noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a radio/television broadcast
▪ The President addressed the nation in a television broadcast.
a radio/television commentary
▪ The royal wedding will be accompanied by a live television commentary.
a television appeal
▪ Following a national television appeal, several callers have phoned the police with information.
a television audience (=all the people who watch or listen to a particular programme)
▪ Nearly half the UK television audience watched the programme last Tuesday.
a television camera
▪ He never felt comfortable in front of television cameras.
a television channel
▪ NTV is Russia’s leading television channel.
a television licenceBritish English (= which allows you to use your television and pays for public television programmes)
▪ Buying a television means you will need a television licence.
a television programme (also a TV programmeinformal)
▪ There aren't many good TV programmes on an the moment.
a television/movie/cartoon character
▪ Who’s your favourite television character?
a television/radio reporter
▪ He told television reporters that he had no plans to resign.
a television/TV actor
▪ For several years he had small parts as a television actor.
a television/TV crew
▪ Journalists and TV crews were waiting outside their house.
a television/TV/Internet advertisement
▪ the new TV advertisement for the Volkswagen Golf
a TV/television/radio drama
▪ The book has been made into a television drama.
a TV/television/radio show
▪ What’s your favourite TV show?
advertise (sth) on television/in a newspaper etc
▪ Many companies will only advertise in the Sunday paper.
appear on television/stage
▪ He appeared on national television to deny the claims.
breakfast television
breakfast television/TV (=programmes on television in the early morning)
▪ The children all eat their cereal in front of breakfast television.
cable television
car/television/telephone etc rental
▪ The price includes accommodation and car rental.
closed circuit television
digital television
independent television/radio/broadcasting etcBritish English (= not owned or paid for by the government)
▪ independent television companies
public television
satellite television
television licence
television set
▪ a colour television set
television/film/stage etc adaptation
▪ He’s working on a screen adaptation of his latest novel.
television/film/theatre producer
television/newspaper/radio coverage (=provided by television newspapers etc)
▪ The private lives of celebrities get a lot of newspaper coverage.
television/radio/newspaper advertising
▪ Both candidates are spending millions on television advertising.
television/TV/computer monitor
▪ She was staring at her computer monitor.
watch television
▪ We watched television all evening.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
commercial
▪ Few would now see the introduction of commercial television in 1955 as the threat envisaged by, say, Lord Reith.
▪ This past spring, parents were treated to two workshops on the good and bad points of commercial television.
▪ After all most of us are accustomed with commercial television to having our viewing interrupted for advertisement breaks.
▪ The single-minded mission of commercial television today is to produce audiences for sale to advertisers of consumer goods and services.
▪ Already highly successful in popular music, dance and commercial television, blacks have found the movies a tougher nut to crack.
▪ There are fourteen commercial television companies, and a host of commercial radio stations.
▪ The second most important medium is commercial television, which has consistently maintained about 25% of the total. 7.
▪ A very much smaller advertising campaign was therefore mounted in the press and on commercial television.
digital
▪ Interference and ghost images caused by reflections of the received signal are more easily cancelled out in a digital television.
▪ Hey, how about that new digital television revolution?
▪ Color televisions evolve into digital televisions capable of showing several pictures simultaneously; videocassette recorders into camcorders.
▪ Then again, the transition to digital television could take much longer than expected.
▪ A digital television immediately decodes the incoming sound and picture signals and converts them into an 8-bit digital code.
▪ The potential bounty lies in a slice of the public airwaves designated to be the home of advanced, digital television.
▪ If a Federal Communications Commission deadline stands, the changeover from analog to digital television will be complete by 2006.
▪ People must buy either a new digital television or a converter box to use with their old set.
independent
▪ The results of the research will be given to both national and independent television networks.
▪ While they were still together she started a video course and now works for an independent television company.
▪ It was Mellor who salvaged something from the disastrous 1990 Broadcasting Bill, which presaged the widely-ridiculed independent television franchise round.
