How to Use cable television in a Sentence

cable television

noun
  • Over a decade on cable television, in this day and age.
    — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The launch could spell the beginning of the end of cable television.
    — Brad Adgate, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • In most states, dark money ads still run on broadcast and cable television.
    — Anthony Nadler, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The guild goes on strike for 13 weeks for a share of the revenue from cable television.
    — CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The live cable television event is slated to last seven hours.
    — Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Some people spend more on travel and less on cable television.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 14 May 2022
  • 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 was seen as among the first stand-up comedy specials to air on cable television.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Cutting the cord on cable television is something many people have done over the past five years.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 4 Nov. 2021
  • That, of course, was long before the era of social media and cable television.
    — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Most people had cable television by the late ’90s.
    — Andrea Ruth, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
  • 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 slow death of cable television hasn’t helped the reality genre.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • The show of force was proof that as cord cutting spreads and cable television dies, Bravo has adapted.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
  • What’s down are the Nielsen ratings on the big events on broadcast networks and on cable television.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 8 Nov. 2018
  • And then in the eighties that the 300 channel cable television would kill movies.
    — Chloe Melas, CNN, 9 June 2020
  • News has largely migrated from print to cable television and the Web.
    — Eric Foner, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • It is slated to be broadcast by most of the nation’s broadcast and cable television networks.
    — The Arizona Republic, 21 June 2022
  • Robin Byrd, the amiable stripper and cable television host, wore only her cowboy boots and a thong.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • As cable television spread in the 1990s, the Braves became one of the best teams in the sport.
    — Chad Jennings, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • The white genocide claim moved from fringe websites to cable television to the Oval Office.
    — John Broich, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The Rauner and Pritzker ads are airing on both broadcast and cable television.
    — Rick Pearson, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2018
  • 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 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
  • The future for cable television, to paraphrase Tom Petty, was wide open.
    — Richard Deitsch, New York Times, 29 May 2025
  • His movies also had long post-theatrical lives with home entertainment and on cable television.
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 19 Dec. 2025

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