alternative programme

collocation in English

meaningsofalternativeandprogramme

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alternative
adjective
uk
/ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/us
/ɑːlˈtɝː.nə.t̬ɪv/
An alternative plan or method is one that you can use if you do not want to use ...
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programme
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprəʊ.ɡræm/us
/ˈproʊ.ɡræm/
a broadcast on television ...
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(Definition ofalternativeandprogrammefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The debate we are having to-day is really about thisalternativeprogramme.
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Surely, the viewer is entitled to get hisalternativeprogrammeat the least possible cost.
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There will be only onealternativeprogramme, and only one way of organising it will be possible in the reasonable future.
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At those exchanges, one can see when people switch from one programme to analternativeprogramme.
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I think thealternativeprogrammewould have many of the faults that the present programmes have.
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I also think he needs analternativeprogramme.
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The public want an alternative service, and they are entitled to have analternativeprogramme.
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In many cases they cannot get easily to cinemas in their local towns, and it is not possible for them to get analternativeprogramme.
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I think it is of tremendous importance to try to get analternativeprogramme.
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It is that thealternativeprogrammeis intrinsically unbalanced as a programme.
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Thealternativeprogrammeis a matter of capital investment and frequency, and not of how to organise it.
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Let me say that we are all at one on analternativeprogramme.
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Commercial television is not interested in a nationalalternativeprogramme.
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The news and advertisements are parts of the presentation of analternativeprogramme.
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He wanted to know what thealternativeprogrammeis.
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The reason is that television viewers do not have the choice of analternativeprogramme.
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Advertisers will not spend their money merely because they want to produce analternativeprogrammefor the people.
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The tragedy of it is that in the end viewers will not get what they want, which is a balancedalternativeprogramme.
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I make no apologies, either, for the length of ouralternativeprogramme.
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I think analternativeprogrammewould have many of the faults which the present programmes have.
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