broadcasting

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Variant of broadcast

broadcast definition

broad·cast (-kast′, -käst′)

transitive verb broadcast -·cast′ or broadcasted -·cast′ed, broadcasting -·cast′·ing

  1. to scatter (seed) over a broad area rather than sow in drills
  2. to spread (information, gossip, etc.) widely
  3. to transmit, as to a large audience, by radio or television

intransitive verb

to broadcast radio or television programs

adjective

  1. widely scattered
  2. of, for, or by radio or television broadcasting

noun

  1. the act of broadcasting
  2. a radio or television program

adverb

far and wide

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broadcasting Synonyms

broadcasting

n.

television, radio, radio transmission, television transmission, announcing, airing, performing before a camera, performing before a microphone, telecasting, cable television, network television, community antenna television, CATV, newscasting, transmitting, reporting, programming, video.


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broadcasting quotes

In broadcasting your audience is conjectural, but it is an audience of one.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

-Safer, Morley

  It is essential that broadcasting be surrounded with such safeguards as will prevent the air becoming what might be described as an atmospheric billboard.

-Thornton, Sir Henry

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