- a radio or television programme
- (British English) a party political broadcast (= for example, before an election)
- We watched a live broadcast of the speech (= one shown at the same time as the speech was made).
- The evening news broadcasts are very different today from what they were 25 years ago.
- She has 20 years' experience in broadcast journalism.
- a body that regulates all broadcast media
- They do not own a major television broadcast network.
Extra ExamplesTopics TV, radio and newsb2- The president gave a radio broadcast to mark the end of the war.
- There is pressure to cancel the network broadcast of the movie.
- a broadcast by the president
- a radio broadcast on the problems of unemployment
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- radio
- television
- cable
- …
- make
- hear
- see
- …
- in a/the broadcast
- broadcast by
- broadcast on
- …
Word Originmid 18th cent. (in the sense ‘sown by scattering’): from broad + the past participle of cast ‘throw’. Senses relating to radio and television date from the early 20th cent.Definitions on the go
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