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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
broadcast
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a channel broadcasts sth
▪ All the channels are broadcasting the match live.
a radio broadcast
▪ All radio broadcasts continue to be closely monitored by the government.
an election broadcastBritish English (= a programme by a party saying why people should vote for them in an election)
▪ a Conservative Party election broadcast
broadcast live
▪ The ceremony will be broadcast live on television.
independent television/radio/broadcasting etcBritish English (= not owned or paid for by the government)
▪ independent television companies
party political broadcast
▪ a party political broadcast on television
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
live
▪ There will also be a live outside broadcast form a preserved line.
▪ As everyone who has watched the live broadcast remembers, El Comandante spoke for fifty-five minutes.
▪ The activity centres around the big top in Stockton High Street offering free all day entertainment with live broadcasts and personal appearances.
▪ Liberal politicians paraded through the studios, providing soundbites that were instantly fed into the live broadcasts.
political
▪ But in a party political broadcast last night, the Education Secretary John Patten defended the tests.
▪ I remember crying sentimental tears a few years later in 1987 when I watched on television Neil Kinnock's party political broadcast.
▪ The Prime Minister I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for reprising his party political broadcast of last evening.
▪ Some later described the speech as a party political broadcast.
▪ The biggest items of expenditure would probably be printing an election address and preparing a party political broadcast.
▪ He claimed Labour had shown desperation tactics by naming four-year-old Matthew to justify a party political broadcast.
▪ All the Tories needed to win was to play those interviews back as party political broadcasts.
▪ Did you see our frightful party political broadcast?
■ NOUN
election
▪ He was asked to appear in a Labour election broadcast.
industry
▪ The broadcast industry needs to decide what is their relationship to their public in their status as public trustees.
▪ But by far the worst consequence of an immediate auction would be to throw the broadcast industry on the junk pile.
▪ An awards banquet, the first ever specifically for blacks in the broadcast industry, was held at the Waldorf-Astoria.
media
▪ I analyzed the information from the print media separately from the information from the broadcast media.
network
▪ That is equivalent to a 5. 4 rating on a broadcast network....
news
▪ Let's take the recording task described earlier: to prepare news items for a magazine programme or news broadcast.
▪ And even within news broadcasts, solid reporting about serious subjects is diminishing.
▪ The news broadcast had been repeated a number of times that evening, the same footage being shown again and again.
▪ Some of this decline is attributed to competition from cable news channels and from local news broadcasts.
▪ At present, regional news broadcasts have the tone of a modified sensationalist journalism.
▪ While the form of a news broadcast emphasizes tidiness and control, its content can best be described as fragmented.
▪ But the news broadcast after the first missile attack failed to mention it.
▪ Political pressures at the station led to unbalanced news broadcasts and improper promotions and demotions, according to the officials and documents.
radio
▪ Old photographs, and some archive film footage or earlier radio broadcasts would also be included, depending on the period being studied.
▪ Do old radio broadcasts, minor record labels and second-rate artists merit box sets?
▪ All radio broadcasts and church publications continue to be closely monitored by the government.
▪ Elites can more easily assess the situation and attitudes of both allies and rivals by monitoring television and radio broadcasts.
▪ Chamberlain's dramatic radio broadcast announcing the Declaration of War in 1939.
▪ In time, books, radio broadcasts, films, and professional journals were added to the list.
▪ Using radio broadcasts and posters, they had warned the locals that they would be shot if they turned out to vote.
television
▪ A Xinjiang television broadcast carried pictures of weapons, riot damage and injured and dead security personnel.
▪ Recently, the civic cleanup campaign in Dalian has been showcased in official newspapers and television broadcasts.
▪ The earlier materials were almost all produced for television broadcast as well as classroom use.
▪ By replacing Candlestick, the 49ers want to reduce cold winds and maximize sunshine for fans and television broadcasts.
■ VERB
watch
▪ The Kurdish people have a right to broadcast, and as viewers to watch these broadcasts.
▪ As everyone who has watched the live broadcast remembers, El Comandante spoke for fifty-five minutes.
▪ Murphy was seen with her baby in her arms watching a broadcast of Quayle's attack on her.
▪ They are telling many lies, and everyone is watching these broadcasts by satellite, Mr Atasagun said.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
terrestrial TV/broadcasting/channels etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In a nationwide TV broadcast, the prime minister explained why he was resigning.
▪ Meyer had no broadcasting experience when he created Midwest Television.
▪ The exciting thing about the show is that it's a live broadcast and anything can happen.
▪ The government has banned all broadcasts by opposition groups.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All radio broadcasts and church publications continue to be closely monitored by the government.
▪ Chamberlain's dramatic radio broadcast announcing the Declaration of War in 1939.
▪ Federal law prohibits the broadcast from being recorded.
▪ From 1969 he composed music for his own groups formed for recordings, broadcasts and tours.
