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Broadcasting's word for beaming yourself into strangers' living rooms, uninvited.
means A program or event transmitted by television.
from A 20th-century blend coined once TV needed its own word for 'broadcast' — stitching the Greek 'tele-' (far off, the same prefix riding along in telephone and telegraph) onto 'broadcast,' which itself started as a farming term for scattering seed widely by hand before radio borrowed it for scattering sound.
- origin
- blend of television and broadcast, coined 1930s
- vs broadcast
- radio broadcasts sound, telecasts add picture
- legal quirk
- live telecasts get copyright protection the instant they air
- fading term
- streaming made the word feel charmingly retro