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  • noun An enthusiast for advanced television technology

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Examples

  • Ain't it time, time enough, time enough at last, to make a literary allusion as well as one to a famous "televisionary" one?

    Top 8 Obama and McCain gaffes. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Far be it for me to ever correct the Boss, but as it turns out Bruce Springsteen was not a true televisionary; there are not "57 Channels And Nothing On" these days.

    David Wild: "TV Is the Thing This Year": My Playlist for the Emmy Awards 2010

  • Far be it for me to ever correct the Boss, but as it turns out Bruce Springsteen was not a true televisionary; there are not "57 Channels And Nothing On" these days.

    David Wild: "TV Is the Thing This Year": My Playlist for the Emmy Awards 2010

  • Far be it for me to ever correct the Boss, but as it turns out Bruce Springsteen was not a true televisionary; there are not "57 Channels And Nothing On" these days.

    David Wild: "TV Is the Thing This Year": My Playlist for the Emmy Awards 2010

  • Far be it for me to ever correct the Boss, but as it turns out Bruce Springsteen was not a true televisionary; there are not "57 Channels And Nothing On" these days.

    David Wild: "TV Is the Thing This Year": My Playlist for the Emmy Awards 2010

  • Far be it for me to ever correct the Boss, but as it turns out Bruce Springsteen was not a true televisionary; there are not "57 Channels And Nothing On" these days.

    David Wild: "TV Is the Thing This Year": My Playlist for the Emmy Awards 2010

  • Perhaps, like so many other literary (or televisionary?) answers to this question, it doesn't really "count" if you will -- it's only humans, thinking about what would be wrong with the thing they want most (immortality) if it were, in fact, within their grasp -- a way of comforting ourselves in the face of the one thing in life that is certain.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • Perhaps, like so many other literary (or televisionary?) answers to this question, it doesn't really "count" if you will -- it's only humans, thinking about what would be wrong with the thing they want most (immortality) if it were, in fact, within their grasp -- a way of comforting ourselves in the face of the one thing in life that is certain.

    Last of the Time Lords Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • Apparently, Kizz, according to televisionary.blogspot.com, Dollhouse is expected to launch sometime in 2008, with production beginning as early as the spring, thanks to in-depth episodic outlines for all seven episodes written by Whedon.

    The Joss-Whedon inspired happy dance « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2007

  • Radio competitors bought ads portraying Sarnoff as a gorilla wrecking the radio industry and labeled him (they meant it pejoratively) a "televisionary."

    CBS: The Power and the Profits 1976

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