Sentence examples for station surfing from inspiring English sources

Only halfway to our destination, Elleza got to hear at least five of her "favorite" songs -- not once but two, three, sometimes four times in the course of our embattled station surfing.

But when Eddy went into a thumping martial tune, "Song of the Vagabonds," some of those millions went station surfing, and turned the dial to NBC's less popular rival CBS just in time to hear a dance program interrupted by a special news bulletin.

Having photographed old buildings – "mainly disused theatres" – in Paris, they happened upon an image of Michigan Central train station in Detroit while surfing the internet for pictures of abandoned buildings.

When not doing cannonballs into the backyard pool or surfing off the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, they rob banks and jewelry stores and pick up whatever they see lying around.

Residents' rooms also have touch-screen computer stations for e-mail and Web surfing.

And satellite surfing involves a momentary delay per station while the system collects and reassembles the digital bits.

Region-1 has a TYPE-1 station, which conducts bulk download, and generates web-surfing-type traffic and also messenger-type traffic; Region-2 has a TYPE-2 station, which downloads bulk data; Region-3 serves a TYPE-3 station, which uploads its data.

His bold Shanda Station idea recalls WebTV, Microsoft's losing effort to combine Web-surfing and e-mail with television.

Around the same period, cable TV, with its increased array of stations and abetted by remote-control capability, ushered in the practice of "channel surfing".

The first time it happened, Dr. Roush was channel-surfing when she heard the voice of an announcer on a local FM station.

Instead, they are using digital video recorders or surfing social networks, said Steve Ridge of Frank N. Magid Associates, a consulting firm for local stations, who described it as a "flattening of the time period".