televise

verb

tele·​vise ˈte-lə-ˌvīz How to pronounce televise (audio)
televised; televising

transitive verb

: to broadcast (something, such as a baseball game) by television

intransitive verb

: to broadcast by television

Examples of televise in a Sentence

The same network will televise the tournament next year.
Recent Examples on the Web The show will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide. Paul Grein, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2024 Also in April, the town hosts the ASA Archery tournament, televised on ESPN, from the Louisiana National Guard's Camp Minden Training Site. Foodies, meanwhile, flock to Minden in June for the nationally sanctioned Grilling on Main cook-off. Trudy Haywood Saunders, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2024 Games will be televised across the ESPN family of networks, which include ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN News, and ABC. Lindsey Darvin, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 10, at Los Angeles' Dolby Theatre and will be televised on ABC at the new time of 7 EDT/4 PDT. Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2024 Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 10 at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC. Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024 The Oscars will be televised on March 10 on ABC and streamed on AT&T TV, Fubo, Hulu and YouTube TV, according to the academy. Alex Sundby, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2024 Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC. Lisa Respers France, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024 Those media companies bought the rights from those leagues to televise their games, but jointly putting those games on a streaming service raises some possible tension with those sports leagues as business partners, sports business experts told USA TODAY Sports. USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024

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Word History

Etymology

back-formation from television

First Known Use

1926, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Time Traveler
The first known use of televise was in 1926

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Cite this Entry

“Televise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/televise. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

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televise

verb
tele·​vise ˈtel-ə-ˌvīz How to pronounce televise (audio)
televised; televising
: to broadcast by television
televised the ball game

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