Live TV = watched while broadcast

Neal Whitman nwhitman at AMERITECH.NET
Thu Mar 31 13:42:43 UTC 2011


On our new cable menu, one option is "Watch Live TV," meaning what I'd call
"watch TV." The earliest I've found of the new meaning ("not DVR'd for later
viewing") from a quick search of Google News Archives is from 2003:

Phone giant Sprint Corp. and a small Berkeley company today are introducing
cell phone TV, a new service that brings wireless phone users live
television broadcasts from networks like MSNBC, the California Music Channel
and the Discovery Channel.
http://articles.sfgate.com/2003-11-13/business/17518639_1_cell-phone-mobitv-idetic-sprint-s-pcs-vision

Antedatings are welcome. I'll add them in updates to this blog post:
http://literalminded.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/live-tv/

Neal Whitman
Email: nwhitman at ameritech.net
Blog: http://literalminded.wordpress.com

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