单词 | pay tv |
释义 | pay TVn. Originally U.S. (A system of) television broadcasting in which viewers pay to subscribe to particular channels or to watch particular programmes.In quot. 1954: a system using closed-circuit television to broadcast a performance to cinemas across the U.S. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > types of television system radiovision1924 colour television1927 phonovision1927 Scophony1932 stratovision1945 subscription television1945 Phonevision1947 pay television1950 subscription TV1950 telemeter1951 Web TV1952 pay TV1954 toll television1956 digital television1957 slot television1958 digital TV1959 satellite television1961 satellite TV1961 cable television1965 satellite1982 1954 N.Y. Times 27 Jan. 29/8 (headline) '54 opera opening to play on pay TV. 1955 Newsweek 12 Feb. 28 (heading) Communications: pay-TV coming? 1956 Britannica Bk. of Year 1955 445/2 The principal advocates of the pay-TV theory maintained that programmes of a quality and scope too expensive for standard television broadcasters should be made available to viewers willing to pay for them. 1972 Listener 8 June 773/2 Pay-TV was expensive and offered very little that was new. 1990 Littlewoods Catal. Spring–Summer 910/3 (caption) It is possible that during Spring 1990 Lifestyle and Screensport will become ‘Pay TV’ services requiring an access decoder. 2003 Canberra Times (Nexis) 13 Dec. a21 Coming up is the Golden Globes (next week), the Oscars, the Logies and many more, especially if you have pay-TV. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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