Broadcast Programmes Live Verb ˈbrɔːdkɑːst ˈbrɔːdkæst Concert Time

• the concert will be broadcast live (= at the same time as it takes place) tomorrow evening.
• most of the programmes are broadcast in english.
• they began broadcasting in 1922.
• the station broadcasts programmes around the world in 43 languages.

broadcast

Verb Forms

1. to send out programmes on television or radio
• The concert will be broadcast live (= at the same time as it takes place) tomorrow evening.
• Most of the programmes are broadcast in English.
• They began broadcasting in 1922.
• The station broadcasts programmes around the world in 43 languages.
• The event will be broadcast over the internet
• He broadcasts his Saturday morning show on the station.

Extra Examples

• This interview was originally broadcast last Friday.
• We will broadcast live from the ship.
• a Christmas message broadcast to the nation
2. to tell a lot of people about something
• I don't like to broadcast the fact that my father owns the company.

Word Origin

• mid 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.