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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A system for receiving television broadcasts by making subscription payments, as by renting a device that unscrambles the broadcaster's scrambled signal.
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Examples
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"Given the assets we've been accumulating, I don't think it's hard to see we're moving in a different direction from simply pay-TV, which is a market that's becoming increasingly saturated."
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Soccer games, a big revenue driver for pay-TV in the rest of Europe, are readily available on public German TV either live or soon after the game, for example.
Investor Group Trims Kabel Stake Laura Stevens 2010
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News Corp. and other owners of broadcast networks have been battling with cable and satellite operators to get a larger share of monthly pay-TV bills.
News Corp. Profit Rises 36% Russell Adams 2010
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And indeed, Sheen's claims that HBO was about to hand him $5 million an episode to host a TV show were roundly dismissed by the pay-TV channel.
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One application is from Richard Li, who controls fixed-line telephone company PCCW Ltd. and its pay-TV service provider, NOW TV.
Developer Lee Sparks Concerns Over TVB Isabella Steger 2010
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Instead, in a move that signals just how far the major media companies will go to push major sports events onto pay-TV, NBCU will bid for deals only when coverage of popular sporting events can be split across the combined company's cable-TV and broadcast assets.
Comcast Moves Goal Posts for NBC Sports Jessica E. Vascellaro 2011
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NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke hopes to win rights to collegiate and other sports programming to help build up Comcast's pay-TV outlets.
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Cable will decide within weeks whether to approve News Corp's offer to buy the 61% of the pay-TV company it does not already own.
James Murdoch's call to Vince Cable on day of BSkyB bid James Robinson 2010
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Comcast executives have determined that investing in the Olympics makes financial sense only if they can acquire all the Games from 2014-2020, instead of just the 2014 and 2016 events, to give it enough time to try to negotiate multiple fee increases with pay-TV companies, people familiar with the matter say.
Comcast Moves Goal Posts for NBC Sports Jessica E. Vascellaro 2011
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While pay-TV providers charge different prices for Playboy, it's generally about $15 per month.
Playboy TV's New Proposition: Bring in Women Russell Adams 2010
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