talk, talk someone/thing up (or down), televised prime-time bill signing ceremony

The trial has begun in the northern Chinese city of Jinan of a former member of the ruling Politburo, Bo #Xilai. Mr Bo has been accused of corruption and abuse of power while serving in the provinces. His case is the most sensitive involving a senior Chinese official since the televised show-trial of the Gang of Four in 1980 and 1981. Why is it so important? http://econ.st/14ZN6kA

 

Dell Talks Up Its Software Future

Brown to face three televised election debates

There's talk that President Obama might hold a televised prime-time bill signing ceremony.


Obama Says Economic Crisis Comes First
President Obama declared last night in his first prime-time news conference that the task of saving and creating jobs is more important than cultivating the bipartisan cooperation he promised to bring to Washington, and he pressed his case for the massive economic stimulus plan working its way...
(By Anne E. Kornblut and Michael A. Fletcher, The Washington Post)

The noun prime-time has one meaning:
Meaning #1: the hours between 7 and 11 p.m. when the largest tv audience is available


televise 
verb [T]
to show or broadcast on television:
The match will be televised live (= shown as it is being played) on BBC Scotland.

televised 
adjective

talk 
verb [I]
to say words aloud; to speak to someone:
We were just talking about Simon's new girlfriend.
My little girl has just started to talk.
She talks to her mother on the phone every week.

talk 
noun
1 [C] a conversation between two people, often about a particular subject:
I asked him to have a talk with his mother about his plan.

2 [C] when someone speaks to a group of people about a particular subject:
He gave a talk about/on his visit to America.

3 [U] when people talk about what might happen or be true, or the subject people are talking about:
Talk won't get us anywhere.
The talk/Her talk was all about the wedding.

talker 
noun [C]
a person who talks a lot, too much or in a particular way:
I'm afraid he's more of a talker than a doer, which is why he never finishes anything.
What a talker your mum is - I couldn't get off the phone!

talks 
plural noun
serious and formal discussions on an important subject usually intended to produce decisions or agreements:
Talks were held in Madrid about the fuel crisis.

talk someone/thing up (or down)

discuss someone or something in a way that makes them seem more (or less) interesting or attractive: he is talking up the company to stock analysts he has become feted by the fashionable and been talked up generally