▪ These days there are hundreds of newspapers, including four competing dailies, and a handful of independent television and radio stations.
▪ Read in studio One of the founding fathers of independent television has been celebrating sixty years in broadcasting.
▪ The business is owned by the regional independent television companies.
▪ It is in the field of editorial content that the Great and Good of independent television have exercised their most direct influence.
live
▪ For example, some types of multimedia applications will involve online systems which combine live television information with other digital data.
▪ This week, she gave her first live television interview since the fall.
▪ It wasn't a private occasion - the meeting was screened live on prime-time television.
▪ Soon Qaddafi was explaining his plan to the world on live television from his tent in Tripoli.
▪ Two or more users can conduct video phone conversations and access live television pictures or send video mail, for instance.
▪ After the verdict was carried live on television, violence broke out in South-Central Los Angeles.
▪ Of course, the in-coming signal does not have to be live television.
▪ Endless live television coverage has made the Eleven Cities Tour into a truly national event.
local
▪ This Society has appeared twice on Radio Leeds and their next aim is to get on local television.
▪ There is only one media market, and only one local television station.
▪ At best, it might offer local television worthy of the name.
▪ They were restored a few hours later, after some local television and newspaper reporters got on to the story.
▪ Will it be cable that provides truly local television?
▪ For example, will a Raider home game appear on local television again this year?
▪ He made almost a clean break with the game, except for some local television work.
▪ A.. This is the biggest blunder in the history of local television in the United States.
national
▪ Paul had given public undertakings on national radio and television that it would.
▪ She is on national television commercials.
▪ Three major national television documentaries, including one on the work of the local Drugs Squad, brought Wirral to national attention.
▪ Diller reportedly is trying to build a national network of television stations that would offer sports and entertainment programming.
▪ However, the necessary reputation could be obtained relatively quickly by an intensive advertising campaign on national television.
▪ In a schedule that should be released next week, the Eagles will have at least four national television appearances next season.
▪ And when the Raiders whip you on national television, no one forgets.
▪ Meanwhile, three other candidates demonstrated for a national television audience their growing irrelevance to the struggle for the nomination.
public
▪ Their Lordships certainly gained added public recognition from television.
▪ Some public television stations applauded the new initiative as something of a programming coup.
▪ Journalists on the public service television channel &038; 214.
▪ It took several years before we were able to reinstate a comprehensive schedule of public affairs programming on public television.
▪ The public fantasies of television might have destroyed the need for private ones.
▪ Weighty matters of economics and foreign policy appeared to be at stake as were the integrity and independence of public television.
▪ Carl Sagan, perhaps, on public television?
▪ But there is another scene, scarcely ever shown, even on public television.
■ NOUN
ad
▪ It is encouraging that Gore's television ads have not trimmed to the right.
▪ The campaign believes the best way to reach independents is through more television ads.
▪ Now, in the television ads, he cheerfully delivered some hammy lines before falling backwards into a swimming pool.
▪ In speeches and television ads, Gov.
▪ We have seen the honest faces of the hometown insurance representative on television ads, face after face, year after year.
▪ The aim of the strategy session was to develop a nontraditional campaign without the use of expensive television ads.
▪ One television ad featured a live chicken to convey the message: Stop being one; start investing.
advertisement
▪ This makes the usual noises about the careful research which goes into making television advertisements, not to mention the advice-seeking.
▪ They ran a series of television advertisements, which they placed in prime time they purchased early in the campaign.
▪ Today the government launched its latest weapons in a campaign against speeding including this hard hitting television advertisement.
▪ As Arkansas governor, he had built public support for key legislation with television advertisements largely financed by corporate donations.
▪ In July 1990 a television advertisement by the Cot Death Association advised against placing infants to sleep prone.
▪ Just before Easter, I received a letter about a series of television advertisements.
▪ To a large extent, the election has been fought on the airwaves, with both candidates delivering television advertisements attacking each other.
