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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
broadcaster
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
commercial
▪ Pre-season David Campese signed a contract with commercial broadcaster Channel Ten.
▪ Two commercial radio broadcasters, two television stations and cable networks provide more news.
▪ Existing commercial broadcasters claim the new stations are illegal.
▪ The public service broadcasters and the commercial broadcasters increasingly have different objectives.
▪ In contrast, commercial broadcasters have obligations to shareholders: they must consider the priorities and attractions of profit-making programmes and schedules.
public
▪ He was irate that a public service broadcaster such as S4C should be involved in bidding for a commercial contract.
▪ The public service broadcasters and the commercial broadcasters increasingly have different objectives.
▪ A proper purpose, I believe, for a public service broadcaster.
■ NOUN
radio
▪ Two commercial radio broadcasters, two television stations and cable networks provide more news.
satellite
▪ The cash proposed yesterday will mainly be used to pay satellite broadcasters.
▪ Nor is the Thames/BBC project likely to be beset by the teething troubles which plagued the pioneer satellite broadcasters.
television
▪ The new bodies also recruited enough boxing promoters to persuade television broadcasters to take their champions seriously.
▪ He was also a radio and television broadcaster.
■ VERB
give
▪ The Clinton administration has proposed giving the broadcasters the new spectrum, but taking back the old for auction after seven years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Buse said the broadcasters could have made the switch to digital programming with only one-third the spectrum they were actually awarded.
▪ Every broadcaster tries to determine how much programs are worth to the advertiser.
▪ Existing commercial broadcasters claim the new stations are illegal.
▪ Mr Etyang was speaking to journalists and broadcasters following a service held on 5 August to mark Communications Day.
▪ Require broadcasters to pay the government if they use the new airwaves for anything other than free services.
▪ Then on April 4, 1954, a Sunday night, the trial efforts took a blow from the broadcaster Walter Winchell.
▪ Writers and broadcasters increasingly took up these issues.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
broadcaster

broadcaster \broadcaster\ n.

  1. someone who broadcasts on radio or television.

  2. a mechanical device for scattering something (seed, fertilizer, sand, salt, etc.) in all directions.

    Syn: spreader.

Wiktionary
broadcaster

n. 1 An organisation that engages in the activity of broadcasting. 2 A person whose job it is to broadcast#Verb.

WordNet
broadcaster
  1. n. someone who broadcasts on radio or television

  2. a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions [syn: spreader]

Wikipedia
Broadcaster

Broadcaster may refer to:

  • A broadcasting organization, one responsible for audio and video content and/or their transmission
  • A program presenter of any television or radio
  • A sports commentator on television or radio
  • Broadcaster (Guitar), later renamed the Fender Telecaster

Usage examples of "broadcaster".

Ormgorgon put his thoughts into a noumenal broadcaster, and invited all men to inspect them for any trace of corrupt motive.

Having served so dutifully as a media whipping boy, the change in the McCants narrative had broadcasters like Mike Patrick greeting his low-scoring games as a sign of maturity, whereas the same stats in previous seasons would have been cause for attack.

The Bloomsbury announcements were perhaps not too similar to other announcements broadcast during this period by other broadcasters.

The modern state needs, for example, pamphlet-writers, poster artists, illustrators, broadcasters, lecturers, film producers, actors, song composers, even painters and sculptors, not to mention psychologists, sociologists, biochemists, mathematicians and what-not.

Lord Haw-Haw, the most effective of the English-language German broadcasters, has been identified with faircertainty as Joyce, a member of the split-off Fascist party and a very bitter personal enemy of Mosley.

Most of our broadcasters are Indian left-wing intellectuals, from Liberals to Trotskyists, some of them bitterly anti-British.

TV stations the world over were being picketed despite the fact that the nonvideo media had made it clear that the broadcasters were not responsible.

The broadcaster concluded by warning listeners not to use their phones except in cases of emergency.

I was on my way to a conference of scientists and TV broadcasters devoted to the seemingly hopeless prospect of improving the presentation of science on commercial television.

It was with an old acquaintance, Sergio Hurtado, news editor and broadcaster for Radio Andes network.

On Thursday he had even gone back for advice to Sergio Hurtado, the radio broadcaster who had warned him not to seek help from the armed forces and police.

The broadcaster slid a desk drawer open and from it removed several clipped sheets.

Troeltsch of Philadelphia is better to leave alone to play the broadcaster to himself.

When that palled I would plot the destruction of Gorshkov, that prick on wheels, and the KGB schemer Andropov, whose hobbyhorse this whole bioenergetics farce is, and put an end to it, and get on with the Extremely Low Frequency Broadcaster, just as the Yankees have done.

Mounting an aggressive hearts-and-minds campaign that derided the 'passivity' of hundreds of millions of viewers forced to choose nightly between only four statistically pussified Network broadcasters, then extolled the 'empoweringly American choice' of 500-plus esoteric cable options, the American Council of Disseminators of Cable was attacking the Four right at the ideological root, the psychic matrix where viewers had been conditioned (conditioned, rather deliciously, by the Big Four Networks and their advertisers themselves, Hal notes) to associate the Freedom to Choose and the Right to Be Entertained with all that was U.