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n. A tier of pay television which affords neither the broad audience of terrestrial channels nor the cachet of premium channels.
Usage examples of "basic cable".
You got us and the microwave and the fridge, plus basic cable service, all for one low, low monthly fee.
There's no Home Box Office or anything at Georgia Pines - I guess that's a resource just a wee bit too expensive for our Resource Center - but we have the basic cable services, and that means we have the American Movie Channel.
That's the one (just in case you don't have the basic cable services yourself) where most of the films are in black and white and none of the women take their clothes off.
Government issue but with a comfortable double bed, desk, armchair, tables, kitchen, TV with basic cable.
Trudy had Comedy Central as part of her basic cable deal, and she'd seen stand-up comics who specialized in mimicry change their faces that same way.
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