Pay Television definition

Pay Television means the delivery over the System of pay-per-channel or pay-per-program audio-visual signals to Subscribers for a fee or charge, in addition to the charge for Basic Cable Service or Cable Programming Services.
Pay Television means the delivery over the System of pay-per-channel or
Pay Television means the exhibition of motion pictures on a home-type television screen, receiver, or monitor by a Pay Television network operator or single station distributed by means of broadcast, cable, closed circuit, direct broadcast satellite (“DBS”), or any other form of distribution whether in conventional, scrambled, encoded, or otherwise altered form where there is a requirement that the audience shall make a payment to receive such motion picture. Such payment may be in the form of: (a) a separate amount for each motion picture or portion thereof (pay-per- view); or (b) a payment to receive a dedicated Pay Television channel which payment is made either in addition to regular or Basic Cable TV subscription fee, or to the proprietor of a free standing microwave distribution system or a satellite master antenna television distribution system (“SMATV”) which distributes the said channel. Exhibition in theatres or comparable places is theatrical exhibition and shall not be considered pay television.

Examples of Pay Television in a sentence

  • All programs or motion pictures, including Library Content, made available or exhibited on the Pay Television Service and, therefore, made available on Max shall be treated as though exhibited on HBO’s over-the-top pay television service pursuant to the Sideletter re: Over-the-Top Service of Pay Television Service.

  • The number of subscribers to Max for purposes of the Sideletter on Literary Material Written for Programs Made for New Media shall include those who subscribe to Max directly, as well as those who access Max by authenticating their Pay Television Service and logging in to the Max platform.1 “Subscribers to the Pay Television Service who are not offered access to Max through their third-party video distributor, and who do not subscribe directly to Max, will not be included as a Max subscriber.

  • Likewise, Pay Television subscribers who are given the opportunity to access ▇▇▇ at no additional charge, but who do not actually authenticate their Pay Television Service subscription or otherwise ‘opt in' to access the Max platform, shall not be included as Max subscribers.

  • In addition, some subscribers to the Pay Television Service (such as subscribers to HBO Now and those who subscribe to HBO through DIRECTV, AT&T TV or AT&T U-verse TV, and other third party video distributors) will be given the opportunity to access ▇▇▇ at no additional charge by authenticating their Pay Television Service subscription and then accessing the Max platform via a log-in process.


More Definitions of Pay Television

Pay Television means exhibition over a service for which subscribers pay a premium for the programming transmitted (e.g., HBO).
Pay Television means the delivery over the System of per-channel, per-channel group or per-program audio-visual signals to Subscribers for a fee or charge, in excess of the charge for Basic Service or Cable Programming Services.
Pay Television means the delivery over the System of pay‑per‑channel or pay‑per‑program audio‑visual signals to Subscribers for a fee or charge, in addition to the charge for Basic Cable Service or Cable Programming Services.
Pay Television means transmissions or exhibitions by any form of Television (including, without limitation, the right to authorize transmission by third parties, including, without limitation, carriers such as cable systems, master antenna systems, direct satellite systems, IPTV systems, Internet connectivity providers and Open Internet Service providers) to subscribers of a Programming Service upon payment by such subscribers of a periodic subscription fee charged on a not less than monthly subscription basis except as set forth in Section 16(c) and Section 2(a)(iii). All such Pay Television channels or services shall be (i) encrypted at all times (except as set forth in Section 16(c)), (ii) on a commercial-free, non- advertiser supported basis, (iii) offered to such subscribers for an additional charge (for a single channel or service or group of channels or services) over and above the obligatory basic cable subscription charge; provided, however, that the requirement in subclause (iii) shall not apply to transmissions or exhibitions of an STE Service over the Internet that are subject to the requirements of Sections 2(c)(ii), 2(c)(iii) or 2(c)(iv) hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the parties agree that the tier of programming over which STE Pay Television services are commonly delivered via satellite and IPTV providers as of the Amendment Date (e.g, “Essentials from Fios TV” from Verizon and the “Choice package” from DirecTV) shall be sufficient to satisfy the “basic cable” requirement set forth in subclause (iii) above with respect to those providers. For purposes of clarification, “home-shopping” segments and “infomercials” (as such terms are commonly understood as of the Amendment Date) shall each be considered advertiser-supported activities, but (A) billboards and signboards within a given program (which may include the name and/or logo of a third-party commercial entity and/or product), provided, that ads in such billboards and signboards are not served via dynamic insertion, and (B) product placements that are contained in any program (e.g., clothing worn by sports figures) shall not be considered advertiser-supported activities.
Pay Television the transmission of television programmes and/or channels which can only be viewed by viewers making regular payments to a provider of those programmes and/or channels (where such payments are in addition to: (i) any payments for the purchase or lease of hardware or receiving equipment on which to view and/or unencrypt the relevant programmes; and/or (ii) payments of any government levied licence fee or tax connected with receiving any television programmes); "Placená televize": vysílání televizních programů, jež mohou sledovat pouze diváci, kteří poskytovateli daných programů platí pravidelné poplatky (přičemž se jedná o platby nad rámec: (i) plateb za nákup nebo pronájem hardwaru nebo přijímacího zařízení, jež příslušné programy umožňují sledovat a/nebo dekódovat; a/nebo (ii) úhrady vládou uložených licenčních poplatků nebo daní souvisejících s příjmem televizních programů);
Pay Television as used in this Agreement, shall mean exhibition on a home-type television screen by means of telecast, cable, closed circuit or CATV when substantially all licensed systems meet the following tests:
Pay Television means the delivery over the System of pay-per-channel or pay- per- program video signals to Subscribers for a fee or charge, in addition to the charge for other Basic Cable Services or other Cable Services.