▪ My daily Radio Column covered a wide spectrum of programme interests, a large part of which was concerned with local broadcasts.
▪ Old photographs, and some archive film footage or earlier radio broadcasts would also be included, depending on the period being studied.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
live
▪ When these pictures were broadcast live across international television screens, it was obvious that the issue was misogyny, not theology.
▪ With technology what it is, the promise was there for more live broadcast coverage than in the history of the Olympics.
▪ The session started early and finished late, and was broadcast live on all cable news channels.
nationally
▪ Most of us are, at least in a hall that big, and on a nationally broadcast infomercial.
■ NOUN
cable
▪ The session started early and finished late, and was broadcast live on all cable news channels.
channel
▪ The broadcasting of a pay channel requires the encryption or scrambling of the signal on emission and the unscrambling on reception.
day
▪ His radio broadcast on the same day contained no hint of criticism of the Allies.
message
▪ We will broadcast messages from the solar sail which will be relayed to the toys in local languages.
▪ Soon afterwards, the radio broadcast a message from Eyadema himself, calling on the soldiers to return to barracks.
▪ The problem of moving home would be solved by broadcasting a digitally signed message to the chips.
news
▪ A student-produced news program broadcasts once a week on a local cable channel.
▪ Two studios down, some one from the Arabic service was reading news for broadcast to the Middle East.
▪ Sally Jesse here and a White House news conference there, broadcast by C-SPAN in its interminable entirety.
▪ But with the help of DeMoss, Promise Keepers has been featured in every major news magazine and nightly news broadcast.
▪ Every night the news was broadcast on this station by Hanoi Hanna.
night
▪ The Natural Law Party, which is fielding 313 candidates, unveiled its long-awaited party election television broadcast last night.
programme
▪ We all crowded in one, where a black-and-white television was broadcasting a programme in Urdu.
programmes
▪ Most other independent radio stations had either had their equipment destroyed or had broadcast music programmes and other safe material.
▪ These features give continuity to broadcast programmes but this kind of continuity is not so important with classroom materials.
▪ Applied to broadcast programmes, then, the public service principles were in the nature of flexible guidelines.
radio
▪ At noon the radio broadcast a joint statement from Koffigoh and Eyadema, calling for discipline.
▪ The group sponsors speeches, a radio broadcast and an Internet site.
▪ His radio broadcast on the same day contained no hint of criticism of the Allies.
▪ But it was difficult for us to follow as the radio station was broadcasting in Navajo.
▪ Big howler RADIO Cleveland broadcast a warning that fireworks can frighten pets - accompanied by realistic sound effects that drove animals mad.
▪ But at the same time, the technology that makes Internet radio broadcasts possible has been evolving quickly.
▪ Soon afterwards, the radio broadcast a message from Eyadema himself, calling on the soldiers to return to barracks.
▪ We have a number of radio personalities on public broadcasting who write books.
satellite
▪ The advent of satellite broadcasting began to break down those defences.
▪ In general, geosynchronous satellites are designed to broadcast a wide beam to ensure the wide area coverage.
series
▪ A retraction would be broadcast when a new series of the programme begins in January.
▪ Through its peerless network of contacts the firm obtained a pre-broadcast copy of the series.
▪ The sound is broadcast outwards as a series of waves.
show
▪ Both shows will be broadcast next month.
▪ He will speak to radio shows that broadcast over a tin can and lengths of string.
▪ Strip shows would be broadcast from the building over the Internet.
statement
▪ At noon the radio broadcast a joint statement from Koffigoh and Eyadema, calling for discipline.
▪ They broadcast a statement reaffirming the army's support for the process of democratization and denouncing the delays in the electoral process.
station
▪ But it was difficult for us to follow as the radio station was broadcasting in Navajo.
▪ Soon, stations that broadcast only on the Internet will be springing up.
television
▪ We all crowded in one, where a black-and-white television was broadcasting a programme in Urdu.
▪ After his rescue, national television broadcast regular bulletins reporting on his progress.
▪ The campy dramatics are presented in the style of a live television broadcast.
▪ In which year was the first television broadcast from Alexandra Palace? 05.
▪ But the growing medium of television broadcast something new to worry about in the 1950s.
▪ This can best be seen in the case of television broadcasting.
▪ The Natural Law Party, which is fielding 313 candidates, unveiled its long-awaited party election television broadcast last night.
■ VERB
begin
▪ Current contracts with production companies expire in September, when C4 plans to begin broadcasting the new output.
▪ Commercial stations are required to begin broadcasting digitally May 1, 2002.
▪ The orchestra also has begun a weekly broadcast on National Public Radio.
print
▪ Such material is generally impossible to check, and the only way to get a response may be to print or broadcast.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Don't go broadcasting what I've told you all over the office.
▪ Radio WXLM broadcasts on 98.2 FM.
▪ The funeral was broadcast to the whole nation.
▪ The interview was broadcast Sunday on "Face the Nation."
▪ The whole race will be broadcast live from Monza.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He will speak to radio shows that broadcast over a tin can and lengths of string.
▪ There they would force Khomeini to negotiate a deal and to broadcast it to the people.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broadcast

