The phrase "acquire programmes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of obtaining or gaining access to specific programs, often in a technological or educational context.
Example: "To enhance our skills, we need to acquire programmes that focus on data analysis and machine learning."
Alternatives: "obtain programs" or "gain access to programs."
It was one of three awards for Sky Atlantic, which also won for two acquired programmes, Game of Thrones and Girls, both of which are made by US cable channel, HBO.
Ms Turner Laing, who was once described as a "tough old bird, with a heart of gold who has a computer for a brain, never repeats mistakes and doesn't suffer fools," joined the corporation as head of acquired programmes in 1998.
"Midsomer Murders is the best performing acquired programme of all – that goes for Scandinavia in general, but especially on Danish television," he told the magazine.
Such a study could include research on the transferability of subject-specific knowledge and other competencies acquired in programmes to occupations outside the programme's occupational domain.
This is where the networks present their fall schedules, and buyers eagerly flock from all over the globe to see the shows (and, hopefully, acquire the right programmes for their channels).
Rather than describe knowledge that should be taught, we describe capabilities that students should acquire in these programmes.
93. the FAO partnership programmes acquire professional expertise through a variety of innovative arrangements.
Teaching guides for university subjects are the documents that specify the objectives, the skills the students need to acquire, the theoretical programme and practical activities, methodology, bibliography and teaching techniques.
Encyclopediacally knowledgeable about comedy, Took was a member of the National Film Archive's old television selection committee, which met - in the days before universal video-recording - to choose programmes to acquire for posterity.
