broadcasts

Noun

broadcast (plural broadcasts)

1. A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
   • No one knows how long it will be until a broadcast from a studio in New York will be viewed in India as well as in Indiana, will be seen in the Congo as it is seen in Chicago. But as surely as we are meeting here today, that day will come; and once again our world will shrink.1961 May 9, Newton Minow, Television and the Public Interest
2. A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.
   • The DJ was feeling nervous before his first national broadcast.

   Antonyms:

   narrowcast

3. (archaic) The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.
   • Since my laſt, I went to ſee a piece of Daniel Fitch's, of Pluckley, Kent. He has two acres of broadcaſt, the oldeſt I have ever ſeen, ſown twenty years ago with barley, like clover.1785, W. Belcher, “Observations on Lucerne”, in Arthur Young (agriculturist), editor, Annals of Agriculture, and Other Useful Arts, volume III, number 18, London: Printed for the editor, and sold by...

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