cable television

NOUN

television system transmitted over cable to subscribers

Synonyms

STRONGEST

cable cable system

WEAK

cable TV cablevision community antenna television pay television subscription television

Example Sentences

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Now studios are desperate to show investors they can earn at least a fraction of the profit from streaming that they once did from cable television.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Ted Turner, the media mogul who created CNN and revolutionized cable television, has died.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

And at a time when the cable television business is collapsing in many markets, the Dodgers have a blockbuster TV deal that will pay them more than $330 million a year through 2038.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

CNN would thus wind up part of a highly-indebted public company with weak growth prospects and still on cable television, which has been losing millions of subscribers in the United States each year.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

So, right then and there, she walked onstage, pretending to read a bill from the cable television company.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell