TV channel
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1.1
- noun
- /tiː viː ˈtʃænəl/
:
canal de televisión
- The kids were excited to see their favorite cartoons on the TV channel dedicated to animated shows.
- a national TV channel
I know that that TV channel or that TV production isn't for me.
- I know that that TV channel or that TV production isn't for me.
- Social media, you know, the, the dueling cable TV channels, all the pessimism about America.
- Ted Turner was a huge sailor, won America's Cup, started, started a cable TV channel, started CNN.
- I was like, we need our own TV channel.
- I think mainstream media still the newspapers, the big radio and TV channels.
- His message just travels across hundreds of thousands of computers, TV channels, whatever.
- Just prison security hijacking a TV channel.
- There is no TV channels in Russia that not under the state, that not under the Kremlin.
- Fat Stone sent me a message on Facebook asking if they can send some of the episodes on their TV channel.
- I somehow dragged Ajit Pai, who was the chairman of the FCC, to agree with me to say, yes, the FCC does not have authority to regulate cable TV channels.
- We play to tennis and then so we would watch it on the YouTube like TV channel and the commercials for pickleball are like pickleball juice pickleball, let's go.
Examples
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It's the same if I try to watch a finance TV channel like CNBC.
Blog text (20) -
Uncle Kenny finished his dinner and went over to click through the TV channels.
Fiction book (1998) -
We only had two TV channels, can you imagine?
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And, uh, all the TV channels started changing on their own.
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Without her, would we even have multiple TV channels dedicated to cooking shows?
Blog text (2) -
A few years ago, a Czech TV channel asked its audience to name the most beloved native son.
Academic text (2008) -
Too bad you can't just change the TV channel to escape your questions.
Blog text (5) -
Between us, we have 244 TV channels.
Fiction book (1999) -
We are all assaulted with ads all over the TV channels and websites, whether we are interested or not.
Blog text (30) -
Julian Assange will soon be a columnist for the Russian state TV channel Russia Today.
Blog text (21)
Synonyms
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1.6
A television station that shows programs like news
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1.4
A company that makes and broadcasts TV programs for people to watch
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1.4
A company that makes and sends video programs for people to watch at home
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2.1
A TV station that shows programs on one number
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3.1
A place that sends radio or TV programs to many people
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3.8
A place that sends radio or TV programs to people
How Big
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1.1
349
1.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
TV + channel
The meaning 'a specific television station and the programs it broadcasts' is directly and compositionally derived from 'TV' (television) + 'channel' (a broadcasting station). Even though 'TV' is an abbreviation, it is highly familiar to B1 learners and the compound follows an obvious and cross-linguistically common naming pattern, so the meaning is immediately comprehensible to learners who know both constituents.
Etymology
TV channel comes from the idea of a channel as a 'path' or lane, like a small water channel that guides water. Early radio and television put each station on its own 'channel', so a TV channel came to mean the specific station and the programs it sends.