː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PAY-TV

pay television
pay the piper and call the tune
pay through the nose
pay up
pay-and-display
pay-as-you-go
pay-as-you-throw
pay-cable channel
pay-per-click
pay-per-view
payable
payably
payback
payback period
payback time
payday
payday lender
PAYE
payee
payer

WORDS THAT END LIKE PAY-TV

ATV
breakfast TV
car-crash TV
CATV
CCTV
CTV
DATV
digital TV
HDTV
ITV
LTV
MTV
reality TV
SMATV
STV

Synonyms and antonyms of pay-TV in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pay-TV» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PAY-TV

Find out the translation of pay-TV to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pay-TV from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pay-TV» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

付费电视
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la televisión de pago
570 millions of speakers

English

pay-TV
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भुगतान टीवी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التلفزيون المدفوع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

платного телевидения
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

de TV por assinatura
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পে-টিভি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la télévision payante
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

TV berbayar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pay-TV-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

有料テレビ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

유료 TV
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bayar-TV
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

truyền hình trả tiền
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பே-டிவி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पे-टीव्ही
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Pay-TV
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pay - TV
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

płatnej telewizji
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

платного телебачення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pay- TV
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pay - TV
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

betaal - TV
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

betal- TV
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pay- TV
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pay-TV

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PAY-TV»

The term «pay-TV» is quite widely used and occupies the 42.980 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PAY-TV» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pay-TV

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2 QUOTES WITH «PAY-TV»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pay-TV.
1
Gordon Smith
History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption - demonstrating a quantifiable value for 'must-have' broadcast programming.
2
Gordon Smith
If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAY-TV»

Discover the use of pay-TV in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pay-TV and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Canada's Video Revolution: Pay-TV, Home Video and Beyond
Canada's Video Revolution examines the changes in communications technologies that occurred at the beginning of the 1980s and their effects on Canadian society.
Peter Lyman, 1983
2
Murdoch's Pirates: Before the phone hacking, there was ...
NDS produces smart cards for use by pay TV operators; this is a fiercely competitive field and one of the ways you get business is to demonstrate that the smart cards produced by your rivals can be easily pirated.
Neil Chenoweth, 2012
3
Kagan's European Cable/pay TV Databook
Exclusive 10-year cable/pay TV projections, including digital cable & direct-to-home households.
‎1999
4
The gatekeepers: the global media battle to control ...
Account of the struggles to control pay TV in Australia, focusing on the fight between Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Packer.
Mark Westfield, 2000
5
The 1980s, a decade of diversity: broadcasting, satellites, ...
Report of the Committee on Extension of Service to Northern and Remote Communities. Makes 41 recommendations regarding broadcasting to remote and underserved areas in Canada. Includes discussion of the broadcasting needs of native peoples.
Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission. Committee on Extension of Service to Northern and Remote Communities, 1980
6
The Economics of Sport and the Media
The so-called anti-siphoning scheme 'protects the access of Australian viewers to events of national importance ... by preventing pay-TV operators from siphoning off television coverage of those events before free-to-air broadcasters have had ...
Claude Jeanrenaud, Stefan Késenne, 2006
7
Hospitality Law: Managing Legal Issues in the Hospitality ...
Pay TV of Greater New York, Inc. 467 F. Supp. 525 (E.D.N.Y., 1979). FACTUAL SUMMARY In 1974, Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO) contracted with Microband National Systems, Inc. (Microband) to distribute HBO subscription television service to ...
Stephen C. Barth, 2006
8
Australian Sport--better by Design?: The Evolution of ...
When the anti-siphoning law was introduced in 1994 it appeared to serve an excellent purpose, despite the fact that pay TV had yet to impose itself to any extent upon the Australian people. Indeed, Foxtel's cable service did not start until ...
Bob Stewart, 2004
9
German Football: History, Culture, Society
In order to launch pay-TV in Germany, a widely popular product was needed to attract subscribers, and the success of football programmes made football the most desirable product. However, in a country where the audience is able to receive ...
Alan Tomlinson, Christopher Young, 2006
10
The Economic Regulation of Broadcasting Markets: Evolving ...
Box 4.1: Pay-TV and the licence fee Case (i): Exclusion of pay-TV Consider a situation in which a single pay-TV operator (for simplicity) offers a single bundle of channels. Supposethat a viewer's ranking of net surplus (gross surplus minus the ...
Paul Seabright, Jürgen von Hagen, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PAY-TV»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pay-TV is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Peanuts For Traditional TV, Salad Days For Pay-TV
Big name live sports is increasingly the domaine of pay-TV operators. Free-to-air broadcasters find the left-overs less than tasty. salad days ... «followthemedia.com, Jul 15»
2
Start-up pay-TV alternative KlowdTV struggles to nab major …
KlowdTV, a startup offering customers streaming bundles of programming priced at around $3 per each genre-based package of channels, ... «FierceCable, Jul 15»
3
Netflix Seen Benefiting From EU Scrutiny of Europe Pay-TV Deals
Netflix Inc. and consumers who want entertainment on the go may have the most to gain from a fresh wave of regulatory scrutiny of the pay-TV ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
4
Pay-TV Operator Sky Takes Majority Stake in Blast!
LONDON — Pan-European pay-TV operator Sky has taken a majority stake in Blast! Films, the independent production company responsible ... «Variety, Jul 15»
5
Central Americans spend half their time watching pay-TV on multiple …
Currently, Central Americans are using 52% of their time to watch pay-TV, said LAMAC's CEO, Gary McBride, during a pay-TV event to study ... «Rapid tv news, Jul 15»
6
Swisscom faces CHF 143 mln fine over pay-TV sports offer
Switzerland's Competition Commission has proposed a fine of CHF 143 million against Swisscom for alleged violations in the marketing of ... «Telecompaper, Jul 15»
7
Moffett: Pay-TV programming costs could squash broadband …
Media and telecoms analyst Craig Moffett sees rising pay-TV programming costs as a serious threat to broadband investment. «CED, Jul 15»
8
Telefónica cashes in with GVT pay-TV in Brazil
With the integration of GVT into Telefonica Brasil complete, no traces of the former No 5 pay-TV player remain, but the resulting company's ... «Rapid tv news, Jul 15»
9
Moffett to Congress: Pay-TV program pricing reform needed to spur …
Investments in current infrastructure were made, Moffett explained, with the expectation that resulting pay-TV services would be profitable. «FierceCable, Jul 15»
10
FCC poised to approve AT&T-DirecTV deal, create top pay-TV
The approved deal would create the largest pay-TV operator in the U.S, with 26 million video customers, compared to just 22 million for current ... «FierceCable, Jul 15»

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