Live television programs

found: Yee, M.M. Moving image materials, 1988:p. 60 (Live shows: use for television programs that are filmed straight through with no time delay to allow for editing)

found: Wikipedia website, July 30, 2007(Live television: television broadcasted in real time or on a short time delay basis. Live television was more common ... in the early years of the medium, before technologies such as videotape recording appeared. Entertainment events such as professional sports games and awards programs continue to be generally broadcast live. Live television inherently has an extemporaneous, spontaneous, and urgent quality that often appears more suspenseful and exciting than recorded programming)