How to Use cable television in a Sentence

cable television

noun
  • Perhaps best known for its viral clips, the series aired for five seasons on cable television — three on Fuse and a final two on TruTV.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The verbal back and forth between Cuban and Trump has been aired on cable television for the past week as both parties aim to attract voters in the final days before the election.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The guild goes on strike for 13 weeks for a share of the revenue from cable television.
    CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
  • And then in the eighties that the 300 channel cable television would kill movies.
    Chloe Melas, CNN, 9 June 2020
  • So far, the NBA playoffs have been a big draw across cable television.
    Rob Tornoe, Philly.com, 2 May 2018
  • What’s down are the Nielsen ratings on the big events on broadcast networks and on cable television.
    Eric Johnson, Recode, 8 Nov. 2018
  • The hearings will most likely be aired live and in full on network and cable television.
    Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 25 June 2019
  • That, of course, was long before the era of social media and cable television.
    Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The Belle came equipped with cable television and Wi-Fi, and my boyfriend was able to turn on the news and reply to emails, just like his morning routine at home.
    Tamara Gane, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2021
  • However, those glory days seem to be over — it's been quite some time since a new show graced the depths of cable television.
    Emily Fehrenbacher, Alaska Dispatch News, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The renewal would mark the first time that a Netflix series has gone on to air on cable television.
    Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 27 June 2019
  • Cutting the cord on cable television is something many people have done over the past five years.
    Chris Hachey, BGR, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The show of force was proof that as cord cutting spreads and cable television dies, Bravo has adapted.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
  • That was seen as among the first stand-up comedy specials to air on cable television.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Nov. 2022
  • This was before the rocket ship success of YouTube, and cable television still reigned supreme.
    Brittany Meiling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • The ad is part of a part of a six-figure buy running on Cleveland area cable television stations.
    Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The live cable television event is slated to last seven hours.
    Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The Rauner and Pritzker ads are airing on both broadcast and cable television.
    Rick Pearson, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2018
  • When Carlson doesn’t snag the top spot on cable television, a live sporting event is sometimes the culprit.
    Joe Walsh, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • Both cable television and landlines can cost a lot of money.
    Giana Han, al, 6 June 2020
  • In most states, dark money ads still run on broadcast and cable television.
    Anthony Nadler, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2018
  • News has largely migrated from print to cable television and the Web.
    Eric Foner, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
  • What the ad says: The 30-second ad that airs on broadcast and cable television opens with images of Brochin talking with people.
    Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 19 June 2018
  • The next two months on streaming and cable television will be led by series that will dissect three of the biggest business unicorns of the last decade.
    Adario Strange, Quartz, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Robin Byrd, the amiable stripper and cable television host, wore only her cowboy boots and a thong.
    New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • But fan bases on both sides may be surprised to find the matchup won’t be found on traditional cable television.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Remote digs have WiFi, cable television and gas stoves.
    Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2020
  • But it’s not every day that a fixture of cable television goes belly up.
    Brian Stelter, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The code links to a landing page that speaks to Walt Disney Co.’s decision to pull programming from the cable television provider.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Some people spend more on travel and less on cable television.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes, 14 May 2022

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