▪ By way of exception, the Regulations do not give the Director General powers in relation to commercial radio and television advertisements or to cable advertisements.
audience
▪ A generation of sell-out shows and peak-time television audiences witnessed the Black and White shows.
▪ The truth was that by 1988 the television audience had entirely replaced the convention delegates as the focus of attention.
▪ Such agencies utilise consumer panels, readership surveys and television audience measurement to generate their information. 17.
▪ Meanwhile, three other candidates demonstrated for a national television audience their growing irrelevance to the struggle for the nomination.
▪ Hardly surprising then that budgets were kept low and most films were aimed at the television audience.
▪ Pilobolus now performs for stage and television audiences all over the world.
▪ The first show attracted a television audience of more than 2 million.
cable
▪ A project almost as big as the Channel Tunnel is now under way to bring cable television to every house in Britain.
▪ Killian said the company will concentrate on increasing customer take-up of its cable television services in 1996.
▪ It would certainly distract the attention of the powerful commercial groups that are about to join battle over cable television networks.
▪ General Instrument dominates the cable television industry with its scrambling and de-scrambling technology.
▪ But it will give affluent viewers a foretaste of life with cable television.
▪ Telephone companies may also begin to provide cable television and other video services.
▪ A coalition of cable television and long-distance carriers predicts it will take until next spring.
camera
▪ Outside Number 10 itself there was a solitary television camera crew.
▪ The civil trial provided a more subdued sequel, since Fujisaki refused to allow television cameras into his courtroom.
▪ He looked for television cameras - that must be the answer - it was being televised - people had dressed up.
▪ Smoke could be seen seeping in front of the television camera.
▪ The tram carried a mobile generator for the power and provided a stable platform for the television cameras.
▪ However, additional seating was created when the various Atlanta venues were redesigned to accommodate television cameras and other equipment.
▪ The lifeblood of Sarajevo will drain away, the television cameras will go home and Bosnia will be forgotten in the West.
channel
▪ The bill includes proposals for a new television channel, three new national commercial radio channels and numerous local services.
▪ The decision to introduce a television channel financed by advertising was one which had to be taken by government.
▪ The fiercest competition of all, therefore, is between the rival television channels.
▪ The prospect of a future which provides hundreds of television channels gives Madison Avenue nightmares.
circuit
▪ Estimates have now been obtained to install a closed circuit television system in both the Myles Meehan and the Long Gallery.
▪ Not in person, but via a closed circuit television screen that fills an entire wall.
▪ Obtaining the necessary, sometimes expensive, special equipment such as closed circuit television takes time and persistence.
▪ The trial made legal history when child witnesses gave evidence using closed circuit television cameras.
▪ It is a simple closed circuit television system, a video camera photographing a speech being rolled beneath it.
▪ For example, closed circuit television gives the helmsman a view of the engine compartment and of the aft deck of the boat.
colour
▪ The arrival of the Mendip mast and colour television brought an added breadth to viewing in the West.
▪ Tastefully decorated, spacious bedrooms with private bathrooms, colour television, central heating and sea view.
▪ All have colour televisions, direct dial telephones and tea and coffee making facilities.
▪ Now celebrating 19 years. Colour televisions, tea making facilities, ground floor bedrooms available, duvets.
▪ Full cooking facilities, refrigerators, cutlery, linen, colour televisions and central heating.
company
▪ As a result, to keep to their schedules, the television companies had to cut rates, resulting in falling revenues.
▪ The changes came after television companies protested a previous bill that barred them from providing telecommunications services.
▪ There are fourteen commercial television companies, and a host of commercial radio stations.
▪ Playing on the defense are telephone companies and cable television companies, providers that have enjoyed monopoly positions for decades.
▪ While they were still together she started a video course and now works for an independent television company.
▪ The company would be interested in forming alliances to allow television companies use its lines to transmit information.
▪ The broadcasts were relayed by satellite by the Avrasya television company.
coverage
▪ So when the press was biased towards the political right, television coverage would redress the balance by leaning to the left.
▪ What did he think of the current television coverage of the war?
