antisiphoning

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adjective

Preventing pay TV broadcasters from buying monopoly rights to televise important and culturally significant events before free-to-air television has a chance to bid on them.

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Meanings

adjectiveantisiphoning (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePreventing pay TV broadcasters from buying monopoly rights to televise important and culturally significant events before free-to-air television has a chance to bid on them.

    [W]ould it be your view that the antisiphoning regulation enunciated by the Commission 2 years ago, should be strengthened to prevent any sliding over into pay cable?

    United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (page 83)

Origin

From anti- + siphoning.

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APA

antisiphoning. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antisiphoning

MLA

“antisiphoning.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antisiphoning. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antisiphoning,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antisiphoning.

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