How to Use retransmission in a Sentence

retransmission

noun
Definition of retransmissionnext
  • So far, Broens says, there is no evidence of such retransmission from dogs and cats back into humans.
    — Frank Schubert, Scientific American, 20 July 2021
  • The squabble centered on retransmission rates, or the fees that TV station owners such as Tegna charge cable providers to air its stations.
    — Madison Iszler, ExpressNews.com, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The strongest hand content companies could play was their retransmission agreements, which Sling had not signed.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Kao found that total retransmission rate fees are projected to continue growing in the coming years.
    — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Cable TV has feasted from the dual revenue stream of both ad revenues and subscriber fees (including retransmission consent fees for broadcasters) since the explosion of new cable networks in the 1980s.
    — Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Sunday's multi-year retransmission agreement restores service for all those stations.
    — Matt Young, Chron, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Specifically, Murdoch said that Fox has shifted its revenue mix to be distribution-heavy, relying on cable carriage fees and broadcast retransmission fees to provide growth.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2022
  • And cable television continues to boast lavish retransmission fees that haven’t been equaled from digital delivery systems.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Subscriptions to the pay-TV bundle eroded quickly during the pandemic, reducing the audiences, ad revenues, and carriage/retransmission fees that companies can attract.
    — David Bloom, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The data channel will be doing gigabits per second with retransmissions and hybrid ARQ [automatic repeat request], whereas the control channel, it‘s replacing something that‘s sending a small amount of information quickly to the device.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Despite consumers’ shift away from watching traditional TV in favor of streaming services, local broadcast TV continues to generate healthy profits, in part because of the lucrative retransmission fees received for being carried in cable packages.
    — Lillian Rizzo, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022

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