▪ For rugby to get any significant U.S. television coverage, we need to be in the Olympics.
▪ Endless live television coverage has made the Eleven Cities Tour into a truly national event.
▪ Interminable television coverage blocking out the Scooby Doo repeats.
▪ It was Burrows who ensured that the television coverage of a tournament played in five countries was so successful.
▪ This is more expensive but it has a particular advantage in television coverage.
▪ If party rhetoric and television coverage ever set the public's agenda, they should have done so on defence.
drama
▪ And to what extent does television drama supply it?
▪ Most television drama attracts some mail from interested viewers but rarely does that mail arrive by the sackful.
▪ They are especially prevalent in some feature films, television dramas and documentaries.
▪ It's featured in television dramas such as Taggart and Prime Suspect 2.
interview
▪ Cossiga emphasized in a television interview that compromise had been necessary to avoid an early general election.
▪ Fujisaki said he decided to tighten previous restrictions after learning that Caraway had agreed to a television interview.
▪ She performed with great natural charm in a television interview and marvelled at all the stretch-limousines she rode in.
▪ This week, she gave her first live television interview since the fall.
▪ In a new television interview, he calls Mr Clinton a person without the background or experience for the office.
▪ His remarks, in a television interview, followed big electoral gains by the anti-immigrant far-right National Front. -Reuter.
▪ In the pre-Day era, television interviews were almost always respectful, dull, stiff and often insipid.
network
▪ Support for this theory, of an unexpected kind, had been provided a few weeks earlier by network television.
▪ The view from the top in network television can make you dizzy.
▪ Domestic network television now accounts for just half of Televisa's sales, compared with more than 70% in 1990.
▪ A national network television audience can judge for itself when the Suns visit the Lakers and attempt to break a two-game skid.
▪ But commentators from the opposite end of the political spectrum are virtually excluded from the national discourse, especially on network television.
▪ So, we do not let our children watch network television, except for an occasional sporting event.
▪ This is network television, remember.
news
▪ Instead it became more dependent upon how frequently they watched television news.
▪ The craft of the writer is put to the test as each story must conform to the needs of television news.
▪ It is perhaps significant that there appeared to be more choice of newspaper than of television news.
▪ Some news show consultants believe in forming a television news pseudo-family to attract audiences.
▪ Quite by chance, and unknown to the police, the incident was filmed and broadcast later on national television news.
▪ It is at this very basic level that fires make a good subject for television news.
▪ And the way that, say, television news addresses you is as a particular type of person.
▪ You can watch television news programs from now until doomsday and never come across any statement about Manny Freebus.
presenter
▪ The only woman included within the Cabinet was Akiko Santo, a television presenter and member of the Takeshita faction.
▪ Every year they name a new flower after a personality - this year's was television presenter Anne Gregg.
▪ The smile that launched a career Fans of television presenter Michaela Strachan love her famous cheeky grin.
producer
▪ The editors and television producers have all changed; even the publishers are different now.
▪ It was the first opportunity for the second-term congressman and former television producer to address a national political convention.
▪ The work carried out is in demand from film and television producers.
▪ Whether the tapes are used depends upon the broadcasting and television producers.
program
▪ Books, movies and television programs are censored.
▪ The Wall Street Journal Report, our nationally syndicated television program, reaches millions more on weekends.
▪ After all, we plan for meals, work, dental visits, errands, and television programs.
▪ It made history, becoming the highest-rated television program ever.
▪ Sony is also involved in distributing television programs and has its own music label, Sony Records.
▪ Not content with one show, a deal to add two more television programs is expected within a couple of weeks.
▪ More than two billion dollars was reported to be at risk because of that one offending television program.
▪ Teachers, textbooks, television programs, and films all tend to show heavy feminist influence.
programme
▪ Although around 12 eggs in a season is normal, one female observed during filming of a television programme laid 25.
▪ It all came to light when I travelled from Bradford to London to take part in a television programme about multiculturalism.
