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antisiphoning

antisiphoning adjective: preventing pay TV broadcasters from buying monopoly rights to televise important and culturally significant events before free-to-air television has a chance to bid on them.

Adjective

antisiphoning (not comparable)

  1. Preventing pay TV broadcasters from buying monopoly rights to televise important and culturally significant events before free-to-air television has a chance to bid on them.
    • [W]ould it be your view that the antisiphoning regulation enunciated by the Commission 2 years ago, should be strengthened to prevent any sliding over into pay cable?United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (page 83)

Origin of antisiphoning

From anti- + siphoning.

Questions about antisiphoning

What does antisiphoning mean?
Antisiphoning means preventing pay TV broadcasters from buying monopoly rights to televise important and culturally significant events before free-to-air television has a chance to bid on them.
What part of speech is antisiphoning?
Antisiphoning is an adjective.

Words near antisiphoning in the dictionary

  1. antisimoniacal
  2. antisine
  3. antisines
  4. antisink
  5. antisiphon
  6. antisiphoning
  7. antisite
  8. antisites
  9. antiskating
  10. antiskeptic
  11. antiskeptical

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