Broadcast \Broad"cast`\, a.

  1. Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.

  2. Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.

Broadcast

Broadcast \Broad"cast`\, adv. So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press.

Broadcast

Broadcast \Broad"cast`\, n.

  1. (Agric.) A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

  2. an act of broadcasting; specifically, a program in which sounds or images are transmitted in all directions from a radio or television station; -- usually referring to a scheduled program on a commercial or public service radio or television station, using the normal radio frequencies for those media, in contrast to a radiotelephone conversation, which may also be transmitted in all directions, but is intended for receipt by a base station in the telephone network.

Broadcast

Broadcast \Broad"cast`\, v.

  1. to cast or disperse in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; to diffuse widely.

  2. to transmit (sounds, images, or other signals) in all directions from a radio or television station.

  3. to disseminate (information, a speech, an advertisement, etc.) from a radio or television station.

  4. to spread (information, news, gossip) widely by any means.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
broadcast

1767, adjective, in reference to the spreading of seed, from broad (adj.) + past participle of cast (v.). Figurative use is recorded from 1785. Modern media use began with radio (1922, adjective and noun). As a verb, recorded from 1813 in an agricultural sense, 1829 in a figurative sense, 1921 in reference to radio.

Wiktionary
broadcast

  1. 1 (senseid en omnidirectionally)cast or scattered widely, in all directions 2 transmitted, signalled, or communicated via radio waves or electronic means 3 relating to transmissions of messages or signals via radio waves or electronic means n. 1 A transmission of a radio or television programme aired to be received by anyone with a receiver. 2 A programme (show, bulletin, documentary, and so on) so transmitted. 3 (context dated English) The act of scattering seed. v

  2. 1 To transmit a message or signal via radio waves or electronic means 2 To transmit a message over a wide area 3 To appear as speaker, presenter or performer in a broadcast program 4 (context archaic English) To sow seeds over a wide area 5 To send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people 6 (en-past of: broadcast)

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WordNet
broadcast

  1. n. message that is transmitted by radio or television

  2. a radio or television show; "did you see his program last night?" [syn: program, programme]

  3. v. broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song" [syn: air, send, beam, transmit]

  4. sow over a wide area, especially by hand; "broadcast seeds"

  5. cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" [syn: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around]

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Wikipedia
Broadcast (disambiguation)

Broadcast or Broadcasting may refer to:

  • Broadcasting, the transmission of audio and video signals
  • Broadcast, an individual television program or radio program
  • Broadcast (band), an English electronic music band
  • Broadcasting..., a Comeback Kid album released in 2007
  • Broadcast (Cutting Crew album), a 1986 rock album by Cutting Crew
  • Broadcast (Meese album), a 2009 indie rock album by Meese
  • Broadcast (magazine), a weekly newspaper for the UK TV and radio industry
  • Broadcast Twelve Records, a British record label of the 1920s
  • Broadcast sowing, a method of hand sowing of seeds

In computer networking:

  • Broadcast address, an IP address allowing information to be sent to all machines on a given subnet
  • Broadcasting (networking), transmitting a packet that will be received by every device on the network
  • Broadcast domain, a logical area where any computer connected to the network can directly transmit to any other
Broadcast (band)

Broadcast are an indie electronic band, founded in Birmingham, England in 1995. The band has released three albums as well as several EPs, singles and EP collections.

Broadcast's original members were Trish Keenan (vocals), Roj Stevens (keyboards), Tim Felton (guitar), James Cargill (bass) and Steve Perkins (drums). Various other drummers played with the band, including Keith York, Phil Jenkins, Jeremy Barnes and Neil Bullock. As of 2005, the group consisted of the duo of Keenan and Cargill. Following the 2011 death of Keenan, Cargill remained as the only member.

Broadcast (Cutting Crew album)

Broadcast is the debut studio album by the English rock band Cutting Crew. It was released on 30 July 1986 in Europe with different packaging eight months before it was released in the United States. For the American version, four tracks were remixed ("Any Colour", "One for the Mockingbird", "I've Been in Love Before" and " (I Just) Died in Your Arms"), all of which were the singles from the album. The current American CD in print is the European version but with the American packaging. It was the first album to be released in the United States by Virgin Records' new American imprint, Virgin Records America.

Broadcast was re-released by Cherry Red Records on 24 May 2010, with bonus tracks including for the 1st time ever on CD "For the Longest Time", the B-side of "(I Just) Died In Your Arms".