▪ Now a new television programme re-tells the murder hunt.
▪ He analysed more than 100 responses to a television programme Help asking for experiences of residential care.
▪ It was said to be Mrs Thatcher's favourite television programme - indeed, she actually took part in a rehearsal.
▪ I let myself be persuaded to take part in a television programme about books.
▪ We went home and made a half-hour colour television programme which was marvellous.
▪ I shall take as my starting point a television programme I imagine many of you will have seen recently.
programmes
▪ That said, television programmes can sometimes be surprisingly adventurous.
▪ The downside to this is that they lose valuable advertising space on television programmes such as Saturday Superstore.
▪ It is the necessary end-point of the detailed study of television programmes.
▪ He is developing a company called Earthspeak Productions to produce television programmes on all types of environmental issues.
▪ Gillian Darley has written and presented a series of books and television programmes.
▪ Curiously, I have become even more strongly persuaded of that since I began dabbling in the making of political television programmes.
▪ The panel system is also used by audience research for their reactions to radio and television programmes.
▪ We were preparing television programmes on laboratory work when most teachers counted themselves lucky if there was any chalk available.
reporter
▪ A television reporter was roughed up.
satellite
▪ But the advent of long-range camera lenses, satellite television and instantaneous news changed that for ever.
▪ Junior suites at the Calinda, which include two double beds and satellite television, cost $ 50 per night or less.
▪ Still less can they accept impartial public broadcasting combined with a biased press and biased satellite television.
▪ It is the deregulated, free-market media world of satellite television and video recorders where the real violence is played out.
▪ The legal rules are unsettled, and will cause some confusion with the advent of satellite television.
▪ He is unable to separate his contribution to what should be a well-informed debate from a satellite television knockabout.
▪ The age of satellite television began in 1988 when the Astra Satellite was launched.
▪ Restrictions on photocopiers and satellite television equipment were also lifted.
screen
▪ Today the new Little People, those who dance nightly on the television screen, have ousted the old.
▪ It has been three weeks since the indistinct videotape image hit television screens with the impact of, well, a whip.
▪ This is why a black and white television screen is satisfactory as a means of communication.
▪ In his lobby the building management had set up a television screen so that the doorman could watch for criminals.
▪ She shook her head and stared into the fire and then at the television screen.
▪ The television screen is smaller than life.
▪ He stared at the empty television screen, at a loss, silenced.
▪ He was physically attractive and highly photogenic; on the television screen he came across as a man of warmth and charm.
series
▪ The presenter of a television series has some advantage over a writer, since filming is more flexible than book production.
▪ Ask yourself this: Could a ferret ever do what Lassie used to do on that old television series?
▪ Among those whose work was recognised was Mr K K Sampathknmar who received the award for the best television series.
▪ As long as there are agents, movies, conflicts, illnesses and death, television series will have cast changes.
▪ The close link in Britain between television series and the best-seller lists is not reflected worldwide.
▪ Of 139 television series examined, only 18 featured a continuing Hispanic character, the study found.
▪ In emotional terms, the boy in the television series seemed to cope admirably.
▪ Apparently a television series is in development; he is certainly worth watching.
service
▪ Killian said the company will concentrate on increasing customer take-up of its cable television services in 1996.
▪ Without doubt, it is probably the most novel and most different television service in the world.
▪ A Chilton poll of 1000 adults found 63 percent at least somewhat interested in interactive television services.
▪ His crime: to run a television service which tried not to lie.
▪ It has 17 pay television services, 3, 000 employees and 2. 6 million subscribers.
▪ Trading at the film and television services division and the video and audio production and distribution arm was generally stable.
▪ Then the public would not face a sudden loss of television service.
set
▪ Now, no one could claim that a television set saves time.
▪ A television set rested on an antique pine blanket-chest at the foot of the bed.
▪ In one street, the pavement is stacked with cardboard boxes of Toshiba television sets.
▪ Somebody turned off the television set.
▪ A television set was playing Indiana Jones.
