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pay television

noun

  1. a commercial service that broadcasts or provides television programs to viewers who pay a monthly charge or a per-program fee.
  2. the programming provided.


pay television

noun

  1. a 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of pay television1

First recorded in 1955–60

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payt.pay the piper