Advertisement

Origin and history of broadcasting

broadcasting(n.)

1922, verbal noun from broadcast (v.).

Broadcasting, as distinct from wireless communication, may be said to have come into being about 1920. It may be defined as the systematic diffusion, by radio telephony, of music, lectures, drama, humour, news and information bulletins, speeches and ceremonies, pictures and other matter susceptible of appreciation by a scattered audience, individually or in groups, with appropriate receiving apparatus. [ Encyclopedia Britannica, 1929]

also from 1922

Entries linking to broadcasting

broadcast(adj.)

1767, "dispersed upon the ground by hand," in reference to seed, from broad (adj.) + past participle of cast (v.). The figurative sense of "widely spread" is recorded by 1785. As an adverb from 1832. The 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.

    Advertisement

    More to explore

    ABC
    As a shortening of American Broadcasting Company from 1944 (in a Billboard magazine headline), earlier of Australian Broadcasting...
    frequency
    In radio electronics, frequency modulation (1922, abbreviated F.M.) as a system of broadcasting is distinguished from amplitude...
    digital
    In reference to recording or broadcasting, from 1960....
    network
    Meaning "broadcasting system of multiple transmitters" is from 1914; sense of "interconnected group of people" is by 1934...
    microphone
    Modern sense of "transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal" is by 1924 in radio broadcasting and movie recording...
    signal
    electric current" is from 1855, later applied to electromagnetic waves, hence the use of signal in radio (later television) broadcasting...
    break
    The broadcasting sense is by 1941....
    circulate
    1540s as a chemical term in reference to alternating vaporization and condensation, from Latin circulatus, past participle of circulare "to form a circle," from circulus "small ring" (see circle (n.)). Intransitive sense of "to pass about freely, pass from place to place or perso
    disseminate
    c. 1600, "to scatter or sow for propagation," from Latin disseminatus, past participle of disseminare "to spread abroad, disseminate," from dis- "in every direction" (see dis-) + seminare "to plant, propagate," from semen (genitive seminis) "seed" (from PIE root *sē- "to sow"). F
    urn
    late 14c., "large, rounded vase used to preserve the ashes of the dead," from Latin urna "a jar, vessel of baked clay, water-jar; vessel for the ashes of the dead" (also used as a ballot box and for drawing lots), probably from earlier *urc-na, akin to urceus "pitcher, jug," and

    Share broadcasting

    Advertisement
    Trending
    Dictionary entries near broadcasting
    Advertisement