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newstalk

newstalk noun: a television or radio programme in which host conversation with guests or audience members is mixed with news programming.

Noun

newstalk (plural newstalks)

  1. A television or radio programme in which host conversation with guests or audience members is mixed with news programming.
    • "The most obvious and basic expansion of media talk has come with the general boom in newstalk and news magazine programs on both radio and TV."2014, Peter Gibian, Mass Culture and Everyday Life

Forms of newstalk

pluralnewstalks

Origin of newstalk

From news + talk.

Questions about newstalk

What does newstalk mean?
Newstalk means a television or radio programme in which host conversation with guests or audience members is mixed with news programming.
What part of speech is newstalk?
Newstalk is a noun.
What is the plural of newstalk?
The plural of newstalk is newstalks.

Words near newstalk in the dictionary

  1. newsstore
  2. newsstores
  3. newstainment
  4. newstalgia
  5. newstalgic
  6. newstalk
  7. newstalks
  8. Newstead
  9. newsteller
  10. newstellers
  11. newsticker

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