What is "broad coverage"

Coverage \Cov"er*age\, n.

1. the range of items covered. Coverage may be small ( narrow coverage], or large ( broad coverage or wide coverage).

2. The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance.

3. the state of being insured; insurance.

4. the areas reached by a radio transmission signal, or group of people reached by a communications medium, such as television or a newspaper.

5. the range of topics treated in a discourse or document, or the depth to which a subject is discussed; as, a news program may have extensive coverage of an event. ``gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Democratic convention.''

6. the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio of television; as, they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations.

   Syn: reporting, reportage.