▪ Margotte rarely turned on the television set.
▪ There was no television set, no record player, not even a radio.
▪ He paused, his red face turned toward the blank television set.
show
▪ But tonight on the Gerry Anderson television show will make it worth the wait.
▪ And the television show Lost From View featured the Danielle mystery.
▪ As with the television shows, the arbiter of success is the ratings.
▪ Part of her job was to do a weekly television show on clothing design and construction.
▪ Their leader, Ellen Greve of Brisbane, was challenged to demonstrate her diet on a television show in October 1999.
▪ He wanted them to write a television show for him.
state
▪ He amplified his views in a broadcast on state television.
▪ A report on state television said all the victims were believed to have died from suffocation.
▪ On Jan. 31 state television announced that all but 34 of the 232 people arrested on Jan. 21 and 22 had been freed.
▪ Last week state television reported that 24 candidates stood, and that eight new members were elected.
▪ The next day, Lasa Koul, the head of the state television, was assassinated in the city.
▪ The assault was videotaped two years ago, but shown for the first time last week on state television.
station
▪ On Jan. 14 Gorbachev publicly denied prior knowledge of the attack on the television station.
▪ The government does not own or substantially regulate newspapers, radio or television stations, or news wire services.
▪ It included radio and television stations, paging devices, mobile telephones, Orion Pictures and the Harlem Globetrotters.
▪ But the councils have the power to investigate corruption and run their own radio and television stations.
▪ In addition to Lagos at least ten other states have well-advanced plans for their own television stations.
▪ She began to suspect she had a serious problem after an appearance on a Washington television station.
▪ On the following day there was fierce fighting at the television station and the building was partially destroyed by fire.
▪ That ruling is being appealed by television stations and a hearing is set for next week.
viewer
▪ Firstly, it is time to accept that television viewers are now totally multi-channel orientated, no longer staying with one channel solely.
▪ What does this mean for a television viewer?
▪ It was Liz's worst scenario coming true, in front of hundreds of millions of television viewers.
▪ But all television viewers see the same broadcast.
▪ The Robe had been shot in Cinemascope in order to tempt the new television viewers back into the cinemas.
▪ Stocks chosen by darts or chimps do not have the same following among television viewers.
▪ The unoccupied places around them must have given television viewers a picture of hosts abandoned by their guests of honour.
▪ No one can tell what thoughts pass through the minds of newspaper readers or television viewers.
watch
▪ So, people watch television because ...?
▪ Unlike Jessica, Sam has toys and watches television and goes to school.
▪ There was usually literally nothing for clients to do but sit, watch television, or walk about.
▪ It eliminates your den if your children watch television there or if you watch television there for your own enjoyment.
▪ All I could do was watch television.
▪ But she loves to read and would rather listen to the radio than watch television.
▪ Eventually she moved the phone into the hall and made herself watch television, though she hardly knew what she was watching.
▪ I would lie on this and watch television.
■ VERB
advertise
▪ Many people involved in film work as directors, writers and actors also work in advertising, theatre and television.
▪ Now the betting shops are lobbying for the right to advertise on television.
▪ In particular, the freedom since 1987 to advertise on radio and television does not seem to have exercised any discernible effect.
▪ Gramm is still on the presidential ballot here, and he is advertising on television for his Senate re-election campaign.
▪ In Britain, by industry agreement, gin, whisky and vodka are not advertised on television.
▪ Within weeks of forming the campaign we had a chance to advertise on a television show with a huge audience.
▪ Getting on for 50% of the money spent on advertising goes into television, and more like 70% in big agencies.
▪ Huge poster hoardings advertise television sets and refrigerators.
appear
▪ I also go to conferences, seminars, speak on programmes like Farming Today, appear on television and write letters.
▪ None of them appear in television commercials with star players, as Jones does.
▪ They arrived together, dressed with the studied perfection only achieved by gangsters and people about to appear on television.
▪ For example, will a Raider home game appear on local television again this year?
