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dog station

dog station noun: a minor television or radio station with little chance to succeed.

Noun

dog station (plural dog stations)

  1. A minor television or radio station with little chance to succeed.
    • Again, available evidence indicates that fewer than one percent of all radio and television properties are controlled by minority persons. […] Minority owners claim that only the so called "dog" stations are offered to them.1978, United States. Federal Communications Commission. Minority Ownership Task Force, Minority Ownership in Broadcasting, page 9
    • And, as you know, most of the black broadcasters and Mexican-American broadcasters and minority broadcasters in the United States have wound up with the dog stations in various markets, mainly daytimers. Very few of us are in the large markets […]1979, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications, The Communications Act of 1979: Hearings, page 339

Forms of dog station

pluraldog stations

Questions about dog station

What does dog station mean?
Dog station means a minor television or radio station with little chance to succeed.
What part of speech is dog station?
Dog station is a noun.
What is the plural of dog station?
The plural of dog station is dog stations.

Words near dog station in the dictionary

  1. dog spike
  2. dog spikes
  3. dog standard
  4. dog standards
  5. Dog Star
  6. dog station
  7. dog stations
  8. dog tag
  9. dog tags
  10. dog tax
  11. dog taxes

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