Broadcast (magazine)

Broadcast is a weekly magazine for the United Kingdom television and radio industry. It covers a wide range of news and issues affecting the professional broadcast market in the UK. Broadcast has regular weekly sections covering news, commissioning, facilities, analysis, opinion, interview, platforms, production and ratings. Broadcast also often has a special feature covering an issue relevant to the industry. It is owned by Media Business Insight, a publishing, events and information business that also includes Screen International and Shots.

Broadcast was started in 1973 by Rod Allen, who went on to work at LWT, HTV and HarperCollinsInteractive. He was most recently head of the Department of Journalism at City University, London, until he retired in 2006. He still contributes occasionally to the magazine.

Broadcast is edited by Chris Curtis and the website is Broadcastnow.co.uk.

Other members of the editorial team include:

  • Editor Chris Curtis
  • News editor Jake Kanter
  • Features editor Robin Parker
  • Web editor Alex Farber
  • Senior reporter, international Peter White
  • Senior reporter Alexandra Chapman

Notable former staffers (current positions):

  • Matt Baker (UK, Australia, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe vice-president of corporate communications for Viacom International)
  • John Plunkett (Media Guardian)
  • Paul Revoir (Daily Mail TV reporter)
  • Katherine Rushton (Daily Telegraph US business editor)
  • Tara Conlan (former Daily Mail and Guardian TV journalist)
  • Colin Robertson (Sun TV Biz editor)
  • Leigh Holmwood (Sun TV Biz deputy editor)
  • Dan Wotton (former News of the World TV editor)
  • Liz Thomas (former Daily Mail TV reporter)
  • Jason Deans (Media Guardian editor)
  • Conor Dignam (Media Business Insight chief executive)
  • Lisa Campbell (Guardian Edinburgh International TV Festival director)

The magazine organises the annual Broadcast Awards held to recognise and reward excellence in and around the UK television programming industry. The awards are held each January in Grosvenor House Hotel, London. Additionally since 2005 the magazine has held the annual Broadcast Digital Channel Awards specifically for the digital TV industry, recognising and rewarding innovation, creativity and commercial success. These awards are held each June.

In July 2013, Broadcast released an app for iOS, Android and Kindle that features both online news stories (similar to the website) and overnight ratings for 12 key channels.

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Usage examples of "broadcast".

It would accelerate to relativistic velocities between Magaria and Zanshaa, then broadcast its coded contents to the capital.

If you stop to think about it, cable television has brought electronic advertising to local businesses that would never have been able to advertise on traditional broadcast television.

If Alec should falter in his role tonight, she would not broadcast the fact.

Jarrah, like Atta earlier, may have inadvertently broadcast the message because he did not know how to operate the radio and the intercom.

The latest salvo in the struggle for the soul of broadcast television-if not human civilization-and the faceless monster calling himself Captain Audion has been fired.

BCN has just learned that the Secret Service has taken into custody one Dennis Nealon, technical director for the Multinational Broadcasting Corporation, in connection with the Captain Audion terror transmission.

But I am pleased to report that we seem to have rooted out every Captain Audion agent who was planted in the various broadcast and cable stations to facilitate the entire scheme.

They would use the kids as hostages and boogie to the border in that big flashy Jaguar with the helicopters broadcasting every moment of the trip on live TV.

Ki Bowles sat in the broadcast booth and stared at the various wall screens.

As the radio broadcasts indicate, Palmer and Bucca actually found a standpipe with water pressure and began fighting the blaze.

When FDNY radio broadcasts from the tragedy were analyzed, it became clear that Ronnie Bucca and Orio Palmer had made it up into the building higher than any other firefighters in either tower that day.

This country is flooded with cheap circulars and pamphlets, circulated openly and broadcast, wherein ignorant, pretentious, blatant quacks endeavor to frighten young men who may never have practiced self-abuse, or been guilty of excesses in any way, and yet who experience, now and then at long intervals, nocturnal seminal emissions.

The institute was a thoroughly modern and up-to-date facility, in keeping with the modern and up-to-date subjects taught within its walls: electricity and electronics, mechanics, plumbing, recycling and reclamation, construction, carpentry, accounting and bookkeeping, secretarial skills, data recording, computer programming and repair, cybernation maintenance, aeronautics, solar-cell construction, electrical generating, motion-picture projection, camera operation, audio recording, hydrogen-fusion operation, power broadcasting, electrical space propulsion, satellite construction and repair, telemetry, and many more.

Communication is possible only while cyborg unit maintains sufficient altitude to remain above broadcast horizon.

Goebbels, who was staging the performance and directing the broadcasting of it to the nation, observed - and noted in his diary - that the old Field Marshal had tears in his eyes.