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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
newscast
noun
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▪ All of these people operating behind the scenes work to put the newscast on the air.
▪ But the meat and potatoes of the newscast is the gathering, preparing, and presentation of the news.
▪ He or she welcomes us to the newscast and welcomes us back from the different locations we visit during the filmed reports.
▪ It is at at least a little hidden in the fabric of movies and newscasts and commercials and reruns.
▪ Many features of the newscast help the anchor to establish the impression of control.
▪ Sports monkeys generally get about a 120-second window in a newscast to communicate information.
▪ The style of the newscast is often molded by the writing.
▪ Their names usually appear about once a week on the crawl at the end of a newscast.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
newscast

1930, from news + -cast, from broadcast.

Wiktionary
newscast

n. A broadcast of the news; a news report that is transmitted over the air for television, radio, etc.

WordNet
newscast

n. a broadcast of news

Usage examples of "newscast".

I watched the newscast, stunned by what they were saying, that Tilly Dunning, daughter of Congresswoman Marsha Dunning, had shot a coworker during an office party at the world-famous Mandrill Institute.

I had learned from a late newscast that Tilly had been cleared, that Mandrill was being accused of attempted murder.

There was a newscast about a congressional discussion of the subject of going ahead with the dormant Quoddy project, and Renwick, the noted engineer, being employed to make a survey and recommendations to the committee.

The voluntary discarnation was just a routine social event, it seems, but the communication caused quite an uproar, and rated top place on the System-wide newscasts, and started a storm of controversy.

Have you heard the newscasts of the past few hours concerning Councilman Salgath?

She clung to the radio to hear the latest newscasts about the fighting in the Pacific.

Several operators were scanning newscasts and other signals, the sound turned low but audible.

While they lasted, the newscasts from Earth had been a constant litany of murder.

Newscast says it broke away from the Station and went zipping off blathering about an invading fleet.

He might even, though himself a Caucasian, have comprehended the choice such a man felt was facing him: either to give himself up to the crying needs of his own people, who in this 100 STAND ON ZANZIBAR brave new century were still the trapped ones, spawning the majority of the muckers (though the newscasts by policy never mentioned their colour), the majority of the dicties (though most of them couldn't afford Skulbustium or Triptine and poisoned themselves on kitchen-brewed Yaginol or scraped poppy-juice from the slit pods with the backs of dirty knives), the ones who said, "I don't have to ghetto where I'm going because I was born here!

There are still dozens of riot zones and Amadori hasn't been named as an interim leader in any of the newscasts we've monitored.

The programme between newscasts was about the disappearance of the Aral Sea.

Are you going to make me spread it all over the newscasts that you had a dishonorable discharge?

When nightly 15-minute newscasts first started in the late 40s, CBS's show appeared at 7:30 Eastern time, and NBC's at 7:45.

Newscast: Today the Speaker of the Table of Ministers and the Grand Council of the Familias Regnant was assassinated while en route from the shuttleport to the Palace.