▪ First of all, he appeared on television like he was some kind of game-show berk, not a businessman.
▪ His name has appeared on billboards, television and radio stations, computer terminals and a Johns Hopkins research building.
▪ If only he were attractive to women! 9 Dyson was invited to appear on television again.
▪ Now he appears on television and is asked by newspapers and magazines for his stock ideas.
broadcast
▪ Their audiences were found in independent cinemas and discussion groups: their relationship to broadcast television was at that time non-existent.
▪ The day-long seminars will be broadcast through high-definition television on to large theater screens in 20 cities.
▪ Quite by chance, and unknown to the police, the incident was filmed and broadcast later on national television news.
▪ And satellite technology has vastly expanded long-distance broadcast communications, especially television.
▪ This can best be seen in the case of television broadcasting.
▪ When these pictures were broadcast live across international television screens, it was obvious that the issue was misogyny, not theology.
▪ His funeral at Grace Cathedral was broadcast on live television.
see
▪ He had seen her on television.
▪ I have not seen Jimmy Swaggart on television for a long time now.
▪ She read about it and saw it on television.
▪ But, then, he seems utterly baffled as to why his daughter sees television so differently from him.
▪ I've seen him on television turning obvious singles into twos on huge grounds like Melbourne.
▪ They saw in educational television the opportunity to get a jump start on quality education at comparatively low cost.
▪ It happened at the time of the National Junior Championships in Nottingham and we hadn't seen the television that morning.
▪ Kramer had to laugh every time he saw a television show with a courtroom scene.
turn
▪ Electrics Always turn off the television, video and stereo when they are not in use.
▪ Somebody turned off the television set.
▪ He turned off the television and recorder and returned to the kitchen.
▪ Other companies are turning to television, which offers access to a much broader but less affluent market.
▪ He missed the tournament because of a knee injury, so he turned to commentating on television.
▪ Billie turned back to the television.
▪ After dinner they went into the sitting-room and she turned on the television.
▪ Margotte rarely turned on the television set.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
colour television/photograph/printer etc
▪ All bedrooms are of a high standard offering private facilities, satellite colour television, in-house movies and hospitality tray.
▪ All rooms have central heating, colour television, tea/coffee making facilities, en suite or private shower.
▪ Answer Every room has a nineteen inch colour television, tea-making facilities and a direct dialling telephone system.
▪ He carried a colour photograph of his mill in the same way that others carry their wives and children.
▪ If you're lucky enough to have a colour printer, you can also fiddle with text and background colours.
▪ It has an enticing colour photograph of palm trees and white sand.
▪ The exhibition is lavishly illustrated with colour photographs and features a moss garden composed entirely of local Ulster mosses.
in front of the television/TV/computer etc
▪ It is immoral to do the ironing in front of the television when there is a good film on.
▪ Put three movie fans in front of the computer, start the game and quietly leave.
▪ She would install Hannah in front of the television and retreat to another room.
▪ Smoke could be seen seeping in front of the television camera.
▪ That night I cooked dinner and we ate in front of the television.
▪ Then she went back into the living room and sat in front of the television set without turning it on.
▪ Too many hours in front of the computer screen can destroy physical fitness.
television/sports/fresh-air etc fiend
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Television brings events like the Olympic games into millions of homes.
▪ a 36-inch television
▪ a wide-screen TV
▪ American television news programs are getting worse and worse.
▪ He was sitting on the floor in front of the television.
▪ People who watch a lot of television are more likely to be heavy.
▪ the educational uses of television
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each night I watch the television news.
▪ He groaned and turned off the television.
▪ Nothing else big was happening in the world and newspapers love to highlight problems that the television networks face.
▪ People, for instance, are comfortable with the way televisions and telephones work.
▪ Remember also to check the boiler and telephone, and the television and radio reception.
▪ The general public and those who watch our proceedings on television must wonder whether we are really fighting.
▪ The statement was aired for the first time in a recent television documentary on his life.
▪ We shout our hatred of them at public forums and into radio and television microphones.